Sentences with phrase «scientists at nonprofit»

Scientists at nonprofit research organizations in the U.S. who are within 10 years of their first independent faculty appointment (Assistant Professor or equivalent) are eligible.

But scientists at the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists say that the $ 36 billion system won't be able to pick a real warhead out of a flotilla of decoys.

Matthew Chinman is a senior behavioral scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.

«Sometimes I hear [the] industry talk about autonomous vehicles as though they're about to put the safest driver on the road,» says Nidhi Kalra, senior information scientist at the nonprofit RAND Corp. «The reality is it's more like putting a teenage driver on the road.»

Cox, a senior scientist at the nonprofit Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, mentions a number of technical fixes, notably architectural design that emphasizes passive cooling and natural ventilation.

«I see bitcoin cash as a tool to help pressure bitcoin to address scaling somehow,» Peter Rizun, chief scientist at the nonprofit software provider Bitcoin Unlimited, told International Business Times.

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Scientist Christine Peterson came up with the term in 1998 at the Foresight Institute, a nonprofit think tank dedicated to nanotechnology and advances in AI.

That suggests that millions of American babies are potentially at risk,» said Anila Jacob, a physician and a senior scientist with Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that posted the study on its Web site.

«These findings suggest limiting the visibility of tobacco displays in retail stores may reduce the number of young people who try cigarettes,» said William Shadel, associate director of RAND Population Health Program and senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

«It's largely a supply - and - demand problem,» said Martin Libicki, lead author of the study and senior management scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues at the nonprofit Center for Open Science got help from over 350 scientists to repeat 100 high - profile psychology experiments published in 2008 — the largest replication study to date.

As vice president for research at the Environmental Working Group, Jane Houlihan oversees scientists at the Washington, D.C., nonprofit's busy labs.

Andee Rubin, a mathematician and computer scientist at TERC, a nonprofit educational researcher and development company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, agrees.

That is the conclusion reached by Kun Yuan and Vi - Nhuan Le, both then behavioral scientists at RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank.

Grais is scientist at Epicentre, a nonprofit health and epidemiology research center in Paris set up by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to guide its health - care interventions in developing countries.

So scientists at AOAC International, a nonprofit analytical chemistry group in Gaithersburg, Maryland, are working with testing companies to try to develop faster methods for preparing and analyzing samples with mass spectroscopy.

«Our findings suggest that e-learning can provide an efficient and scalable approach to training large numbers of clinicians in new evidence - based treatments,» said Dr. Bradley D. Stein, the study's lead author, a practicing psychiatrist and a senior scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

She knew a physicist who did educational outreach (but had just lost his grant, so he couldn't offer me any work), who knew a space scientist (who did no outreach or education at all), who knew a geologist (who occasionally volunteered in the schools), who knew an evolutionary ecologist (who worked for a nonprofit with no money at all), who knew the director of another local nonprofit educational company.

As long as a travel ban persists and «scientists currently jailed are not released, people won't be able to maintain their relations abroad,» says Eugene Chudnovsky, a physicist at the City University of New York's Lehman College and co-chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting scientists» humscientists currently jailed are not released, people won't be able to maintain their relations abroad,» says Eugene Chudnovsky, a physicist at the City University of New York's Lehman College and co-chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting scientists» humScientists, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting scientists» humscientists» human rights.

Sometimes personal interests, like supporting other young scientists, can lead to a nonprofit career, like it did at the time for Marta Maczel, who helped set up the main office of the World Academy of Young Scientists (WAYS) inscientists, can lead to a nonprofit career, like it did at the time for Marta Maczel, who helped set up the main office of the World Academy of Young Scientists (WAYS) inScientists (WAYS) in Budapest.

«Our findings are counter intuitive and suggest that some anti-smoking strategies may actually go too far,» said William Shadel, lead author of the study and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

A major spent fuel fire at a U.S. nuclear plant «could dwarf the horrific consequences of the Fukushima accident,» says Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., who was not on the panel.

