Sentences with phrase «national labs run»

Oak Ridge is one of 10 national labs run by DOE's Office of Science, which this year took a 5 % hit, to $ 4.632 billion, as part of the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.

One of 10 national labs run by the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, Argonne has an annual budget of $ 722 million and a staff of 3350.

Battelle helps run six of the 10 DOE national labs run by the Office of Science, including Oak Ridge.

Not exact matches

B Lab is running its first national ad campaign on behalf of the community of Certified B Corps.

When Eric Cornell started as a postdoc with Carl Wieman at JILA, an institute run jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder, in 1990 he did his best to transform their second - floor lab into a basement.

Obtaining research money is very competitive at every level, says National Health and Medical Research Council Chief Executive Officer Warwick Anderson, but the squeeze is particularly tight for postdocs who want to run their own labs.

After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.

For example, two of five nanoscience centers at the office's 10 national labs would close and the Stanford Synchrotron - Radiation Lightsource would run for 3 months and then be mothballed.

One day, while running errands in his pickup truck, he received a call from Parker, who had just established an undergraduate research program in his lab through the U.S. National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

In the meantime, a new analysis from the BaBar experiment, which ran at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in California until 2008, suggests the standard model is not what it seems.

Roughly 1200 of these are research labs, which are often housed at major academic centers or run by government agencies themselves, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Chris Randall walks through the halls of Huntsville, Alabama's A&M University proudly carrying the souvenir bag he got from being an undergraduate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy's (DOE) largest science laboratory, and one of the most prestigious government - run labs in the U.S..

CCD probably peaked around 2007 and faded since, says Jeff Pettis, who during the heights of national curiosity was running the Beltsville, Md., honeybee lab for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research wing.

The department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service oversees more than 7800 animal holding facilities from zoos to circuses and aquariums, including roughly 1100 labs, some of them run by the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1 billion Number of neurons, linked by 10 trillion synapses, in a brain simulation developed by IBM and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, running on the Dawn supercomputer.

Based on information supplied to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding 28 T32 training programs covering 303 faculty - run labs, the study included more than 1700 former postdocs, or about 40 % of those departing UCSF during the covered years.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, which runs a network of 38 national labs, will get a 4.6 % increase, in line with orders it received last year to self - finance half its budget within the next 2 to 3 years.

A few steps up the career ladder, Richard Festenstein, consultant in neurogenetics at the National Hospital for Neurology and reader in molecular medicine at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London, spends 1 day a week taking a neurology clinic and runs his lab the rest of the time.

For those willing to venture even farther, Willis says, there is a remarkable site just south of town, a half mile west of the government - run Sandia National Lab, where in 1957 a bomber accidentally dropped a mammoth Mark - 17 hydrogen bomb.

Another lab ran into a similar problem when it tried to replicate work by Stanford stem cell biologist Irving Weissman and his colleagues, who reported in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that an antibody to a tumor cell surface receptor called CD47 can slow tumor growth in mice.

Physicists working at the Brookhaven National Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are exploring the puzzle of proton spin as they begin taking data during the 2009 RHIC run.

«Recently there is a big push for using ultracool atoms to mimic solid - state materials,» says Ana Maria Rey of JILA, a lab jointly run by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder.

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

NREL has demonstrated this capability in a joint project with Idaho National Lab (INL) where a remote grid model running at INL controlled the 120kW PEM electrolyzer at NREL based on grid conditions.

And, U.S. Energy Department - run Idaho National Lab has shown it goes nearly as far on electricity as pure EVs.

Many shelters, vets and even medical labs will check for tattoos and run a scanner over unidentified dogs to check for a microchip, then contact the national registry where your dog's number is on file.

A series of reports by the National Renewable Energy Lab have shown that keeping NGS running was costing ratepayers considerably more than purchasing power on the open market.

To date, Wells Fargo has invested $ 6 billion in solar and wind farms across the United States, and it recently tripled its investment, to $ 30 million, in an incubator for clean - technology startups that it runs with the National Renewable Energy Lab.

As a Texan, it pains me to see my former governor, a man who ran the state pragmatically and competently for 14 years, squirm and strain to communicate why it's good for our country to cut the national labs and reduce our commitment to federally funded scientific and technological innovation.