Sentences with phrase «academies of science committee»

Standardized tests with high stakes are bad for learning, studies show (Statesman, 3/10/2012) A National Academies of Science committee reviewed America's test - based accountability systems and concluded, «There are little to no positive effects of these systems overall on student learning and educational progress.»

Following release of a report by the National Academies of Science Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) entitled «Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers», Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research Linda Dykstra created a Postdoctoral Committee chaired by Sharon Milgram, an associate professor in the department of cell and molecular physiology.

In the recent national report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, a National Academy of Science Committee concluded that «quality classroom instruction in kindergarten and the primary grades is the single best weapon against reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998).

In response to Schmidt's claim that the group had no impact on the science, Steve McIntyre told me that the then - Chairman of the National Academy of Science Committee on Statistics «endorsed our findings on [Mann et al].»

Not exact matches

She also serves as a member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Science Technology and Law.

Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, 2007).

[BOX 5] Alliance of Third Class Non-Profit Mailers, 1981 - 1982 Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) files I, 1981 II, 1980 - 1981 III, 1978 - 1980 IV, 1979 - 1980 Council of Allied Engineering and Scientific Societies, 1969 - 1981 Council of Allied Engineering and Scientific Societies, 1981 - 1982 Department of Education, 1977 - 1978 Energy Research Advisory Board Multiprogram Laboratory Panel, 10/15/81 -11 / 19/82 Institute of Medicine - I, 1982 - 1983 Institute of Medicine - II, 1979 - 1982 Roger W. Jones Award, 1979 - 1980 W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 1982 Mellon (Andrew W.) Project, 1978 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Files: I, 1981 - 1984 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Files: II, 1981 - 1982 National Committee on Public Employee Pension Systems (PEPS), July 1982 National Governors» Association Meeting - Task Force on Technological Innovation, 2/21/82 National Publication Act of 1979 Office of Technology Assessment, 1972 - 1973 Peace and Conflict Resolution, 1980 Pensions for Professionals, 1971 - 1972 Saturday Review of Science, 1972 - 1979 Scientists and Engineers Emigrant Fund, 1978 - 1979 SOHIO, Standard Oil of Ohio Grant, 1982 - 1986 Technology in Science - Advisory Board, 1981 Tyler Prize, 1984 - 1985 White House Study of Science and Engineering Education, 1980 Znaiye (Soviet Scholarly Society), 1971 - 1977

In work presented in March to a committee of the National Academies, Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington, placed malicious software on an unspecified car's computer system using its own Bluetooth and cell phone connections.

Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies (Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 2000).

We shared the survey process and preliminary results at the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience and at Next Wave's Postdoc Network National Meeting.

Yet, as pointed out in a 2000 report of the National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), many postdocs are unhappy with their situations.

Rieke is the principal investigator of Webb's NIRCam instrument, as well as the co-chair of the National Academies» Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a body that along with NASA, the National Science Foundation and the National Academies» Space Studies Board helps plan the decadal surveys.

«There is a potential risk that if you cool the planet by albedo modification, it could provide less incentive to reduce reliance on fossil fuels,» says Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist, current editor - in - chief of Science and chair of a committee that evaluated climate intervention techniques for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Last week the committee released a survey done by a private advocacy group that found that many of the country's leading research labs do not follow voluntary guidelines for the humane treatment of animals issued in 1992 by the Indian National Science Academy.»

Deborah Stine, associate director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National Academies, says that «postdocs want their mentors to be honest with them» and want more down - to - earth, practical advice about their careers.

Chair Elect: Jay B. Labov, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Member - at - Large of the Section Committee: Tamara Shapiro Ledley, TERC Electorate Nominating Committee: Margaret R. Caldwell, Center for Ocean Solutions / Stanford Law School; Kristin P. Jenkins, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison / BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Council Delegate: Elizabeth K. Stage, UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science

Christopher Chyba, professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at Princeton University and a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences.

At a September hearing last year before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that the agency would ask the academies to vet the science behind the conclusion.

These were among the points raised at a summit held by the US National Academies of Science and Medicine's Committee on Human Gene Editing in Paris today.

So they asked the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine to form a committee to investigate the issue.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Zuckerman and 100 other people crammed into a conference room at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to offer advice to its Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP).

Therefore, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National Academies of Science and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine examined the postdoc experience.

Includes reports from the European Science Foundation (2001), the National Academy of Sciences (COSEPUP, 2000; Personnel Needs Committee, 2000), the American Chemical Society (2001), the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB, 2001), Association of American Medical Colleges (GREAT, 1998), the Association of American Universities (1998), and the University of California Council of Graduate Deans (1998).

Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, I. of M. (2009).

Committees are charged with making sure poorly conceived science does not get funded — and they do a good job of that, says Steven McKnight, a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a National Academies member.

