Sentences with phrase «funding academic research»

What College Professors Can Learn From Alan Alda TIME, 1/8/15» «Those who are involved in funding academic research are really keen to see that it's going to lead to something practical,» says James Ryan, the education school's dean, who was trained not as an academic but as a lawyer.

Open innovation is largely focused on technology transfer or intellectual - property licensing, but opportunities for funding academic research also exist.

However they have also shown the same thing about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism, the teaching of which stands in more urgent need of well - funded academic research by virtue of their more recent arrival on the curriculum.»

«All American universities rely on scientific agencies to fund academic research, meaning cuts to these budgets eliminate training in research.

To save costs, NOAA is requesting that the ship be built to the same specifications as two already - planned ships for the federally funded academic research fleet, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's R / V Neil Armstrong and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's R / V Sally Ride.

I wonder just how much such a study would have cost had it been done as funded academic research.

The Partnership has also funded an academic research team that will look at data and equity outcomes in Philadelphia, which launched their bike share system Indego in late April.

The Guardian has a piece on the petition signed by 12,000 academics «urging the European commission to make publicly funded academic research available for free on the internet.»

Not exact matches

A new mining research centre to be jointly based in Western Australia and South Australia and backed by 34 industry and academic partners is set to proceed after the federal government committed to provide $ 50 million in funding.

A new mining research centre to be co-based in Western Australia and South Australia and backed by 34 industry and academic partners is set to proceed after the federal government committed to provide $ 50 million in funding.

Private money going to startups more than four years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor of 20 since 1992,» according to an academic paper published last year by the California Institute of Technology and Cornerstone Research.

America's corporate research labs, which have been working with academic research institutions supported by federal funding, have long been the envy of the world.

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

Many pharmaceutical companies continue to work on treatments for neurological diseases, as do many smaller biotech firms and academic medical research centers, and funding sources for these pursuits include private foundations as well as governments.

Both the committee of academics and their research grants will be funded by a group of independent foundations, including the Hewlett Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and the Charles Koch Foundation.

Academic studies have found that a significant proportion of hedge fund interventions involve large increases in leverage and large decreases in investment, particularly in research and development.

Academic research shows that institutions generally have a terrible track record when it comes to hiring and firing fund managers:

It will be led by U of A academics — and Alberta Innovates funded research chairs — Rich Sutton, Michael Bowling and Patrick Pilarski.

The prevailing impression is one of administrative hubris and a top - down, micro-managerial approach intent on fitting academic research on the Procrustean bed of donor - driven funding models and neo-utilitarian criteria of «relevance.»

The Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the privateResearch Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the privateresearch and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector.

Academic research funding to be centralised into one funding body and portal — and the application process to be streamlined significantly.

The majority of this research is publicly funded and relies on the free labour of academics.

Hence the expansion in universities, the elision of the university / polytechnic distinction, the increased hegemony of the business world (the importation of people like BP's Chris Motishead into places like KCL, the creation of the BIS Dept) over that of education, and the introduction of weaselly concepts like «research impact» into how HEFCE funds our academics.

He spoke of a new venture capital fund, the commercialization of academic research and providing support for startups.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a number of efforts in his 2013 agenda to encourage the commercialization of academic research and boost entrepreneurship, including a venture capital fund and network of incubators, which are seen as mechanisms to boost economic growth.

Re-igniting Growth, published by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), includes a series of interviews with key academics funded by the ESRC.

They are conducted in partnership with the appropriate learned societies that cover the discipline being reviewed, as the remit and recommendations from the review involve the whole academic community The process was overseen by a Steering Group composed of prominent UK academics, users of Human Geography research and funders.

Dee Goddard receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, and also writes for the Foundation for European Progressive Studies» Young Academics Network.

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So, although industry is an important source of funding for academic research, industry - funded scientists have to be careful to «manage this balance between academic and industrial needs,» as Serra puts it.

Their role is to help academics and other members of staff identify sources of funding for research, teaching development, and other activities.

- BBSRC, the Medical Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the Technology Strategy Board in the United Kingdom jointly fund the Nutrition for Life program for academic - industry collaborations to develop healthy and safe food and drinks

Impenetrable academic writing — which is sometimes unavoidable in grant applications and journal articles — can also contribute to Wastebook compilers misinterpreting a research project's question, outcomes, and funding sources.

Taxpayers fund the government agencies that in turn fund much of the academic research in this country.

The FY 2018 request also terminates Education and Research Centers (ERCs) investments, including funding to academic programs focusing on industrial hygiene, occupational health nursing, occupational medicine, and occupational safety.

The current academic funding system, which allocates public money to researchers based on the submission and peer review of countless research proposals, has served science well — but some people believe that the time has come to find more efficient ways to distribute the money.

Indeed, in 1945, presidential science adviser Vannevar Bush wrote in «Science, The Endless Frontier» — the report that outlined the organizational structure that still governs federally supported academic research — that the first of five «fundamental» principles must be «stability of funds over a period of years,» a goal that Congress has never met.

While welcomed by the academic community, the newly created graduate scholarships and the much - needed additional funds to cover the indirect costs of academic research are only on the books for the next 3 years.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in publicResearch Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in publicresearch, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

Cornell University's president, David Skorton, represented the academic establishment — in particular the Association of American Universities, whose 61 member institutions soak up half the federal research funding and award half of all doctorates in the United States.

But reduced government funding for basic research in astronomy in the 1990s and a subsequent shortage of academic positions in that period has presented a real challenge for Ph.D. graduates looking for employment in North America.

Its focus on 39 key universities, with $ 15 billion in additional funding, is paying off, but it needs to instill consistent standards, a commitment to basic research, academic freedom, reasonable salaries and transparency.

Companies are rapidly becoming a major funding source for academic research labs.

Indeed, a significant portion of that funding has been set aside for start - up monies and salary for seven academic research positions for the next 7 years.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

The # 1.3 m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - funded project will see academics working with newly - developed dynamic visual sensors, which drastically reduce computing power and data storage requirements by only updating the parts of an image where movement occurs.

A number of active projects of the ETE were supported by a seed grant from the NSTB and further supplemented by a cost - sharing grant from the Academic Research Fund of the Ministry of Education.

This is to become a reality for all Research Council PhD students and postdocs on Research Council grants, with all HEIs receiving extra funding from this academic year to provide this additional training.

The pedagogical approach of his HHMI - funded program is equally rare; rather than selecting research students with impeccable academic credentials, Warner's program admits only students with grade point averages between 2.5 and 3.0.

His argument, one echoed by academics around the world, is that the public has traditionally paid twice for research: once to fund the research and then again to read the results.