Sentences with phrase «other breakthroughs include»

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The initiative is being led by the Brazilian Vegetarian Society, in partnership with organisations that include São Paulo's Municipal Secretary of Green and Environment, Vegetarian Magazine, Greenpeace and others — a real breakthrough from a city in one of the world's biggest meat - exporting countries.

This year those breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.

Other projects include Breakthrough Starshot, which intends to develop and launch interstellar probes, as well as Breakthrough Watch, which would use large telescopes to study exoplanets for signs of life.

Previous honorees have gone on to drive on - the - ground efforts against infectious diseases like Zika and Ebola, discover new exoplanets and observe gravitational waves, and be recognized with other high honors including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Breakthrough Prize.

This award comes on the heels of numerous other honors recognizing Dr. Yamanaka and the importance of his iPS discovery, including the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Millennium Technology Prize, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Shaw Prize and the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.

Santoro's discovery followed earlier breakthroughs by others, including Stahl and DeLong.

Other participants include renown scientists, thinkers, artists, policy makers and celebrities like George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic; Lou Friedman, Ph.D. astronomer and co-founder of the Planetary Society; Jill Tarter, Ph.D., co-founder of SETI Institute, astronomer and TED Prize winner; Mae Jemison, M.D., physician, engineer and entrepreneur; Hakeem Oluseyi, Ph.D., TED Fellow and Chief Science Officer, Discovery Channel; Amy Millman, CEO and co-founder Springboard Enterprises; Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director, South African Department of Science and Technology; Pam Contag, Ph.D., CEO, Molecular Sciences Institute; Pete Worden, Ph.D., Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director, NASA Ames; and, Kurt Zatloukal, M.D., Professor, Medical University of Graz (Austria), among others.

Participants include renown scientists, thinkers, artists, policy makers and celebrities like George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic; Lou Friedman, Ph.D. astronomer and co-founder of the Planetary Society; Jill Tarter, Ph.D., co-founder of SETI Institute, astronomer and TED Prize winner; Mae Jemison, M.D., physician, engineer and entrepreneur; Hakeem Oluseyi, Ph.D., TED Fellow and Chief Science Officer, Discovery Channel; Amy Millman, CEO and co-founder Springboard Enterprises; Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director, South African Department of Science and Technology; Pam Contag, Ph.D., CEO, Molecular Sciences Institute; Pete Worden, Ph.D., Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director, NASA Ames; and, Kurt Zatloukal, M.D., Professor, Medical University of Graz (Austria), among others.

Other participants include renown scientists, thinkers, artists, policy makers and celebrities like George Whitesides, CEO, Virgin Galactic; Mickey Fisher, Creator, EXTANT; Lou Friedman, Ph.D. astronomer and co-founder of the Planetary Society; Jill Tarter, Ph.D., co-founder of SETI Institute, astronomer and TED Prize winner; Mae Jemison, M.D., physician, engineer and entrepreneur; Hakeem Oluseyi, Ph.D., TED Fellow and Chief Science Officer, Discovery Channel; Amy Millman, CEO and co-founder Springboard Enterprises; Mmboneni Muofhe, Deputy Director, South African Department of Science and Technology; Pam Contag, Ph.D., CEO, Molecular Sciences Institute; Pete Worden, Ph.D., Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director, NASA Ames; and, Kurt Zatloukal, M.D., Professor, Medical University of Graz (Austria), among others.

The neurosurgeons at Penn Medicine's Center for Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery are leaders in breakthrough surgical treatments for patients with movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, tremor from multiple sclerosis or other causes, dystonia, and medically intractable epilepsy.

He previously has received numerous other honorary awards, including the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences [5] and the 2014 Szent - Györgyi Prize from the National Foundation for Cancer Research [6].

She has also been nominated for four other Golden Globes, including the first for her breakthrough role in «The Devil Wears Prada.»

Other winners included Brooklynn Prince of The Florida Project for Best Breakthrough Performance, Blade Runner 2049's Roger Deakins for Best Cinematography, Brett Morgen's Jane for Best Documentary Film and Cristian Mungiu's Graduation (Romania) for Best Foreign Language Film.

