Sentences with phrase «u of»
His experience working on industry and medical - related projects while at U of T introduced him to the fast - paced and result - oriented environment of the biomedical field.
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I am currently in my fourth year of a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Toronto (U of T).
Computations were performed on the SciNet HPC Consortium supercomputer at U of T.
And then, «Who were your co-workers in that team working for Smith at the U of A?»
«Bees rely on learning to locate flowers, track their profitability and work out how best to efficiently extract nectar and pollen,» said environmental sciences professor Nigel Raine, the Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation at U of G and senior author of the paper.
The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) in Saskatoon provides an abundance of scientific expertise, resources, tech - transfer capabilities, and infrastructure through the College of Agriculture and the Western College of Veterinarian Medicine.
«The U of C is a fairly entrepreneurial place, and the concept of incubating a spin - out like ours has been well supported by senior administration,» says Moloney.
Thoma and an interdisciplinary team of U of A researchers looked at all facets and stages of milk production, from the fertilizer used to grow the animal's feed to waste disposal of packaging after consumer use.
The U of A researchers — Rick Ulrich, professor of chemical engineering; Darin Nutter, professor of mechanical engineering; Jennie Popp, professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness; and Marty Matlock, professor of biological and agricultural engineering, in addition to Thoma — partnered with researchers at Michigan Technological University.
The university's technology transfer office, UST Inc., has helped churn out nine of the 33 spin - off companies from U of S research pursuits in the last 10 years, some of which have been biotech related.
And that gives it potential anti-cancer benefit,» said Elizabeth Jeffery, a U of I professor of nutritional toxicology.
The University of Calgary (U of C) is recognized for its outstanding research capabilities in biotechnology.
Moloney is the chief scientific officer; however, he still maintains ties with the U of C and even has a small group of researchers and graduate students there.
«Being able to measure the mass and density of K2 - 18b was tremendous, but to discover a new exoplanet was lucky and equally exciting,» says lead author Ryan Cloutier, a PhD student in U of T Scarborough's Centre for Planet Science, U of T's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Université de Montréal Institute for research on exoplanets (iREx).
de Grenoble, U of T Scarborough, and Universidade do Porto.
Back at Jeffery's U of I lab, researchers began to test these components on mouse liver cells both individually and together.
Co-authors are Takhar and Harkirat S. Bansal of the U of I and Jirawan Maneerote of Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand.
SemBioSys is the brainchild of U of C researcher Maurice Moloney, a professor in the department of biological sciences.
Several research groups at U of C currently conduct investigations in areas ranging from diabetes research to cardiovascular disease, neuroscience, and gastro - intestinal disease.
U of T researchers have developed a new technology for creating more durable disease - fighting molecules which could lead to drugs with longer - lasting effects.
Branko Peterman, president and CEO, says that U of S spin - offs generally have a survival rate of 85 % and currently employ 1300 people.
After 3 years of study and hands - on experience, Hendry graduated in 1999 from U of T with a M.A.Sc.
But Haris Majeed, a Master's student in Medical Imaging at U of T's Faculty of Medicine, wondered if long - term climate variability in sea surface temperatures played a role.
After drinking, blood alcohol levels increase much faster and reach higher levels than what would be expected before surgery, explains Marta Yanina Pepino, an assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at U of I who led the study.
«We were most interested in understanding how children's cognitions and emotions worked together to predict whether child - friend interactions were more cooperative and positive or more negative and conflictual,» says Nancy McElwain, a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at U of I.
«We expect the outcome of this study to support scientifically sound national policy decisions on bioenergy crops development especially with regards to cellulosic grasses,» wrote Atul Jain, professor of atmospheric sciences at U of I, regarding a paper published by the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Researchers at U of T Engineering have developed a new way of growing realistic human tissues outside the body.
A survey of Ph.D. s graduating from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto (U of T) within the last 10 years revealed that only 15 % remained in academia (compared to 35 % in 1980 for all of Canada — look here and here).
