Sentences with phrase «increased focus on science»

This report is the beginning of Pew Research Center's increased focus on science and society research.

The councilmember also revealed that the City University of New York had agreed to expand its «CUNY in the Heights» campus, and said he hoped it would increase focus on science, technology and math.

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Marrache, who became CEO in August, is leading BFS Capital through a series of customer - focused initiatives that will position the company for long - term growth including increased transparency, deeper reliance on algorithms and data science, enhanced underwriting, and an expedited funding process.

Speaking earlier this year with BakeryandSnacks.com, Prof. Dr. John Taylor, the 2009 - 2010 president of the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC), commented that for the bakery industry there will be an increasing focus on gluten - free products and a rise in non-wheat baked goods.

There has been an increasing focus on grit in both the social science literature and in the popular press.

«It increases their sense of security because they know what's coming next,» says Jean M. Thomas, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, in Washington, D.C. «The more secure toddlers feel, the more they can focus on things like learning, exploring, and playing.»

Under Dr. Gall's leadership, NAUW branches sponsored projects for middle and high school girls that focused on increasing their interest in mathematics and science and fostering their awareness of careers that require backgrounds in those disciplines.

UB 2020 strategic plan is focused on constructing a new home for the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo, advancing UB's strength in the biomedical sciences and other research fields and increasing the university's economic impact in Buffalo.

Approximately one in four venture dollars now invested in life science companies in the United States goes to companies focused on the brain and nervous system, which represents a more than threefold increase since 1999, according to the NeuroInsights report.

What is needed in order to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technological fields is a push for a new and concrete plan of action, with mandatory implementation guidelines, adopted at the national level which focuses on transitioning women and underrepresented minorities into positions of power.

They should be focusing instead on how to incent [sic] the best and brightest to pursue graduate science and engineering educations by increasing the opportunities that exist for those people once they graduate.»

Perry Fuchs, chair of UTA's department of Psychology in the College of Science, emphasized the importance of this work in the context of the university's increasing focus on health and the human condition within the Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions Global Impact.

In recent years, as China has increased its spending and focused on science, prestige and recognition have grown ever - more important.

We need to consider preparing disadvantaged children as early as the preschool level and continuing throughout the high school years in order to complement the college and graduate school programs that focus on increasing minorities in the sciences.

Increasing emphasis on «translation» in academic life science focuses more research on applications and encourages universities to hire faculty members with a practical bent — and, often, industrial experience.

His 4 - year tenure was marked by a businesslike approach to legislating, support for modest increases in science spending at a time when House Republicans were focused on budget - cutting, and dogged and often highly critical oversight of Clinton administration efforts to involve Russia in building the International Space Station.

John Evans, DMD, PhD, a professor in NYU Dentistry's Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology, oversees a research group focusing on the study of proteins that modulate the formation of biominerals, which in turn create new composite materials with unique properties, such as increased fracture and puncture resistances.

During the opening keynote address, former NBA basketball star and U.S. global cultural ambassador Kareem Abdul - Jabbar set the tone for the summit: In order for the United States to stay economically competitive with emerging markets in China, India, and elsewhere, it will have to overhaul its education system to increase its focus on critical thinking and on applied science, math, and tech skills.

Morteza Khaledi, dean of UTA College of Science, noted that Dr. Passy's research breaks new ground among biologists studying how biological communities respond to their environment and contributes to the university's increasing focus on global environmental impact within the Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions Global Impact.

The nine guidelines are focused around three areas: a commitment to science - based communications (increasing access to scientific data and analyses), providing appropriate context about data (ensuring health professionals are informed about emerging data on the safety and effectiveness of treatments) and accurately representing data (communications should be clearly communicated and incorporated into the existing knowledge of the intended audience).

DOD's science and technology activities might be expected to fare fine in the end, given the Administration's focus on increasing defense spending.

Chandra's program plays a key role in NASA's EPO portfolio, synthesizing and disseminating results from NASA's exploration of the high - energy Universe into a broad suite of programs and activities focused on increasing science literacy and contributing to science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) education.

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is a national, nonprofit organization focused on substantially increasing the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, First Nations and other indigenous peoples of North America in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies and cScience and Engineering Society (AISES) is a national, nonprofit organization focused on substantially increasing the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, First Nations and other indigenous peoples of North America in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies and cscience, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies and careers.

