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This channel is created by young scientists at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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The AAAS - Andrew M. Sessler Fund for Science, Education, and Human Rights honors Dr. Sessler's important legacy by supporting a variety of activities aimed at bridging the scientific, engineering and human rights communities; engaging young and aspiring scientists and engineers in human rights; and increasing the capacity of human rights practitioners to integrate scientific methods and technologies in their work.

Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated — for the first time — an on - chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.

Announced by Bill Gates at the Government Leaders Forum in Prague last February, the Microsoft European Science Initiative will create new centres of excellence in Europe and boost the career development of young scientists via new graduate and postdoctoral fellowship programs.

Young scientists are often at a stage in life when they could take the risk posed by working for a start - up company, which, in return for the risk and lots of hard work, offers opportunity for tremendous professional growth, as well as an exciting scientific atmosphere.

The peer - review landscape has changed rapidly in recent years, presenting new opportunities but also potential pitfalls for young scientists, said the speakers at this session organized by Sense about Science.

My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.

When Ahna Skop (pictured left) met the president of the United States in early November at a ceremony honoring the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the presidentScientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the presidentscientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the president spoke to.

The America COMPETES Act will help them do that by devoting more federal funding to research and development efforts at universities, creating hundreds of new opportunities for young scientists.

Since the 1930s, the amount of young oak has declined, whereas hornbeam in particular has become more common, according to an analysis of the strict reserve led by Bogdan Brzeziecki, a forestry scientist at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.

A research team co-led by a scientist at New Zealand's University of Otago has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2500 - year - old Phoenician dubbed the «Young Man of Byrsa» or «Ariche.»

A research team led by SDSU environmental health scientist and lead author Neil Klepeis, behavioral health researcher and principal investigator Melbourne Hovell, and co-investigator Suzanne Hughes recruited into the study nearly 300 families living in San Diego with at least one child aged 14 and younger and one smoker.

By identifying these errors and learning why they're inaccurate (caverns and the minerals shown simply couldn't exist at those depths and pressures, nor would an M10.5 earthquake strike our planet), Stein said he offers students an entertaining way to connect with their inner skeptic: a vital trait for young scientists in training.

Many young scientists whom Morrison has encountered are good at formulating a research question and take great care in generating the necessary data, but they aren't able to «close the loop» by writing a paper and getting it published, he says.

Michael Thoennessen, a professor and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NCSL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing believes that mentors can help young scientists by modeling the costs and rewards of persistence.

So, at long last it appears that at least some young scientists are listening not to the traditional blandishments of an academic system in need of their cheap labor, but rather to an unmistakable economic signal urging them to improve their personal situations by seeking careers outside of academe.

Even at the Ph.D. level, you can start giving back to the scientific community by mentoring younger scientists.

Luckily, Turner took a sabbatical at the University of Colorado, and down the hall was another young scientist, a Polish researcher by the name of Ryszard Kierzek, who was using organic chemistry to produce four oligonucleotides at a time, and as many as two sets of four in a day.

The sender, Alfred Russel Wallace, a young and enthusiastic natural scientist who had traveled around the world at his own expense, and earned his livelihood by exporting exotic animals.

However, in order to stabilize this process of slow reform, it is necessary that senior policy - makers in Germany are confronted, at regular intervals, with the actual situation as it is perceived by young scientists.

Many young scientists at the basic research end of the spectrum will admit that they were initially attracted more by the desire to investigate fundamental questions in biology than to work specifically on cancer.

Demographics indicate that the «baby boomers» of the 1940s, who are now in their 60s and hold many of the highest posts at departments and institutes, will soon retire, leaving lots of openings for young scientists who might by then have already been forced to leave the field.

This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).

One favorite success story is Erich Jarvis, a neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who, as an African - American student from Harlem, was supported by some of those programs and who in 2002 was named the nation's top young scientist.

Scientists were even more stunned in July 2002 when researchers led by stem cell biologist Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota reported that bone marrow — derived cells they had injected into young embryos contributed to all three embryonic layers, just as embryonic stem cells would do.

