Sentences with phrase «defense research committee»

Concerned about what might be hidden in those stolen papers, the National Defense Research Committee was summoned to review Tesla's work.

His signature created the National Defense Research Committee, mandated to liaise between the civilian science community and the military.

Not exact matches

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

[BOX 8] Committee on Science in Secondary Schools - Education Council Study, 1963 Council Study / Committee on Natural Areas as Research Facilities, 1962 - 1977 AAAS Meetings, 1965 - 1977 Graduate Science Education and Standards, 1960 - 1963 Administrative of Science Work, 1960 - 1963 Ethics and Responsibilities of Scientists files I, 1966 - 1975 Ethics and Responsibilities of Scientists files II, 1965 - 1966 Production of PhDs in the Sciences, 1965 - 1966 Natural Areas as Research Facilities (book) Council Study / Committee on Research in Small Colleges, 1960 - 1964 Population Explosion and Birth Control, 1965 - 1968 AAAS Cooperation with Developing Countries, 1965 - 1967 International Scientific Communication, 1960 - 1962 Air Conservation Commission, 1962 - 1964 Race (proposed Commission on), 1962 - 1963 Committee on Environmental Alterations (Ad Hoc - DuBos), 1967 Committee on Environmental Alerations Files (See also: Herbicide Assessment Commission): I, 1968 - 1976 Committee on Environmental Alerations Files (See also: Herbicide Assessment Commission): II, 1968 - 1976 Herbicides Files: Vietnam (Council; Board; Defense Dept., Midwest Research Institute; Report, etc.) I, 1965 - 1969 Herbicides Files: (Council; Board; Defense Dept., Midwest Research Institute; Report, etc.) II, 1967 - 1968 Herbicide Assessment Commission (older), 1969 - 1970 Herbicide Assessment Commission (See also: Herbicides - Vietnam; See also: Committee on Environmental Alterations), 1970 - 1979 Committee on Cooperation Among Scientists, 1959 - 1957 Committee on Fallout, 1955 Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics Files: I, 1964 - 1970 Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics Files: II, 1951 - 1963 Evaluation of Scientific Merit, Committee on, 1950 - 1952 Membership Development Committee, 1954 - 1957 Metric Education, Ad Hoc Committee on, 1974 - 1975 Metric Committee, 1957 - 1958

Playing flawless defense, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX) and the committee's Republican majority rejected all 13 Democratic amendments to the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act (FIRST) Act, which covers programs at NSF and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Under the House Defense bill adopted Thursday by the full committee, DOD research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) funding would increase by over $ 10 billion or 14.3 percent above FY 2017 levels, and $ 1.2 billion above what was already a rather robust request.

He has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, on the Chemical Reviews Editorial Advisory Board, the Governor's Mathematics and Science Advisory Board for South Carolina, the Defense Science Study Group through the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Defense Science Board Chem / Nano Study Section, the Department of Commerce Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee and the MD Anderson Cancer Research Center's Competitive Grant Renewal Board.

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Also, keep in mind that thesis defense committee is not there to fail you, but rather to see your knowledge and understanding of the topic you were researching.

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Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

Paul Driessen is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and maintains associations with a range of organizations devoted to the denial of man - made climate change including the Heartland Institute, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (now Atlas Network), and others.

The notoriously anti-science House Science Committee has hit a new low, voting on Thursday to approve a spending bill amendment that «would prohibit defense spending on climate change research and the social cost of carbon analysis.»

Professional Associations Monroe County Bar Association, Member New York State Bar Association, Chairman: Torts, Insurance, and Compensation Law Section (2003 - 2004) NYSBA Automobile Liability Committee Chairman (1991 - 1995) NYSBA House of Delegates, Delegate (1999 - 2004) New York State Trial Lawyers Association Risk and Insurance Management Society (2007 - present) Council on Litigation Management (2008 - present); Chairman, Products Liability Conference (2010 - 2013) New York Editorial Board, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (1993 - 1995) Defense Research Institute (2000 - present) The National Fire Protection Association, Member The American Society for Metals, Member

He is a member of the American Bar Association and its Torts / Insurance Committee, the New York State Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, Primerus Defense Institute and co-chairs its Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith Group, the Nassau County Bar Association and its Grievance Committee, the Nassau - Suffolk Trial Lawyers Association, New York Claims Association and Nassau Suffolk Claim Managers Council.

Melody is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, where she has served as a State Liaison for the DRI Women in the Law Committee.

