Sentences with phrase «early science projects»

Approximately 500 - 700 hours of observation time will be devoted to Early Science projects, shared between the contributing partners of Europe, North America and East Asia, and the host country of Chile.

This experiment was considered to be one of the earliest science projects conducted in the area of weight gain which led to many assumptions and research on why is gaining weight a mega issue and how to address this issue.

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After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Dr Amina Ahmed said the project was awarded at an initial contract sum of N690, 977,860.52 but revised to N1, 052,712,252.49 due to the down turn of the national economy and the consequent hike in foreign exchange.

Project 2061 Print Tools Atlas of Science Literacy, Volumes 1 and 2 Benchmarks for Science Literacy Blueprints for Reform Designs for Science Literacy Dialogue on Early Childhood Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Science for All Americans Teaching Guides for Special Topics (Evolution,...

With support from the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high school.

The other major task of the early Project on Science, Technology and Disability was the creation of a Resource Group of Handicapped Scientists.

In order to understand these processes, one of Webb's Director's Discretionary Early Release Science projects will examine a nearby star - forming region to determine which ices are present where.

«Evolving the forms of play in early childhood toward realistic ecological play will be an important innovation in early childhood science education,» said Jennifer Woodring, co-author of the study and project coordinator at Northwestern.

After an earlier stint as a senior writer at Science, where she was widely known for her coverage of the Human Genome Project, Leslie returned as a deputy news editor in 2000, specializing in public health, infectious diseases, stem cells, and ecology.

In early January, EPA chief Scott Pruitt met with Rep. Lamar Smith (R - TX), chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, to discuss one of Smith's pet projects — overhauling how EPA uses sScience, Space and Technology Committee, to discuss one of Smith's pet projects — overhauling how EPA uses sciencescience.

What's in store for astronomy, and projects in other fields, is likely to be contained in the Government's science and innovation statement which is due early next month.

«One part of the exchange program, administered by the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy and supported with a grant from the Lounsbery Foundation, may bring Cuban scientists to the United States as early as May, said Marga Gual Soler, project director at the AAAS center.

To cultivate the qualities of resilience and personal investment in a project, Lapthorn says students should be exposed early, before college if possible, to risky, less directed science.

* The early NRDA projects include oyster reef restoration in Mississippi and Alabama as well as sea grass and dune restoration in Florida, efforts that are based on sound science.

In February, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, he captivated the crowd with early results from a project in Africa that uses low - cost fertilizers and improved farming techniques to increase crop yields several times over.

He is convinced that the results published in the science journal Nature, coupled with the findings from his earlier research projects, can trigger a paradigm shift in agriculture in the long run.

Due to the unusual stress on their joints as they dance, many ballerinas need hip replacement surgery in their early teens, says Thalmann, who described the ongoing modeling project here today at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science.

That provision — made earlier this year after scientists had charged that some of the science underpinning the project is flawed — has won over some of the last skeptics, including the Sierra Club.

Brianna Blaser is the Project Director of the Outreach Program for Science Careers where she organizes career and professional development workshops for graduate students, postdocs, and early - career scientists.

What led to the project: Weiva Sieh's parents — immigrants to New York City from China — made an early bet, in real estate, that their children would both be top science students.

«The notifications will not be fast initially — not fast enough for early warning — but it puts into place the technology to deliver the alerts and we can then work toward making them faster and faster as we improve our real - time detection system within MyShake,» said project leader Richard Allen, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary sciences and director of the seismology lab.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

Paul Mead Doty was born June 1, 1920, in Charleston, W.V.. His interest in molecular and physical sciences developed early, and after completing his undergraduate studies at Penn State College (now University) in 1941, he went on to study chemical physics at Columbia University, where he ostensibly undertook his doctorate work under Joseph E. Mayer but in fact worked on the isolation of uranium for the Manhattan Project.

Edward Krug, Ph.D., Volunteer Advisor and past Project Director, NSF grant Dr. Krug is both an educator and basic science researcher using emerging analytical technologies to study early heart development and the administrator overseeing postdoctoral policies at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

Months earlier, a NASA email arrived announcing a new citizen science project on January 30, 2014, with a grant from The Zooniverse.