Excitement echoed through the room as the young scientists tested their hand - eye coordination by tossing mini-beanbags to their partners across the room, recording their observations about the differences between left - handed tosses, right - handed tosses and tossing multiple beanbags at once.

In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding a highly accurate blood - based measure that could lead to development of a clinical test for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in males as young as one to two years old.

Furthermore, a recent article by Sauermann and Michael Roach of the Kenan - Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, reports that the realities of industrial employment may provide a better fit for many young scientists than would academe.

Positron - emission tomography images taken by cognitive scientists at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, for example, have shown that even when doing basic recognition or memorization exercises, seniors exploit the left and right brain more extensively than men and women who are decades younger.

At the Helm is a font of practical information, and for that reason ought to be read by young scientists.

With At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, Kathy Barker aims to help young scientists raise their scientific productivity by providing them an easily absorbed short course on management in the context of the single - investigator science laboratory.

«As prohibitions on marijuana ease and sales of marijuana become more visible, it's important to think about how we need to change the way we talk to young people about the risks posed by the drug,» said Elizabeth D'Amico, lead author of the study and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

The research, led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, is the largest study to date of the genetics of testicular germ cell tumours — the most common cancer in young men.

A new video series produced by Nature Publishing Group features some of the key conversations that took place this year between Nobel laureates and aspiring young scientists at the 60th annual Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in Germany.

ESI, organised by the EIROforum Instrumentation Working Group, aims at teaching basic principles of instrumentation to young researchers, scientists and engineers.

Because she was trained and nurtured in high energy density physics (HED) at the Lab, she plans to give back «by contributing to our new HED Center, training young scientists and working on some new ideas.»

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Yesterday, Nobel Laureates Stefan Hell and Richard R. Schrock discussed «Current and Future Game Changers in Chemistry» with Jörg Huslage from the Corporate Research & Development Department of Volkswagen Group and Siddulu Talapaneni, an Indian Young Scientist from the University of South Australia at the Panel Discussion moderated by Geoffrey Carr, Science Editor from The Economist.

The Early Career Research Program, now in its sixth year, is managed by DOE's Office of Science and annually awards research grants to young scientists and engineers at U.S. universities and national laboratories.

On October 23, 2000, President Clinton named Philip Ashton - Rickardt, PhD — assistant professor of pathology, a member of the Ben May Institute, and a researcher in the Gwen Knapp Center at the University of Chicago — as one of 59 young researchers to receive the fifth annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers.

Particle physics and cosmology make up the big topics of interest for many young scientists at the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, with lectures by the pioneering researchers who won Nobel Prizes for their work in the cosmic microwave background radiation, neutrino mass, and the accelerating expansion of the universe.

If you follow their advice you'll put on a pound in a month, according to a study by the American sports scientist Gabrielle Marie LeCheminant at Brigham Young University.

Whey protein has demonstrated the ability to enhance myofibrillar protein synthesis, in doses of 20g in young adults and 40g in aging muscle by research scientist at the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University in Canada.

Young Scientist of the Year These students then go on to represent the UK at international competitions and become ambassadors for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by taking part in media interviews, panel debates, and mentoring schemes.

If we want to produce the scientists and engineers of tomorrow, we need to inspire young people by putting creative experimentation at the heart of the science curriculum.

At its very core FIRST LEGO League works to improve engineering by allowing young scientists, mathematicians, builders and programmers to become their very best.»

When first launched by Discovery Communications in 1999, the Young Scientist Challenge had the same mission it does today: to foster a new generation of American scientists at an age when interest in science generally declines.

It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time — like when Angel, the youngest member of the «Flock,» is kidnapped and taken back to the «School» where she and the others were genetically engineered by sinister scientists.

(Washington, D.C., April 18, 2013) A new study from British scientists has documented for the first time, significant new impacts to birds from outdoor cats, reporting that even brief appearances of cats near avian nest sites leads to at least a doubling in lethal nest predation of eggs and young birds by third - party animals, as well as behavioral changes in parent birds that lead to an approximately 33 percent reduction in the amount of food brought to nestlings following a predation threat.