Bottom Line: There isn't a lot here, but if you're looking for writing inspiration and a fun computer
lab activity for the elementary level, this a good place to start.
Not exact matches
Founders
Lab is executed through a series of
activities that invites serial entrepreneurs, alumni, mentors and academics to run workshops or events with the focus of promoting learning and providing tools
for success.
Our facilities and
labs offer state of the art equipment
for exploring physical sciences, the natural world, and the great outer space while our fun summer
activities help campers build crucial communication, teamwork, and problem solving skills.
Children can move back and forth between the Club and the
Lab, and the staff will direct appropriate
activities for all.
The
lab set also comes with 20
activity cards and a write and wipe journal to record results — perfect
for the budding scientist.
Westminster College students and alumni will assist in each
lab session, guide campers around the Westminster College campus, and oversee evening
activities with one counselor
for every nine campers.
Westminster College students and alumni will assist in each
lab session, guide campers around the Westminster College campus, and oversee evening
activities, with one Counselor
for every nine Campers.
For more information on the Open
Labs, computer training or the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
activities, visit www.BuffaloLib.org.
So, «go to your supervisor, tell them upfront that you're doing it if you think it's going to be an issue, and try to work out an agreement of some sort to make sure that you can still do the
activities you want while understanding that you are responsible
for your
lab work first and foremost,» he advises.
Outstanding Science Books
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activity ideas.
«While ChIP - seq is very powerful in that it can query an entire genome
for characteristics associated with enhancer
activity in a single experiment, it can fail to identify some enhancers and identify some sites as being enhancers when they really aren't,» says Diane Dickel, a geneticist with Berkeley
Lab's Genomics Division and member of the SIF - seq development team.
Genes keep working
for a while after a person dies, and scientists have used that
activity in the
lab to pinpoint time of death to within about nine minutes.
I was fortunate, as my supervisor positively encouraged this extracurricular
activity, believing that a balance between hard work and play was important
for productivity in the
lab.
NIH backing
for career training will have to not only inspire institutions to commit serious resources but also persuade potentially reluctant PIs to allow or even encourage postdocs to take time away from the bench
for activities contributing to their own, rather than the
lab's, advancement.If successful, however, this initiative could also focus PIs» attention on the fact that preparing postdocs
for careers — and not having them merely provide cheap labor
for research projects — is the most important reason
for their presence in the nation's laboratories.
Geha's
lab also plans to look
for factors in the skin that drive RORα
activity, which could present other targets
for intervention.
For six of the pesticides that showed hormonal activity for the first time, the authors said they «strongly recommend» the next round of testing, using lab anima
For six of the pesticides that showed hormonal
activity for the first time, the authors said they «strongly recommend» the next round of testing, using lab anima
for the first time, the authors said they «strongly recommend» the next round of testing, using
lab animals.
Actually Michal [Sharon], who you e-mailed me about previously [
for another Science Careers article], she would be very organized in the
lab and would come in and have a list of things that she was going to do that day, and she wouldn't become distracted by the news Web site or other
activities or go to coffee, particularly
for long periods of time, because her time was very precious in the
lab.
For example, describe new
lab activities, changes in class format, introduction of problem - based learning, development of new problem sets, and addition of teaching technology.
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab) have shown
for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors
for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface
activity.
But as more scientists are exposed to formal
lab management training, some discover an interest in becoming a trainer themselves, and they feel better prepared
for the new
activity, Glynn adds.
Department of Energy national
lab researchers found strain dramatically influences low - temperature oxygen electrocatalysis on perovskite oxides, enhancing bifunctional
activity essential
for fuel cells and metal — air batteries.
The firm's Big Data
Lab in Beijing has announced that it has used billions of location records from its 600 million users as a lens on the Chinese economy, tracking the flux of people around offices and shops as a proxy measurement
for employment and consumption
activity.
Then I took those 237 and went to a biological
lab and actually tested them
for activity against the flu target.
His
lab has spent several years working out the mechanism
for how presynaptic cells release neurotransmitter in response to spikes of electrical
activity known as action potentials.
In a typical
lab activity, «the relevant equations and principles are laid out in the preamble; students are told what value they should get
for a particular measurement or given the equation to predict that value; they are told what data to collect and how to collect them; and often they are even told which buttons to press on the equipment to produce the desired output,» write the researchers.
Auditors criticized the agency
for failing to coordinate the research
activities of its various
labs and
for paying only lip service to research initiatives that could lead to commercial applications.
Beginning with a reaction cycle widely regarded as too difficult to control, she developed a mechanism
for taming palladium's
activity, making it practical
for lab work.