«As prohibitions on marijuana ease and sales of marijuana become more visible, it's important to think about how we need to change the way we talk to young people about the risks posed by the drug,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

«The goal of this project is to help build consensus around a shared set of facts about gun policy by demonstrating where scientific evidence is accumulating,» said Andrew Morral, the project's leader and a behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

«A recent study by RAND found that the majority of Americans» cost - burden for dementia is caused by long - term care,» said Regina A. Shih, the study's lead author and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

These include government or private nonprofit funders of basic research, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States or the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom; academic scientists; multinational pharmaceutical firms and smaller biotech companies; and, at the end of the line, government regulatory agencies responsible for drug approval.

Scientists, engineers, and policy analysts who are part of the nonprofit organization turned out in force Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, outside Washington.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical - research organization, have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson's disease — a discovery that could one day lead to new treatments for people who suffer from this devastating neurodegenerative illness.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical - research organization, have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson's disease — a discovery that could one day lead to new treatments for people who suffer from this devastating neu

Celina Marie Benavides Human Development and Psychology Current city: Claremont, California Current job: Director of nonprofit, Project Vistas — Family Child Care Higher Education Academy, which provides family child care providers in Los Angeles County access to higher education and professional development training; doctoral student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate Universiat Claremont Graduate University Career highlights: At Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate UniversiAt Project Vistas, assisting a marginalized, nontraditional student group, while overseeing budget, managing program operations, coordinating staff, and fulfilling targeted outcomes; Basic Research Scientist of the Year award by the AS&F Foundation and Claremont Graduate University

Students at Avalon School in St. Paul, Minnesota learn filming from a local nonprofit in the area, and students at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia learn from scientists and researchers at the Franklin Institute through mini-courses.

Named as one of the Top 40 Innovators in Educations in 2013 by the Center for Digital Education, Chris Liang - Vergara is currently the Chief of Learning Innovation at LEAP Innovations, a nonprofit in Chicago that supports pilot studies of personalized learning models and provides training space to connect educators, entrepreneurs, tech companies, learning scientists, and students to develop next - generation models, share ideas, and co-develop solutions.

A former practicing veterinarian and scientist who studied reproduction and endocrinology, Dr. Olson has an extensive history in nonprofit work, including positions at Guide Dogs for the Blind and the American Humane.

The report contains the recommendations of leading business and nonprofit executives, policymakers, scientists, academics, and program managers that took part in the Fort Baker Leadership Summits at the Institute for the Golden Gate.

In a news release, scientists at the meeting, held at a branch of the nonprofit International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, estimated that 90 percent of the wheat varieties planted by farmers around the world lack resistance to the rust variant, called Ug99 after its discovery in Uganda in 1999.

The Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit group with strong ties to the Obama administration, organized a telephone conference call, including two of the scientists embroiled in the fracas over the disclosed e-mails, that it said was aimed at «setting the record straight on global warming.»

The idea was put forward, in part, by Robert Nelson, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit whose scientists study planetary systems, including the solar system.

They endorsed an idea borrowed from national security and defense planning, a framework for «climate security,» that has been proposed by scientists at the London - based nonprofit EG3.

To achieve this, Climate Feedback — less an organization at this point than an amorphous gathering of climate scientists, oceanographers, and atmosperic physicists — is making use of a browser plugin from the nonprofit Hypothes.is to annotate climate journalism on the Web.

By ruling on narrow matters of standing, the court leaves Cuccinelli uncensured and free to harass scientists who have ever been at private schools and private nonprofits in the state at any time in the past.

Together they mark «the biggest improvement in global - warming emissions from vehicles that we've ever seen,» said Don Anair, a senior engineer at the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, which helped shape the rules, in an interview.

Tebaldi is currently a research scientist at Stanford University's Department of Global Ecology, as well as the Princeton, New Jersey - based Climate Central, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the communication of climate change solutions.

Character Lab is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2013 by one scientist and two educators: Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania; Dave Levin, co-founder of the KIPP public charter schools; and Dominic Randolph, Head of Riverdale Country School.