Sentences with phrase «federal research institute»

The Clinical Award honors a scientist from a company, Chiron Corp., and a scientist from a federal research institute, the NIH, for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus and its elimination from the blood supply.

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In a new report released today for Sustainable Prosperity (a new research institute), Jack Mintz and Nancy Olewiler pitch a federal carbon tax constructed by broadening the base of the federal excise tax (which currently raises over $ 5 billion per year based on a tax of 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents -LSB-...]

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She was a relentless advocate for Western New York whose visionary leadership brought infrastructure upgrades, technology and research investments, and two federal manufacturing institutes to Rochester that will transform the local economy for generations to come.

This impetus to improve the higher learning institutes is one slice of a pie composed of three federal initiatives, which will support research and development, student funding, and university infrastructure.

Along with its sister institute, the EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) is a true heavyweight when it comes to translating scientific research into novel business ideas.

Giardini, a seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, was one of a number of scientists appointed in August last year by the then research minister Mariastella Gelmini to take up the reins of Italy's research institutes.

If our departments were in fact research institutes, supported by the state and federal governments to accomplish only this function, then perhaps such departmental attitudes could be defended.

Instead, she was a «rotator,» on leave from SRI International, a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California, under a program that NSF uses far more than any other federal research agency (see Part 1, «NSF Urged to Improve Oversight of Program for Scientists on Loan»).

The new institute is expected to start operations this spring with 17 employees, including seven scientists, says molecular biologist Thomas Mettenleiter, who heads Germany's Federal Research Center for Animal Viral Diseases.

In response, the 24 federal agencies that conduct research — from the Department of Defense to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — slowed the pace of lab work, instituted hiring freezes and cut grant programs.

And this historical bargain between the federal government and performers of research has been that the government pays part of the infrastructure costs,» says Tony DeCrappeo, president of the Council on Governmental Relations, a Washington, D.C. — based association of research universities and institutes that helps its members navigate federal regulations.

But what we have in mind for this Institute is having a framework for researchers to partner with engineers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — two nearby federal research facilities with world - class expertise in technology development — and other key institutes here at UCSF.

Graduates assume leadership positions as researchers, faculty members, administrators, and policy analysts in colleges and universities, research institutes, and state and federal organizations.

The Labor Party has pledged to create a A$ 280 million research institute to «take politics out of the classroom» and «put an end to decades of ideological battles about school education», if it wins the next federal election.

As reported by the National Center on Education Outcomes (NCEO), the leading research institute on accountability in special education, «The vast majority of special education students (80 - 85 percent) can meet the same achievement standards as other students if they are given specially designed instruction, appropriate access, supports and accommodations» as required by federal law.

KlimaCampus is a network of universities, research institutes and federal authorities in Hamburg, which focuses on climate, climate change and climate consequences.

UCS» report laments scientists at public universities, research institutes, and federal agencies are subjected to demands for information under a variety of state open - records laws and the 1967 federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was designed to hold government agencies accountable by providing the public with access to records from any federal agency.

Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.

Canada's three federal research funding agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health ($ 1 billion annual budget in 2016 - 17), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ($ 1.1 billion), the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($ 380 million)-- instituted an intellectual property law exception research funding agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health ($ 1 billion annual budget in 2016 - 17), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ($ 1.1 billion), the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($ 380 million)-- instituted an intellectual property law exception Research Council of Canada ($ 1.1 billion), the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($ 380 million)-- instituted an intellectual property law exception Research Council of Canada ($ 380 million)-- instituted an intellectual property law exception in 2014.

Center for State Constitutional Studies The Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to promoting public understanding of American state constitutions and of sub-national constitutions in other federal systems through research, publications, lectures, conferences, consultation services, and educational initiatives.

Public health professionals are often associated with federal agencies or research institutes, work to educate healthcare professionals and the public on early detection techniques.

She has worked closely with community sector leaders, Members of Parliament, senior bureaucrats in Federal Government agencies as well as peak bodies, research institutes and universities.

Delegates also supported, again by acclamation and overwhelming show of hands, a statement calling on the Federal Government to provide sustainable, recurrent funding for the Lowitja Institute, the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research institute.

Crossing primary (e.g., family medicine, pediatrics), secondary (e.g., OBGYN, emergency medicine), tertiary (e.g., hospice care, alcohol and drug treatment), and other scholarly environments (e.g., research institutes, federal organizations), these skillsets are essential for strengthening our contributions in both family therapy and other healthcare literature, research, and scholarly productivity.

NIAAA provides leadership in the national effort to reduce alcohol - related problems by: Conducting and supporting research in a wide range of scientific areas including genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology, health risks and benefits of alcohol consumption, prevention, and treatment; Coordinating and collaborating with other research institutes and Federal Programs on alcohol - related issues; Collaborating with international, national, state, and local institutions, organizations, agencies, and programs engaged in alcohol - related work; and, Translating and disseminating research findings to health care providers, researchers, policymakers, and the public.