Sentences with phrase «largest research collection»

The landmark beaux arts structure houses the humanities and social sciences collections of the New York Public Library, the largest research collection of any public library in the nation after the Library of Congress.

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Horizon has partnered with The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to make available their large collection of highly characterized Melanoma PDX models to the research community; these models are representative of all previously well - described melanoma subtypes identified by The Cancer Genome Atlas.
The Texas Medical Center is the largest collection of medical research facilities in the world, including the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, and Baylor College of Medicine.
It turns out that as part of his thesis research, he had to build and maintain a relatively large collection of research specimens that he, his adviser, and the three other grad students in the group had all used.
INRA is Europe's largest agricultural research center, or rather collection of centers located throughout France.
Hercules and Leo were born in 2006 at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana, home to the world's largest collection of privately owned lab chimps.
As a result, said Cracraft, a large part of the $ 3 billion annual fund must go towards training scientists, developing collections and databases for reference, and creating research facilities in these countries.
The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.
This led to the collection of bone marrow samples from larger cohorts of patients with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, as well as those from Western University and Hamilton Health Sciences, for the next steps of investigation.
Published today in Genome Research, the study examined a large collection of E. coli isolated from patients with bloodstream infection over more than a decade, some of which were resistant to numerous antibiotics while others were not.
A Singapore - India collaborative research project between the Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) and CSIR - National Chemical Laboratories (NCL) completed phenotypic screening of a large collection of potent chemical inhibitors (known as MMV Malaria Box), against pathogenic parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum, causative agents of human toxoplasmosis and malaria.
Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applresearch has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applResearch, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.
The upcoming shift in focus toward large - scale screening of small - molecule collections will provide both opportunities and challenges for graduate students and postdocs wishing to explore this new domain of academic research.
In addition to its stellar faculty, the institute boasts the largest professional library for palaeontology and stratigraphy in Asia, with journal collections dating back to the 1770s; a collection of 160,000 type specimens (fossils that define a species or subspecies); and a research station in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research senior fellows Brian Leander and Patrick Keeling supervised lead author Greg Gavelis at the University of British Columbia and, in collaboration with senior fellow Curtis Suttle, showed that this eye - like structure contains a collection of sub-cellular organelles that look very much like the lens, cornea, iris and retina of multicellular eyes that can detect objects — known as camera eyes — that are found in humans and other larger animals.
Several comprehensive collections of biological and clinical material, in which deep analyses have generated large amounts of data for various research issues, have resulted from research at Lund University, enabling many exciting discoveries.
He / she will have access to excellent research infrastructure, including a molecular systematics laboratory, high - powered microscopy facilities, and the largest and most comprehensive algae collection in Canada.
In addition, the hospital proximity allows access to large clinical databases and sample collections, as well as translational research.
Highest ranked research university and second largest research and development organization in Australia, this web collection of 41 affiliated Centres range from statistical consulting to plant cell biology.
The latter makes more sense, given a large collection of research that shows that higher protein intake is associated with a significantly higher risk of all - cause mortality and chronic disease (32,33,33 — 52).
Our database consists of a large collection of high - quality reports obtained using a customer - centric approach, thus providing valuable research insights.
Then I provide students with a collection of resources beyond what we have covered together and also encourage them to research on their own as they work to «develop a larger idea.»
His study represents the largest collection and analysis of evidence - based research which investigates what is actually working in schools when it comes to improving learning.
He also developed financial sustainability guidance for the National Center for Teacher Residencies» partner programs, and oversaw the collection and coding of about 2,000 applications as part of a large - scale research project for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.
It will be interesting to see if this finding holds once data collection is complete, but these findings are consistent with the larger stereotype threat research literature.
During this time, he conducted research on the history of Michigan's vibrant nonprofit and philanthropic infrastructure through archiving and examining a large number of historical documents in addition to a collection of oral history interviews.
Hall's work has included management of many types of large research and technical assistance projects including supervising logistics; development and execution of fieldwork and data collection systems; data processing, analysis, and reporting; and overall communication and collaboration with project partners and funders.
The study found that students who attended schools led by New Leaders principals experienced slightly larger achievement gains on average than did similar students in schools led by non-New Leaders principals.131 While these results are promising, more research and data collection on both new and existing programs is needed to inform policy efforts to improve principal preparation.
Subject - based collections usually include large numbers of titles in a particular field needed to build a thorough, authoritative collection to support an institution's growing research needs in that area.
«I view this as a virtual undergraduate library serving large classes but not building the permanent research collection,» says Sowards.
