Sentences with phrase «national faces of science»

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has selected twelve new PhD students to be the national Faces of Science.

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Several speakers expressed concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's denial of climate change, Vice President Mike Pence's creationist beliefs, and Trump's willingness to work with prominent antivaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. «In the face of fanaticism and fear, science is regaining its ethical and political stance,» said Rosaura Ruiz Guitiérrez, director of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexicscience is regaining its ethical and political stance,» said Rosaura Ruiz Guitiérrez, director of the Faculty of Science at the National Autonomous University of MexicScience at the National Autonomous University of Mexico here.

«One of the real recognitions of the past decade or two is that the answers to the challenges that we face are at the boundaries between the disciplines and that in fact much of the most exciting science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - science - based environmental decision - making.

On the 16th, the National Academies of Science (NAS) hosted 252 interested parties — including postdocs, representatives of university programs and funding agencies, members of the media, and a small number of principal investigators — at its august main building facing the National Mall.

The awards ceremony at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. sought to help change the face of science by hailing the contributions of women scientists and propelling the next generation forward with five individual research grants of $ 60,000 each.

Madhu Lal - Nag, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health who coordinates RNAi research, said she's starting to see a surge of interest in the field among academics who want to unravel more of the basic science, especially as it becomes clear that other hot fields of research, such as CRISPR gene - editing, face their own series of hurdles.

Some standard Obama Administration priorities like clean energy and climate were again prominent, but some agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) received only limited discretionary increases, while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NASA faced billion - dollar cuts.

The face of the US scientist is changing: Asian Americans now make up 14 percent of the science and engineering work force, according to recent data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which can be found at www.nsf.gov/statistics/sscience and engineering work force, according to recent data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which can be found at www.nsf.gov/statistics/sScience Foundation (NSF), which can be found at www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08.

But the future of NCEAS is in question as it faces the end of its core funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

The future of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis is in question as it faces the end of its core funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Each summer, the National Center for Science Education organizes a boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to bring visitors face to wall - face with striking examples of geologic and evolutionary processes.

«With coral reefs facing a myriad of threats,» said Kimberly Puglise, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, «the finding of extensive reefs off Maui provides managers with a unique opportunity to ensure that future activities in the region, such as cable laying, dredging dump sites, and deep sewer outfalls, do not irreparably damage these reefs.»

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) and Partner University Funds (PUF) programs, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, the United Kingdom's Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Chilean Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), and the National Research Foundation of Korea.

No comprehensive national studies have been done, but a 2011 poll of its members by the National Science Teachers Association found that 82 percent had faced skepticism about climate change from students, and 54 percent had faced skepticism from national studies have been done, but a 2011 poll of its members by the National Science Teachers Association found that 82 percent had faced skepticism about climate change from students, and 54 percent had faced skepticism from National Science Teachers Association found that 82 percent had faced skepticism about climate change from students, and 54 percent had faced skepticism from parents.

LA JOLLA — With forensic science facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served on the National Commission on Forensic Science are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of ouscience facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served on the National Commission on Forensic Science are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of ouScience are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of ouscience as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of outcomes.

But new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science suggests that taking birth control might influence how much stock you put into an attractive face.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «Primary schools are struggling to prioritise science, languages and arts in the face of an accountability regime which prioritises English and Maths at the expense of all else.

Chris Caldow has been with NOAA since 2000 when he became a Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science's (NCCOS) Biogeography Branch at NOAA Headquarters, a unit specializing in mapping the distributions of marine plants and animals to aid decision makers faced with spatially explicit management decisions.

Sandalow sensibly suggested that the National Academy of Sciences be used to inform the Senate on where the consensus of the science is, and Benedick made some excellent points about how legislation can be successful in the face of scientific controversy and uncertain predictions.

The National Science Foundation has found no evidence of research misconduct by Michael Mann, the Pennsylvania State University climatologist who has faced waves of attacks from foes of action to curb greenhouse gases.

«If we do not accept that climate change is an enormously important dimension of the energy challenge that we face, and larger environmental challenges that we face, we will not put into the legislation that we need, the key ingredient that we need,» Obama science and technology adviser John Holdren said in his remarks to the National Climate Adaptation Summit on May 27.

Douglas Inkley, National Wildlife Federation senior science advisor, notes, «We face the prospect that the world of wildlife that we now know — and many of the places we have invested decades of work in conserving as refuges and habitats for wildlife — will cease to exist as we know them, unless we change this forecast.»

On that basis, the report concludes that while continued oil sands production will make it very hard for Canada to meet its national emission reduction targets — which again it's worth pointing out, are in line with those of the US and far far below what science says is needed to minimize the impacts of climate change — on a global basis «elimination of oil sands GHG emissions will not eliminate or substantially lessen the immense challenge facing the world to reduce GHG emissions.»

It was Franklin D. Roosevelt who brought national attention to the need for relationship education with this statement, «Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.»