Sentences with phrase «contributions of research universities»

AAU members collectively help shape policy for higher education, science, and innovation; promote best practices in undergraduate and graduate education; and strengthen the contributions of research universities to society.

Not exact matches

Kesselman, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Finance with the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, co-authored the 2001 study that laid the foundation for the TFSA introduced in 2009 with a $ 5,000 annual contribution limit.

Established in 1853, The University of Melbourne is a public - spirited institution that makes distinctive contributions to society in research, learning and teaching and engagement - consistently ranked number 1 in Australia.

Contribution by Professor Bernadette Drummond, School of Dentistry, University of Otago and former independent advisor to the Sugar Research Advisory Service.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Please make a contribution to Loyola University, Chicago, memo section left corner of check Neuroscience Research Fund, Attn: Dr. John M. Lee, Office of the Dean, 2160 S. 1st Ave., Maywood, IL 60153.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to Brain Tumor Research Fund at Northwestern University School of Medicine, 312-503-8933.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in Stephen's Memory should be directed to: The Dr. Gordon Research Fund, c / o Northwestern University, Rubloff Bldg..

It was co-sponsored by the Department and the John Fell OUP Research Fund at Oxford University, with the generous contribution of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College.

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.

To conduct the research, lead author Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, coordinated contributions from experts in oceanography, waste management and plastics materials science.

The Kaitokudo and Tekijuku are the foundations and inspiration of the «Handai style» that places emphasis on cutting - edge research, creation of new research fields, respect for liberal arts at the graduate school level, and contributions to society by active university - industrial collaboration.

The discovery is an important contribution to the University's research effort in Future Healthcare, which is one of NTU's Five Peaks of Excellence — interdisciplinary research areas in which the university aims to make a glUniversity's research effort in Future Healthcare, which is one of NTU's Five Peaks of Excellence — interdisciplinary research areas in which the university aims to make a gluniversity aims to make a global mark.

An international research team headed by Thomas Münch of the Institute for Ophthalmic Research and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience of the University of Tübingen found the contribution of rod photoreceptors in mouse retinas to be much greater than previously research team headed by Thomas Münch of the Institute for Ophthalmic Research and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience of the University of Tübingen found the contribution of rod photoreceptors in mouse retinas to be much greater than previously Research and Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience of the University of Tübingen found the contribution of rod photoreceptors in mouse retinas to be much greater than previously assumed.

«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.

The three centers that pulled down the biggest grants are those with the lion's share of the U.S. contribution to human genome sequence: Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Central to the study are the contributions of Savka's collaborator and former student, Han Ming Gan, research fellow at Monash University Malaysia and a 2008 RIT biotechnology alumnus.

New research from an international team of astronomers, with contributions from the University of Maryland, makes a major modification to a popular theory called the unified model.

«It's a very useful contribution in the sense that it's the first time a homogeneous data set of the entire moon, front and back, has been examined from the point of view of crater distribution,» says Jay Melosh, a planetary scientist at Purdue University who did not contribute to the new research.

The report urges Spain to raise the government's «contribution to science and innovation» — currently at 0.61 % — «to 0.7 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) and argues for the creation of a national funding agency that gives out merit - based grants, more autonomy for the universities, and a major overhaul of Spain's national research centers.

«During Pier's 8 years as director, Fermilab has made remarkable contributions to the world's understanding of particle physics,» said Robert J. Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago and chair of the Fermi Research Alliance's board, which manages and operates the lab.

The NSF / SRS Federal Funds for Research and Development surveys for 1998 estimate federal contributions to universities and colleges to total more than $ 15 billion, which is almost 60 % of all research funds that academic institutions received thResearch and Development surveys for 1998 estimate federal contributions to universities and colleges to total more than $ 15 billion, which is almost 60 % of all research funds that academic institutions received thresearch funds that academic institutions received that year.

The research is a «significant» contribution to understanding how iron uptake moderates the spread of bacterial infection, says microbiologist Shelley Payne of the University of Texas, Austin.

He has previously served on the faculty of McGill University in Montreal as a Tier I Canada Research Chair and the Salk Institute in San Diego, and has made significant contributions to the field of integrative proteomics and pharmacogenomics through the use of innovative mass spectrometry and biochemical techniques.

«As the first international public opinion poll on sleep, the National Sleep Foundation 2013 Bedroom Poll makes an important contribution to the field,» commented Namni Goel, PhD, Research Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and a member of the NSF 2013 International Bedroom Poll expert panel.

Bengt Nordéns contribution to form a strong research school in Gothenburg has been successful: as many as 12 out of his about 50 former PhD students and postdocs have become professors, abroad or at other Swedish universities, and three have returned to contribute a forceful environment with their own profiles within the Department: Prof Bo Albinsson (femtosecond spectroscopy and fundamentals of electron transfer), Prof Per Lincoln (new transition - metal - based DNA ligands and statistical mechanics for gene targeting), Prof Björn Åkerman (fundamentals and applications of DNA physical chemistry).

It is my expectation that you will take advantage of the many opportunities and resources available here at Carolina while making your own contributions to the University's mission of teaching, research, and public service.