[BOX 3: Grants and Contracts] Financial Statements, 1957 - 1959 Financial Reports, 1957 - 1959 Financial Statements, 1958 Financial Reports 1960-1961 1962 1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 Report on Review of Source Data Preparation for Accounting Purposes, Oct. 1961 AAAS Budgets, 1968 - 1969 Financial Reports, 1968 - 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1970 Financial Reports, 1970 - 1971 Financial Reports, 1972 Financial Reports from Operations, 1979 Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 1974 and Projections to 1963 Report for Examination of Financial Statements and Additional Information, 1983 - 1984 Closed out Funds and Stocks AAAS Grants Committee, 1955 AID Audit - Mexico City, 1974 Asia Foundation, 1955 - 1975 Boston Concerts Carnegie Corp. - Grant to AAAS for Science Teaching Improvement Program Graham Chedd - Contract [3 folders], 1973 - 1977 DOS - AID Irene Tinker, 1973 - 1977 RISM Research for the Study of Man, 1973 - 1977 Smithsonian, 1971 - 1977 Audit, 1973 - 1977 Close Out, 1976 - 1978 GE Grant - Regional Consultants on Science Teaching, 1956 Gordon Marshall, Exhibits Contract, 1952 National Endowment of the Arts, 1973 NSF Grant - Soviet Science, 1952 Training Talented Students, 1955 Travelling High School Library, 1956 Gordon Conference on Teacher Education, 1956 Junior Academies Workshop, 1957 Proposal to NSF for Development of Science Teaching Materials for Elementary and Junior High Schools, 1961 Progress Report to the NSF on the Holiday Science Lecture Program, 1963 Proposal to the NSF for 1964 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Comparative Science Program, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Cooperative Science Program, 1964 WGBH, 1972 Willis Shapley, Contract Agreement, Oct. 1978 DHEW - Barrier Free Meetings, Oct. 1977 CBS News - Conquest Program Series, 1959 MISCO Contract - original, 1972 Basic Books Publishing - New Roads to Yesterday, 1963 - 1966

Environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the former head of the National Science Foundation who chairs the National Academies of Sciences» Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, said that she and fellow committee members are «ecstatic» about McNutt's noCommittee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, said that she and fellow committee members are «ecstatic» about McNutt's nocommittee members are «ecstatic» about McNutt's nomination.

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers National Academy of Engineering NAS, Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable NAS, Committee on International Relations NAS, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China NAS, Committee on Science and Public Policy (COSPUP) National Academy of Science, National Research Council National Association of State Universities and Land - Grant Colleges (NASULGC) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science National Conference on the Advancement of Research (NCAR), Les Cook National Council of University Research Administrators National Engineering Action Council (NEAC) National Science Teachers Association National Society of Professional Engineers Science and Technology Political Action Committee Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society of North America, 1977 - 1979 Sigma Xi Parapsychological Association Phi Theta Kappa Power Engineering Society Social Science Research Council Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Society for Applied International Development State Academies of Science Union of Concerned Scientists United Community Centers, Brooklyn, New York

[Box 9] OIS - China - Chinese Science and Technology Policy Delegation Visit, 1978 Zhongshan University Delegation Visit, 1979 AAAS Popularization of Science Delegation to China, 1980 CAST Science Writers Delegation to US, 1981 AAAS Environmental Planning Delegation to China, 1981 US - China Conference on Energy Resources and Environment, 1982 Interferon Study (Proposed), 1982 CAST Delegation to US, 1982 CAST Quality Control Delegation to US, 1982 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - US Papers, 1983 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - Chinese Papers, 1983 Photo Album of Address by Song Jian, 1985 AAAS Board of Directors Delegation to China, 1985 Chinese Delegation Visit (IIE), 1986 US Fish and Wildlife Service Delegation to China, 1986 FASAS International Climate Change Symposium (Proposal), 1986 CAST Delegation to US, 1986 Background Political Information, 1987 Law / Science Short Course (Proposal), 1987 Collected Information and Papers on Chinese Water Management, 1987 CAST Water Management Delegation to US, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China - Follow - up, 1988 CAST Petrochemical Engineer Delegation to US (Proposal), 1987 Pacific Rim Symposium (Proposal), 1987 Science and Technology Advising Seminar (Proposal), 1988 - 1989 AAAS / ABA Lawyers and Scientists Delegation to China, 1988 China Symposium at 1989 AAAS Annual Meeting, 1988 - 1989 Medical Instrument Maintenance and Repair, 1989 Fang Li Zhi, 1988 - 1989 Amnesty International Reports on Chinese Arrests, 1989 Correspondence re: June 1989 Events in China, 1989 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1989 China - FASAS Symposium on Environmental Protection in Developing Countries, 1989 FASAS Symposium Chinese Papers, 1989 PRC Joint Commission Visit, 1989 Tibet, 1987 Liz Levey Misc Correspondence, 1982 - 1990 Chinese Code of Ethics, 1986 China Tech Company Information, (undated) AAAS / CAST Exchange Programs, 1978 - 1987 Correspondence with CAST International Director Wang Zheng, 1981 - 1982 Correspondence with CAST, 1981 - 1989 James Hartnett Complaint to CAST, 1988 - 1989 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987 Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, 1987 - 1988 Correspondence with Chinese Embassy, 1982 - 1987 NAS China Committee, 1982 - 1986 Financial Aid for Chinese Students, 1987 Misc Articles and General Background Information, 1978 - 1989 Misc., 1982 - 1989 Presentation Transparencies, 1988 Elzinga, Aant.

