Sentences with phrase «helped pioneer research»

Some recent critics of ExxonMobil, notably Bill McKibben and Naomi Oreskes, are expressing surprise to hear that ExxonMobil helped pioneer research into climate change science in the 1970s and»80s.

Dr. John Lilly, a neuroscientist who worked for the National Institutes of Health and specialized in cognition and brain activity helped pioneer the research during this time.

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By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities around the world.

Based on decades of pioneering research, Argus II represents a stunning breakthrough in the long - sought goal of helping the blind to partially regain their ability to see.

To help reduce that disease risk, a team led by pioneering genomics research J. Craig Venter...

La Farge, Wis., and Kutztown, Pa., (July 19, 2012)-- Organic Valley, the nation's largest cooperative of organic farmers, and Rodale Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach, today announced they have joined together to help another dairy transition to organic: the Burkholder family farm in Kutztown, PA..

Alongside Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Allen LaPointe and the rest of the Project Team, Edwardson will help the Shedd Aquarium Microbiome Project continue its pioneering research into the important roles microbes play in aquarium systems.

«Originally, we created these as an educational tool for visualizing concepts and ideas — in place of a blackboard and hand waving — to help people see things they never did before,» says Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a pioneer of virtual reality systems.

He may be known around campus as «Old Man Minsky,» but the scientist is just as active in AI research today as he was when he helped pioneer the field as a young man in the 1950s.

In his earlier work, Fogel had helped pioneer the application of rigorous statistical analysis and other economics - based mathematical methods to the study of history (research that earned him a Nobel Prize in 1993).

A team of University of Michigan scientists who have helped pioneer this approach will now work with researchers around the country, in a $ 15 million national effort to take the research to a new level.

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

The program honors pioneering planetary geologist Gene Shoemaker, who did so much to help us understand the process of impact cratering on the planets and the nature of the NEO population, and seeks to assist amateur observers, observers in developing countries, and under - funded professional observers contributing to vital NEO research.

Some have even enlisted the help of young people: Professor Harry Gray, a pioneer in the field, has created a Solar Army of high - school students doing research to find the best new materials to make artificial leaves.

The new Helmsley grant will help gastroenterologist Ramnik Xavier and his team to build upon their pioneering research that resulted in the identification of specific genes linked to Crohn's disease.

While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today.

For nearly 40 years, Dr. Dean Ornish has been a pioneer in the field of lifestyle medicine, demonstrating through clinical research how diet in conjunction with lifestyle changes that promote exercise and reduce stress may help reverse some of the leading causes of death in the U.S. such as coronary heart disease and perhaps even some cases, cancer.

Pioneering new research is showing that there are vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that can help you lose a lot of weight without side effects, and without requiring you to make drastic changes to the way you eat.

I was mesmerized to hear Angela recollect her face to face with Dr. Gale «Morrie» Granger, the key research pioneer in the field of autoimmune research who helped discover the TNF molecule in cells which led to the major biologic anti-TNF medication breakthroughs that it seems many autoimmunes are using.

About Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.

He spent more than seven years as Executive Director of Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, where he helped to launch the Massachusetts Charter School Resource Center, which supported the development of the state's first charter schools.

The money raised goes to help fund life - transforming treatments, supports pioneering research and helps for people...

While at UCLA, he worked at the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST), helping to pioneer school and district information management systems and data - driven technologies.

With government dollars for promising researchers in short supply, the gift helps ensure USC will remain a destination for the next pioneers in regenerative medicine and stem cell research.

Chaparral pioneered the use of aerodynamics and aerospace technology, with help from Chevrolet Research and Development.

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To this end, they created the Blue Buffalo pet food company, as well as the Blue Buffalo Foundation for Cancer Research to help keep our pets as healthy as possible and pioneer cutting edge methods for battling the illness.

The Undersea Explorer organisation pioneers research projects designed to investigate important conservation aspects of coral reefs and to help implement change to make an environmental difference.

In Issues, a pioneer in geoengineering has laid out the framework for a comprehensive US research plan, saying it should be part of a coherent climate policy agenda that includes vigorous support for climate science, increases efforts to cut emissions, helps the most vulnerable populations to adapt, develops negative emission technologies, and renews a commitment to growing international governance on climate matters.

La Farge, Wis., and Kutztown, Pa., (July 19, 2012)-- Organic Valley, the nation's largest cooperative of organic farmers, and Rodale Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach, today announced they have joined together to help another dairy transition to organic: the Burkholder family farm in Kutztown, PA..

VoteHemp gratefully acknowledges the pioneering work of the original men and women of the hemp industry whose groundbreaking achievements in research, publishing, advocacy, law, public policy, farming, processing, marketing and retailing helped launch the worldwide hemp renaissance.

Lew Ranieri, who helped pioneer mortgage - backed securities in the 1970s, and Kenneth Rosen, chairman of real estate market research firm Rosen Consulting Group, are the main authors on a policy paper issued this month laying out how the private sector's involvement could help turn around the housing market and deliver attractive returns to investors.