Sentences with phrase «scientist day projects»

Included: Description of Mad Scientist Day projects.

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The Santa Cruz Natural History Museum calls for young artists and scientists curious about nature at this day camp featuring field trips, science projects, and nature - inspired art.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Kita spends whole days in the lab, either working on her own research or helping students, postdocs, and other scientists develop their projects.

Most people I've known since my days as a bench scientist react with dismay to the news that I'm now the project manager for one of the 6th Framework Programme's large new Networks of Excellence funded by the European Commission.

Since the days of Project Mercury's squeeze tubes, the food scientists at Johnson Space Center have come back to Earth a bit.

Citizen Science — projects which involve collaboration between professional scientists and teams of enthusiastic amateurs — is big these days.

TRIUMF — the acronym is derived from TRI-University Meson Facility, although eight are now universities involved in the project — employs about 350 scientists, engineers, and technicians and houses up to 200 visiting scientists on any given day when the cyclotron is operating.

Zooniverse's Exoplanet Explorers project invites citizen scientists to scour data from the Kepler spacecraft - within two days they found a planetary system

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

In To Be A Scientist, Donald Braben describes the enterprise of science, taking as his main example the Venture Research Project, the blue - sky research funded by BP in the more expansive days of the 1980s.

U.K. scientists had thought that their days of participation in large - scale projects were numbered when the current government, in its first spending review in 2010, slashed funds for capital spending in science projects by more than 50 %.

«This wonderful news means that we now have the missing «ground - truth» information needed to put Philae's three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is,» Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist, wrote on the agency's blog.

Alexander Marshak, DSCOVR deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, first noticed light flashes occasionally appearing over oceans as he looked through that day's EPIC images.

Taking place on Wednesday 16th May at the prestigious Winstanley House in Leicester, this one - day showcase will to bring together academic scientists, clinicians and businesses from across the globe, to forge engagement opportunities, identify «two - way people exchanges» and future research project ideas for development.

Taking place on Wednesday 16 May at Winstanley House in Leicester, an upcoming one - day showcase will to bring together academic scientists, clinicians and businesses from across the globe, to forge engagement opportunities, identify «two - way people exchanges» and future research project ideas for development.

This will provide a rich source of chemical starting points for CBCS scientists to translate novel biology into innovative drug discovery project, which may one day result in new medicines for patients in need,» said Garry Pairaudeau, Head of External Sciences, Innovative Medicines and Early Development Biotech Unit at AstraZeneca.

For scientists like Han Liang, Ph.D., associate professor and deputy chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, the Human Genome Project ignited a passion for big data that continues to this day.

GMI stars in National Geographic TV Special «Lincoln's Secret Killer» which premiered on President's Day, 2011 «Lincoln's Secret Killer,» a documentary prepared by National Geographic, premiered on Monday, February 21, at 10:00 pm on The National Geographic Channel, featuring Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Hardis Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute and GMI's Director of the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, and members of her lab, Mohammed S. Orloff, PhD, Project Scientist, and Todd Romigh, MS, Lab Manager.

This two - day sequence is ideal for organizations seeking to bring their scientists «up to speed» in the core skills needed to manage a research lab and to effectively lead scientific project teams.

There is a growing need for highly skilled, well - trained scientists who can run complex projects while also training and supervising students, evaluating data, writing manuscripts, contributing to grant writing, and managing the lab's day - to - day operations.

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

Join us on National DNA Day 2018 — the 15th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project — to hear from New York Genome Center scientists about how advances in genetics and genomics are changing people's lives — and what the future holds.

In the early days most Open Access journals were small - scale individual operations run by groups or individual scientists, much in the same spirit as Open Source Software projects [4].

What's more, realizing that these two spacecraft would eventually leave the Solar System and cruise out across our galaxy for billions of years, the project's scientists — among them Frank Drake and Carl Sagan — decided to include a message to any extraterrestrials who might one day find the probes: phonograph records containing audio recordings and pictures representing all of Humanity.

To give students, staff, and parents a break from the time and stress involved in creating typical science fair projects, teachers at Hollywood Elementary School in College Park, Maryland, decided four years ago to turn everyone into scientists for a day so they could try their hands at different experiments.

If I were to take a cruise, I would prefer that it be one of those research cruises, where the passengers, while still spending much of the day lying on their backs with blank minds, also get to help out with a scientist's research project.

The program includes two days of workshops, presentations, rituals, film screenings, interactive installations and special performances from local and national artists, scientists, social activists, filmmakers, writers, poets and more at Icebox Project Space.

Peak spring runoff is also projected to continue to occur earlier — 20 to 40 days earlier by the end of the century.7, 12 Scientists project stream flow at The Dalles on the Columbia River to peak as much as a month earlier by mid - century.13 On the western slopes of the Cascades, runoff between April and September is projected to drop by 30 percent or more by mid - century.2, 14

Twenty years ago in the early days of the civilian nuclear waste repository program, while we were struggling with a variety of issues as to how to assure the reproducibility of the analytical work, the kind of cavalier attitudes toward software QA / QC that is now demonstrated by many climate scientists was not all that uncommon among the many scientists employed by the repository project..

Scientists involved in the Atlas project — the largest study of deep Atlantic ecosystems ever undertaken — say the impact will not be of the order played out in the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow.

It is not uncommon, these days, to find law firms who employ specialized programmers, statisticians and data scientists, chief data officers, and project managers.