Sentences with phrase «faculty scientists»

It is only faculty scientists conducting research in laboratories who are required to pay for the indirect costs of their experimental investigations.

Like many faculty scientists, she regards her lab as a second home.

These measures will help faculty scientists to be more responsive to changes in the funding and regulatory environment and to the rapid developments in scientific knowledge.

Thus, most young faculty scientists have little chance for research funding other than foundation grants, which generally cover only direct costs — not indirect costs.

Louie, a co-leader of the study, is also a senior faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a professor of physics at UC Berkeley.

In a study led by Alexander Pines, a senior faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry, researchers recorded the first bulk room - temperature NMR hyperpolarization of carbon - 13 nuclei in diamond in situ at arbitrary magnetic fields and crystal orientations.

In two new studies, a team of researchers led by Eva Nogales, senior faculty scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging (MBIB) Division, has gained insight into the structure of PRC2 and the ways in which it is regulated to affect gene silencing.

The Blavatnik Family Foundation, with the guidance of the New York Academy of Sciences, founded the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2007 to celebrate the innovative achievements of young postdoctoral and faculty scientists who work in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut.

Some good effects for university science include: (1) a greater number of faculty scientists will receive research grants and thus be able to perform research investigations, (2) more faculty grantees will receive full funding instead of only partial funding (i.e., partial funding necessarily always restrains what can be done), and, (3) additional universities would be able to participate in new «big science» projects.

Prior work by Mary Firestone, Berkeley Lab faculty scientist and a professor of microbiology at UC Berkeley, had shown that plants were consistently selecting or suppressing the same types of microbes over time in the root zone, suggesting some form of synchronization between plant and microbiome development.

They will also enable faculty scientists to be more competitive with industry and international peers, less distracted by extrinsic factors, and better able to focus their creative energies on research itself.

Why are only faculty scientists doing laboratory research being asked to obtain external funding to pay for their indirect expemses?

«It's a new class of material that can reconfigure itself, and it has the potential to be customized into liquid reaction vessels for many uses, from chemical synthesis to ion transport to catalysis,» Tom Russell, a visiting faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, said in a statement.

Cost studies by faculty scientists at MIT provide the underpinning of the findings, which suggest that advanced reactor systems in the future might be able to recycle waste.

«This is an exciting discovery,» said study principal investigator Xiang Zhang, senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley professor.

UCSF seeks motivated and talented individuals for opportunities ranging from academic appointments for faculty scientists, scholars and health care professionals to managerial and administrative positions, as well as service industry jobs such as shuttle bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers.

«The opportunities to combine different materials to develop new functionalities are appealing,» said co-senior author Steven Louie, senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley professor of physics.

So now that he is a faculty scientist, he has made a point of sharing data and resources.

Ke Xu, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR - STORM, or spectrally resolved stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy.

«The platform we developed allows us to image battery dynamics at the mesoscale, which is between a few nanometers and a few hundreds of nanometers,» says Will Chueh, a faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and an assistant professor of materials science & engineering at Stanford University, who led the research.

«The mortar resists microcracking through in situ crystallization of platy strätlingite, a durable calcium - alumino - silicate mineral that reinforces interfacial zones and the cementitious matrix,» says Marie Jackson, a faculty scientist with the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who led this study.

«Whiskers are hair - like tactile sensors used by certain mammals and insects to monitor wind and navigate around obstacles in tight spaces,» says the leader of this research Ali Javey, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science.

«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.

Yaghi, who invented MOFs in the early 1990s while at the Arizona State University, is now a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and the University of California (UC) Berkeley Chemistry Department, where he also serves as co-director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (Kavli - ENSI).

«We show, for the first time, that it is possible to inject electrons to drive structural phase changes in materials,» said study principal investigator Xiang Zhang, senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a professor at UC Berkeley.

«If you could process titanium in a way that retained its optimal properties but at a cost comparable to aluminum, you would find uses in cars, trucks, aircraft and ships,» said study senior author Andrew Minor, an associate professor of materials science and engineering and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

«With warming, thunderstorms become more explosive,» said Romps, an assistant professor of earth and planetary science and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

In a study led by Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, the research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate «phase mismatch - free nonlinear light,» meaning the generated light waves move through the material gaining strength in all directions.

«Diamond sensors will give us measurements that will be useful in understanding the physics of high temperature superconductors, which, despite the fact that their discoverers won a 1987 Nobel Prize, are still not understood,» said Budker, a professor of physics and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

«The platform we developed allows us to image battery dynamics at the mesoscale, which is between a few nanometers and a few hundreds of nanometers,» says Will Chueh, a faculty scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and an assistant professor of materials science & engineering at Stanford University, who led the research.

Bullock works in the lab of study co-author Ali Javey, Berkeley Lab senior faculty scientist and a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences.

«This chloroplast protein is necessary for a sustained type of photoprotection,» said study principal investigator Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division.

«The chameleon field is light in empty space but as soon as it enters an object it becomes very heavy and so couples only to the outermost layer of a big object, and not to the internal parts,» Holger Muller, an assistant professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said in a statement Thursday.

«We were able to see the exact fingerprint of molecules on the surface of the particles and validate a well - known hypothesis in the field of catalysis,» said Elad Gross, a faculty member at the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who led the study along with F. Dean Toste, a faculty scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Chemistry.

«Tobacco was used as the model crop plant in this study because it is easy to work with, but we're working to make the same modifications in rice and other food crops,» said co-senior author Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging.

Larabell, a faculty scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at Berkeley Lab and a UCSF professor, said it was previously thought that chromatin existed as a series of disconnected islands, though the latest study showed how the chromatin is compartmentalized into two distinct regions of «crowding» that form a continuous network throughout the nucleus.

The project was conceived of and developed at Berkeley Lab by Krishna Niyogi, faculty scientist and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

For universities, faculty scientists now are only a means to the end of increasing their profits (see: «Money now is Everything in Scientific Research at Universities»); the science faculty presently is forced to spend too much time and emotional energy on trying to acquire more research grant awards, instead of actually doing experiments to produce more new results.

Research grants now are the difference between life and death for a faculty scientist's career!

What happens when outright dishonesty by a faculty scientist is either proven or admitted?