Sentences with phrase «sciences academic group»

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The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

Most academics in the sciences contribute to their fields by building research groups, populated with staff and students.

Fang is among a small yet tenacious group of scientists who study the culture of academic science alongside their other lines of research.

Gretchen: The most visible groups in Berlin were science and academic ones.

05 March 2015 Research shows that many members of groups underrepresented in academic science seek careers that express values beyond pure research.

The failure to diversify the faculties and student populations in most earth and space science departments suggests that there may be prohibitive barriers, inappropriate pedagogical practices, or insensitive policies that make the academic environment unattractive to underrepresented groups.

He is heading a working group on academic career structures for the Initiative for Science in Europe, an organization that lobbies for the European scientific community.

While this year's inventors were already talking about possible collaborations among the group, 2015 - 16 ambassadors Juan Gilbert, whose inventions include a universally designed voting technology; Lisa DeLuca, who is IBM's most prolific female inventor; and Michael Smith, who is director of the Intel Academic Program for Data Science and the Internet of Things, said the friendships and networks begun during the program will endure.

Science Careers» sister site, ScienceInsider, reported yesterday afternoon that 150 scientists and 75 scientific groups have co-signed an open letter protesting what they claim is an overreliance on journal impact factors by funding agencies, academic institutions, journals, and organizations that provide publication metrics.

To address this threat, an industry - academic collaborative group, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, has recently announced that they have successfully engineered anti-bacterial fabrics that are effective against the super-bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus.

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has become the gold standard for providing a path into academic research for groups — African - Americans, Hispanics, and disadvantaged white students — now underrepresented in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.

Schlumberger is what Teresa Rees, rapporteur for this and two previous European Commission reports (the ETAN report on the situation of European women in academic science and the Helsinki Group report comparing women in science across 30 European countries), calls a «beacon.»

Venturfest's core goal is to give scientific inventors — typically group leaders or postdocs from academic labs and early stage start - up companies — an opportunity to pitch science - enterprise ideas to an audience including investors and other professionals of the business world.

During the Biophysical Society's 61st Annual Meeting, being held Feb. 11 - 15, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Richard Ludescher, dean of Academic Programs and professor of food science in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers, will present the group's work exploring the fluorescent properties of food dyes.

Elsevier Science, Nature Publishing Group (a sister company to Scientific American, which is not a peer - reviewed journal), Cell Press and Academic Press declined interview requests, and Springer Verlag, as well as Allen Press, did not return phone calls.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materialize.

In the science end engineering workforce, women made up 37 % of the group holding the most advanced academic degrees, according to National Science Foundation data froscience end engineering workforce, women made up 37 % of the group holding the most advanced academic degrees, according to National Science Foundation data froScience Foundation data from 2010.

Several high - profile lawsuits have prompted prominent researchers and U.K. groups such as Index on Censorship and Sense about Science to complain that U.K. libel laws — and the high costs of defending a libel action — are forcing researchers and scientific journals to censor or edit academic material.

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

The first formal assessment of how successful Eureka has been was presented in Paris by a group of independent academics and industrialists, led by Erkki Ormala of Finland's Science and Technology Policy Council.

Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.

From the point of view of Wellcome and other nonprofit groups that fund science, academic journals can be an expensive drain on time and money.

President Barack Obama this morning unveiled the Precision Medicine Initiative he'll include in his 2016 budget request to a White House East Room audience packed with federal science leaders, academic researchers, patient and research advocacy groups, congressional guests, and drug industry executives.

Since then, I'm helping to start a science advocacy group on campus in hopes of improving public trust in scientists and opening conversations between academic researchers and the local community.

From the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (M.M.M., A.M.O.), the Impaired Consciousness Study Group, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge (M.R.C.), and the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.D.P.)-- all in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege (A.V., M.B., S.L.), and the Departments of Neurology (S.L., M.B.) and Neuroradiology (L.T.), University Hospital of Liege, Liege; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (A.V., S.L., M.B.)-- all in Belgium.

Since 1992, the Leadership Alliance has helped over 4,000 undergraduates from traditionally underrepresented groups in the sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities to pursue research careers in the academic, public and private sectors.

