Sentences with phrase «academy of science members»

It's also worth noting that 255 National Academy of Science members (truly prominent scientists) signed an opposite letter, urging action to address climate change.

In a short book - the first in a series in which National Academy of Science members will describe their science and research for general audiences - the author offers a concise primer on the brain and its development.

Only 7 % of the National Academy of Science members still cling to a belief in god because it is so illogical, but not our politicians.

Through former National Science Foundation director and environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the scientists have found about a dozen National Academies of Science members to co-sign the letter.

Not exact matches

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evoScience, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evoscience including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evolution.

Gee, I think the Pope might be shocked to hear you say that, since Hawking has been a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science since 1986.

Yup... I am one of those «non-overlapping magisteria» believers (though certainly not religious) who is not a member of the national academy of sciences.

William B. Carey, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science Author, Understanding Your Child's Temperament

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

Students at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schools safe.

It has 125,000 individual members and 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals worldwide.

In 1995, he was elected as a member of The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives; in 1997, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and in 1999, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

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

Scientific associations, professional societies, and science academies that recognize a role for science and scientists in the realization of human rights are welcome to join the Coalition as Member Organizations.

Hyman is the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience, President of the International Neuroethics Society, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies where he serves on the governing Council, the Board of Health Science Policy, and chairs the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders which brings together industry, government, and academia.

Regional agencies such as FAPESP play a very important role in Brazil, says Wanderley de Souza, a biomedical scientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by Vivek Shenoy, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of Penn's Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, along with Xuan Cao and Ehsan Ban, members of his lab.

Bhatia, who is also a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, is the senior author of a paper describing the particles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Feb. 24.

Weaver is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and deputy director of the National Institutes of Health - funded Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

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

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

Affiliated academies of science shall receive for research an annual allowance of fifty cents for each of their members who is also a member in good standing of the Association.

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.

He adds that colleagues inside Russia have not been silent: In September, hundreds of signatures were collected in an analogous appeal to the president by doctors of science inside the Russian Federation, including many prominent members of the Academy of Sciences».

Dr. Farahany is a member of the New York Bar, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for Neuroethics.

Signatories of the letter include David King and Robert May, former government chief scientific advisers; Colin Blakemore, a member of the U.K. Drug Policy Commission and former director of the Medical Research Council; and Gabriel Horn, chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Group on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs.

She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and is a member of the American Philosophical Society.

She is a member of the National Academy of Science and has been awarded the Stockholm Water Prize, Order of the Rising Sun, Japan, and the US National Medal of Science.

Cerf is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Computer Society, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, Worshipful Company of Stationers and is a member of the National Academy of EngineMember of the Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Computer Society, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, Worshipful Company of Stationers and is a member of the National Academy of Enginemember of the National Academy of Engineering.

Creationism and climate change may have dominated religion - science feuds in the past, but neuroscience will be the great debate of the future, according to William Newsome, a neuroscientist and National Academy of Sciences member from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

On the 16th, the National Academies of Science (NAS) hosted 252 interested parties — including postdocs, representatives of university programs and funding agencies, members of the media, and a small number of principal investigators — at its august main building facing the National Mall.

AAAS affiliates include 258 societies and academies of science, serving more than 10 million members, representing the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies.

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.

«This lack of two - way coupling makes current models likely to miss critical feedbacks in the combined Earth - Human system,» said National Academy of Engineering member and co-author Eugenia Kalnay, a Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland.

He suggests that science is the only issue that unites Boris Yeltsin, the Russian President, and Ruslan Khasbulatov, his adversary in parliament: «Yeltsin supports science and Khasbulatov is a member of our academy.»

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Academics have decried what they say is government meddling in the organization and oversight of both TÜBİTAK and the Turkish Academy of Sciences, which led to one - third of the academy members resigning and forming a new independent Science Academy of Sciences, which led to one - third of the academy members resigning and forming a new independent Science Academy members resigning and forming a new independent Science Academy.cademy.

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 nomination.

«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.

A study based on data from 2013 and 2014, published in February by the Academy of Science of South Africa and the InterAcademy Partnership, found that only 12 % of the members of 63 academies surveyed worldwide were women.

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.»

* In May, Shirley Tilghman, molecular biologist, National Academy member, feminist, and frequent advocate of the interests of young scientists, was appointed president of Princeton University (see the recent story in Science; online subscription required).

The members of Norman Augustine's 2005 National Academies panel continue to call for an immediate doubling of federal investment in basic science, arguing that basic science is a quintessential public good that only the federal government can properly fund.

Townes was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Inventors Hall of Fame, South Carolina Hall of Fame and Engineering and Science Hall of Fame.

The research team includes Dr. Masanori Miyata and Dr. Ji - Yun Lee at Georgia State; Dr. Richard A. Flavell, chair of the Department of Immunobiology, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences at Yale University; Dr. Koichi S. Kobayashi, professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at the Texas A&M Health Science Center; and Dr. Hirofumi Kai at Kumamoto University in Japan.

An institution that evolved from the Scripps Metabolic Clinic founded by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps in 1924, the institute now employs more than 2,500 people on its campuses in La Jolla, CA, and Jupiter, FL, where its renowned scientists — including two Nobel laureates and 20 members of the National Academy of Science, Engineering or Medicine — work toward their next discoveries.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A professor emeritus at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) was elected today as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious awards that can be bestowed upon a scientist.

10.30 - 11.00 Stackebradt, Erko (Professor, Leibnitz Institute, DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures; Coordinator, MIRRI - Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure, Braunschweig, Germany): Scientists and (their) microbial resources: responsibilities revisited 11.00 - 11.30 Balázs, Ervin (Member of HAS, Professor, Director - general, Centre for Agricultural Reserch, Hungarian Academy of Science, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccScience, Martonvárár, Hungary): Microbes serving agri - food industry 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 12.30 Nagy, Károly (Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary): How science supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccscience supports management of emerging infections 12.30 - 13.00 Rajnavölgyi, Éva (Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary): Human life in invisible company - The significance of preventive vaccination

Legends of South African Science introduces Academy Members who rank among the top achievers in the country.

Professor Kimble is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America, and is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.