The primary purpose of a mentoring program is to help new faculty to fully develop their professional careers, support professional identity and build competence. Mentoring programs also facilitate professional learning, socialization and adaptation of new faculty into their professions (Kalbfleisch & Bach, 1998). This can be effectively accomplished through the...
The Alternate Benefit Program ABP is a tax-sheltered, defined contribution retirement program for higher education faculty and certain administrators. ABP provides retirement benefits, life insurance and disability coverage, which, when combined with Social Security and other tax-deferred plans, can provide security in retirement. Full-time faculty, officers, visiting professors and certain...
Upstream Biosciences Inc. (OTCBB: UPBS) todayannounced the appointment of Dr. Michael Hayden, MD, PhD, FRCPC to itsScientific Advisory Board SAB. Dr. Hayden has co-founded threecompanies: Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Aspreva Pharmaceuticals Inc., andNeurovir. He is currently serving as chief scientific officer for Xenon andchairman of the medical advisory board for Aspreva....
Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp" or "the Company") (TSX: SVM) is pleased to announce that the board of directors has appointed Dr. Robert Gayton to Silvercorp's board of directors. Dr. Gayton will also assume the role of chairman of Silvercorp's audit committee. The Company has also appointed Ms. Maria Tang as...
NEW YORK, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- 7.3 million American women have difficulty conceiving and need help starting a family. The numbers may be just as high among men. A woman's fertility begins to decline in her mid 20's and men follow ten years later. Oftentimes when...
one45 Software, a leading provider ofhealthcare education administration software and a subsidiary of CytivaSoftware Inc. (TSX-V: CRX), announced today the release of a new case studydetailing the successful implementation of one45 software at the MedicalCollege of Georgia MCG. With schools of Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Studies,Medicine and Nursing, including...
Grants Advance Collaboration With Universities, Research Related to the Environment DALLAS, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. today announced the 2008 recipients of fellowship grants through the company's Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship program. Grants totaling $75,000 have been awarded to three academic research teams. ...
CDW-G Secures Contract for Second Year; Academy's Faculty and Students Continue to Benefit from Tablet Computing Flexibility VERNON HILLS, Ill. -- CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of CDW Corporation and leading source of Information Technology IT solutions to educators and governments, today announced that for...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Two Santa Clara Law Professors will address students and faculty to help explain the origins and consumer impacts of the $700 billion economic bailout under discussion in Congress right now. Media are invited to attend. Who: Corporate-Finance Law Professor Steve Diamond and Consumer Law...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. AP -- An expert on Islam is joining the U.S. Naval Academy this fall. Akbar Ahmed, who is also a cultural anthropologist and the former high commissioner of Pakistan to Britain, will fill a new chair for Middle East Studies. He will teach courses, advise midshipmen and faculty,...
Which University of California campus has the highest graduation rate? The lowest living expenses? The best academic experience? A new UC report answers these questions, and more, in a major effort to boost its "accountability" to taxpayers. The report, which will be updated...
For the second consecutive year, Southern University at New Orleans registered the largest enrollment growth among public four- year post-secondary institutions in Louisiana for the second year in a row. According to preliminary figures released Friday by the Louisiana Board of Regents, SUNO's fall 2008 enrollment is 3,105 compared with...
LOS ANGELES -- UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and UCLA Anderson School of Management Dean Judy Olian last night announced the launch of a $100 million campaign for the school. Approximately two hundred alumni, friends and members of the campus community celebrated the kickoff at an event hosted at the Chancellor's...
The University of Utah has brought its neurology departments -- neurology, neurosurgery and radiology -- together under one roof at the new University Health Care Clinical Neurosciences Center. The $20 million, 90,000-square-foot center, which has its own operating rooms and lab, formally opens in two weeks. ...
Students, alumni, faculty and administration unite to help communities around the world MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Walden University's 2008 Social Change Conference: "Serving Our Communities," on Oct. 2, and its National Day of Service, on Oct. 4, will bring together students, alumni and faculty to serve...
State Sen. Susan Paddack's personal philosophy is simple - "give people your best, all of the time." It's that attitude that has helped Paddack succeed throughout her career in education and now, in the state Legislature. Paddack graduated from the University of Colorado in 1974 and then...
NEW YORK -- Today marks the 10th anniversary of the TIAA-CREF Institute and its commitment to foster objective research, build knowledge, share expertise and enhance understanding of strategic issues related to higher education and lifelong financial security in the non-profit fields. "The TIAA-CREF Institute has proven to be...
Byline: RICHARD YATES I'M NOT sure what the collective noun is for a group of professors - faculty, perhaps? But next week there's a rare chance to see and hear four of Europe's finest on stage in the North East making wonderful music together. ...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Pape, Trane's vice president of commercial business in the U.S. west territory, will speak to students, faculty and university leaders at Texas A&M University on Sept. 25. Pape will talk to engineering students about "The Evolution of Ethics and...
The University of Oklahoma has received $55,000 in departmental grants from Exxon Mobil Corp. to support the Michael F. Price College of Business, the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, the College of Engineering and OU's Career Services. The Exxon Mobil grants allow selected academic departments...
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