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  Clay Mathematics Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The institute was founded in 1998 by businessman Landon T. Clay, who financed it, and Harvard mathematician Arthur Jaffe.
The Institute is run according to a standard structure comprising a board of directors that decides on grant-awarding and research proposals, and a scientific advisory committee that oversees and approves the board's decisions.
Besides the Millennium Prize Problems, the Clay Mathematics Institute also supports mathematics via the awarding of research fellowships (which range from two to five years, and are aimed at younger mathematicians), as well as shorter-term scholarships for programs, individual research, and book writing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clay_Mathematics_Institute   (759 words)

  
 Welcome To Millennium Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Millennium Institute is a service provider, connecting business and people from all over the world.
Millennium Institute’s consistent growth and expansion is a direct result of a strong company vision with the highest standards being placed on business ethics.
Millennium Institute is becoming the market leader for educational, career planning and business networking.
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 The Millennium Villages Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Earth Institute scientists and development experts in agriculture, nutrition and health, economics, energy, water, environment and information technology are working with local communities and governments to apply a proven, integrated package of interventions to help villages get out of extreme poverty.
The UN Millennium Project and the Earth Institute at Columbia University are working with governments, donors, civil society and other partner organizations to support three types of Millennium Villages in hunger hotspots across the developing world.
Millennium Village Types and Scaling Up The preferred means of scaling-up is through district, provincial, and national level involvement — using the MV sites as pilots for demonstrating the concept and developing tools that can then be managed and expanded by governments.
www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /mvp/about   (858 words)

  
 Foresighting Around the World — Chapter 4
The Millennium Project is being conducted by the American Council for the United Nations University (AC/UNU), in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution and the Futures Group.
The initial impetus for the Millennium Project was provided by the Futures Group and presented first to the UN and then to the Smithsonian Institute.
Their objective is to create a reliable system, by the new millennium, that continuously updates and contributes to global thinking about the future and disseminates that thinking through a variety of media for consideration in public policy, advanced training, and public education.
www.seattle.battelle.org /services/es/foresite/ch04.htm   (7649 words)

  
 feasability
By the year 2000 the Millennium Project is expected to have created a reliable system that continuously updates and contributes to global thinking about the future, and makes that thinking available through a variety of media for consideration in public policy, advanced training, and public education.
The Millennium Project is proposed to assist in organizing futures research, to update and improve continuously humanity's thinking about the future, and to make that thinking available through a variety of media for consideration in public policy making, advanced training, and public education.
It is the purpose of the Millennium Project to anticipate these forces for change, to gain a fuller understanding of the pressures these changes will impose on existing policies and institutions, and to suggest some of the policy solutions that are likely to emerge.
www.acunu.org /millennium/feasability.html   (14711 words)

  
 Welcome to UHI Millennium Institute - "Creating the University of the Highlands & Islands"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1996 the Millennium Commission provided UHI Millennium Institute £33.34 million to establish opportunities for participation in higher education and continuous learning for those living in remote communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
In July 2003, the Commission granted UHI Millennium Institute £2.4 million for new headquarters in Inverness and an upgrading of Perth College.
The designation of UHI Millennium Institute as a Higher Education Institute is the precursor to the long held vision of a University for the region.The Millennium Commission have contributed towards this achievement as a means towards providing Highland and Island communities with access to high-quality education.
www.uhi.ac.uk /misc/millennium_com.shtm   (213 words)

  
 The Millennium Villages Project
The Millennium Villages Project, based at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a new bottom-up approach to lift developing country villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide.
Earth Institute scientists and development experts in agriculture, nutrition and health, economics, energy, water, environment and information technology are working with local communities and governments to apply a proven holistic package of interventions to help villages get out of extreme poverty.
Dr. Johnson Nkuuhe, UN Millennium Project Country Coordinator for Uganda and a member of Uganda's Parliament, has been identified as one of the 50 Members of the 7th Parliament that have been instrumental in supporting the integration of Human Rights and Gender in the law making process in the last five years.
www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /mvp   (840 words)

  
 State Colleges and Universities > AASCU
The Millennium Leadership Initiative (MLI) is a focused leadership development program designed to strengthen the preparation and eligibility of persons who are traditionally underrepresented in the roles of president or chancellor in our nation’s colleges and universities.
After completing the Institute, the 34 participants of the 2006 MLI class donated a scholarship for one attendee for the 2007 class.
During the four-day Institute, the program exposed protégés to a variety of issues essential to the presidential career path and of value to assessing career path options.
www.aascu.org /mli   (742 words)

  
 review.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The New Millennium Institute is a non-profit school of spiritual studies.
This magnificent hemicyle was host to the institute for the first four years of its operations.
The Institute supports, through donations, the work of The Na Koa Warriors, a native Hawaiian group whose mission is to protect sacred sites in Hawaii, such as Pu'ukohola, the temple (heiau) built by King Kamehameha the Great.
www.nmi.org /about.html   (256 words)

