Sentences with phrase «nature of academic science»

I think that this says something about the insular nature of academic science.

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Accompanying these macroeconomic factors, changes such as the push to interdisciplinary and translational research, as well as the addition of innovation and technology transfer to the research and teaching remits of universities, are changing the nature and practice of academic research and of science - related jobs.

The research team, led by HKUST's Chair Professor of Division of Life Science Professor Pei - Yuan Qian and HKBU's Associate Professor of Biology Dr Jian - Wen Qiu, has published the research findings in the international academic journal Nature Ecology & Evolution in early April.

To search for medicines, to boost science, to preserve nature, to strengthen industrial competition, to strengthen academic educational programs, to improve health care, to correct misuse, and to support positive interactions with indigenous populations: These have been the goals of the Brazilian autochthonic medicine programs for the past 20 years.

One of the challenges inherent in the cross-disciplinary nature of this new and emerging academic domain is providing necessary education and training in the biological sciences to students from computational backgrounds such as engineering or applied math.

The Risk and Prevention Program has been renamed Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) / Counseling C.A.S.. Although the curriculum and educational experience of students will not change, the new name, says program director Mandy Savitz - Romer, better reflects the integrated nature of the program and its mission to prepare graduates to improve the social, emotional, and academic outcomes of children and youth.

And precisely BECAUSE it is political in nature, «Climate Science» stands in far greater need of rigorous scrutiny than purely academic research.

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

So does anyone wonder why academic climate researchers crank out lots of papers, try to get them published in Nature, Science, or PNAS, and don't worry too much whether their paper will stand the test of time?

The result was a powerful backlash: the Union of Concerned Scientists, Nature, the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science denounced Cuccinelli's tactics, as did 900 Virginia academics who petitioned for its withdrawal.