Sentences with phrase «generation of scientists by»
The Big Bang Fair is the UK's largest single celebration of science and engineering for young people and its aim is to inspire our next generation of scientists by bringing the classroom to life.
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For decades, popular culture and shows like Star Trek inspired a generation of scientists by envisioning what space might look like.
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Universities are jumping on the data trend and attempting to alleviate the talent squeeze by introducing programs to train a new generation of data scientists.
In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.
It is a longing never mentioned, I might add, by the generation of aspiring scientists and not at all the same as a desire simply for more time on earth.
«If the UK is to be confident of producing the next generation of scientists, then schools - encouraged by the government - must overcome the perceived and real barriers to providing high quality practicals, fieldwork and fieldtrips.»
«Companies can inspire the next generations of scientists and engineers by spending time in today's classrooms,» said Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps, Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Stephen Hawking, a black hole whisperer who divined the secrets of the universe's most inscrutable objects, left a legacy of cosmological puzzles sparked by his work, and inspired a generation of scientists who grew up reading his books.
Schäfer is also vice-chair of the Young Academy of Europe (a pan-European, grassroots association of top young scientists) and chair of Sci - GENERATION (another pan-European, bottom - up platform for young scientists supported by the intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
The scientists decided to make a parody of a trailer for a Star Wars movie, but instead of showing starship cruisers hurtling through space towards the Death Star, they chose a biological process with its own built - in narrative: the fertilization of an egg by a sperm, in which millions of sperm race to be the one that succeeds and creates the next generation of life.
The fundamental unity of science training and science scholarship does not relieve research scientists — their labs teeming with graduate students and postdocs supported by stipends paid from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations, of the responsibility to take training the next generation of scientists very, very seriously.
But the focus of the HHMI Professors program is not on research, per se; rather, the program aims to enhance the development of the next generation of biomedical scientists by drawing them into research and related activities at an early age.
«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.
Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.
In 2012, we reported on plans by pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann - La Roche to close its Nutley research center, which for more than 80 years provided thousands of jobs to generations of scientists and other local residents.
«I was fascinated by the tales of that generation of scientist and what they did going into the field,» Saphire recalls.
Our scientists who track progress in genetics research funded by NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences share some of the things researchers have learned about how traits are passed from one generation to the next.
Moving «is a key career decision that can potentially play an important role in the generation of scientific knowledge by allowing scientists [to] find environments where they are more effective in doing their research,» writes Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a co-author on the paper, in an email to Science Careers.
As a graduate student, he confirmed that this talent also existed in a population of foxes that, through artificial selection over generations, had been domesticated by Russian scientist Dmitry Belyaev.
Many of the folks who are involved in building the last round of nuclear weapons or even the first round of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next generation of potential nuclear weapon scientists.»
Scientists figured out more than a decade ago how to make this specialized form of light through a process known as «high harmonic generation,» or HHG, which shifts laser light to much shorter wavelengths and shorter pulses by shining it through a cloud of gas.
First, you must recognize that the current structure of medical schools and universities, with their anachronistic, rigid «up or out» promotion and tenure systems, were designed to accommodate the male physician - scientist of earlier generations whose career ambitions were supported by stay - at - home wives who assumed all household and child - rearing responsibilities.
This feeling, I suggest, may be the same as the scientist's in his eureka moment, when what he has discovered by seeing past the seen to the unseen has the character of appearing as «an impersonal product of his generation.»
The awards ceremony at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. sought to help change the face of science by hailing the contributions of women scientists and propelling the next generation forward with five individual research grants of $ 60,000 each.
Other such trees likely hold «secrets yet to be discovered by a new generation of scientists,» they write — if current researchers can get to the trees before they disappear.
Most of them were careful to point out that the revolutionary claim from the scientists involved in the experiment, which used the BICEP2 telescope (for Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, second generation), must be confirmed by additional experiments that could rule out alternative explanations.
