Sentences with phrase «funding academic researchers»

Not only is it spending more than $ 75 million a year on advocacy, but it is also simultaneously bankrolling the development of policy by funding academic researchers and district data specialists and giving money to think tanks and media organizations that examine their handiwork.

It's no coincidence that golden rice, which has been tragically caught up in the larger uproar over GMOs, was developed not by a private corporation, but by foundation - funded academic researchers and a nonprofit organization supported by governments and philanthropies.

Not exact matches

STOCKTON — A consortium of policy experts, researchers and academics has awarded $ 1 million to Stockton to fund an experiment that aims to assess the social benefits of providing a guaranteed monthly income for one or more years to a tiny segment of the city's residents, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday...

The «unexpected deaths» were based on data from an industry - funded, academic - researcher - run clinical trial described in two papers published in 1999 and 2000.

«Mr. Franklin Cudjoe will also speak in the main academic forum of leading Mexican educational institutions, researchers, scholarship fund managers, adding «Mr. Cudjoe will meet with the Mexican Agency for Cooperation and International Development: AMEXCID»

The purpose of this guide is to provide up - to - date information on academic Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (SEPP) programs to assist prospective students, researchers, administrators, and funding agencies in obtaining a picture of the field and identifying programs whose offerings meet their individual needs and interests.

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.

With special - funding support from a few national projects, the universities have managed to attract elite researchers and academics from abroad, mainly from the Chinese diaspora, to work in China.

It is hard to imagine a conventional academic researcher finding enough long - term funds to conduct such an experiment.

Prichard, like many other leading academics, recommends that universities accept corporate funding only if it does not limit the ability of researchers to publish their findings.

There has only been one legal case in which academic privilege and researcher - participant confidentiality were on the table: In 2014, CAUT funded a legal challenge on behalf of two University of Ottawa criminology professors resisting police efforts to obtain records related to a study about male escorts.

While funding for applied science research mostly comes from industry, the biggest funder of basic science is the federal government, and most recipients of that funding are academic researchers.

«Industry - financed clinical trials on the rise, as number of NIH - funded trials falls: Researchers concerned about trends in research funding as commercial ventures run six times more trials than academic investigators.»

Research funding levels / mechanisms, the peer - review process, and the methods of training Ph.D.'s are flawed, and these issues are crippling the pipeline of future, successful academic researchers.

The program — which was run in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) and the German Academic Exchange Service, a funding organization that supports the international exchange of students and researchers — involved joint supervision by advisers in the two countries and research stays in Germany.

Commercialization of technology developed in universities not only realizes the years of work conducted by academic researchers but also brings funding back into the university coffers and, by requiring skilled technical staff, generates employment for university graduates.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

Individual researchers, in particular, are subjected to the academic rewards system employed by funders and academic institutions, which can be counterproductive.

CAMBRIDGE — Late last month, concerned academic researchers met with representatives of funding bodies and university staff development offices to discuss the situation of university contract research staff (CRS).

Instead of encouraging the brain drain, top world academics, funders, and researchers should collaborate to build scientific infrastructure in the less resilient regions not only to improve their self - ability to conduct, access, and use the best science but also to ensure that they can contribute to global scientific debates while developing local solutions with cost - effective, participatory, and sustainable strategies (including the reconnaissance and use of indigenous knowledge in some cases).

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

I appreciate more fully that there is more to science than academic and industrial researchers writing funding proposals, laboring at the bench, and writing journal articles.

Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.

The # 982 million a year at stake is the main source of funding for academic researchers.

The terrible state of academic careers resulted not from sequestration but from the fundamental structure of a funding system that has long used graduate students and postdocs as cheap labor for grant - supported research, and as a consequence has produced too many Ph.D. researchers for the existing career opportunities.

Furthermore, today's funding realities and other features of the academic scene are exactly wrong for helping talented young researchers do groundbreaking research, Brenner believes.

Women with higher breast density — detected on mammograms — have more compacted breast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms at play.

For over a decade, EPA has ignored the vast wealth of information on endocrine disruption from independent academic researchers funded by the United States and other governments in Europe and Asia.

Researchers should «confront the dangers at hand,» the authors write, and «rethink» how academic research is funded, staffed, and organized, according to Science Careers.

Through funding from the State of Florida and the newly established Florida Academic Cancer Center Alliance, Moffitt researchers plan to further their research on IPMNs by partnering with researchers from the University of Florida Health Cancer Center and the University of Miami / Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The Applicant will be a researcher with between 3 - 15 years» experience beyond the award of their PhD or equivalent qualification, who at the time of application will be either in a permanent, full - time academic position (either within the institution at which they wish to base their CDA - funded research or another elsewhere in Ireland or overseas), or employed on a temporary (fixed - term) contract.

It seeks to (1) build ties between academic and industrial, and / or national laboratory, and / or NSF Chemistry Division - funded center researchers (affiliates) and (2) involve beginning scientists in efforts to broaden participation in chemistry.

It is not easy to do this and to save face, another reason why physicians and many researchers with years of funding and an academic reputation to protect are reluctant to believe the data.»

As a coalition of youth agencies called on the Congress this month to continue the federal programs that deal with juvenile delinquency, a group of academic researchers released a report that appeared to buttress the argument that many federally funded programs designed to combat juvenile delinquency have been successful.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The U.S. Department of Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding approach.

Instead of funding the interests and priorities of the academic community, the federal government needs to shift its focus toward enabling researchers to support a culture of evidence discovery within school agencies.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Charter school researcher Alison Consoletti (2011) reports that 1,036 charter schools (15 percent of the total number opened since the first school in 1992) have been closed for cause, including 42 percent for financial deficiencies often related to low student enrollment, 24 percent for mismanagement such as administrators» misuse of funds, and 19 percent for failure to meet student academic performance standards.

Why, for example, focus on unsubstantiated ideas like the Common Core rather than do something that would really matter, such as improve instructional quality, reverse school funding cuts that are harming schools, or address the inequities and socioeconomic conditions that researchers have demonstrated are persistent causes of low academic performance?

A researcher at Princeton University has concluded that African - American children in New York City who received vouchers through a privately funded program did not receive academic gains.

This is a good move for Europe because researchers always need more funds and most of them HATE academic publishers and being forced to sign over their copyright to a paywall in exchange for nothing.

The retirement industry has become a «multi-billion-dollar annual business» that encompasses the mutual fund giants, banks, insurance companies, independent financial advisers, brokers, market researchers, academics and yes, the media, including magazines.

If you were to put a group of rocket scientists, academics, and researchers in a jail cell for 10 years with nothing but historical stock market data and a dry erase board, you'd come up with a fund company like IndexIQ.

Periodically, ACE conducts interviews with activist leaders, charity representatives, influential funders, academic researchers, and other experts.

Researchers of the Institute have been and are currently involved in numerous externally funded research projects, editorial boards of top academic journals and programme committees of the most prestigious conferences in games research.

I would interested to know the trends in (1) the total amount of grant money over the years for climate research, (2) the number of climate researchers and (3) the ratio of funding from government / academic to private sources.

Food Tank is for farmers and producers, policy makers and government leaders, researchers and scientists, academics and journalists, and the funding and donor communities to collaborate on providing sustainable solutions for our most pressing environmental and social problems.

IMO, academic researchers funded by NOAA or whoever is not the best model for matching useful forecast information to user needs.