«I am very pleased,» says Alice Agogino, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a member of the National Academies» Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

No matter that Glover is herself advised by hundreds of European research organisations and the Joint Research Council, academies and learned societies from across the sciences and across the world, universities, expert committees, science associations and citizen science.

Izpisua Belmonte is uniquely qualified to speak to the ethics of genome editing in part because, as a member of the committee on human gene editing of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, he helped author the 2016 roadmap «Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance.»

Three years ago, a U.S. National Academies committee recommended (in the report The Gathering Storm) doubling federal investment in basic research in math, the physical sciences, and engineering while, at a minimum, protecting the health sciences against inflation (the cost of which, in math, the physical sciences, and engineering, equals the amount by which the nation's expenditure on health care increases every 7 weeks).

Tu also received numerous awards nationally which include «Award for Progress in Anti-malarial Research Achieved by Project 523 Scientific Team» honored by China National Congress of Science and Technology (1978); «National Scientific Discovery Award» for Anti-malaria Drug - Qinghaosu by the China Ministry of Science and Technology (1979); «Invention Award» (as the first inventor) by China National Congress for Awards in Science and Technology (1982); «Award of Young and Middle - aged Experts with Outstanding Contribution» by the Chinese Government (1984); «The Top Honorary Award» by China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1992); «The Top Ten National Achievements for Progress in Science and Technology» by China National Committee of Science and Technology (1992); «First - Class Award of National Achievements in Science and Technology» by China National Award Committee for Advances in Science and Technology (1992); «National Model» by China State Council (1995); «Award for Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Chinese Medicine» by Guangzhou Zhongjing Award Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine (1995); «Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award» by Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation of Hong Kong (1996); «Top Ten Health Achievements in New China» by China Ministry of Health (1997); «Female Inventor of the New Century» by China National Bureau of Intellectual Property (2002); «Golden Medal of the 14th National Invention Exhibition» by China National Bureau of Intellectual Property (2003); «Award for Development of Chinese Materia Medica» by Cyrus Chung Ying Tang Foundation, (2009).

And this week, the International Arctic Science Committee is meeting at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow to discuss next steps.

Moderated by: Heide Hackmann, Executive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU) Introductory presentation and remarks: Gordon McBean, President of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Panellists: Stephan Lechner, Director of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), DG JRC, European Commission Eva Alisic, Co-Chair, Global Young Academy Virginia Murray, Vice-chair UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG), Chair of the S&T Organising Committee for the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030 Closing remarks: Vladimír Šucha, Director General of DG JRC, European Commission

Sue Clark, an internationally recognized leader in the nuclear sciences, has been appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee to evaluate the U.S. Department of Energy's cleanup technology development efforts.

Live from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, the President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announces the 2016 Kavli Prize laureates, with presentations by the Kavli Prize Committee Chairs.

Live from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, the President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced the 2016 Kavli Prize laureates, with presentations by the Kavli Prize Committee Chairs.

Storm - Mathisen was elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1992 and has been heading the Kavlie prize committee since it was established in 2005.

VAS provides support, leadership, and supervision to the Virginia Junior Academy of Science (VJAS)(established in 1941) through the VA Junior of Science Committee.

He has published over 100 scientific journal articles and book chapters, chaired and been a member of numerous agricultural and ecological research grant review panels and been a member of two National Academy of Science National Research Council Committees on Agriculture.

The Planning Committee is jointly appointed by The Kavli Foundation, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Ministry of Education and Research.

In addition to being a GSA President, Beadle served society in several leadership roles — for instance, as chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation — and demonstrated a strong commitment to science outreach and education.

The 90 - minute celebration in honor of the laureates also featured addresses by Fred Kavli, founder and chairman of The Kavli Foundation, Nils Christian Stenseth, president of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the chairs of the committees charged with selecting the prize recipients.

The prize committees are appointed by the the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters after receiving recommendations from international academies and scientific organisations including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Society of Germany, the US National Academy of Sciences and the UK's Royal Society.

Basel Declaration Society Belgian Brain Council European Academy of Neurology European Animal Research Association European Brain Council European Chapter of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology European College of Neuropsychopharmacology European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations European Huntington Association European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians Fédération Européenne des Académies de Médecine (FEAM) Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations Federation of European Neuroscience Societies French Academy of Medical Sciences French Brain Council German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Global Alliance for Mental Health Advocacy Networks Europe Groupe Interprofessionnel de Réflexion et de Communication sur la Recherche International Brain Research Organization — Pan European Regional Committee International Bureau for Epilepsy International League Against Epilepsy Serbian Brain Council Wellcome Trust

In the past, she has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Life Science Center (Gubernatorial appointment), Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the advisory councils for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, the Biology Directorate of the NSF, and the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints three Kavli Prize Committees on the basis of nominations received by leading international academies and other equivalent scientific organizations.