«The main thing about this course is how it prepares students for the next step, and nothing else currently available at U of T does that in a consistent and systematic fashion.»
«We know relationships are key,» says Brian Ogolsky, associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at U of I. «We spend all of our time in these relationships.
«After having a sleeve gastrectomy, if a woman has a couple of drinks, she could be exposing her brain to blood alcohol levels that are achieved in a woman without surgery when she consumes four or five drinks,» adds first author M. Belen Acevedo, a postdoc in Pepino's group at U of I. «Drinking, such that it raises blood alcohol levels above legal drinking limits, is considered a binge drinking episode and has been associated with an increased risk of developing alcohol problems.»
The course also featured: a presentation by each participant for a panel that included a patent attorney, a newspaper editor, and an innovations specialist; a one - on - one consultation with Nana Lee, the course co-coordinator, a former senior scientist and director in the biotech industry who is experienced in career transitions and in dealing with life balance issues; and a presentation by U of T's Graduate Enterprise Internship program, which provides internships for students to explore opportunities in the business world.
That matters because many people choose frozen veggies for their convenience and because they're less expensive,» said Elizabeth Jeffery, a U of I professor of nutrition.
Part of U of T's impetus in implementing these changes came from a task force on graduate student financial support, which found that doctoral - stream students at U of T received only two - thirds of the support their U.S. counterparts did — about $ 8000 compared to $ 12,000 after tuition costs.
Your smartphone may soon be able to give you an honest answer, thanks to a new machine learning algorithm designed by U of T Engineering researchers Parham Aarabi and Wenzhi Guo.
«We were surprised by the magnitude of the difference in how much people paid for an identical car that was bought in the same month in even the same city,» says Ambarish Chandra, Assistant Professor of Business Economics in U of T Scarborough's Department of Management and the Rotman School of Management.
Leaders of the U of R lab are making frequent trips to Washington, D.C., to win over members of Congress who will make the final decision on spending.
To conduct their studies, Peyronel - Svaikauskas and the other U of G researchers use the DOE's Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.
The U of G researchers found that it is precisely under conditions of low oxygen that cancer cells trigger the production of cadherin - 22, putting in motion a kind of protein boost that helps bind cells together, enhancing cellular movement, invasion and likely metastasis.
«We and our sponsors realized that the business plan competition is a unique way of looking for new innovations in Ontario and we didn't want to exclude great ideas outside U of T,» says Maxwell.
In addition to being an assistant professor in ecohydrology and geoinformatics in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at U of I, Guan has a joint appointment as a Blue Waters professor affiliated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
James Shen is a U of T engineering graduate and part of the PhotoThermal Diagnostics team that won second prize in the Most Promising Technology category last year.
«We've been looking to nature for a while to find complex molecules for use in a number of consumer electronics applications,» says Dwight Seferos, an associate professor in U of T's Department of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in Polymer Nanotechnology.
U of G scientists have made a discovery that could reduce the spread of cancer by hindering a protein that binds cancer cells together and allows them to invade tissues.
«We dug plants up from the field and brought them into warm greenhouses in Illinois and South Dakota every month from October through March,» says Lee, an agronomist in the Department of Crop Sciences at U of I. «The only lighting was the sun, so the plants had to react to the ambient photoperiod, or day length.»
The U of A team then measured stable isotopes and analyzed 230 grizzly bear scats collected over three years, some of which could be attributed to GPS - collared bears.
Surendra Singh, professor of physics, and Bellaiche were part of the U of A team that proposed in 2013 that the angular momentum of an electromagnetic field can directly couple to the spin of an electron to produce a physical energy.
(Image: MMT Observatory / Smithsonian / U of Arizona)
«We found that prized sportfish, such as Brook trout and the smaller fish that trout eat, are disappearing from lakes where species of Bass have expanded their habitats,» said Karen Alofs, a postdoctoral researcher working with ecologist and conservation biologist Donald Jackson in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, describing a study published this week in Proceeding of the Royal Society B.
They can't regulate their temperature,» says Jaime Coon, lead author of the paper and graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at U of I.