Sentences with phrase «romanian scientists»

Valeca rid the councils of all Romanian scientists working abroad and appointed replacements including a surgeon under investigation for embezzlement, union members known for their loyalty to the government, little - known city council members, and members of obscure academic institutions that appear to exist mostly on paper.

BUCHAREST — Romanian scientists are engaged in a battle with their government about an alleged power grab that they say will lead to the diversion of research money to government cronies and will isolate Romania's small scientific community just as it was beginning to nurture connections to the rest of the world.

Ad Astra, a nongovernmental organization of Romanian scientists with an interest in bringing the country up to international standards, has also protested the changes at CNATDCU in a recent public statement, where it pointed out that the Romanian government is sending contradictory messages by removing all expatriated scientists from CNATDCU while organizing a conference aimed at building bridges between at - home and expatriated scientists.

The biannual «Diaspora» meeting, organized since 2008 by the Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), aims to reunite expatriated and Romanian scientists to foster dialogue and international collaborations.

Among the reforms that former science minister Daniel Funeriu passed under the previous, Democratic Liberal Party government was the recruitment of a large number of foreign - based Romanian scientists to sit on CNATDCU for the validation of doctoral theses and scientific titles.

But many Romanian scientists no longer trust such promises.

Q: As a researcher, you were a member of Ad Astra, an organization of young Romanian scientists that called for quick and profound reforms in Romanian research.

In 2010 and 2011, Ad Astra, an association of Romanian scientists, and the Rosia Montana Cultural Foundation sent petitions in response to the project's potential damaging effects on the environment.

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The discovery was made by a team of scientists from the Italian Universita» degli Studi di Milano (UniMi), the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Cracow, the Romanian National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN - HH), the Japanese University of Tokyo and the Belgian University of Brussels.

Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu also required scientists to sprinkle his name in their speeches.

On 9 September, Cristian Dogaru, a Romanian health and social scientist studying pediatric respiratory epidemiology at the University of Bern's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

His awards include «Scientist of the Year» by the American Liver Foundation; «Visiting Distinguished Professor» at South Korea's Dongook University; an Honorary Degree from The Romanian Academy of Sciences for basic science advances in viral hepatitis; induction into the Bulgarian National Academy of Medicine and Sciences for his contributions to hepatitis B research; named «One of the 100 most important people in Bucks County of the last century» by The Intelligencer; honored as Judge's Choice, CEO of the Year, by Philadelphia Business Journal's Inaugural Life Science Award; and elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Keynote Presentation: (Dis) Honesty Presenter: Dan Ariely, Duke University, USA Research integrity: A Romanian story Presenter: Daniel Funeriu, Department of Education and Research, Romania The consideration of scientific ethics issues and exploration in practice: Scientists» code of research conduct associated with emerging technologies Presenter: Zhihong Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China