Chris is on a number of national and international committees, working groups and initiatives related to the academic, clinical translation and commercialization of cell and gene therapies including; Founder and CEO of the London Regenerative Medicine Network (LRMN), Founding Member of the UK - Israel Science Council, Scientific Advisory Board of the UK Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Strategic Advisory Board of the Canadian Centre for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM), and Scientific Advisory Board of the Canadian Stem Cell Network.

Since 1992, the Leadership Alliance has encouraged students from groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities to pursue research careers in the academic, public and private sectors.

EuroStemCell, in partnership with the Future Science Group MEDLINE - indexed journal Regenerative Medicine, have launched a digital platform which provides free - to - access summaries of hot - topic articles from leading international academics published in the journal's recent two - part Special Focus Issue entitled, «Regenerative Medicine in Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives».

«This is the area of research that said to us, «Look what can be done if you pull groups together from a wide range of academic disciplines within and beyond the life sciences to take an integrative approach to big, challenging questions,»» Lipscombe said.

Nominations are accepted from an invited group of research universities, independent research institutions, academic medical centers, and government laboratories from around the United States, as well as from the Awards» own Scientific Advisory Council, composed of renowned science and technology leaders.

The Call is open to a wide range of people and organisations, including mediators and practitioners of science communication; STEM festival organisers; universities and institutes of technology, science centres, museums and other cultural attractions; artists; educators; industry professionals and academics in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM); arts agencies; production companies; schools; local authorities (libraries, city / county councils etc.); youth clubs; community groups; and research institutes.

She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.

The IMSD program offers an opportunity to develop new or expand existing effective academic developmental programs, including student research assistantships, in order to prepare students from underrepresented groups for competitive research careers and leadership positions in the biomedical sciences.

In my view, this group - think situation is very consistent with the new trend for academic science to now be just a commercialized business entity (see my earlier article in the Big Problems category on «What is the Very Biggest Problem for Science Today?&rscience to now be just a commercialized business entity (see my earlier article in the Big Problems category on «What is the Very Biggest Problem for Science Today?&rScience Today?»).

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

The Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE) seeks to promote greater participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences and to encourage academic excellence for all.

An evaluation of the initiative by academics at Sheffield Hallam University found that those pupils who took part in the study made an average of two months more progress in English and science than a similar group of pupils who did not take part, and therefore formed a control group.

In 1995, a group of academic researchers looked at top performers on the TIMSS, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.

Teachers use flexible grouping, cooperative groups, hands - on experiences, problem - solving, justification of thinking through science notebooks, and academic choice activities.

Developed by faculty at Smith College and Springfield Technical Community College and funded by the National Science Foundation, Through My Window targets traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering — especially girls — and provides academic enrichment in engineering, technology, and literacy.

An international group of contributors with academic affiliations helps this set continue to bridge the gap between science, medicine, and technology and the philosophical, ethical, religious, legal, and social dilemmas that rapid advances in the laboratory create.

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Since its founding in 1981, DFA has continued to be guided by a group of leading scientists, professors, and nobel laureates; and adjust their processes as academic research sheds new light on the science of investing.

We are happy to provide tours of our Veterinary Medical Center and academic buildings for individual students interested in pursuing a career in veterinary medicine, as well group tours for high school and college level groups related to animal science, health profession, 4 - H clubs, pre-vet clubs, etc..

This group calls itself «climate science leaders from the academic, public and private sectors across Canada.»

«The fundamental principle is academic freedom... In this case, a group of scientists [i.e. the Friends of Science] holds a particular viewpoint and have advanced it publicly, with funding support from the external community.

«Dan is just showing that high - SC folks are very receptive to scientific arguments regardless of group identity, not that they're doing investigative deep dives into academic - level science in order to compensate for popsci's shortcomings»

What has happened in less than one year, bookmark November 19, 2009, the blog mode of information sharing and «the extended peer communities and citizen science groups» are a major force that by - enlarge serves as a counter-weight to piece - meal information sharing as had been the case with major academic centers.