For the Defense Research Institute she is the Reporter for Washington, D.C. of the Legislative Liaison Subcommittee of the Young Lawyers Committee.

Egeland is also involved with the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers and serves on the Commercial Litigation and Women in the Law committees for the Defense Research Institute.

He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Defense Research Institute International Committee and is a member of the Defense Association of New York and the New York State Bar Association.

Affiliations: Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, Chair of Professional Liability Section, 2010 — 2011 Defense Research Institute, Membership Vice Chair of the DRI Products Liability Committee, 2012

Affiliations: Bar Association of the District of Columbia District of Columbia Bar, Litigation Section, chair of the Steering Committee, 1993 — 1995 Virginia Bar Association Fairfax Bar Association American Board of Trial Advocates The Barristers (Washington, DC) DC Defense Lawyers» Association, president, 2001 — 2002 Women's Bar Association Defense Research Institute American Bar Association National Retail Federation National Council of Chain Restaurants

Big Muddy Bar Association American Inns of Court State Bar Association of North Dakota 2015 — 2016 Chair of the Education and Professionalism Committee of the Young Lawyer's Section to the State Bar of North Dakota Defense Research Institute

Presentation, «Defenses in Drug and Medical Device Litigation,» Defense Research Institute Drug and Medical Device Committee Young Lawyers» Training Seminar, September 2002

Jonathan is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, serves on the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association, and is a member of the Birmingham Chapter of the W&L Alumni Association.

Defense Research Institute, Toxic Tort and Environmental Law (2014 - 2016 Committee Chair; 2013 and 2014 Committee Vice Chair; 2012 - 2013 Seminar Program Chair); Corporate Counsel Roundtable Steering Committee (2015)

Tim is the 2014 - 2016 Committee Chair of the Defense Research Institute's Toxic Tort Environmental Law Committee (Committee Vice Chair 2013 and 2014) and former member of DRI's Corporate Counsel Roundtable Steering Committee.

Defense Research Institute (DRI): Employment Law Committee; Medical Defense and Health Law Committee

State Bar of Montana North Dakota State Bar Association American Bar Association (Health Law & Litigation) North Dakota Defense Lawyers Association Defense Research Institute (Member, Medical Liability Section) Defense Research Institute — North Dakota State Representative (2007) State Bar Association of North Dakota: Jury Standards Committee (2007 — present) past member of Inquiry Committee West and Fee Arbitration Panel Fellow Litigation Counsel of America Fellow International Society of Barristers North Dakota Defense Lawyers Association: Member 1995 — present (President, 2003 - 2004; Vice President, 2002 - 2003; Treasurer 2007 - 2008)

Defense Research Institute (2005 - Present)- Professional Liability Steering Committee (2007 - 2015); Vice-Chair, Professional Liability Publications (2008 - 2009); Chair, Professional Liability Publications (2009 - 2011); DRI Publications Board (2011 - 2016)

Gord is a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC), the International Association of Defense Counsel (Board Member and past chair of Drug, Device and Biotech Committee), the Defense Research Institute (Drug and Medical Device SLC Liaison), The Advocates» Society, Canadian Defence Lawyers and Christian Legal Fellowship.

We take leadership roles in industry associations, including the National Business Aviation Association, National Transportation Safety Board Bar Association, Lawyer - Pilots Bar Association, Seaplane Pilots Association, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Aviation Insurance Association, Florida Bar Aviation Law Committee, Defense Research Institute Aerospace Law Committee, ABA Aviation Litigation Committee, and the ABA Forum on Air and Space Law.

Tom is an active member of the Defense Research Institute, acting as co-chair of the Insurance Law Committees» Insurance Industry Advisory Board and the 2015 corporate chair of the Insurance Roundtable.

• Defense Research Institute (DRI): Executive member; Commercial Litigation Committee Chair Membership Committee; Served as Michigan State and Local Bar Representative

Mr. Sneath is a Past President and Member of the Board of Directors of the 22,000 member international lawyer organization DRI (formerly Defense Research Institute) and is the former Chair of its Commercial Litigation Committee and Intellectual Property Subcommittee.

Defense Research Institute Electronic Discovery Committee, Membership Chair - 2006 - 2008; Vice Chair - 2008 - 2010; Chair - 2010 - 2012

Member, George Mason American Inn of Court Member, Steering Committee of Appellate Advocacy Section, Defense Research Institute Member, Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys Member, Federalist Society Member, American Bar Association