Most importantly the conference brought together plant scientists from diverse research backgrounds to inform, discuss and cooperate together for the
common grand challenges ahead of all of us.
The released data will be a new resource for wheat researchers and breeders building on the Wheat Initiative's founding principles of collaboration through data sharing to help tackle the global
grand challenge of feeding a population of nearly 10 billion by 2050.
An editorial published in Science Magazine authored by Drs. Karlee Silver and Peter Singer of
Grand Challenges in Canada calls for the United Nations to place a much sharper and intensive focus on early childhood development in its goals for sustainable develoment.
In an interview, Guest Editor Jane West (this issue, p. 17) introduces Dr. Karlee Sliver, Vice President of Programs for
Grand Challenges Canada, and their landmark e orts to shine a spotlight on early development.
The two - week summer school took place from 21st July to 4th August 2014 at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, and was organized in the context of the WCRP
Grand Challenge on Extremes.
As society's traditional problem - solvers struggle with the ability and agility to keep up with the exponential pace of change and related
grand challenges facing humanity, we feel that many of our solutions will come from this emerging global «crowd» of problem - solvers.
The competition is similar to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's
Grand Challenges program, but it does have some twists.
The group's work to develop HIV and HCV antibody tests was initiated by a Star in Global Health Award granted
by Grand Challenge Canada.
It builds on recent improvements in models, in the reanalysis of climate data, in methods of initialization and ensemble generation, and in data treatment and analysis to propose an extended comprehensive decadal prediction investigation as a contribution to CMIP6 (Eyring et al., 2016) and to the
WCRP Grand Challenge on Near Term Climate Prediction (Kushnir et al., 2016).
Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome Awards $ 1.26 Million in
Grand Challenge Grants Supporting 13 Researchers
«The obvious big
grand challenge problem of tectonics has always been the Himalayas, and how India hits Eurasia,» says Louis Moresi of the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Part of the work was performed as part of a Scientific
Grand Challenge project at the W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility sponsored by BER and located at PNNL.
Scientists compiled the genetic data previously through the Great Prairie Soil Metagenome
Grand Challenge Initiative at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
Dr. Espinosa's research started with a
Crnic Grand Challenge Grant organized by the Executive Director of the Crnic Institute, Dr. Tom Blumenthal.
This year's
Grand Challenge competition spurred advances in laser sensing, computer vision and autonomous navigation - not to mention a thrilling race for the $ 2 - million prize
As the AX Division Leader, Verdon was responsible for the management of a scientific effort that is at the core of the Secondary Nuclear Design Program and the
scientific grand challenge effort of achieving ignition at the National Ignition Facility.
Three thousand applied for what was the second round of grants in the foundation's
Grand Challenges Exploration initiative; the deadline for round three applications is 28 May.
One great current example of how augmented intelligence might help is the new
grand challenge from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's mad science wing.
Supported by the Government of Canada
through Grand Challenges Canada's «Saving Brains» program, as well as Colombia's Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (COLCIENCIAS), the study is published today in the journal Pediatrics.
«The Presidential Early Career Awards are an important way for the President of the United States to recognize the central role that outstanding scientists and engineers play in advancing the Nation's goals,
tackling grand challenges, and contributing to the American economy,» said Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos.
The Smithsonian Institution, home to 500 scientists and an equal number of research fellows, today received the prospect of a boost for the four
grand challenges launched in its September 2009 strategic plan.
This CRUK -
funded Grand Challenge Project seeks to fill in the missing gaps to identify the unknown cancer - causing factors and reveal how they lead to cancer.
The
new Grand Challenge «is to go even further upstream» to support early - stage work on promising targets that might eventually enter GHIT's more generously funded development pipeline.»
But in the
second Grand Challenge, conducted with somewhat less fanfare last October, five cars completed the whole race, covering 132 miles of rugged terrain without any outside help.
2012: Nevada issues the first license for an autonomous car to a Toyota Prius modified by Google, whose driverless car program is headed by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson, alumni, respectively, of the Stanford and Carnegie Mellon
Grand Challenge teams.
Author of a new book, The Third Wave, Case offered the Gilbert S.
Omenn Grand Challenges Address during the AAAS Forum.
Another part of this work involves acting as a translator when introducing groups from different fields, says Casandra Rauser, who does a lot of this big - picture thinking and matchmaking as director of the Sustainable
LA Grand Challenge project at the University of California (UC), Los Angeles.
The President's announcement of a
national Grand Challenge on the BRAIN is a spectacularly exciting culmination of a year and a half effort to enhance brain research and technology development through a new national effort.
Within government, NASA has taken small steps into the competition arena and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has sponsored
Grand Challenge robotic automobile races.
Launched by President Obama, the Ebola
Grand Challenge seeks to harness the power of crowdsourcing, competition, and partnerships to identify breakthrough innovation that addresses specific barriers faced by health care workers to combat the current Ebola epidemic and better prepare the world for future outbreaks.
«More than 16 years after the original Dragon Slayer quest launched and gave players their toughest challenge, we're giving them an
even grander challenge to overcome with Dragon Slayer II, one of our most memorable adventures yet!»
On Monday the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) put out a call to innovators for its
annual Grand Challenge, and this year, the theme of the challenge is «Securing Water for Food.»
It has also received multiple innovation awards, including best product (TiEcon), best innovation (Confederation of Indian Industry), and the
Karnataka Grand Challenge.
The Global
Grand Challenges Summit, featuring Bill Gates as speaker, will be reaching out of London this year, thanks to innovative virtual hubs run by the Institution of Engineering (IET).
Through the # 7 million (US$ 9.2 million) Sêr Cymru National Research Network for Low Carbon, Energy and Environment — one of the three
grand challenge areas — Welsh universities hope to capitalize even more on their expertise in pasture - based agriculture.
Simulations were performed using a
Computing Grand Challenge allocation on the Quartz supercomputer at LLNL and with an Exascale Computing Project allocation on Cori Phase - 2 at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at LBNL.
Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, under these awards numbers: P50 - CA58223 - 09A1, R00 CA194077 and 5P30CA045508; by the National Institutes of Health grant number 5 P01 CA013106 - 44; and by the Susan G. Komen Foundation (SAC110006); the ICR and
CRUK grand challenge award (C59824 / A25044); and a grant from the DOD BCRP (W81XWH -1-0300).