It has put cash into helping the university attract more researchers, get licence income for its discoveries and spin out companies.
Donald Goldfarb, the interim dean of Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the latest project is aimed at helping the university's engineering school overcome its biggest hurdle in reaching the topmost echelon of the field: its relatively small size.
How about the government put some of that money towards helping accrediting more university medical schools?
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On the other side of the Charles river, in Boston itself, Northeastern University is helping to build the country's first housing project for both students and city residents.
David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.
Diego Cardoso dos Santos, 21, credits Canto and his judo training for earning him a scholarship to attend a private university and for helping his 11-year-old brother, Joao Victor, heal.
Karg was helping to lead a group of university students studying in Yerevan, Armenia.
But those drugs have side effects that make them difficult to take, says Robert Califf of Duke University, who is helping to run the biggest Vytorin study.
For example: They are being told that while New Labour was about aspiration - helping people from poorer backgrounds into university - One Nation Labour is also about those who have been left behind.
In 1997 he hiked through Idaho with University of Chicago researchers, helping to capture, anesthetize, measure and radio-collar mountain lions.
He was fired in September from a position at Louisiana State University, where he was helping train first-responders in the case of a bioterrorism attack.
After Hatfill was designated a "person of interest, " he lost his job at Louisiana State University, where he was helping train first-responders to handle a bioterrorism attack, and had his apartment searched three times.
Bill Easterly of New York University criticises the WDRs for not helping poor countries decide what to do when things are so uncertain.
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The main goal of this program has been to bring business leaders together in Vermont so they can connect directly with the thought leaders at the university and throughout Vermont who are helping pioneer the redesign of business for the twenty-first century, establish a supportive network of like-minded professionals, and then return to their companies and communities as knowledgeable champions of positive change.
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Eggs are an ideal source of protein, providing sustained energy and helping to build muscles, according to a recent University of Illinois study.
Ms. Huang said Ms. Lu acted as a kind of matchmaker among Boston University's Chinese student community, helping people find roommates and make friends, Ms. Huang said.
Kate McIver, of the Pain Research Institute at Liverpool University, said work done there on helping amputees create mental images of pain-free limbs - which operated on the same basic principle as the US research - had also proved effective.
Syracuse University has made a magnificent contribution by helping reverse decay and showing the way to renewal, and the neighborhood surely is on the rebound, but only good jobs for all who want to work can make any neighborhood sustainably strong into the foreseeable future.
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At the San Diego State University School of Nursing, they're helping run a program for troops and veterans and their spouses.
Laughter and a sense of humor may also protect against heart attacks by helping prevent heart disease, according to cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
It is a shame that this remarkably talented female African-American coach, who has devoted her life to helping others, is being bullied and scapegoated by the University of Texas.
Craig says his employer is helping him to apply for assistance grants from his former university, but says he would probably be asked to leave if he asked the company to pay him.
The university in nearby Bologna, for example, is helping it to develop special steels, composites and plastics.
He added that employers were helping shape the curriculum in the government's new studio schools and university technical colleges.
After getting a doctorate in psychology from Loyola University in 1971, Linehan wanted to devote her career to helping the most miserable people in the world.
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Curriculum leader for media, Karen Melling explained that the B-Tec Year 10 group were passing on their technical skills to the younger students by helping them edit footage of an interview with Dr Pete Edwards from Durham University, who has been to CERN and inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Career coaches at New York University banded together last month to create several new programs aimed at helping seniors land jobs, says Trudy Steinfeld, executive director of the school's career-services department.
There are professions, like university teaching and research, where a big part of the motivation is helping people and gaining respect in the community.
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Refusing to go to university, he was sacked from a long series of jobs, usually for helping himself to the contents of the till.
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The new Pac-12 television-rights deal will nearly double Cal's broadcast revenue before expenses, helping the athletic department not only to make debt payments but also to wean itself from university support.
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