Sentences with phrase «major national effort»

Dr. McCrea and his team are also co-chairing the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium (CARE) project, a major national effort that will enroll more than 30,000 college athletes, making it the largest study of concussions to date.

A major national effort to become more efficient in the use of fuels will slow down the Greenhouse effect.

Not exact matches

«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

Even if it took 10 or 15 years of relentless diplomatic pressure from the joint efforts of the U.S., China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan to convince Kim Jong - un to give up his weapons and doing so resulted in the eventual denuclearization of the peninsula — and successfully deterred war — it would be a major victory for U.S. foreign policy and secure our vital national interests.

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

NEC Director Gary Cohn, who played a major role in the tax reform effort, and National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster will discuss the trip and answer questions specific to that topic.

Rhoden cites as an example of growing potential the National Salt Reduction Initiative, a national effort by major food companies including Heinz, Kraft, Subway and Campbell's Soup to reduce sodium levels in their pNational Salt Reduction Initiative, a national effort by major food companies including Heinz, Kraft, Subway and Campbell's Soup to reduce sodium levels in their pnational effort by major food companies including Heinz, Kraft, Subway and Campbell's Soup to reduce sodium levels in their products.

«Today's announcement presents a major environmental, social and public health opportunity for the U.S., and we're proud to be part of a national effort to reduce the food that goes into landfills.»

The two major national party committees and the four Congressional campaign committees had healthy fundraising efforts during May, leaving them with substantial war chests for the upcoming elections.

For many years, a friendly division of work within the Alzheimer's Association called for the New York City office to deliver programs and the national office in Chicago to lead advocacy efforts and promote funding for major research.

Other observers suggested the verdict could put a damper on his national political ambitions, which include playing a major role supporting Democratic candidates in their efforts to flip New York's Republican House seats this fall, and a rumored potential run for president in two years.

The Democrat has been personally lobbying for the same - sex marriage bill this week in a quest to secure what appears to be one more vote needed to legalize gay marriage and deliver a major win for the national effort.

Cuomo has been lobbying individual senators in a quest to secure what appears to be one more vote needed to legalize gay marriage and deliver a major win for the national effort.

Legalizing gay marriage in New York, the media capital of the world and a major tourist destination, would be a critical win for the national effort.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been personally lobbying for the same - sex marriage bill this week in a quest to secure what appears to be one more vote needed to legalize gay marriage and deliver a major win for the national effort.

«The Governor is pleased to welcome a major national education conference to the North Country as we continue to build on this administration's efforts to increase tourism and economic development opportunities in Upstate New York,» Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

New monitoring efforts may come in particularly useful in the coming months, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there is a risk of major coral bleaching in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans through May, an event that may rival severe bleaching that occurred in 1998 and 2010.

A team led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has overcome a major biological hurdle in an effort to find improved treatments for patients with a rare disease called methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).

The Business Roundtable, which represents major U.S. corporations, and the National Association of Manufacturers also criticized the SEC's efforts.

The US National Institutes of Health has begun to fund a major effort, the Human Connectome Project, to generate a comprehensive map of large - scale brain connections in humans.

The device demonstrates a major step forward for efforts to build quantum - computing systems out of semiconductor materials, according to co-author and collaborator Jacob Taylor, an adjunct assistant professor at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland - National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Duren is involved with the Los Angeles Megacities Carbon Project, a major effort of NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to thoroughly measure methane and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere above major urban centers.

Over the past few years, researchers around the world have organized an effort to identify and save tissue archives from all the major animal irradiation experiments, and they have won support from a diverse range of funding agencies, including the European Commission, the US National Cancer Institute and the US Department of Energy.

These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.

The Alliance brings together the efforts of the major National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)- funded Model Organism Database (MOD) groups, and the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium, in a synergistic integration of expertly - curated information about the functioning of cellular systems.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov 16, 2015, shed light on efforts to accurately date the period when major mammalian groups first evolved.

PHENOMIN, as a large scale national infrastructure for Biotechnology and Health, will primarily provide services for all French laboratories and also be a major player in the international strategic phenogenomics effort.

The two projects are facets of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Bench to Bassinet Program, a major effort aimed at learning more about how the heart develops and why children are born with heart problems.

Influenced by E. D. Hirsch, he supported a national curriculum and serious and high - stakes national tests and was a major figure in the painful evolution of this effort.

A leading national effort to reform science education suffered a major setback last week when the National Science Foundation withdrew its financial national effort to reform science education suffered a major setback last week when the National Science Foundation withdrew its financial National Science Foundation withdrew its financial support.

The association is one of the last major education organizations to endorse the state - led effort spearheaded by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

accreditation systems are a major part of NAEYC's efforts to improve early childhood education across the country by recognizing schools and educators that are meeting high national standards of quality.

Five major funders of such efforts gathered in Seattle on June 18 - 20, 2009 for one of the first national conferences on the subject.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

SMP had claimed, in galleys, to be «committed to a number of major marketing efforts, such as a national author tour for Hamilton, and a national ad campaign for the book.»

So in addition to investing in community efforts, the Petco Foundation team supported two major national technology platforms to assist recovery efforts.

She has substantially increased global awareness about the organization, improved its operational efficiency, and established new efforts of national significance, including the Animal Welfare Research Institute, the Children's Innovation Institute, the American Humane Hero Dog Awards ™, and major research studies on the effects of animal - assisted therapy on children with cancer and the lifesaving value of service dogs for veterans with post-traumatic stress.

It would be a major blow for all our efforts if National Geographic portrayed these very techniques as the current standard in training and behavior modification.

Based on our participation in numerous national coalitions focused on animal / shelter overpopulation issues; our work in shelter medicine, shelter research and as a major animal welfare grant maker; and our 100 + years as a direct service provider in New York City as well as our more recent direct participation in intensive, collaborative efforts with more than 10 ASPCA partner communities across the United States, the ASPCA has determined that a number of indicators should be tracked to understand progress in decreasing the number of animals at risk.

«By providing additional visitor opportunities to explore this major national park site in an urban area, we are continuing our efforts to link visitors from near and far to the beauty and rich history of the Presidio.»

PAFA will continue its ongoing efforts to build relationships with major national collectors of American art, utilizing a multi-faceted strategy for keeping collectors engaged through loans, meetings, and collector - specific programs.

The Brazilian government has been encouraging major companies to support its anti-slavery efforts, but ADM, Bunge and Cargill have all refused to sign Brazil's National Pact for the Eradication of Slave Labor.

Witness the Arctic provides information on current Arctic research efforts and findings, significant research initiatives, national policy affecting Arctic research, international activities, and profiles of institutions with major Arctic research efforts.

National Governors Association July 2009 The National Governors Association has joined the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties in support of the effort to make all new buildings and major renovations carbon neutral by 2030.

China's National Climate Change Action Program, published in June 2007, provides for three major mitigation efforts that, in combination, reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

At the request of John Calder, head of the Arctic Research Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and through the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, ARCUS developed this short informational brochure to introduce the SEARCH program, a major new interagency arctic research effort, to a general audience.

All of the major federal agencies that it relies on for research grants — including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, NASA, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration — are feeling the squeeze of shrinking spending in an effort to control the ballooning federal budget deficit.

Big coal — in the form of the National Rural Electric Association, Koch Industries, American Electric Power, the Southern Company, the National Association of Manufacturers and others are planning a major blitz against efforts to fight global warming.