Online education will allow universities to do that even better: for one, they will provide a way for the best teachers to be recognized and promoted for something other than just research, a long time concern in the APT process at research universities.
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Overview: NWO is the main funder of scientific research at universities and institutes through subsidies and research programmes.
Research at universities has shown diminishing returns in terms of papers published and patents issued per dollars of funding.
He and his colleagues synthesized every known nicotinic compound, funded research at universities and published 300 reports in 15 years on how nicotine interacts with the body.
Senkut gives back to the SVSC by supporting research at universities such as UCSF and innovative new educational institutions like Singularity University, board memberships and investing.
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Launched in 1992, the PEACE interuniversity network aims to improve the efficiency and relevance of teaching and research at Palestinian universities and improve institutional and staff development.
Research at two universities (by Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky, and by Professor Laura King) has shown this small investment of time can make a significant difference in your life.
One of those opinions confirms the conventional wisdom that U.S. higher education, especially at our elite research universities, is world class while primary and secondary education, especially in our big city school systems, are lagging badly.
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Ironically, the federal government funds much of our foreign students' work to obtain their degrees in research at top American universities.
It undertakes staff development and training programmes in peace pedagogy and peace research methods at partner universities and is working to lead the establishment of the first ever African Peace University.
Professors at most U.S. universities, for example, must publish in addition to teaching to be granted tenure, and the basic research done at universities is often the basis for many new products and technologies.
Expansion of the grid, which is made up of eight fiber-linked data centers at universities and research institutions around the country, will not only make the grid mind-bogglingly fast and powerful but will also enable many more outsiders to connect to it and take advantage of its resources.
The bill would release up to 55, 000 green cards for immigrants completing post-graduate degrees in a STEM field at U.S. research universities.
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Which means that at the PhD level, research universities play the roles of powering innovation and passing their knowledge on to the next generation.
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David Sanderson, a physicist at the Scottish universities' research and reactor centre, says that while this would need heavy investment (and a lot of workers), plutonium can be mixed with waste and vitrified into storable glass blocks, so making it unusable in bombs if any terrorists managed to steal some.
Ariel Rubenstein, a professor at New York and Tel Aviv universities, criticized Chen's research at the Econometric Society World Congress, held last August in London.
Merck's work on Alzheimer's comes at a time when the research efforts of universities and private labs are beginning to converge.
Oxford Analytica is an independent strategic-consulting firm drawing on a network of more than 1, 000 scholar experts at Oxford and other leading universities and research institutions around the world.
She cites research showing that a fifth of students at public universities are black or pardo.
Lord Drayson says that there is now greater enthusiasm at universities for turning the findings of basic research for example, in the life sciences into commercial spin-offs.
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Martin Morse Wooster is senior fellow at the Capital Research Center and the author of Games Universities Play: And How Donors Can Avoid Them, published by the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, Raleigh, N.
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At a macro level they tend to grow around major research universities because top graduates like to stay in town and start businesses after graduating, while their girlfriends or boyfriends finish school.
In a bid to placate Airbus, the British government this week announced it would finance research into new computer-modelling techniques at several British universities, to help Airbus speed up product development by as much as 90%.
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Professor Adam Tickell, pro-vice-chancellor for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Birmingham said that universities were hugely supportive of the move toward the new model of scientific publishing.
According to a recent study by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 100% of universities surveyed use social media to communicate with students, up from 61% in 2007-08.
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"There was better research being done in-house at Genentech than at a lot of universities, " says Venter.
And do we have the right alliances with research places like universities to make sure that we're at the cutting edge of technology?
Dmitri Vayanos, a professor of finance at L.S.E. who runs the Woolley Centre, has presented some of its research at Stanford, Columbia, the University of Chicago, and other leading universities.
Scott Rutherford, director of research and enterprise at Queen's University, said the fund "allowed universities to have in place the infrastructure, in terms of people and expertise, working alongside our academics to broker our gaps with industry and business".
It's an approach more commonly found at the county agricultural extension office or in community college classrooms rather than flagship public research universities.
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