Sentences with phrase «university research environment»

[2004] Leading the Changing University Research Environment AAAS Annual Meeting Seattle, WA [Speakers]

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According to recent research from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, cited on Pacific Standard, disordered environments prompt people to be more goal - oriented.

- Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University

Other countries like the UK and the US that have good environments for research through their university systems have pools of engineers well versed in the developing technologies and see no immediate shortage.»

Professor David Wilkinson, Professor of Theology, Principal of St John's College, Durham University, said: «CODEC is unique in combining research on the digital environment within a world class University with practical outputs to serve the Church.

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

This M&E Plan has been prepared by a South Australian consortium of agencies: South Australian Research and Development Institute, the University of Adelaide, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), the Environment Protection Authority and In Fusion Consulting.

The Centre for Dairy Research (CEDAR) based at the University of Reading is now an Innovation Centre for Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF).

Universities and colleges in Canada provides an opportunity to Gain the knowledge in the field of Food chemistry research and professional learning environment.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

As an education research organization affiliated with the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, we thought it was an exciting opportunity to investigate camp as a unique learning environment.

Research from the University of Missouri indicates online discussion boards provide safe environments for mothers to anonymously express child - rearing concerns and receive support from other moms.

Research conducted through the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine confirms the importance of a secure environment and nurturing touch in the healthy growth, development and maturation of children.

His research focuses on conflict, development and environment in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region and he is the convenor of the Oxford University China - Africa Network (OUCAN).

Efforts are being made to monitor the water quality of the Fonteyn Kill, led by Vassar College's Environmental Research Institute and the Cornell University Cooperative Extension Dutchess County Environment Program.

Consent for the current GM trials being undertaken by Leeds University, the Sainsbury Laboratory and Rothamsted Research was granted in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 following evaluation by the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE).

Angela Fuller, a Cornell University professor also working on the study, says recent research shows bears don't need that forest environment to survive anymore.

Ecologist and environmental policy analyst Raphael «Rafe» Sagarin (2002 - 03 Congressional Fellow sponsored by the Geological Society of America) was associate research scientist and adjunct assistant professor for the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at University of Arizona.

ScienceDaily features breaking news about the latest discoveries in science, health, the environment, technology, and more — from major news services and leading universities, scientific journals, and research organizations.

The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment, says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.

The first phase of Sêr Cymru committed up to # 50 million (US$ 66.2 million) to bring prestigious research chairs to Welsh universities and also to support national research networks in three «grand challenge» areas: life sciences and health; low carbon, energy, and environment; and advanced engineering and materials.

Through the # 7 million (US$ 9.2 million) Sêr Cymru National Research Network for Low Carbon, Energy and Environment — one of the three grand challenge areas — Welsh universities hope to capitalize even more on their expertise in pasture - based agriculture.

Joseph Krajcik, Ph.D., is a Writing Team Leader for Next Generation Science Standards, director of the Institute for Collaborative Research in Education, Assessment, and Teaching Environments for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CREATE for STEM) m and a faculty member in science education at the Michigan State University.

«If you want to change the world, you have to understand what you're changing first,» said Maria Carmen Lemos, professor and associate dean for research at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.

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«The skills and experience offered by the Leshner Fellowship will enable the sustained, strategic and scalable engagement needed to understand and address resource competition in an urbanizing world,» said Dustin Garrick, research fellow and co-director of the water program at the Smith School Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

At the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where ice and life are her topics, Birgit Sattler's research looks at microbial diversity in alpine, arctic, and antarctic environments.

This Statement of Principles encourages universities and other research institutions to recognise these contributions and to offer the best working environment possible to their postdoctoral fellows.

But lead author Vincent Post of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training and the School of the Environment at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, said in a statement that the potential use of this vast water store must not be ignored in the face of coming water challenges.

Alex Bielak, a senior research fellow and knowledge broker at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU - INWEH) in Hamilton, Canada, says that although these differences in terminology indicate slightly different types of roles, the people occupying all of these roles create a two - way interaction between knowledge producers and knowledge users.

In an accompanying article published yesterday in Nature Energy, Alice Grønhøj, who researches consumption and the environment at Aarhus University in Denmark, praised the study for its «methodologically robust design» that «attests to the credibility of the central findings.»

The idea was to generate a dynamic research environment full of challenges, while promoting harmonisation between the administrative requirements of the two countries and universities, and even between the differing expectations of my supervisors!

As adjunct professor at University of Guelph, he also conducts research into environmental controls systems for greenhouses in extreme environments.

In fact he feels that, in the intensely competitive professional environment that is a good university hospital, his research interests are sometimes viewed rather negatively by his colleagues.

A research group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum thanresearch group led by Chengsi Pan, Postdoctoral Researcher, and Tsuyoshi Takata, NIMS Special Researcher, at the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum thanResearch Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN; Director - General: Kohei Uosaki) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS; President: Sukekatsu Ushioda), and Kazunari Domen, a professor of the Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (President: Junichi Hamada) newly developed a water - splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

In Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impacts.

Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.

One possibility could be related to dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria found upstream in the catchment, which might be releasing toxins similar to those that cause red tides in marine environments, says Peter Ashton, a water resources specialist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa and the University of Pretoria.

The AlloSphere is one of dozens of immersive environments that are now routinely used at universities, government agencies and key research centers.

Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

China is transitioning from a labor - based economy to a high - technology and innovation - based economy, and this contributes to a positive scientific environment, says Professor Paul Kwong HangTam, pro-vice chancellor and vice president of research, University of Hong Kong.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

Changes in regulatory policy and recent litigation regarding research misconduct have complicated the legal environment for the federal government, colleges and universities.

The principal investigators of the research — psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen of Aarhus University, Denmark and Daniel Sznycer of University of California, Santa Barbara — believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to influence behavior today.

«We can't protect our own ecosystem if we're not protecting Cuba's,» said Fernando Bretos Trelles, director of the Ocean Foundation's Cuba Marine Research Conservation Project, which has facilitated collaborative research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment sinResearch Conservation Project, which has facilitated collaborative research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment sinresearch between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment since 1998.

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She then spent 3 years at the Finnish Environment Institute working on groundwater research while doing a Ph.D. with the University of Helsinki.

«When he was president of the University of Tokyo, he put extraordinary effort into improving the research environment,» says Yoji Totsuka, director of the university's Institute for Cosmic RayUniversity of Tokyo, he put extraordinary effort into improving the research environment,» says Yoji Totsuka, director of the university's Institute for Cosmic Ray Rresearch environment,» says Yoji Totsuka, director of the university's Institute for Cosmic Rayuniversity's Institute for Cosmic Ray ResearchResearch.