Maclennan's question said it all: «Is the minister aware that the government's announcement will be treated with dismay by all the scientists in Britain, and especially by my constituents at Dounreay and in Risley, who have worked for almost two generations to put Britain at the lead of this technology?»
Invented in 1884 by Charles A. Parsons, son of an aristocrat and scientist, it revolutionized shipping and the generation of electric power.
The public began to take notice, and a new generation of scientists became fascinated by dinosaurs.
William Castell, chair of the Wellcome Trust, praised Farrar in a statement as «one of the foremost scientists of his generation, whose work — much of it funded by the Trust — has contributed to better understanding, surveillance, prevention and treatment of diseases including emerging infections, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid and dengue.»
Some scientists suspect that immune cells activated by the foreign organ but lacking the CD154 signal die soon after a transplant, although it's not clear why new generations of immune cells wouldn't recognize and attack the tissue.
Some scientists questioned the team's evidence for the mended gene, partly because they hadn't shown that it was inherited by subsequent generations of cells.
Future generations of females may be at risk, too, according to a new animal study by Washington State University scientists.
The Japanese government's Science and Technology Agency wants Japanese and Russian scientists to collaborate on the development of a new generation of reactors fuelled by plutonium.
Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology and related disciplines.
Research conducted by scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire finds that appearance alone is not enough to identify these hybrid zone birds: there is no single, intermediate «phenotype» or physical appearance common to all of the first - generation hybrids found.
The College's capacity to meet the need for a new generation of highly skilled scientists will be greatly bolstered by the addition of the Science & Engineering Innovation & Research Building, a $ 125 million structure which will span 229,000 square feet and will be located directly south of the Life Sciences Building.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden released this statement: «Leonard Nimoy was an inspiration to multiple generations of engineers, scientists, astronauts, and other space explorers... As Mr. Spock, he made science and technology important to the story, while never failing to show, by example, that it is the people around us who matter most.
The Keck Visiting Scholars Program aims to inspire and develop the next generation of scientists and instrumentalists by providing hands - on experience in observational astronomy, hardware, and software involving active instrument operations and real - time problem solving.
What we didn't realize is that our work could be so profoundly inspiring to a young generation of scientists — one eleven - year - old passenger pigeon enthusiast and de-extinctionist to be exact, who was so excited by the idea of de-extinction that he published a novel in 2015 on the subject.
April 27, 2016 — Using our Brains and Art to Inspire a Future Generation of Scientists (Co-hosted by the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus & STEAM Caucus)
An unwanted side - effect of a standard treatment for advanced melanoma could be overcome by a new generation of anti-cancer compounds, scientists at the Olivia Newton - John Cancer Research Institute (ONJCRI) in Melbourne have found.
In the 1960s, groundbreaking experiments by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel and other «mapmakers of the mind» inspired a generation of scientists to explore brain function at the cellular level.
His far - sighted vision for genomics means he leaves behind a global field firmly founded on the principles of open access and a generation of scientists influenced by his actions and values.
Scientists are betting on the creation of extended genome that can be inherited by successive generations.
But after talking to them, I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by because the laureates were there to talk to young scientists like myself to spread ideas and to inspire the next generation of scientists.
In a new paper published online today in Nature Chemistry («On - surface generation and imaging of arynes by atomic force microscopy»), scientists from IBM Research and CIQUS at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, have confirmed the existence and characterized the structure of arynes, a family of highly - reactive short - lived molecules which was first suggested 113 years ago.
In 2016, he was appointed by the U-M Board of Regents to guide the health system as it delivers complex patient care, researches new medical innovations and trains the next generation of physicians and scientists.
Neutrinos, or more specifically antineutrinos, are also emitted as a by - product of power generation in manmade nuclear reactors, giving scientists a powerful way to study them on Earth in a controlled manner.
Scientists in Japan wanted to see if the jellyfish gene was inherited by the second generation of a genetically modified monkey.