  
 Millennium Institute of Sport and Health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Millennium Institute of Sport and Health is committed to strengthening sport at all levels from grass roots participation through to high performance.
With the building of the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health, the Club generously handed over its major assets, including the stadium, to the Institute to form what is now the Sovereign Sports Super Centre.
With the advent of the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health, the concept of forming a Weightlifting Club to be based at this facility was promoted in 2001.
www.institutesporthealth.org.nz /clubs/northspt.html   (1009 words)

  
 Millennium Conference: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Boston, Hospital,
Institutional educational technology initiatives are numerous and diverse.
The Millennium Conference IV will involve 6-8 medical schools in an in-depth discussion of medical simulation, and will focus on the educational philosophies and objectives underlying the use of simulation, rather than on the technical aspects of the tools.
Over the course of the conference, participants will be asked to examine their current medical simulation programs in light of educational principles and institutional goals, to share past experiences, and to propose guidelines for best use of simulation.
www.bidmc.harvard.edu /display.asp?node_id=5448   (766 words)

  
 Who’s Talking, Listening, and Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Mars Millennium Project, an official White House Millennium Council Youth Initiative, is a national art, science and technology initiative created to encourage students to design a community for 100 people arriving on Mars in the year 2030 (see http://www.mars2030.org/).
The Mars Millennium Project is spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the J. Paul Getty Trust.
NASA's Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is contributing to the project by developing web-based curriculum for the Mars Millennium Project and piloting the curriculum in Houston-area schools, libraries, youth and arts centers (see http://www.lpi.usra.edu).
www.ghg.net /ritakarl/SITE2000.htm   (2532 words)

  
 Millennium Prize Problems
During the Millennium Meeting held on May 24, 2000 at the Collège de France, Timothy Gowers presented a lecture entitled The Importance of Mathematics, aimed for the general public, while John Tate and Michael Atiyah spoke on the problems.
The rules for the award of the prize have the endorsement of the CMI Scientific Advisory Board and the approval of the Directors.
The members of these boards have the responsibility to preserve the nature, the integrity, and the spirit of this prize.
www.claymath.org /millennium   (241 words)

  
 UHI Millennium Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
UHI Millennium Institute (UHI) is the only higher education institution based in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland.
The UHI Millennium Institute learning network is based on an academic partnership of 15 institutions across the Highlands & Islands, including Moray and Perth & Kinross.
UHI is not a traditional higher education institution - we do not have one campus or location in which we can answer your accommodation questions against.
www.findacourse.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/university.124   (290 words)

  
 United Nations Division for Sustainable Development - Success Stories-1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Millennium Institute, UNDP and the Malawi government jointly initiated Threshold 21 Modeling Project.
T21 is a computer-based sustainable development analysis tool designed by the Millennium Institute, enabling users to evaluate alternative national strategies in an integrated fashion by linking a country’s environmental, economic and social sectors in a single, customized model.
Alternative strategies to be evaluated by the model were identified: the three strategies initially proposed by the government as well as a "combined" strategy, which incorporated elements of each of the initial alternatives;
www.un.org /esa/sustdev/mgroups/success/cb2.htm   (479 words)

  
 The Global Citizen: Millennium, Shmillennium
It is preparing a "Millennium Report to the World," intended to be not a thick manifesto from a think-tank, but a compilation of information, dreams, and plans from all sorts of people, especially young people.
The Institute encourages groups -- families, churches, friends -- to gather every 100 days during the 1000-day countdown, not to receive ideas about the millennium from TV programs or pundits, but to discuss its meaning for themselves.
The Institute is assembling some questions to ponder, timeless enough for a millennial perspective and timely enough to reflect this particular moment in history.
www.pcdf.org /Meadows/millennium.htm   (889 words)

  
 Perth College :: UHI Millennium Institute and Perth College
Perth College is a member of UHI Millennium Institute (www.uhi.ac.uk), the only higher education institution based in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Students, lecturers, colleges, research institutions and learning centres are part of an advanced high-speed electronic network, providing access to university-level education throughout the region.
UHI Millennium Institute was designated as a higher education institution in April 2001, enabling us to further develop our university-level programmes.
www.perth.ac.uk /UHI/UHIPerth.htm   (287 words)

  
 Clay Mathematics Institute
The Clay Mathematics Institute will hold its 2006 summer school on Arithmetic Geometry at the Mathematisches Institut, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany, from July 17 to August 11, 2006.
On February 2, 2006, The Clay Mathematics Institute announced the appointment of Research Fellows Artur Avila, Sophie Morel, and Sam Payne.
The proceedings of the Clay Mathematics Institute 2003 summer school at Fields Institute is now available.
www.claymath.org   (502 words)