His awards include «Scientist of the Year» by the American Liver Foundation; «Visiting Distinguished Professor» at South Korea's Dongook University; an Honorary Degree from The Romanian Academy of Sciences for basic science advances in viral hepatitis; induction into the Bulgarian National Academy of Medicine and Sciences for his contributions to hepatitis B research; named «One of the 100 most important people in Bucks County of the last century» by The Intelligencer; honored as Judge's Choice, CEO of the Year, by Philadelphia Business Journal's Inaugural Life Science Award; and elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Professor, Queen's University Website Kristan Aronson works with trans - disciplinary research teams to examine the relative contribution of environmental and genetic factors as causes of breast cancer.

This award, presented by the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, recognizes alumni who have brought honor and distinction to the Division of Biological Sciences / Pritzker School of Medicine and to the University of Chicago by demonstrating outstanding leadership in and making significant contributions to the biological sciences or medicine through research, clinical care, health service administration, public and professional service, or civic duties.

Tennessine is in recognition of the contribution of the Tennessee region, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to superheavy element research, including the production and chemical separation of unique actinide target materials for superheavy element synthesis at ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (REDC).

«These scholars are an integral element of our university, and make extraordinary contributions to our clinical, educational, scholarly and research missions.

He holds a degree in biology from the Albert - Ludwigs - University and a Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, and has a strong record of innovative scientific contributions, including peer - reviewed publications, patents and research grants.

Initiated by the discovery of Ralph Steinman at Rockefeller University, New York, in the early 1970s, European scientists were attracted by this exciting field of research early on and continue to make major contributions.

I would like to highlight the important contributions to life sciences research in space of two individuals affiliated with Purdue University back in my home state of Indiana.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Thanks to its diverse array of disciplines and strategically chosen focus areas, the University of Bayreuth is internationally recognized for its research contributions and offers an excellent study environment.

E. Charpentier has been awarded prestigious honors including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2016, French Chevalier Order de la Légion d'Honneur in 2016, World Technology Award for Biotechnology 2015, Leibniz Prize 2016, a 2016 Vallee Visiting Professorship, the 2016 HFSP Nakasone Award, an Honorary Doctorate of the KU Leuven, the Science Award of Lower Saxony 2015, the ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies 2016, the Massry Prize 2015, the Otto Warburg Medal 2016, the L'Oréal - UNESCO For Women in Science Award 2016, the Carus - Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015, the Umeå University EC Jubilee Award in 2015, the Gruber Prize in Genetics 2015, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2015, the 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 2011.

Congratulations to Dr. Jonas Warneke from the University of Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for his scientific contributions.

His honours and awards include the inaugural Gutenberg Professorship of the University of Strasbourg, the Order of Australia and Australian Government Centenary Medal, Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science, Associate Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization, Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, the International Union of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Medal, the Human Genome Organisation Chen Award for Distinguished Achievement in Human Genetic & Genomic Research, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Bertner Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research.

«It is an absolute pleasure to get to know a university which, through its history, merits and contributions to the use of knowledge, includes so many outstanding research environments and important decision - making settings,» he says.

The recent birth of a female Grevy's zebra foal at the Saint Louis Zoo marks another milestone in a long - running Washington University in St. Louis research partnership that is making significant contributions to the preservation of Grevy's zebra and the equally endangered African wild ass.

Jim Giovannoni, BTI professor, USDA - ARS research molecular biologist and Cornell University adjunct professor, is recognized by the National Academy of Sciences for his significant contributions to plant science.

Dr. Gould received the Alexander von Humboldt award for most significant agricultural research over a five - year period, the Sigma Xi George Bugliarello Prize for written communication of science, the Holladay Medal in recognition of research achievements and contributions to North Carolina State University, and the O. Max Gardner Award for contributions to human welfare.

He has received several awards, including the 1994 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin; the University of California, Berkeley, «National Public Health Hero» award; the Jan J. Kellermann Memorial Award for distinguished contribution in the field of cardiovascular disease prevention from the International Academy of Cardiology; a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association; the inaugural «Lifetime Achievement Award» from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; the Beckmann Medal from the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Diseases; a U.S. Surgeon General Citation; the «Pioneer in Integrative Medicine» award from California Pacific Medical Center; the Stanley Wallach Lectureship Award from the American College of Nutrition; the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement; the Linus Pauling Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine; the Glenn Foundation Award for Research; the Bravewell Collaborative Pioneer of Integrative Medicine award; and the Sheila Kar Health Foundation Humanitarian Award from Cedars - Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles); the Plantrician Project Luminary Award.

About Blog The University of Colorado Cancer Center, located at the Anschutz Medical Campus, is Colorado's only National Cancer Institute - designated comprehensive cancer center, a distinction recognizing its outstanding contributions to research, clinical trials, prevention and cancer control.

About Blog The University of Colorado Cancer Center, located at the Anschutz Medical Campus, is Colorado's only National Cancer Institute - designated comprehensive cancer center, a distinction recognizing its outstanding contributions to research, clinical trials, prevention and cancer control.

Working with Shigeyuyki Hamori, an economist at Kobe University in Japan, I researched methods for estimating the qualities and contributions of marriage prospects.

Great research universities are often thought of in relation to their contributions to the advancement of science and technology.

Her numerous awards include the National Educator Award, presented by the National Council of Self - Esteem; Santa Clara University's Outstanding Alumna Award; and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Educational Profession, presented by the Bureau of Education and Research.