Sentences with phrase «engineering effort by»

The research, published in the September issue of Immunity, is part of a broad reverse - engineering effort by scientists around the world to use antibodies isolated from HIV - infected people to guide the development of a successful vaccine.

Not exact matches

A mechanical engineer by training, Burns, who proved herself a quick study and an outspoken colleague, blew through the ranks — taking on product development, business planning and a series of managerial roles that in 2000 put her at the center of Xerox's restructuring efforts.

In the auto - parts unit, efforts have been focused on the former, mostly by engineering plastic components to serve as lightweight substitutes for components made of heavier materials.

The Army's expedited APS effort is being managed by a coordinated team of Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center engineers, acquisition professionals, and industry; it is intended to assess current APS state - of - the art by installing and characterizing some existing non-developmental APS systems on Army combat vehicles, Army officials said.

By madness, Saintil was referring to the firestorm created by the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more womeBy madness, Saintil was referring to the firestorm created by the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more womeby the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more womeby fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more women.

Less than a year after spinning off from the University of Waterloo's faculty of engineering, IPT has been recognized by the Federal and Ontario governments for its breakthrough technology and efforts towards commercialization.

This is all a clean - up effort to help Uber recover from a series of hits of late, including an explosive blog post by a former engineer, Susan Fowler, who wrote about a company that operated like a bro - geek version of the Wild West.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the federal power restoration efforts, said they hope to have the entire island fully energized by May.

That would help prevent the best cars being made by the teams with the best equipment, and instead reward the efforts and ideas of the best engineers.

Michael Keane says Everton are «doing everything we can» in an effort to engineer an upturn in results — but paid the price for a lack of ruthlessness in the final third as they suffered a 1 - 0 defeat by Burnley.

Our efforts are supported by the USEPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration (GLFER) program and the IDNR's Illinois Coastal Management Program (ICMP).

Marc Edwards — Dr. Edwards was recognized by AAAS for his efforts to apply his engineering expertise to revealing dangerous levels of lead contamination in water supplies in Flint, Michigan.

By highlighting and celebrating successful examples of public engagement, AAAS and our partners aim to communicate the importance of such efforts and create models for other scientists and engineers.

You can lend your support to our efforts on behalf of scientists, engineers, educators, and students everywhere by becoming a member.

Fortunately, Muktoyuk chose to take advantage of the Native Americans in Marine and Space Sciences (NAMSS) Program, a special effort by OSU to recruit and retain underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

On April 27, as the U.S. Coast Guard worked with BP engineers to guide remote control submarines nearly a mile underwater in a futile effort to close a shut - off valve, BP told investors that its quarterly earnings were up more than 100 percent over the last year, beating expectations by a large margin.

James Collins, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was not associated with this research, says, «Efforts in synthetic biology to create complex gene circuits are often hindered by unanticipated or uncharacterized interactions between submodules of the circuits.

At the end of the spectrum, technology stands to engineering in the same relationship as engineering stands to science: it lives in the pool created by the efforts of academic research engineering departments and the research laboratories of government and industry.

Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.

The passage also aptly described the situation faced by the scientists at BP, such as vice president of engineering Paul Tooms or vice president and engineer Richard Lynch, who seemed incapable of determining how much oil was actually flowing and figuring out how to stop it despite valiant efforts.

However, efforts to engineer improved AAVs have been stymied by the intricate structure of these viruses.

An inventory by the Bush Administration of federal efforts to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education was too simplistic to be useful, according to a White House official.

Now that the researchers have shown that, up to and around when stress is applied, all these systems look the same, the next step of the effort is co-led by Durian and Paulo Arratia, professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

These two trips were conducted by the Earthquake Engineers Field Investigation Team and are part of a wider international effort to reduce the impacts of earthquakes globally.

M.I.T.'s Robert Langer is being recognized for his efforts to fight cancer and other diseases by melding nanoscale engineering with science and medicine

Activities supported by the Fund include the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rights.

Led by reproductive biologist Alex Travis, the engineering effort focuses on a chain of enzymes that metabolize glucose molecules into the biological fuel ATP (a process known as glycolysis), which enables sperm locomotion.

Some, like the noises made by digital cameras (30 July), mimic features that thousands of engineer - hours of effort had eliminated in the real world.

«Today, many efforts to make science and engineering more inclusive are focusing attention on the multiplicity of «pathways» by which persons from underrepresented groups can enter and progress through science careers.

Last year, a research effort led by McAlpine and Naveen Verma, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Fio Omenetto of Tufts University, resulted in the development of a «tattoo» made up of a biological sensor and antenna that can be affixed to the surface of a tooth.

In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.

AAAS had by that time begun a number of its still - ongoing efforts in connecting the science and engineering communities to the world of policy and broader societal interests, including having established several Board - appointed committees.

During the past two presidential campaigns, efforts were made by the science and engineering communities to engage candidates in a «user - friendly» science policy conversation not designed to be a debate (questions were to be provided in advance and «contentious» issues were off limits).

Almost all of the papaya trees in Hawaii are genetically engineered to resist the devastating ringspot virus, and similar efforts are under way to save the American chestnut, which has been nearly eradicated by fungal disease.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

It's the result of an effort by Paula Hammond, who heads MIT's chemical engineering department, to perfect a process of layer - by - layer assembly that enables nanoparticles to carry several drugs between their strata.

The effort also included a two - semester laboratory research class in chemical engineering led by David Thiessen and advised by Beyenal.

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

«Appealing as it may sound, collaborative efforts between engineers and scientists are rare in Sweden and much is to be gained by closing the loop between technology development and fundamental research.»

By supporting STEM education efforts at BTI and other local institutions, Galvin aims to get young children excited about science and engineering.

He directs the Vanderbilt Integrative Cancer Biology Center, funded by the National Cancer Institute, where he implements cutting - edge interdisciplinary efforts melding mathematics, engineering, computation and biology, in order to solve the problem of cancer invasion and metastasis.

By providing detailed views of the toxin plugged into its neuronal receptor, the new studies could aid efforts to engineer specialized versions of the powerful neurotoxin that is used to treat a wide array of medical problems.

Ever New: Hubble Through The Years 1:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. (streamed on Griffith ObservatoryTV) 7:00 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Ken Carpenter and Northrop Grumman engineer and executive Mr. Russ Matijevich recount the challenges faced by engineers, scientists, and astronauts in their efforts to keep Hubble ever new.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

«We are so honored to have been selected as a finalist for this award and that our efforts have been recognized by the local community,» said Ruben Oregon, the chief building engineer at Gladstone.

In the capitol city, rookie Minister of Mining Laurence Golborne (Rodrigo Santoro, 300), persuades the President Sebastián Piñera (Bob Gunton, 24, Daredevil)-RRB- that the government should be seen to be trying to help and heads off to the mine — where he makes a negative impression on the sister of one of the miners before his efforts lead to a team of rescuers led by chief engineer Andre Sougarret (Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment, Vikings).

The «Holodomor» was a genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin, as an effort to stop the Ukrainian independence movement, resulting in the deaths of millions of people.

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

These efforts are supported by an accomplished team comprising eLearning experts, software engineers, visual designers, voice actors, and animators.

Lawmakers believed high - quality teachers unburdened by student - loan debt could now fully focus their efforts on educating the next generation of scientists and engineers to defeat the Soviet menace.