Sentences with phrase «u.k. research councils»

Cathy Ruse, Family Research Council, and Josh Barro, MSNBC contributor, weigh in.

When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

The takeover offer came in the wake of revelations that Chinese hackers broke into computers at the National Research Council in 2014.

The two - year «solar soldier» project brings together 15 researchers from six universities, led by the University of Glasgow, and is funded by a $ 1 - million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Ministry of Defence.

In 2005, the government's National Research Council of Canada published a paper on how to make the cubicle a better workspace.

-- based Pond Biofuels and the National Research Council to build a $ 19 - million «biorefinery» at its Primrose South project near Bonnyville, Alta.

Some conservative groups, including the Family Research Council and the Center for Military Readiness, have suggested a reversal of the policy.

For instance, the SPLC documents its decision to include the Family Research Council by citing the evangelical lobbying group's promotion of discredited science and unsubstantiated attacks on gay and lesbian people.

In February, Robert Fodosejevs and Ying Tsui, electrical engineering professors at the University of Alberta, received $ 430,650 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to study ways to speed up fusion ignition in collaboration with the National Ignition Facility in California.

It is a collaboration between the Urban Transformations Network, UK Economic and Social Research Council and The Conversation UK.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has just given them a grant to start up the first international network for global research on the impact of domestic violence at work.

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.

Kelly brought up a recent conversation she had with Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, and said that he didn't have a compelling argument against gay marriage.

Neville Owen receives grant support from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-- Insight Development Grant (2 grants), Standard Research Grant and funding for Sustainable Prosperity Research Network and the Alberta Climate Change Dialogue CURA.

David W. Dunstan receives competitive research grants from National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, and Heart Foundation of Australia.

So limiting it to $ 2,400 would be a big whack,» Olivia Mitchell, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and executive director of the Pension Research Council, told Yahoo Finance.

Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Olivia Mitchell, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and executive director of the Pension Research Council, told Yahoo Finance

The committee, organized by the Social Science Research Council, will then announce a call for papers and issue grants to fund the research.

In this respect, the approach proposed by the Jenkins Panel of separating from the National Research Council a number of its existing technology institutes into a constellation of large - scale, sectoral, collaborative R&D centres involving business, the university sector and the provinces is an important proposal.

Just look, Perkins said, at the way the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, a major figure within the evangelical world, used a popular golf euphemism for a «do - over» — a «mulligan» — to imply that Trump's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels should be ignored.

The leader of the conservative evangelical organization Family Research Council said that evangelicals were happy to give President Donald Trump a «do - over» after a previously unpublished 2011 interview with adult film actress Stormy Daniels revealed that she may have been paid to remain silent about an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.

He is a former director of BMC Software, Inc., a non-public software corporation based in Houston, Texas, and serves on the board of the following not - for - profit organizations: School of Public Policy, University of Calgary (Executive Fellow), National Research Council of Canada, Ontario Global 100 Network (Chair), C.D. Howe Institute, and Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

«The revenue will have to be found in the future,» Olivia Mitchell, a professor at the Wharton School and executive director of the Pension Research Council, told Yahoo Finance.

«We're delighted to have support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and the MaRS Discovery District,» added Mark Mull, Business Development Manager at IPT Smarter Alloys.

In March of 2008 the Canadian Boreal Initiative, the Pembina Institute and the Alberta Research Council published a report recommending the use of offsets in the oil sands region of Alberta as one tool to control the terrestrial impacts of oil sands development, including the impact on caribou.

The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) supports small and medium - sized enterprises in Canada grow stronger, grow faster, grow bigger through innovation and technology.

He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

The UK's Natural Environment Research Council said research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

He was a member of the 2012 and 2013 Insight Grants Economics Committee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

By: Nadine James 16th September 2016 To facilitate the gasification of low - grade fine waste coal that is discarded as a by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used... →

The project, which is part of the Canada - South Korea Science, Technology and Innovation Projects sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, aims at facilitating R&D collaboration between Canadian and South Korean innovators.

The findings are the result of collaboration between the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

The 2012 Report on Angel Investing Activity in Canada, the third of its kind, was released in partnership with Industry Canada, BDC Capital, FedDev Ontario and National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Other economic actors have their own federal granting agencies, such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

During her academic medical ca - reer, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fulbright Cancer Research Scholarship, a Har - lech Scholarship and a Science and Engineering Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship Award.

A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

Previous investors were led by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.

That said, I admit I was surprised when the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada agreed in late 2015 to fund the CMP with a six - year, $ 2.5 - million grant — a decision that was finalized in the final months of Stephen Harper's Conservative government.

He also serves on the boards of Imperial Oil Limited, Morneau Shepell and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Prof. Michelle Simmons, Director, Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Quantum Computing, UNSW 4.

The CMP is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

This research is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

-- This research is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

In a note to supporters Wednesday night, conservative Family Research Council President Tony Perkins heaped criticism on the GOP for abandoning Akin.

Family Research Council is about as tolerant as the Westboro Baptist Church (the Phelp's who picket soldiers funerals, and Dio!).

Those of us caught in the cross-hairs of the Family Research Council owe you a huge debt of thanks for disarming them with the truth.

The news media has made much of the meeting, which includes such well - known evangelicals as Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer.

It's unfortunate that the Family Research Council and others of its ilk have gotten such exposure out of proportion to the number of their actual supporters — I'm glad to read such a well - reasoned perspective as I have here.