Sentences with phrase «broad national impact»

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The move came after Canada's National Energy Board announced a broader review of the Energy East project, including its impact on upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions.

But analysts have downplayed any fear of a broader economic downturn, suggesting that companies and the national economy are too large for it to be impacted by any one tariff.

Fort Drum had civilian furloughs; they lost a day of training, which has broader impacts,» said Stefanik, who says she was also contacted by the director of Saratoga National Cemetery about funding issues.

«The national conversation is broad and fluid so de Blasio could make a real impact in a way he may never have again.»

During the National Alliance for Broader Impacts Summit in April, the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology is convening a workshop that will explore current and future opportunities to pair evaluations from members of the public and scientists.

The final speaker, Susan Renoe, is executive director of the Connector at the University of Missouri and principal investigator of the NSF - funded National Alliance for Broader Impacts.

A few years ago in the United States, the National Science Foundation introduced the «broader impacts» criterion in evaluating its grant proposals, on an equal footing with «intellectual merit.»

Nevertheless, Gbur found a way to use his blog to benefit his scholarship: as a «broader impact» in grant applications submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

The award is «a clear example of how basic research on fundamental questions can have a broad impact on all sorts of areas,» says Jeremy Berg, a chemist who directs the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Twitter is a powerful tool with immediate impact that we can harness to connect with a broad scientific community and take part in the national conversation on science.

Jennifer Ufnar, director of the Science Teacher Institute, also at the Vanderbilt CSO, often helps Vanderbilt scientists write broader - impact statements for their National Science Foundation (NSF) grant applications.

A shutdown would have broad impacts on federal science programs, including halting granting activity at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), forcing most government scientists to stay home, and delaying work on NASA space missions.

Debate is heating up over proposed changes to the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) merit review process» «broader impact» criterion, which requires that research have benefits to society beyond merely advancing scientific knowlege.

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Julie serves as an advisor to the office of research development, and serves on the NSF - funded National Alliance for Broader Impacts Steering Committee.

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In considering applications, reviewers are instructed to address the two Merit Review Criteria as approved by the National Science Board - Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts (NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide).

He has led numerous national and international research consortia with broad impact on human disease.

And that's important, because rare - earth magnets are used in a wide and ever - increasing number of modern technologies, and the ability to produce them domestically could have broad positive impact on national economy and security.

Based at NPR West's studios in Culver City, CA, but frequently roaming the country, Siegler's reporting has also focused on the far - reaching economic impacts of the drought in the West while explaining the broader, national significance to many of the region's complex and bitter disputes around land use.

The risk here is aggravated by the fact that the Common Core effort has now largely been handed off to state assessment directors, test developers, psychometricians, and overworked staff at a few national organizations — and these well - meaning people aren't necessarily interested in or sensitive to the broader impact of their handiwork.

The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education is a national campaign that advances evidence - based strategies to mitigate the impacts of poverty - related disadvantages on teaching and learning.

Working at the national and international levels, the Association aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology now and in the future.

The pilot takes place in multiple countries, all part of the broad initiative called the HP National Education Technology Analytics Project (HP NETA)-- an ambitious data analytics effort that will assist nation and state - level education leaders by providing insights about the impact of education technology on learning, society, and the economy.

Broader, BOLDER Approach to Education (BBA) is described as «a national campaign that acknowledges the impact of social and economic disadvantage on schools and students and proposes evidence - based policies to improve schools and remedy conditions that limit many children's readiness to learn.»

He is leading efforts to build a national Climate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solImpacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solimpacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

Using a combination of economic and power sector models to analyze the cost, emissions, and broader economic impacts of potential or proposed state, regional, and national energy plans

A Programmatic EIS evaluates the environmental impacts of broad agency actions, such as the development of programs or the setting of national policies.

The USGCRP is mandated by Congress to issue a national climate assessment every four years to evaluate the state of climate science and the broad range of impacts of climate change in the United States.

These programs seek to have a broader, more significant impact - nothing less than structural change at the national level.

From comprehensive training courses to advocacy and awareness raising, and through its traveling trainer and community blogs, the Center works to promote responsible practices in a broad range of activities: «Leave No Trace is an national and international program designed to assist outdoor enthusiasts with their decisions about how to reduce their impacts when they hike, camp, picnic, snowshoe, run, bike, hunt, paddle, ride horses, fish, ski or climb.

Such projects have a broad range, and may include things such as: the construction and interpretation of climate change scenarios on local to national scales, the study of changes in extremes, the evaluation of impacts on infrastructure, forests, agriculture, and energy production and distribution.

However, there is a tension between the Expert Panel's statements that the first stage would be in broad strokes and that the national interest must give appropriate weight to impacts on Aboriginal and treaty rights.

All these years later, changing the date remains a relatively simple task that would have an immense symbolic impact in demonstrating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that the broader community wants a national day where all Australians can celebrate together.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national rNational Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national rnational resource.