Signature will establish a Next Generation program that gives each composer a $25,000 commission and a summer-workshop production of the musical in progress.
Ninety-three PhD students, postdocs, and MBAs were selected for this "next generation" program, part of the international life sciences forum BioVision 2005.
Dr. Marni Baker Stein, Chief Innovation Officer, is an authority on next generation program and curricular development, delivery, and assessment; strategic enrollment and student lifecycle management infrastructure implementation; and student-centered, outcomes-focused, competency-based instructional design.
In May 2008, when the Council on Foundations holds its Leadership Summit, a megaconference for philanthropists, it will offer its first full next-generation program.
Bouncing animatedly in his Multimedia Gulch office in San Francisco, the next media mogul gleefully shows off his prime-time lineup of edgy next-generation programming.
In the coming months, a cadre of next generation degree programs will tap emerging technologies to customize learning and offer newfound flexibility to students who can progress through courses at their own pace.
Before Acumen, Jacqueline founded and directed the Rockefeller Foundation's The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership programs, co-founded Duterimbere, a micro-finance institution in Rwanda, and began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has spent more than $1 billion on its Next Generation Identification program, which includes facial-recognition technology.
The F.B.I. is also working on internal improvements, including the Next Generation Identification program, an upgrade to the existing fingerprint identification system, which will improve disposition reporting, while a related initiative will enable efficient electronic updates.
A prismatic gas-cooled very high temperature reactor (VHTR) is being developed under the next generation nuclear program.
The differences between both techniques are assessed in the context of the Next Generation Simulation program (NGSIM), which is used as a benchmark data set to compare both methods.