In addition to being EarlyWord's Kids Correspondent, she is the curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota, one of the world's largest collections of children's literature manuscripts anCollections at the University of Minnesota, one of the world's largest collections of children's literature manuscripts ancollections of children's literature manuscripts and original.
The Veterinary Intern's responsibilities include providing medical management and care of a large number of stranded marine mammals (mostly pinnipeds), performing post-mortem examinations, sample collection for various research projects, and record keeping.
Some are to some degree antagonistic toward each other, but a few years ago when epilepsy was recognized as a serious breed health concern an international grass - roots effort lead to a large collection of research samples and cooperation among key clubs, foundations and organizations to provide funding for a research project that involves an international collaboration.
The office also houses the AKC library — one of America's finest and largest collections of canine literature and research materials.
The largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world, the Geography and Map Division contains over six million maps in addition to a wide array of atlases, globes, raised relief models, archives, a vast collection of digital data and a GIS research center.
In addition to an art - historical overview by Laurence Madeline, the catalog includes essays by Bridget Alsdorf, Associate Professor, History of Art, Princeton University; Jane R. Becker, Collections Management Assistant, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Joëlle Bolloch, former Head of Research, Musée d'Orsay; Vibeke Hansen, Curator, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo; and Richard Kendall, former Curator at Large, Clark Art Institute.
Highlights of the installation include the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), which explores Attia's research on the Vatican's collection of ethnological artifacts; Artificial Nature (2014), a floor sculpture constructed of many antique prosthetic legs; and a work composed of two large - scale reproductions of historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, Émile Jean - Horace Vernet's The First Mass in Kabylia (1854) and Victor Meirelles's The First Mass in Brazil (1861).
Beyond collaborations, these arrangements house islands of independent inspiration, related to the themes of the exhibition at large but filtered through the interest, research, or collections of individual demi - curators.
These include the encouragement of a supportive Board and the availability of ample resources, coupled with the presence of a large and important collection of artworks from all decades of the artist's career, as well as a largely unexamined trove of archives that offer outstanding research opportunities.
Her research into belief systems and ethnographic collections informs her practice, notably her installation about one of the first large uprisings on the African continent, Rumours that Maji was a lie... (2014), first shown at the Jeu de Paume in Paris last year, and later developed as a new project, Kinjeketile Suite, which was exhibited this year at the South London Gallery.
The library's department of image collections is a study and research center for images of Western art and architecture and is one of the largest of its kind, numbering over 14 million photographs, slides, negatives, microforms, and digital images.
The new structure would be located to the east of the original building, and tasked with two functions: offer a large space for public appreciation of various popular collections; and house office space as well as archives for scholarship and research.
This exhibition includes a new large - scale work entitled «Jokes on You,» featuring images of ephemera from the collections of the National Museum of American History, which was part of Rafferty's study during her Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
Skulls and skeletons of those killed were collected for research by racialist German scientists, the Guardian reports, and it is suggested that some of these entered the US museum as part of a larger private collection acquired in the 1920s.
Her extensive research has amassed a large collection of images that can portray these principle interests and allow her to combine imagery in a complex manner, resulting in a final installation that is capable of transcending the original, two - dimensional image.
In 1995, he collaborated with the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah, to make replicas of their entire collection of dinosaur track casts, and exhibited these in New York and throughout Europe; in 1997 he collaborated with the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Starke, Florida, to trigger lightning with rockets, and worked with a local souvenir manufacturer to create over 10,000 replicas of a fulgurite created by the lightning strike; in 2000 he collaborated with the Pioneers Museum in the desert community of Imperial Valley, California, to reproduce souvenir copies and large models of their local mountain, Mount Signal, and the unique «Sand Spike» sand concretions found at its base; and in 2003, he created 120 topographical models of the states of Missouri and Kansas, which he donated and delivered himself to 120 small historical society museums in both states.
The new BMCM+AC will feature a large gallery / event space, a permanent BMC history and research center, an expanded library, on - site storage for the permanent collection, and a larger retail bookshop.
The university's embarrassing loss eventually enabled the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, a large museum and research center in San Marino, Calif., to acquire its first major work by an African - American artist.
The Andy Warhol Film Project began in the 1980s when the Whitney Museum and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) agreed to collaborate on the largest archival research project in the history of American avant - garde cinema: to catalogue Warhol's massive film collection, investigate its history, and preserve and re-release all of the films in conjunction with a program of scholarly research and publication.
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