That pricing could help create incentives to enter into agreements with industry and produce more revenue
for other
lab activities, the report notes.
Researchers from Drexel University's Privacy, Security and Automation
Lab are searching
for that pressure point by studying the
activity of cybercrime forums — information that could guide the next generation of «Untouchables.»
All of this is undetectable to someone at the surface, but the underwater impact and disturbance from these
activities can be devastating to ocean life, especially
for species such as the North Atlantic right whale,» said Dr. Christopher Clark, Senior Scientist
for the Cornell
Lab of Ornithology Bioacoustics Research Program.
Researchers at the Lifelong Brain and Cognition
Lab at the Beckman Institute
for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois have utilized the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities available in Beckman's Biomedical Imaging Center to measure the moment - to - moment variability in brain
activity, more specifically in the blood oxygenation level - dependent (BOLD) signal.
Welcome to the Science Education Department at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where we combine the
lab's core research
activities with science education programs to create a center of excellence
for students, teachers and the general public.
Using the approach, scientists exchanged one chemical group
for another in 39 cancer drugs — and discovered under
lab conditions that the chemically altered versions of three of the drugs had more potent anti-cancer
activity.
In particular, she noted later, «while we have struggled with the appropriate split between early and late stage [research and development], along with which deployment
activities to support, my fear is that this approach will result in a cornucopia of good ideas residing at the
labs in a form still insufficiently mature
for private industry to take over.»
We conduct studies at the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory, which houses specialized
labs for research with microgram - to - kilogram quantities of fissionable materials and megacurie
activities of other radionuclides.
In this week's issue of the journal Science, researchers in the Sabatini
lab describe how they identified this endogenous inhibitor (GATOR1
for «GAP
activity toward Rags») of the mTORC1 pathway.
Searching
for those substrates and trying to unravel how phosphorylation affects their
activity has kept Hunter and his
lab busy
for more than three decades.
With the help of conditional and function - selective knockout mice
for the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) the
lab identified critical cell types and novel mechanisms
for anti-inflammatory
activities of glucocorticoids in different inflammatory disease models.
«Now that we understand IKK2 is required
for NF - KB to promote tumor growth, we hope to find ways to target its
activity with drugs,» says Yifeng Xia, a postdoctoral researcher in Verma's
lab and first author on the paper.
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Raised on the knee of science — her father taught her and her two brothers from a young age about geology, physics, and natural history — Alice Ting now stands firmly on her own two feet among the faculty at MIT's Chemistry Department, where her objective is to «simultaneously harness the power of genetics and the power of chemistry» using new technologies developed in her
lab for imaging protein trafficking, protein - protein interactions, and enzymatic
activity.
Adrienne Long, an M.D. / Ph.D. student at Northwestern University presented a fascinating talk aimed at understanding why CAR - Ts specific
for GD2, an antigen found on sarcoma cells, work in the
lab but have no
activity in the clinic.
Experts at the Next Century Corporation will lead a joint research effort between the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, the Hume Center
for National Security and Technology, and Draper
Labs to create a system that can flag potential terrorist
activities as quickly as a credit card company alerting consumers to suspicious spending behavior on their accounts.
«Taken with other
Lab activities, including ADMX (axions), LUX / LZ (WIMPs) and searches
for primordial black holes, this new work gives LLNL a very strong portfolio of dark matter research.»
Major areas of
activity in our
lab include 1) identification and characterization of Sgenes, 2) genomic analyses to identify the diversity of TAL effectors in pathogen populations and understand their evolution, and 3) structural and biochemical studies to better harness the unique properties of these proteins
for applications such as targeted gene regulation and genome editing.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics
Lab Open House will be a fun science festival
for every age, with NASA moon rocks, a Hall of Machines, an art show of paintings of PPPL, science
activities for kids and tours of fusion machines.
NYSCF — Robertson Investigator Alumnus Ed Boyden, PhD, and his team at the MIT Media
Lab have recently developed a new tool
for imaging the electrical
activity of neurons in the brain using a fluorescent protein that glows when the neuron is active.
Since previous studies had suggested that directly targeting CARM1
activity could result in high toxicity, the Zhang
lab searched
for an alternative therapeutic approach.
Using the fruit fly Drosophila, a standard
lab model
for studying animal biology, the researchers discovered a cascade of molecular signals that program gene
activity to drive the fly from one stage of maturation to the next, like a baby turning into an adult.
There is a natural reluctance
for anyone working in academia, whether faculty or students or
lab technicians, to make accusations that necessarily will involve official investigations, prolonged legal
activities, and possible retribution.