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Dr. Elena Flitsiyan of the Department of Physics explains why the interaction between generations of scientists at the Lindau Nobel meeting is important for the University of Central Florida and for young researchers like Casey.

Not exact matches

Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

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.

The best scientists of their day at one time believed that the earth was flat, that bleeding people cured illness, that spontaneous generation was a fact (after all, they saw it with their own eyes) and other such nonsense.

Pictured left to right: Philip Chenette, MD, President of PCRS for 2018; Richard Paulson, MD, President of ASRM for 2017; Alex Quaas, Program Chair of PCRS 2017; Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester, Lecturer, and Author of Generation: The Seventeenth - Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth

The researchers used next generation sequencing technology, RNA sequencing, to reveal «in exquisite detail» the blueprint for making milk in the human mammary gland, according to Laurie Nommsen - Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLC, a scientist at Cincinnati Children's and corresponding author of the study, published online in PLOS ONE, a journal of the Public Library of Science.

«National Grid looks to support initiatives like this to help inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs and to look at innovative solutions to help our customers and enrich the communities of the Mohawk Valley.»

A common and primary theme throughout the project was the need to engage and nurture a new generation of scientists around the world to meet current and future demand at the science - policy interface.

It also cited a need to «engage and nurture a new generation of scientists around the world» and to place leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at the crossroads of science and policy.

Most annoying to young, ambitious scientists like me, a whole generation of physicists seemed determined to keel over at the bench at 80 or 90 rather than retire the way the elderly were supposed to, and the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled, not too long before, that colleges and universities couldn't force them out.

Creating «a job market at least as large as the added influx of graduate students you're creating» is vital to building the next generation of scientists, Levin says.

The initiative, called Safe Genes, comes at a time when so - called «gene drive» systems, which override the standard rules of gene inheritance and natural selection, are raising hopes among some scientists that the technology could alter or suppress populations of disease - carrying insects or other pests in as few as 20 generations.

The ostensible goal of that arduous and anxiety - fraught procedure — and of the even more involved process of hiring and promoting faculty members at research universities — is to identify the next generation of productive scientists.

Glenn Fleisig, who holds the position of Smith and Nephew Chair of Research at ASMI gave Science's Next Wave a behind - the - scenes look at how ASMI trains this nation's next generation of sports scientists, as well as insight into his own career path.

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.

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have been working as part of an international team to develop a new process, which could lead to a new generation of high - definition (HD), paving the way for brighter, lighter and more energy efficient TVs and smart devices.

«Ultimately my message to scientists, especially those of my generation, is that science and scientists are too important and powerful to be at the service of inhumane activities or to the consolidation of dictatorships.

Although most scientists at the meeting appear enthusiastic about conducting gene editing work to cure diseases in individual patients they remain more wary of making changes to eggs, sperm or embryos that would have lasting repercussions in future generations.

At New Scientist, he continued his campaigning and infected a younger generation of journalists with a strong scepticism for the inflated claims drugs companies made about their products.

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.

«Two generations ago, people were interring waste in different areas of the world, and now climate change is modifying those sites,» said William Colgan, a climate and glacier scientist at York U and lead author of the new study.

Dr. Kit Macleod, catchment scientist at the James Hutton Institute and one of the authors of the paper, said: «Hybrid grasses of this type show potential for reducing the likelihood of flood generation, whilst providing pasture for food production under conditions of changing climate.

Our remounting took more than a dozen dedicated scientists and fossil preparators almost two years to complete, but Brown's masterpiece will glower menacingly at new generations of entranced visitors for decades to come.

Scientists at the universities of Kent and Bristol have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production.

At that age, scientists of previous generations, such as Albert Einstein, Marshall Nirenberg and Thomas Cech, were winning their Nobel Prizes for work done in their twenties.

«This new high - resolution climate model is able to simulate regional - scale precipitation with considerably improved accuracy compared to previous generation models,» said Tom Delworth, a research scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., who helped develop the new model and is co-author of the paper.

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.

Collecting ice cores from high - mountain glaciers most at risk from climate change and storing them in Antarctica for future generations of scientists: that is the goal of ICE MEMORY, an international program aimed at preserving the memory of high - mountain glaciers.

Yet there has been growing concern over the past 3 decades that the workforce of physician - scientists, at least in the form we have come to know them in previous generations, may be vanishing.

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.

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?»

Glaciologists and climate scientists of his generation also did not attract as much attention as scientists do today, said Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

The AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy aims to build the educational structures, tools, and resources to support the next generation of science diplomacy leaders and ensure that scientists and diplomats have the training and resources needed to work at the intersection of science and international...

Dean Kamen's new television program takes viewers on a behind - the - scenes look at cutting - edge research in hopes of inspiring a new generation of scientists, engineers and inventors

A single generation of adaptation to the hatchery resulted in observable changes at the DNA level that were passed on to offspring, scientists reported.

Future generations of females may be at risk, too, according to a new animal study by Washington State University scientists.

His popularity is such that Sir Patrick Bateson, a leading ethologist at Cambridge University, says Dawkins has been single - handedly responsible for inspiring a new generation of scientists to enter biology in the United Kingdom, and probably elsewhere.

Dukhovlinova also applied the knowledge she gained during her stay at Yale to training the next generation of scientists, becoming a teaching assistant for a master's degree program in public health that was being set up at St. Petersburg State as she was returning.

And some of these biological sciences students will be groomed for a US - style graduate MBBS - PhD program, aimed at producing a new generation of clinician scientists adept at solving both clinical and basic sciences problems.

This next - generation sky survey helps scientists look at the structure of the galaxy and distant stars at low latitudes.

We contribute to the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers, collaborate with K - 12 teachers on ways to improve science teaching using an inquiry - based approach to learning, and improve the science literacy of the community at large.

Recruiting luminescent nanoparticles to image brain function, scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are on pace to develop the next generation of functional materials that could enable the mapping of the complex neural connections in the brain.

The next generation of U.S. space scientists and engineers get an inside look at Russia's space program during a two - week trip to Moscow, where they tour mission control and meet with scientists and university students from around the world.

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.

In a collaborative project with scientists from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, the researchers examined how the fish's genes responded after several generations living at higher temperatures predicted under climate change.

«The first generation GAP strain had two genes removed from the malaria parasite, but this new «triple punch», developed in collaboration with scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia, removes three separate genes associated with the pathogenicity of the parasite, effectively abrogating its ability to establish an infection in humans.»

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together the new generation of scientists who analyse transcription at the systems level, with established scientists whose seminal work paved the way to understanding the transcription process.

NASA recently assembled a team of scientists and engineers, based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to begin laying plans for its next, next generation flagship mission.

In an effort to save the species, scientists at the San Diego Zoo Global are developing stem cell technologies to create a new generation of northern white rhinos.