On September 30, the ALMA - J Project Office held an internal progress report meeting to celebrate the start of the ALMA Early Science Operations at the NAOJ Mit...

Then earlier this month an ambitious NASA - National Science Foundation project was awarded to Penn State University to join the race.

Nerdy middle schooler Tommy is forced take care of a baby dinosaur after his cloned science fair project hatches early.

Established in 2005, the Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant is an annual cash award for a science - or technology - related project that is at an early stage, such as a full treatment or early screenplay draft.

EcoMUVE also builds on Dede's interest in virtual and shared learning environments, as exemplified by earlier projects like River City, a science - based interactive computer simulation designed for middle - schoolers.

We always had an art project or a science project to work on if we finished early.

Earlier this year, during its annual conference, the American Industrial Arts Association unveiled an ambitious plan designed to shift the focus of industrial arts from hands - on skills and crafts projects to an applied - science approach involving laboratory experiments.

Capuano Early Childhood Center, Somerville This project integrates a combination of content - based information, reflective practice in a community of practice, and access to materials and spaces to launch a sustained and integrated science education curriculum.

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Evaluation of Peg + Cat Early Learning of Math Through Media Project (2013 - 2017), with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) program.

The mission of the Academy for Computers and Engineering is to engage students in Early College project - based learning opportunities in computer science and engineering.

His research group has recently received National Science Foundation funding for a five - year project to develop and study a system of tools and tool - based practices for early career and pre-service secondary science teachers that support transitions from novice to expert - like pedagogical reasoning and prScience Foundation funding for a five - year project to develop and study a system of tools and tool - based practices for early career and pre-service secondary science teachers that support transitions from novice to expert - like pedagogical reasoning and prscience teachers that support transitions from novice to expert - like pedagogical reasoning and practice.

The issue was explored earlier this month at the UKSG conference in Glasgow, when Seeta Peña Gangadharan from the London School of Economics and Political Science shared insight into the Data Privacy Project, a privacy literacy initiative led by the Brooklyn Public Library.

Vogt - Roberts announced via his Twitter account in the early hours of Saturday that he plans to release his next project sometime next week, and that it will involve the city of Detroit, video games, and science fiction - some of his «favorite things».

The project resulted in an exhibition of contemporary art works as well as documents from the early human sciences at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam iproject resulted in an exhibition of contemporary art works as well as documents from the early human sciences at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam iProject Space, Amsterdam in 2009.

Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations - affiliated network of climate scientists that constitutes conventional wisdom on global warming, projected in its latest voluminous climate - science report that the world is likely to blow past the two - degrees marker by 2100.

I will tell you about another scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.

Climateprediction.net «s Dr Friederike Otto presented on climate attribution science to Chinese and Brazilian early career researchers today, as part of a week - long workshop for the LOTUS project being hosted by the Oxford e-Research Centre.

A number of natural climate cycles are excluded, even though these cycles produce significant changes in temperatures,» Executive Vice President Ken Haapala with the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) told The New American earlier this year.

In early 2008, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) published their Petition Project, a list of names from people who all claimed to be scientists and who rejected the science behind the theory of anthropogenic (human - caused) global warmingScience and Medicine (OISM) published their Petition Project, a list of names from people who all claimed to be scientists and who rejected the science behind the theory of anthropogenic (human - caused) global warmingscience behind the theory of anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming (AGW).

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

We thank the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, USGS Climate and Land Use Change Program, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for supporting a founding Pacific Coastal Fog Project workshop (Menlo Park, Calif., 2012); the Cary Institute for «Fog - as - a System» workshop facilitation (Pescadero, Calif., 2013); and Lisa Micheli (Dwight Center for Conservation Science at Pepperwood) for sentinel site support and for reviewing earlier drafts of this article.

Only a month earlier, Obama's White House Office of Science and Technology declared a Project Open Data, intended to «accelerate the adoption of open data practices,» which goes along with the Office's February directive requiring government agencies that award research funds to develop open access policies.

Before joining MDRC, Sengal led qualitative and quantitative data collection for the National Science Foundation - funded Early Adolescent Cohort project at the Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education in New York University's Steinhardt School.