  
 Bangladesh THRESHOLD 21 Model (USA)
The MILLENNIUM INSTITUTE seeks the cooperation of well-established institutions to develop the new sectors of the model and to strengthen existing sectors.
Additional institutional links for improving policies or strategies have been developed with Logistics Management Institute of the USA, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, the International Technology and Economy Institute of China, and the National Research Center for Science and Technology for Development of China.
The MILLENNIUM INSTITUTE has been invited by UNICEF-Bangladesh to visit Bangladesh again in early 1996 to further the institutional use of THRESHOLD 21 in major Bangladesh government agencies.
www.unesco.org /most/usa10.htm   (1327 words)

  
 MILLENNIUM CONSPIRACY
The Millennium Institute grew out of the Global 2000 Report to the President which was commissioned by President Jimmy Carter.
The Institute is presently organizing a series of worldwide events and activities over a three-year period 1999-2001 that will celebrate the end of one millennium and the beginning of another.
Nowhere in The Millennium Institute's mission statement is the word God.
www.greencity.com /millennium.htm   (619 words)

  
 Detecting brain infections without surgery
Researchers at Westmead Millennium Institute have discovered a safe, non-surgical method of identifying brain infections such as brain abscess, and an accurate and rapid way of diagnosing meningitis.
Professor Tania Sorrell and her team at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Westmead Millennium Institute have come up with a safe and simple ways of distinguishing between brain tumour and different types of brain infections, and for rapidly diagnosing cases of meningitis.
Westmead Millennium Institute is affiliated with the University of Sydney and the Westmead Hospital Campus.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-09/ra-dbi090705.php   (355 words)

  
 Nestlé New Zealand: Nestlé's Partnership with the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Nestlé is a foundation sponsor of the Millennium Institute, and together we look forward to continuing to develop new initiatives that ultimately build a healthier nation.
The first major joint initiative between Nestlé and the Millennium Institute was the development of the interactive displays in the foyer of the Millennium Institute.
First launched in November 2005, this cookbook continues the partnership between the Millennium Institute and Nestlé and reflects the on-going commitment of both parties to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.
www.nestle.co.nz /Community/MIP   (370 words)

  
 About CME
The CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education was founded in 1986 by Doreen Rao, then Music Director of the Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus and her composer colleague, Lee Kesselman.
The CME Institute’s innovative and inspirational summer programs are dedicated to the music of emerging composers and the artistry of choral educators seeking to develop and refine their conducting and teaching skills in the company of artists and in a community of colleagues.
New Millennium Festival Concerts — As a new music education through performance initiative, New Millennium Festival Concerts emerged from Doreen Rao’s pioneering commitment to children and youth choirs around the world, and from her passion to empower the next generation of young artists through the artistic, social and spiritual meaning of choral musical experience.
www.choralmusicexperience.com /about_cme.htm   (874 words)

  
 Aimhigher: UHI Millennium Institute
Not only is this a place of extraordinary cultural heritage and environmental diversity, it contains some of the most remote communities in Europe, with a population dispersed among over seventy-five islands in addition to the mainland.
It is a region which demands a very different kind of higher educational institution from the established universities.
UHI is founded on a network of thirteen colleges and research institutions, spanning the Highlands and Islands, with two further associated institutions.
www.aimhigher.ac.uk /universities___colleges___hei/scotland/uhi_millennium_institute.cfm   (369 words)

  
 Welcome to UHI Millennium Institute - "Creating the University of the Highlands & Islands"
Welcome to UHI Millennium Institute - "Creating the University of the Highlands and Islands"
Therefore, I had been looking for an institute that provided high-quality content and support all on-line.
‘UHI Millennium Institute’, ‘University of the Highlands and Islands’, ‘UHI’, ‘Creating the University of the Highlands and Islands’ and ‘University-level study in the Highlands and Islands’, their Gaelic equivalents and the UHI graphical map device are all trade marks of UHI Millennium Institute.
www.uhi.ac.uk   (303 words)

  
 The Millennium Institute - Its Radical Agenda for the 1999 Parliament of World Religions
The PWR is conducting this effort in close association with an American think tank, the Millennium Institute - which itself is on friendly terms with the United Religions Initiative, the State of the World Forum, and the proponents of the Earth Charter.
(935) The Millennium Institute is supported by the Temple of Understanding and the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, which also support the URI.
Unfortunately, Dr. Barney, the Millennium Institute, and their allies dream of "a new future for Earth." They should heed Gorbachev's warnings about such a revolutionary path.
fatima.freehosting.net /Articles/Art2.htm   (4041 words)

  
 Web Sites Provide Links to World-Wide Millennium Events
The two coordinated sites are prepared and maintained by the non-profit Millennium Institute and by the White House Millennium Council.
Through months of research, the Millennium Institute discovered activities in 77 countries, from Argentina to Zimbabwe.
The Millennium Institute is a non-profit organization that provides tools to help nations of the world plan for a sustainable future.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-21-1999/0001049773&EDATE=   (224 words)

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