Sentences with phrase «at national academy of science»

1974: Scientists at National Academy of Science propose evacuation of 6 million from homes due to global cooling drought conditions

Vaughan Turekian, 2002 - 04 Executive Branch Fellow at U.S. Department of State, has accepted a position as director of science and technology for the Sustainability Program at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Tom Rudin, director of the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academies of Science, said opening up access to higher education is a key to increasing the STEM workforce.

An accomplished geneticist and microbiologist, Barbara Natalizio, PhD, is a program officer at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

She has a long standing involvement and expertise in technology policy, serving as an Energy Scholar at Georgetown, a Fellow at the National Academies of Science, and co-establishing the Science Policy Initiative at MIT.

She worked briefly at the National Academies of Science as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow where she worked on supporting scholars in engineers, particularly focused on issues of minorities not traditional represented in engineering fields.

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William B. Carey, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science Author, Understanding Your Child's Temperament

Accra Academy has qualified for the 2018 edition of the National Science and Maths Quiz after an extraordinary performance at the Greater Accra Regional contest.

«Alberts, a former Science editor - in - chief and National Academy of Sciences president who is at the University of California, San Francisco, says the journal will be a place for data that other journals often aren't interested in publishing because replication efforts lack novelty.

Neuroscientist Huda Zoghbi wins the March of Dimes» developmental biology prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters selects Princeton mathematician Yakov Sinai for its Abel Prize in mathematics, and theoretical physicist William Goldstein takes the helm at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

A government draft of the legislation is too vague and carries unreasonably harsh penalties, argued scientists attending a 15 September meeting about the plan at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in New Delhi.

Both had their latest children in the United States but will be taking up fellowships in their native countries — Belletti at the National Cancer Institute in Aviano, Italy, and Unk at the Hungarian Academy of Science in Szeged.

Before I became Speaker of the House in 2007, we listened to the experts who contributed to the National Academies of Science's report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, and we heard from scientific leaders at universities and innovative entrepreneurs across the country.

In work presented in March to a committee of the National Academies, Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington, placed malicious software on an unspecified car's computer system using its own Bluetooth and cell phone connections.

«I really did enjoy my time at the National Academies and I would wholeheartedly recommend that program for folks that are interested in science policy and / or advancing public understanding of science.»

We shared the survey process and preliminary results at the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience and at Next Wave's Postdoc Network National Meeting.

«China's space programme has made tremendous advances in a short period of time,» says Michael Moloney, who directs boards covering aerospace and space science at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington DC.

In light of such issues and efforts, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands convened our group to examine ways to remove some of the current disincentives to high standards of integrity in science.

He presented the findings at the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science.

They «seem to be aimed at politically polarizing science and scientists, and that is the real danger we must guard against,» says Raghavendra Gadagkar, immediate past president of the Indian National Science Academy and an ecologist at the Indian Institute of Science in Benscience and scientists, and that is the real danger we must guard against,» says Raghavendra Gadagkar, immediate past president of the Indian National Science Academy and an ecologist at the Indian Institute of Science in BenScience Academy and an ecologist at the Indian Institute of Science in BenScience in Bengaluru.

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Cindy Williams, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who chaired a study of the S&T directorate at the behest of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), told the House Science Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation that DHS was awarding «many basic research projects» without «competition or peer review.»

Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to talk about the problem;» a new paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.

Chair Elect: Jay B. Labov, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Member - at - Large of the Section Committee: Tamara Shapiro Ledley, TERC Electorate Nominating Committee: Margaret R. Caldwell, Center for Ocean Solutions / Stanford Law School; Kristin P. Jenkins, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison / BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Council Delegate: Elizabeth K. Stage, UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

Christopher Chyba, professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at Princeton University and a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, has now opened the way to numerous potential uses of betalains, the highly nutritious red - violet and yellow pigments known for their antioxidant properties and commonly used as food dyes.

The sentence comes just a month after Glenn Schweitzer, director of Eurasian programs at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, was detained and interrogated while visiting Tehran to build collaborations in the medical sciences.

One factor is that the goals of obtaining a grant and making a breakthrough discovery are increasingly at odds, warn Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and former director of the National Cancer Institute, in a highly publicized critique of U.S. biomedical research that was published in April 2014.

These were among the points raised at a summit held by the US National Academies of Science and Medicine's Committee on Human Gene Editing in Paris today.

This is according to a national initiative aimed at identifying and fixing the U.S. education system's «leaky engineering talent pipeline,» led by the National Academy of Sciences, Achieve, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers Assonational initiative aimed at identifying and fixing the U.S. education system's «leaky engineering talent pipeline,» led by the National Academy of Sciences, Achieve, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers AssoNational Academy of Sciences, Achieve, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Teachers AssoNational Science Teachers Association.

These new findings, published this week online by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, are an important key to the puzzle of how technology emerged as humans dispersed across the globe, says archaeologist Ofer Bar - Yosef at Harvard University, who, like Straus, did not participate in this study.

«The National Academy of Sciences recently convened a meeting to look at science missions in CubeSats,» said Bryce Tappan, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the CubeSat Propulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developed.»

Lecture series took place at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, the Academy of Science, the John Curtin School of Medical Research and the National Aquarium.

Zuckerman and 100 other people crammed into a conference room at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to offer advice to its Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP).

Holton and co-author Joel Nigg, of Oregon Health & Science University, looked at whether or not children age 7 to 11 were following key health recommendations for this age range from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Sleep Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

On the 16th, the National Academies of Science (NAS) hosted 252 interested parties — including postdocs, representatives of university programs and funding agencies, members of the media, and a small number of principal investigators — at its august main building facing the National Mall.

Last month, Kahneman highlighted in a lecture given at the National Academy of Sciences «The Science of Science Communication» conference how realizing the limitations of each system can help us catch our own mistakes.

At the same time, he and like - minded colleagues developed key institutions such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution.

A recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science showed that methane release measured at abandoned wells near fracking sites can be significant but did not investigate how the process occurs.

Committees are charged with making sure poorly conceived science does not get funded — and they do a good job of that, says Steven McKnight, a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a National Academies member.

«I've looked at how to improve the quality of K - 12 teachers,» says Wieman, who also chairs the Board on Science Education for the U.S. National Academies, «and I think that we have to fix the universities first.

«This lack of two - way coupling makes current models likely to miss critical feedbacks in the combined Earth - Human system,» said National Academy of Engineering member and co-author Eugenia Kalnay, a Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland.

I learned about research policy, perspectives of stakeholders, and developing targeted communications while at AAAS [the publisher of Science Careers] and at the National Academies.

The four authors are Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and current director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

«The first speech I gave [as science adviser] was at the National Academy, where I said that the ball of technology had a massive amount of momentum and the ball of basic science is fragile and can be easily crushed,» Keyworth recalls.

«I am very pleased,» says Alice Agogino, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a member of the National Academies» Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University, was the lead author of a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released last week detailing a four - step framework for testing whether global warming contributes to record - setting weather events.

Three years ago, a U.S. National Academies committee recommended (in the report The Gathering Storm) doubling federal investment in basic research in math, the physical sciences, and engineering while, at a minimum, protecting the health sciences against inflation (the cost of which, in math, the physical sciences, and engineering, equals the amount by which the nation's expenditure on health care increases every 7 weeks).

«The more we study the club of this tiny crustacean, the more we realize its structure could improve so many things we use every day,» said David Kisailus, a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Science and the Winston Chung Endowed Chair of Energy Innovation at the UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering.