Sentences with phrase «us government lab»

The cultural chasm between General Fusion and competing government labs could not be more stark.
Hammers, too, had been tried before in government labs in the 1970s but failed.
In some countries, we see much richer connections with government labs.
The Government must encourage collaboration among Canadian industry companies on a much larger scale than at present, where most of the incentives were focused on collaboration between Government labs and industry and on ways to get more academic institutions to license their inventions to industry.
Long story short a secret government lab in the US can't contain an accidental exposure to a weaponized virus by one of their staff members, which leads to people calling zombies, walkers just to sound original and all.
They range from early - to senior - career professionals and come from academia, industry, nonprofits, government labs, and international organizations.
Academics want to pursue curiosity - driven basic research, while government labs are oriented toward their particular missions, and companies focus on profitability.
(NIST is the government lab that houses the atomic clock that standardizes time for the nation.)
Richard Harshman, who places postdocs at government labs across the country, said, «each agency has its own stipend rate.»
There will still be opportunities for them in government labs and universities.»
In Canada, there are a few positions in astronomy education and outreach but relatively few research positions for astronomers outside university and government labs.
The document, which mainly focuses on federally funded dog research, claims that more than 1100 canines are being subjected to cruel, unnecessary experiments in government labs.
One way to get the best of both worlds is a career in a government lab, says Dean DeLongchamp, who finished his Ph.D. in the Hammond Lab in 2003 and now leads flexible electronics research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
It's clear that the federal government can act strongly when it chooses to take action, to ensure safety in government labs or to combat academic lab fraud.
Instead, I focused on positions that I found interesting (alternative careers, industry, government labs) and gathered as much information — about myself, my needs, and my potential employers — as possible.
Encouragingly, congressional questioners and government lab officials at the hearing understood this.
Of course, this transparency doesn't hold for every government lab, many of which do classified defense research.
«You can stick the tube in your pocket and carry it around at room temperature for a couple of weeks,» Plowe says, until someone is able to transport it to a government lab in Yangon.
University and government labs worldwide offer first - rate opportunities for a few gifted scientists to work to understand the basic phenomenon of superconductivity and develop it in ways that will facilitate commercialization.
So early - career scientists who aren't eager to head up their own research enterprise should consider opportunities to teach or to find work outside academia — at government labs or in private industry — where they can do good work without having to build and support a laboratory and a team.
He has dozens of engineers from top industry and government labs in France working on his project for free in their spare time.
Ironically, I had applied for another lab - tech position at a government lab and accepted that offer 2 days before my supervisor's grant was renewed.
In government labs?
I tend to think of a government lab as a hybrid of academics and industry, only you're doing research in the public interest.
According to the poll, most private institutions and government labs do not have postdoc offices and have no plans to create one (Table 1).
► «Engineer Jill Hruby was named director of the Sandia National Laboratories on Monday, becoming the first woman to head one of three U.S. government labs charged with developing and maintaining the country's nuclear arsenal,» Warren Cornwall wrote at ScienceInsider on Tuesday.
A top - secret government lab might be her savior: Sophie is hired to fly across the Earth spraying a genetically engineered microbe that eats plastic.
For a start, I was working in a government lab in Mill Hill, north London, and I wasn't supposed to be crafting an environmental detector...
A chemist with government lab ETH Zürich in Switzerland has resigned from his post as head of research for the laboratory as part of an investigation into scientific fraud.
Tasked with solving this visualization problem will be 120 experts in academia, government labs, and industry connected in an electronic network.
At a government lab like the NIH, research is reviewed retrospectively.
Without this experience, postdocs who trained in government labs are often at a disadvantage when faced with writing their first grant.
About 50 % are foreigners and 80 % work in university settings, where their status is most likely to be uncertain; although postdocs in industry and government labs tend to fit smoothly into existing job categories, academic postdocs may work in situational limbo, being neither faculty, staff, nor students.
In 2012, more than 40 biomedical organizations signed a Declaration on Openness on Animal Research; the new concordat, which grew out of that declaration, was informed by consultations with the public and journalists and has been signed by 72 universities, government labs, research charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research councils.
«At CSIRO, like at other government labs, staff are very dedicated, and their dedication is being taken for granted,» Keenan says.
Last week, two more problems came to light: a recent CDC shipment of flu samples contaminated with the deadly H5N1 avian influenza and the discovery of smallpox vials from 1954 in a government lab at the National Institutes of Health.
Four U.S. government labs and two outside labs are participating, including the researchers at the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nevada, who wrote last year's Science paper.
Late last month, hundreds of people in two Washington, D.C., suburbs received a letter in the mail claiming that one of their neighbors was tied to animal abuse at a government lab.
The flu virus shipment was the third recent mistake by a government lab in handling dangerous pathogens.
English government lab blamed for foot and mouth outbreak Leaky drainage pipes may have allowed the foot and mouth virus to escape from a lab funded by England's Institute for Animal Health in Pirbright, causing last month's outbreaks at two farms in nearby Surrey, government investigators said.
Like the government labs and NIH, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Gladstone have developed for all their postdocs a clear salary step policy that is based on the number of years of service.
► «Late last month, hundreds of people in two Washington, D.C., suburbs received a letter in the mail» from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claiming «that one of their neighbors was tied to animal abuse at a government lab,» David Grimm wrote in a Wednesday ScienceInsider.
Trace might then begin providing specialty medical isotopes such as strontium 82 and iron 52, both used in PET scans, which are currently available only from government labs.
Most, he says, have ended up in industry, some have ended up in government labs, and a few are in academia.
«It is a good model for the University to work with government labs and small business.
The alleged crimes took place while Capua was director of the Division of Biomedical Science of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, a government lab in Padua, Italy.
HHMI does, however, expect to see its investigators» former postdocs in jobs that use their scientific training: «in a government lab, research institute, or the commercial sector, doing something in biotech or the pharmaceutical industry.
A panel of experts from several U.S. Department of Energy — affiliated national labs also suggested that scientists from government labs partner with schools to incorporate STEM skills and topics even in non-STEM classes.
«The environment we've seen does apply pressure in the direction of more applied work at our universities and our government labs.
Prof. Teresa Head - Gordon will lead MolSSI outreach to and engagement with partner institutions in academia, government labs, and industry.
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