Her goal is to increase diversity and inclusion in the sciences while pursuing a career focused on science education and outreach.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

Widely recognized as an innovative forerunner in nutrition, the use of creatine in fitness products, and its company - wide focus on the important hydrolysate bodily process, this product is both clinically researched and backed by science in its ability to boost protein synthesis to promote an increase in muscle mass.

Cate's results - focused methods rely on merging Ayurvedic Medicine theory with modern behavioral science for increased energy, deeper rest, and a healthier diet in quick time.

The study warned that increasing focus on maths and sciences and a general perception that languages are a harder option is demotivating pupils and teachers.

The Federal Government has announced a $ 1.1 billion plan to increase Australia's innovation, including a renewed focus on promoting science, maths and computing in schools.

Due to the lack of time to teach social studies and science, there has been an increased focus on this in elementary classrooms.

They are expected to focus on the need to increase participation in science and engineering by women, minorities, and the handicapped.

An IB STEM program is more than an increased focus on math and science.

Despite the increased focus on practicals, particularly in science, technicians remain an overlooked group.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

In the process, they are increasing their own capacity to make and sustain improvements within their schools using a sequence of steps drawn from improvement science methodology: define and learn more about the focus problem, pilot a small change in iterative cycles, and collect and reflect on data from the experience.

You will discover how students create a bionic fish, focusing on engineering design - based learning that readily incorporates the application of science and math concepts; an innovative method that not only engages students, but also increases competency levels.

Similar to the CCSS, the CCRS put a focus on reading texts of increasing complexity across subject areas and on preparing learners for career pathways in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

The ESC of Lake Erie West is the only educational service center in Ohio to support a Challenger Learning Center focused on increasing student interest in science and math.

In the science classroom, teachers can enhance reading and improve science learning by focusing on the following: promoting students» conceptual understanding of fundamental science concepts; organizing instruction so students constructively engage in experiences with science phenomena before reading about them; increasing students» awareness of how information is organized and displayed in science texts; teaching students syntactical structures common to science (such as «If... then»); and enabling students to express their understanding of science by doing science, talking about science, and writing about science, in addition to reading about science.

Specifically, laws in 1976 and 1998 that increased the term of a copyright to beyond the life of the author were an instance of Congress acting on behalf of their corporate overlords (Disney and others) rather than focusing on their proper goal of «promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts.»

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

Our DOE Comment focuses entirely on the new science concerning the equilibrium climate sensitivity, that is, how much the earth's average surface temperature will increase from a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide content.

I suspect because probably they know that there is a strong prevalence of agreement among experts that continued and increasing aCO2 emissions pose a potential threat, but they find that «consensus» to be politically inconvenient because they don't want to accept the political associations with accepting that threat, so instead they focus on a red herring of a more politically convenient target of whether expert climate scientists agree that «CAGW» is «settled science»

Gavin also wrote: «No «conflict resolution» is possible between the science community who are focussed on increasing understanding, and people who are picking through the scientific evidence for cherries they can pick to support a pre-defined policy position.»

That said, his reporting over the past two decades has focused largely on the science of climate change, and that's an area generally seen as having moved steadily, if often incrementally and fittingly, toward, rather than away from, increased concern over the issue.

Although the world's attention continued to focus on the IPCC's Working Group I, which addressed the physical science, increasing funding and attention went to the other two Working Groups, which addressed the likely impacts of climate change and the policies needed to mitigate the damage, recruiting experts in fields ranging from epidemiology to economics.

No «conflict resolution» is possible between the science community who are focussed on increasing understanding, and people who are picking through the scientific evidence for cherries they can pick to support a pre-defined policy position.

If this site is really focusing on climate science, then we could perhaps discuss the recent article by S. Allison et al. in Nature Geoscience, which concludes that in response to increasing temperature there is a decrease of CO2 released from soil microbes.

Created skill - based assessments used by the entire Science department to assess student mastery on required skills of focus, resulting in increased student success.

Our coverage of the topic generally reflects the state of research on the topic, which focuses on proximal predictors of infidelity — or science jargon for those things about individuals or relationships that directly increase the likelihood somebody will cheat, such as low commitment, more attractive alternatives, lack of impulse control, narcissism, and so on.