Sentences with phrase «placing global science»

Julia's graduate advisor was Randall Packard, and her dissertation was titled «Placing Global Science in Africa: International Networks, Local Places, and Virus Research in Uganda, 1936 - 2000.»

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«Britain's importance to the Life Sciences industry, and its status as a major player in global science, should mean that irrespective of Brexit, major pharmaceutical companies continue to see the UK as a key place to invest,» he said.

DuPont (NYSE: DD) has been bringing world - class science and engineering to the global market place in the form of innovative products, materials, and services since 1802.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Chair: Dr Philip Smith, Chairman, Global Utilities Ltd, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and Chair of Milton Keynes Leaders» Forum Speakers: Keith Clarke CBE, former CEO of Atkins Global and Chairman of Forum for the Future Evan Davis, broadcaster and Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and takes place from 2 - 9 November 2013.

Laura Ahearn is a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow who was placed in her first year in the Research and Innovation Fellowships at the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Global Development Lab where she was a monitoring and evaluation specialist.

So we decided — in connection with Science's special issue on global populations — to launch a new series of articles focused on science in faraway Science's special issue on global populations — to launch a new series of articles focused on science in faraway science in faraway places.

It's the perfect place to investigate the thorniest problem in all of climate science: how haze and clouds interact to boost or moderate global warming.

It's the perfect place to investigate the thorniest problem in all of climate science: how haze and clouds interact to influence global warming, either boosting or moderating it.

Vaughan Turekian, science adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, and a leading, global voice in contemporary science diplomacy, applauded TWAS and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) for bringing together «some of the best minds» from across the developing world «to push the fronts of knowledge to make the world a better place.»

Africa must take its place on the global science stage, says Thierry Zomahoun, president of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Members of the panel, officially called the working group on Pre-College Engagement in Biomedical Science, also weighed how much emphasis to place on the need to diversify the scientific workforce to sustain U.S. global leadership in sScience, also weighed how much emphasis to place on the need to diversify the scientific workforce to sustain U.S. global leadership in sciencescience.

[BOX 24] The Schweitzer Story - The Radsidian, May - June 1955 A Global Birthday Fete: A Review of the Life of Dr. Scheitzer - NY Times, Jan. 9, 1955 Photo of Hospital at Lambarene Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer by Fred Plaut Photo of National Institute of Health Building Photo of Geophysical Lab Photo of unidentified building 4 portraits of 1947 Executive Committee including A.J. Carlson, K.F. Mather, F. R. Moulton, Harlow Shapley, E. W. Sinnott, George Baitsell, Fernandus Payne, K. Lark - Horovitz, Walter Miles, E.C. Stackman, Science Service, Inc., not for distribution Portrait of J.M. Hutzel, Roger Williams, Wendell Stanley, F.R. Moulton, E.U. Condon, S. W. Sinnott, and Harlow Shapley Dr. Mario Goglia, Dr. J. Fieldig Reed, Dr. Robert S. Ingols, Dr. Raymond Taylor A. Blakely, Earl Lubell, Lawrence Snyder Dael Wolfle, George Beadle, and Charlotte Meeting Unidentified man with Alan Waterman, Paul Klopsteg, Dael Wolfle, Sidney Negus, and Behnke Alan Waterman, Paul Klopsteg and Dael Wolfle at press conference NYC Meeting 1949 Cleveland Meeting 1950 St. Louis Meeting 1952 Boston Meeting 1953 NYC Meeting 1956 Washington, DC Meeting 1958 Chicago Meeting 1959 Berkeley Meeting 1965 Date and Place Unknown

Climate science has a central place in the new project too, but will be integrated with legal studies, political science and maritime global history.

The Vetmeduni Vienna plays in the global big leagues with its excellent 8th Place finish in the 2017 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities for the «Veterinary Science» curriculum.

«I think our findings speak to a debate that has taken place between people who think that social media usage is bad for us and those who think it's good for us, and that debate has not always been based on evidence,» co-author James Fowler, Ph.D., professor of political science and global public health at UC San Diego, told RealSimple.com.

The world has become a global community ever since the introduction of the internet took place, and every day we get to see new developments taking place in the fields of technology and science....

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

The global community has deemed Antarctica a place for peace and science that does not exclude those who come responsibly.

The story looks at genetics, manufactured biology, materials science, and technological options for limiting global warming, mainly through the lens of Jamais Cascio, a co-founder of WorldChanging.com whose thinking is sprinkled in many places but mostly here.

