Sentences with phrase «academic researchers make»

Then he asserted that hundreds of government officials and academic researchers make a living from the perennial reviews and research budgets on climate change.

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«When I made my app initially I was just an academic researcher.

As managers and academic researchers have tried to remedy the inadequacies of current performance measurement systems, some have focused on making financial measures more relevant.

Conference members represent the many facets of the dairy industry, including the dairy farmer, processing plant personnel, people who inspect dairy farm operations and / or the processing plants, people who make and / or enforce the laws concerning the inspections, academic researchers and advisers and consumers of dairy products.

In one key study, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin found that a simple, one - sentence note of encouragement made a huge difference in academic outcomes for African - American students, who often have fraught power relationships with teachers.

Excavating these can be of considerable value and academic researchers need to make far more effort in this kind of work.

21 January 2013 — The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Chinese engineering portal EEFOCUS have announced a partnership that will see the IET's essential engineering intelligence made available to over 1 million researchers and academics throughout China.

Industry's primary goals — to make new products and generate money — often align well with the interests of academic researchers.

Lexicon and Merck have promised to make these mice available to academic researchers at nominal cost, no strings attached.

The knockout mice, which will be made available to academic researchers at low cost, should help efforts to figure out what newly discovered genes do in the body.

However, the entrepreneurial spirit that I believe lies within all academics made starting a business a relatively natural extension of my growth as a researcher.

In response, academic researchers, the federal government, energy companies and regulatory agencies have mobilized to try to reduce the frequency and strength of induced earthquakes — and a series of recent papers and other findings shows they have made rapid progress, although many questions remain.

Many medical research and physicians» advocates praised Price's appointment, expressing hopes that his experience in the trenches of both private medical practice and an academic medical center will make him sensitive to the challenges that researchers and teaching hospitals face.

Andringa, who knew from the start of her postdoc that she might not want to become an academic researcher, made sure to tell her supervisor of her intentions during her first interview so that there were no surprises later.

Once academic and small company researchers make discoveries, pharma executives can contribute their scientific expertise to help turn those discovery into products.

He describes how his criminal conviction makes it unlikely he'll ever work again as an academic researcher.

For some researchers this makes their dreams of an academic career come true, but for quite a lot of others it is just the result of not considering the countless fascinating career paths they might follow outside academia.

We are connecting researchers in the field of vascular research in a digital academic networking platform (www.vascularphysiology.com) so that we can share data and findings easily and make scientific publications truly open access — readily accessible to all regardless of the ability to pay.

In the Science perspective, the researchers discuss the gains they have made in understanding latency over the past five years and the challenges that remain as the team of academic and industry investigators — from UNC, Duke University, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, the University of California at San Diego, Emory University, MacroGenics, and other institutions — embark on the next steps in HIV cure research.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

Academic researchers have to keep in mind that the goal of companies is to make money, he points out.

But new University of Washington research finds numerous benefits — to students, researchers and academic institutions looking to diversify their faculty — in making that return trip easier.

Researchers, she adds, need to look not just in front of them on the academic path but also all around them at the job options in other sectors, making the best choice for themselves rather than the best choice for their labs.

In the current study, the researchers evaluated whether INSIGHTS supports the behavior and academic skills of children in urban, low - income schools, and whether the relationship between teachers and their students made an impact.

The Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) had put real effort into making some space for young researchers in this year's Genomics Momentum, which each year welcomes a wealth of international academic, industrial, and governmental people working in genomics.

The idea is to give academic researchers access to compounds that made it through safety testing but were dropped by companies for business reasons or because they didn't work on a specific disease.

Principal investigators in particular should be qualified to PhD or equivalent level and possess a strong record in research, whereas the body of a team can be made up of researchers of all academic levels — from postdocs to undergraduate fieldworkers.

Academic researchers studying the bacterium Helicobacter pylori are furious that the data are not being made public.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet and University of Gothenburg in Sweden recently generated the software called Green Listed to facilitate the use of CRISPR - Cas9, making information texts and films available for free non-profit and academic use.

As during previous panels, speakers Moon Duchin, Rafael Luna, Joan Reede, Alberto Roca, and Jessica Tytell made it was obvious that more data is needed for us to fully understand the precise makeup of academic researchers and, in fact, one of the projects developed during the Saturday Hack Day Session focused on finding this information and making it more easily digestible / available.

The program's focus is on providing support for academic researchers developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions FDA and others make.

Such potency, researchers Patricia and Richard Schmuck assert, makes norming one of the most important influences on academic achievement.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

«It is a challenge to identify yourself as a researcher — at least in the beginning — and make the connection that through being an academic you are going to become a better practitioner,» says doctoral student Mariam Chughtai, Ed.M.»

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Now a recent study in Education Next from researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examines whether KIPP's positive effects are attributable to better peers, which would consequently make it difficult to replicate the KIPP model and academic successes in public schools.

An effective principal also makes sure that notion of academic success for all gets picked up by the faculty and underpins what researchers at the University of Washington describe as a schoolwide learning improvement agenda that focuses on goals for student progress.7 One middle school teacher described what adopting the vision meant for her.

The researchers found that the arts helped to transform the learning environment in the schools making it more student - centered and more effective in supporting positive academic, social, and personal development for students.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Researchers and academics need to be better about how we disseminate our work and engage the public and make sure that the research we conduct is not for internal purposes only.

According to researchers at Stanford University, Uncommon Schools students make the greatest academic gains of any large charter network in the country.

As part of this study, researchers and teacher consultants developed units comprised of SIOP lessons designed to make the science topics comprehensible to English language learners through various instructional techniques and also to develop their academic science language and literacy skills.

The researchers looked at a group of borderline kids, the last few eighth - graders who made the cut - off to go to an elite school and the first few who didn't; that meant there was little if any academic difference between them when they started their freshman year.

A recent study by a team of highly acclaimed researchers used a «gold standard» experimental design and found that students who attended non-unionized charter schools in Boston rather than traditional public schools made dramatic academic improvements.

Three modules — Visual Perspectives and Narratives, Personal Experiences, and Propaganda and Recruitment — make up this immersive and fascinating online repository that will appeal to undergraduates and graduate students as well as experienced academic researchers.

Rather, its focus is on the digitization and open access to historical and archival documents, making it a great tool for researchers and academic institutions, but of little day - to - day importance in the lives of typical public library patrons.

I wrote her some time back letting her know about the threats that were made by the Buy - and - Hold Mafia to silence Academic Researcher Wade Pfau when he sought to get the errors in the Old School safe - withdrawal - rate studies corrected.

Indie developers can run the gamut from artists, to academic researchers, to students, to emerging development studios striving to make the next big indie hit.

Well - known Penn State researcher Michael Mann, for example, sued columnist and radio host Mark Steyn and two others for articles repeatedly accusing him of academic fraud (and making an analogy to child molestation).