This year's nominees are lead by Jordan Peele's «Get Out,» which pulled in four nominations (including Best Feature, Breakthrough Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor), but the breakout debut is trailed by four other hot contenders, each with three nominations to their name.

Other multiple award winners included Gone Girl (for Best Actress Rosamund Pike and Gillian Flynn's Adapted Screenplay), Interstellar (which earned nods for its Visual Effects and Cinematography), and, in a surprise considering its indie status, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash (which earned praise for Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons and the director himself, as the FFCC's Breakthrough Artist).

Other special presentations include the world premiere presentation of Breakthrough: Predicting the Future at the Dallas City Performance Hall on Sunday, April 2.

Other Oscar hopefuls were among the nominees including Silver Linings Playbook in Best Ensemble and Beasts of the Southern Wild, which picked up 2 nominations in Breakthrough Director and Actor.

Thorne started off as a playwright, and after some time with the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme, debuted his breakthrough play «When You Cure Me» at the Bush Theatre in London in 2005 (other ones have followed, including «Fanny and Faggot,» «Bunny,» «2 May 1997» and, most recently, a new version of «The Physicists «-RRB-.

Other highlights of this year's festival include a showing of the 1980 comedy 9 To 5, directed by Colin Higgins and starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin; Patti Cake $, directed by Geremy Jasper and starring Athena's 2018 Inaugural Breakthrough Award honoree Bridget Everett; and the New York premieres of several fims, including It's Criminal, directed by Signe Taylor; My Year With Helen, directed by Gaylene Preston; and Beads, directed by Rachel Byrd.

In addition to the grants announced today, NLGC has already provided nearly $ 40 million in support to 75 grantees in all, including 39 new breakthrough secondary schools and other educational entrepreneurs and tool - builders focused on college readiness.

Highlighting both technical and conceptual breakthroughs, the exhibition includes seminal works spanning Graphicstudio's forty - six year history (by Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Allan McCollum, Louise Bourgeois, Jim Dine, and others) with some of its most recent collaborative endeavors (by Christian Marclay, Mark Dion, Teresita Fernández, Los Carpinteros, and Trenton Doyle Hancock).

Soon after Rosen was showing other new artists, including Rita Ackermann, Ken Lum, Heimo Zobernig, Tony Feher, Andrea Zittel, Paula Hayes, Julia Scher, and Sean Landers — who had a breakthrough 1992 show there of a year's worth of his personal calendar entries wherein he recorded everything from being work - blocked, to feeling attracted to other women, to his professional rages and delusions of grandeur.

Ranging across Jasper Johns's entire career — from his breakthrough paintings of the 1950's, which paved the way for the subsequent development of pop art and minimalism, Jasper Johns has had numerous museum retrospectives throughout his career, including paintings, drawings, prints as well as a host of other themes; recent highlights include the landmark 1997 exhibition» «Jasper Johns: A Retrospective» at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Kirk Varnedoe and the breathtaking 2008 «Jasper Johns: Gray» at the Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

He represented Scotland in the Zenomap exhibition at the 2003 Venice Biennale and has shown work in numerous other group exhibitions, including Breakthrough, Imperial War Museum, London, England (2008); the Art & Industry Biennale, Christchurch, New Zealand (2004); the Busan Biennial, South Korea (2004); and the British Art Show 5 (2000).

Aside from these two artists, there were other painters who tried to create their own breakthroughs including the «pure psychic automatism» by Andre Breton, and the drip technique by Pollock.

Maryland, USA About Blog This is Steven Salzberg's blog on genomics, pseudoscience, medical breakthroughs, higher education, and other topics, including skepticism about unscientific medical practices.

FACTS» openness to integrating the most useful of these approaches — including breakthroughs in psychoanalytic and cognitive - behavioral practice — sets it apart from other postgraduate programs.

And other IC engine breakthroughs could be coming to market soon, including variations of what's known as the OPOC, or «opposed piston / opposed cylinder,» engine.