Sentences with phrase «because academic science»

Because academic science reinforces a culture of self - sacrifice, it is not uncommon for scientists to be reluctant to admit that they value recognition, status and prestige, or earning potential.

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Also, there has been previous academic research showing that fast - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. tend to be men, which is partly because women are less involved in science and engineering in general, says Kelly.

Because it has appropriated the preferential view of happiness, much academic political science has become a territory within liberalism's sphere of influence.

«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].

I got the job partly because it happened that my own research interests fit neatly into the organisation's activities, and partly because I showed that I had been involved in discussions about science outside the academic arena.

Bogaard notes, «I was drawn to this program because I was not fully decided on what I wanted to do in the field, and the PSM program let me explore the many avenues that science can offer outside of academic research.»

This phenomenon needs to be understood by individuals, academic institutions, companies, and federal agencies who claim that they want to see the numbers of women and minorities going into science and engineering careers increase, because unfortunately «stereotype threat» is alive and well in the scientific community.

Some academic researchers, pharma executives, and other experts have decried this explosion of trials as a counterproductive glut motivated more by the race for money than good science and warned that many of these efforts may not finish because of a lack of participants.

Despite a longstanding dismal job market in academic science, however, departments continue to recruit graduate students and postdocs because they need skilled and inexpensive labor to do the work promised in professors» grant proposals.

He is especially adept at this, writes John Hassard, a physicist at ICL who was Richards» academic supervisor during his postdoc, in an e-mail to Science Careers, because «[h] e feels and conveys a great sense of fun, taking neither the subject nor himself too seriously... but [he is] serious enough for his audience to sense his deep passion and his understanding that physics can be a great force for good.»

It's a different business model than the usual academic one, but because Hood learned as much about science from the telephone company and a geology camp as he did in school, he knows that progress is not the province of academia alone.

A formula «pleases us, the academics, because it is a systematic way of responding to inevitable population changes,» Pukelsheim tells Science.

Conventional wisdom holds that few U.S. college students ever transfer into a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field because they lack the necessary academic preparation.

Alving told ScienceInsider that she's leaving now because she has completed her «major goals,» including establishing the Clinical and Translational Science Awards — large support grants set up 5 years ago to support bench - to - bedside research at major academic medical centers.

Indeed, their recent research indicates that women PhDs turn away from academic science because they face a culture that precludes time and responsibility for home, family, and life.

While retired, because of my ongoing interest in the importance of credible, sound science driving public policy and regulation of food safety related issues, I joined with other academic colleagues and helped to found a 501c3 non-profit organization we call Academics Review.

It lags behind in assessment largely because it does not have tests aligned to its academic standards in science or social studies.

She said District 218 began to pull kids from remedial classes a few years ago because students in those classes were not meeting academic standards in science.

That case, which was widely viewed as politically motivated, galvanized the climate science community because of the threat it posed to academic freedom and scientific inquiry.

You are claiming the science isn't valid because: «Regarding peer reviewed scientific journals, these are edited (that is, controlled) by and written by academics, the overwhelming majority of whom are left wingers.

Each of the four authors of the Science Bulletin paper has a lively and expert academic interest in our subject, and we wrote our paper because we considered — rightly, as events have turned out (for there have already been more than 22,500 downloads either of the abstract or of the full paper)-- that other researchers would find our simple model of the climate interesting and helpful.

Jim D observes «Leftist people tend to go into academics, arts and science because they see value in teaching, service, advancement of arts and knowledge for the greater good, a greater cause than themselves.

It is very clear why leftist people tend to go into academics, arts and science because they see value in teaching, service, advancement of arts and knowledge for the greater good, a greater cause than themselves.

These «academic exercises» are very important and relevant because they show that whoever runs the climate science show have no foggiest clue what kind of system complexity they are dealing with.

And precisely BECAUSE it is political in nature, «Climate Science» stands in far greater need of rigorous scrutiny than purely academic research.

SB: So, it's true that the UK is really strong at weather and climate science and the whole UK academic community and the Met Office, partly because we use all the same modelling tools, we really punch above our weight.

Being right is pretty far down the list in the academic world, partially because even in the hard sciences, you'll probably be dead before the question is actually settled.

I don't generally pass on pointers to academic articles in the Social Science Research Network database, because there are plenty of others on the web who are doing that.

For us — and for most people — it will be «academic» (in the poorest sense of that word) for a while yet, because it's only drawing on content in computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and «related subject areas.»

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