Sentences with phrase «public science days»

The four videos were then viewed and voted on during the AAAS Public Science Days Film Festival held during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on February 17 - 21.

Public Science Day Public Science Day occurs each year as the opening event for the AAAS Annual Meeting.

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Global Science Research, the firm created by Kogan, had one day of access to «a random sample of public tweets from a five - month period from December 2014 to April 2015,» but not any private data, Twitter said.

For one day in 2015, Twitter allowed Kogan's company Global Science Research to examine the public data from months of tweets.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

Created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and with an advisory board that's a veritable Who's Who of the food movement (Pollan, Spurlock, Nestle, Kessler, Brownell and many others), Food Day

Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has just launched its new drink - less - soda initiative, «The Real Bears» video, just in time for Food Day on October 24.

I briefly told you about the Get Food Education in Every School initiative when it was announced in May, but now you can read more about it in this week's Huffington Post editorial by Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the folks behind Food day).

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

Rashaun German, 3, of Chicago, eats a Happy Meal at the Navy Pier McDonald's on Wednesday, the same day the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed suit in California against McDonald's.

10:00 AM Public Advocate Letitia James mskes remarks and participates in Google and 4 - H National Youth Science Day.

«While public opinion polls have largely remained constant on fracking in recent years, Governor Cuomo's statement that he expects to make a decision in just 40 days — despite a lack of accessible science — has caused a marked shift in public opinion and overall interest in this dangerous activity.

They also met with Senators, Assemblymembers, and legislative staff earlier in the day to ask for their support in the coming legislative session to keep Downstate as well as the SUNY Health Science Centers in Long Island and Syracuse public.

Participating in Classroom Science Days is also a positive experience for scientists, providing an opportunity for them to work on their public communication skills.

In a political climate increasingly challenging the value of science, scientists and engineers need to summon their scientific knowledge and play a larger role in helping inform public policy with solid evidence, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt during a webinar that explored the outlook for science and technology during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

For many participants, Classroom Science Days represent their first participation in a public outreach event through rarely their last, Corlew said.

Garcez has been involved in numerous public engagement events such as Science Busking at Barbican Center, the Institute Open Day for teachers and students, and visiting local schools representing the Francis Crick Institute.

I used to use the dihydrogen monoxide hoax on the first day of a class I taught about the public perception of science.

The statement was replaced 2 days later with a notice saying that the appeal was not related to last year's science awards and was removed «in order not to mislead the public.»»

Obama also gave a shout out to Subra Suresh, marking his first day as director of the National Science Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation, in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their dollars to public investments in science eduScience Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation, in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their dollars to public investments in science eduscience education.

► Later, at ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that «[o] pen - access advocates are heralding a Senate panel's approval [that day] of» the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, which «would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer - reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the Science and Technology Research Act, which «would require U.S. science agencies to make the peer - reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the science agencies to make the peer - reviewed research papers they fund freely available to the public.

A student brought a local newspaper clip about the congressman's Earth Day remarks to Denise Mendoza, a science teacher at the public school outfitted with an educational wetlands.

The psychologists studied two sets of sixth - graders from a Southern California public school: 51 who lived together for five days at the Pali Institute, a nature and science camp about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, and 54 others from the same school.

The announcement by Shaw took place during a public Park Science Day at Sieur de Monts in Acadia National Park, Maine.

Given our limited resources (our unit has 18 staff), our activities concentrate on the so - called «information relays», such as the media, professional organisations, etc, although we do enjoy some direct contact with the public and in particular the young (whose declining interest to science studies and careers is worrying) through presentations, visits, open days, etc..

S&T should be popularised among the public, industry, scientific community, and policy - makers through roundtable discussions, open days, seminars, science fairs, competitions, television and radio programmes especially aimed at the youth, and through syndicated newspaper columns.

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Diffenbaugh said the congressman and the scientists had «a very pleasant and positive discussion about the level of scientific understanding that we have about the climate system, the institutions of science by which we conduct our day - to - day work and the peer - review process, and how public decisions are made within the context of scientific understanding.

This elite and visible unanimity, however, belied the tangle of issues revealed earlier in the day during the smaller, nontelevised meeting where scholars from economics, political science, law, and public policy examined the likely difficulties of devising immigration policies that help the economy without harming immigrants or people who are already in the country.

Stacey Baker, one of the AAAS organizers of Family Science Days, said the event is one effort to bridge the gap between science and the Science Days, said the event is one effort to bridge the gap between science and the science and the public.

For the scientific community, the release of public polls on contentious questions of science usually makes us feel like Bill Murray's character in the film Groundhog Day.

The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer will give a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, will meet more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

«The day signified much more than these teachers learning about some instructional materials,» said Dan Gallagher, the Science Program Manager for Seattle public schools.

«Adults in the United States spend more than 11 hours per day sitting while doing things like watching television and working on a computer,» said Liza Rovniak, assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences.

More than 100 scientists, animal welfare officers, representatives of advocacy groups and stakeholders from different countries met for a 2 - day conference in San Francisco to discuss how to improve transparency and to increase the public understanding of the essential contributions that animal research makes to modern life science and biomedical research.

The day «celebrates the work of citizen scientists and the diversity of citizen science projects across the world, encourages the public to get...

The term «nanotechnology» entered into the public vernacular quite suddenly around the turn of the century, right around the same time that, when announcing the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in 2001 [2000; see the American Association for the Advancement of Science webpage on Historical Trends in Federal R&D, scroll down to the National Nanotechnology Initiative and click on the Jpg or Excel links], President Bill Clinton declared that it would one day build materials stronger than steel, detect cancer at its inception, and store the vast records of the Library of Congress in a device the size of a sugar cube.

GENERAL HEALTH Steven N. Blair, PED Professor, department of exercise science and department of epidemiology and biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina; former president and CEO, Cooper Institute; author of Active Living Every Day.

The story behind the first U.S. dietary recommendations report explains why, to this day, the decades of science supporting a more plant - based diet have yet to fully translate into public policy.

Leonard Maltin introduces (1:18) Walt Disney's «science - factual» programs as a forerunner to the educational and instructional shows that populate public and cable television these days.

is unique in that students take twice as many math and science credits as required at traditional public schools, and commit to both an extended school day and summer classes which facilitate a 32 - credit curriculum.

MPS is a Charter Management Organization (CMO) that operates ten tuition - free public charter schools across California that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) based teaching to ensure its students are well - rounded and college - ready from day one.

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Proposed middle school science standards will have 30 more days of public review.

Each year, the Academy will bring up to 150 traditional public, public - charter and independent school teachers and leaders to the Washington, DC region for a five - day intensive, and fun, immersion into Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Science research - informed teaching and learning.

Authorizes a student loan repayment program for graduates who agree to teach math or science at least four hours per day for four years in districts that receive Title I funding, followed by four years at any public school.

The original charter called for free instruction at night in the sciences, a day school of design for «respectable» females, a free reading room, and free public lectures.