A book I like for putting a bunch of useful material in one place is Global Warming: The Hard Science by L.D. Danny Harvey, Pearson Education Limited 2000.

Hundreds of comments and E-mail exchanges took place in 2011 between Andrew, members of John O'Sullivan's group of climate science «slayers» / Principia Scientific International (PSI) members and other parties and many have been posted on the Global Political Shenanigans blog since May.

For more than a week, the episode has fueled a fierce debate on the blogosphere and in newspaper opinion columns and once again placed global warming science under intense scrutiny.

The tireless climate science fraud Dr. Tim Ball has run snarling from a challenge to place a small wager in support of his claims that the global average temperature will fall, rather than rise, in the next 20 years.

Dr. S. Fred Singer, one of the world's earliest and most credible critics of the theory that global warming is man - made and dangerous, will be recognized with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Climate Science at an international conference on global warming taking place July 7 — 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For me, that begins with people accepting that there is no hiding place left in the science — the overwhelming consensus of the vast body of scientists that study climate is that the trends we are seeing in the air, the oceans and in our ecosystems are entirely consistent with the theory of global warming, while the alternatives offered by sceptical scientists — even the much heralded role of the Sun — so far fail that test.

And this is what made me a sceptic in the first place: the turbo charging of the science towards global disaster.

As Churchill said, never, never, give up - and we won't until the global warming issue is returned to it proper place... science.

Peter Clark, an OSU paleoclimatologist and co-author of the Science paper, says that many previous temperature reconstructions were regional and not placed in a global context.

My other reason for «solution aversion» is the apparent lack of reliable data on current global warming trends and the poor peer review processes that have taken place in the climate science field so far.

Now, it doesn't go in the direction it sounds like you prefer, the long series of discussions on the science end up endorsing much of the core of the modern scientific consensus around the physics of greenhouse and global warming (though pointing out places where public media frequently argues well beyond the science).

This abysmal failure to show us all absolute evidence of illicit money exchanged for fabricated, demonstratively false science papers / assessments is the proverbial «mathematical certainty «that dooms the accusation, and places the whole idea of man - caused global warming in peril of sinking if its promoters can not defend their position against science - based criticism from skeptic scientists.

Well; if a statement regarding atmospheric cooling is taking place, and we know from past experience (climate history) that if this cooling continues and the build up of ice continues in Antartica like it is; then it is possible that the planet may very well be headed back into an ice age - and when this «atmospheric cooling» trend is mentioned on the GISS [NASA] Webpage, and by one of the GISS scientists (Kate Marvel, a climatologist at GISS and the paper's lead author) then i would have to conclude that the are embracing the science revealing evidence that such mechanics are, taking place, and I view their statemnt as an endorsement and ot their recognition, of global cooling.

It is not for me to make judgements on your paper, but I suspect that this synthesis will act as an urgent spur to global efforts both to return climate science to its rightful place within the pantheon of subjects for critical analysis, but also to start to return meteorological measurement to its needed place within the warning systems, prediction mechanisms and public planning inputs that has been so shamefully abused in the past 20 years.

This saturday 22 April a global March for Science will take place in around 500 hundred cities worldwide.

The National Science Foundation has funded major field campaigns to West Antarctica, including POLENET, which place Global Positioning System (GPS) stations in the area to measure geological changes.

When the IPCC's «science» portion of the Assessment was released last fall, it was immediately faulted for being based upon climate models which have greatly overpredicted the amount of climate change that has been occurring largely because they completely missed the slowdown of the rate of global warming that has taken place over the past two decades.

The society had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company's «inaccurate and misleading» portrayal of the science of climate change and about its funding of lobby groups that deny global warming is taking place.

Not only did you attack my comment on the basis of my fairly offhand reference to hydrocarbon formation, (my intial comment primarily related to the dead zone off the Oregon coast and its possible causes and effects) you used my comment to claim that this website, which is one of the few places where unbiased scientific discussion of global warming appears outside of strictly academic circles, has «way too much junk science».

«Suddenly I don't think that I have all the facts, that the sober analysis of competing hypotheses has not taken place, that the global consensus often bandied about is a fallacy — a variation of ad populum argument — and that our nation can not commit itself to irrevocable courses of actions based on compromised science.»

There are many public intellectual debates occurring over scientific and skeptical issues — the place of creationism vs evolution in public science classes, the including of alternative medicine in academic curricula, the validity of debate on global warming, etc..

Global Science Research said the app would «download some information about you and your network... basic demographics and likes of categories, places, famous people, etc. from you and your friends.»