Sentences with phrase «of staff scientists»

Reevaluating the Role of Staff Scientists.

She will be cataloging correspondence, field and lab notebooks, and research files of staff scientists of both departments; modernizing our archival databases, and digitizing photographs and documents for Carnegie's new digital asset management system.

Expanding the ranks of staff scientists — Ph.D. - level, non-trainee, non-faculty researchers — has been a consistent recommendation in reports proposing reforms to the biomedical research enterprise.

Those salaries should also be increased, the report argues, to be commensurate with the training levels of staff scientists and their value to the lab.

The specific duties of staff scientists — who can work in core facilities as well as in labs in academia, non-profit research institutions, and government — generally include both doing independent research and helping others get work done, though the specifics vary.

Substantially increasing the use of staff scientists in this country will thus require changes in funding and administrative practices as well as culture change.

One widespread and highly successful role of staff scientists in Europe, and also in some places in the United States, participants noted, is managing core facilities used by many labs.

Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.

High on his list is the creation of a staff scientist position for researchers who love the bench but don't want to deal with the added responsibilities that come with assistant professorships.

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

The extent to which the number of staff scientist positions will continue increasing remains to be seen, but the role can offer an appealing option for those who want to stay close to research while also expanding their skills and responsibilities.

Faculty members and institutions, for their part, should realize that the position of staff scientist does not imply a lack of scientific drive or disinterest in professional advancement and should strive to promote and nurture more of these positions.

Not exact matches

If you're a small business owner, you don't have the luxury of a PhD data scientist on your staff.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

At the Secular Student Alliance office in Columbus, Ohio, the staff will play Secret Sagan, a nod to the famed scientist, instead of Secret Santa.

(i) there is a worldwide conspiracy of corporations, research insti.tutes, universities, colleges and academic publications, including all their tens of thousands of scientists, professors, editors, reviewers, and support staff, to deny creation science;

Key staff members who help the company's operations run smoothly include General Manager Sherry Hibshman, who carries out company policies and supervises other managers; Food Scientist Brandy Kendig, who tests flour to make sure it conforms to government regulations; and Mike Gingrich, who is in charge of the milling operations.

Each distributor in PRO * ACT's network of distributors nationwide has a full - time food safety inspector and a backup on staff, and the company also has a food safety scientist on staff.

The Staff Scientist will be an integral part of Rainforest Alliance's Evaluation & Research program and of the AFi team.

The Staff Scientist will conduct scientific research, analysis, and preparation of publications in support of cutting - edge sustainability strategies, standards, and projects that the Rainforest Alliance carries out in pursuit of its mission.

Kids will love diving into a replica of Woodstock's nest and seeing specimens of other birds and nests, playing inside a massive Great Pumpkin («It's not like the pumpkin you'll carve at Halloween,» Miller says), and getting answers to their scientific queries at Lucy's Psychiatry Booth, which is staffed by museum scientists.

The Board of Trustees, Members of the Advisory Council and Staff of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) wish to commiserate with Nigerians on the death of an erudite scholar, a selfless personality and brilliant political scientist, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, who was a Member of our Advisory Council and Director - General of the Electoral Institute until his death.

Being a political scientist doesn't make one a good leader / persuader (evidence: very few of them become leaders naturally); and although knowledge of the subject matter can help one be better at it, that's why a politician has advisers / staff who ARE experts at such studies.

Professor David Southwood of the Royal Astronomical Society warned that «the average space scientist would be concerned by how overstretched the staff are», while the Mullard Space Science Laboratory suggested the resources «may not be up to the ambitions» of the UK government.

The Board of Trustees, Members of the Advisory Council and Staff of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) wish to commiserate with Nigerians on the death of an erudite scholar, a selfless personality and brilliant political scientist, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, who was a Member of our Advisory Council -LSB-...]

«Companies can inspire the next generations of scientists and engineers by spending time in today's classrooms,» said Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps, Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

American Statistical Association, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights Contact: Joseph B. Kadane, Chair; Steve Pierson, Staff Liaison The Committee concerns itself with violations of and threats to the scientific freedom and human rights of statisticians and other scientists throughout the world.

For example, Nick Cross, a staff scientist for the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy in the United Kingdom, develops software to process and archive imaging and other data from large astronomical surveys.

University scientists staff their labs with graduate students and postdocs recruited «with funding and the implicit assurance of interesting research careers,» she writes.

Aaron Baughman - Senior Technical Staff Member and Lead Data Scientist, IBM Sports and Entertainment Division Bertrand Cambou - Professor of Practice, Northern Arizona University Eric Fossum - Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth and Director of the School's PhD Innovation Program Rick Hamilton - Client Innovation Leader, IBM Watson IoT Division Ayanna Howard - Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in Bioengineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zyrobotics Benjamin Hsiao - Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Stony Brook University Anthony Mulligan - Founder and CEO, Hydronalix, Inc..

Members of the Hotline team will also be invited to advise AAAS staff on ways we can improve the range of services AAAS provides to human rights through On - call Scientists.

On his way to the first of six meetings on Capitol Hill as part of his inaugural participation in Climate Science Day events that bring scientists to Congress each year to offer lawmakers and their staff assistance and scientific resources relating to climate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Yet, as was the case with the other scientists, during his meetings with the staff of New York delegation members the conversations turned to his work measuring the impact of human activities on New York's coastal marshes.

They propose, for example, altering «the ratio of trainees to staff scientists in research groups.»

The Project on Science, Technology and Disability organized a resource room for handicapped scientists and staffed it for the duration of the meeting.

These records are arranged into five series, focusing on general files and correspondence, Out of School Programs in Science, the Resource Directory of Handicapped Scientists, the Coping Strategies Study and staff files.

Ozer immediately obtained a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to conduct a survey of disabled scientists, and she and her staff collected hundreds of responses.

Refer broader, longer - term research questions or needs for additional input from other scientific fields back to AAAS staff so they can identify a longer - term partner or team of volunteers for the project from the On - call Scientists roster.

«I think it's part of the problematic labor conditions found in academia today,» where in order to stay in science you must become a group leader, given that the staff scientist position has almost entirely disappeared.

Such departments are staffed by a mixture of clinical scientists, biomedical scientists, and medically qualified staff.

Moreover, these staff scientists, as Solomon sees it, would hold high - caliber positions with all of the health care and retirement benefits offered to other staff at their institution.

«Managers of forensic science labs should consider ways to minimize the overtime that scientists work, though this may be difficult if scientists must work more than 40 hours a week to clear backlogs or because of state mandates and a lack of trained staff to more evenly distribute hours,» Holt said.

«People have been creating these really high - pressure states for decades, but what they didn't know until MEC came online is exactly how these high pressures change materials — what drives the change and how the material deforms,» said SLAC staff scientist Bob Nagler, a co-author of the report.

And so Lamb, along with Caltech graduate student Jeff Prancevic and staff scientist Brian Fuller, set out to model the behavior of steep channels on an artificial watercourse — a flume — that they created for just this purpose.

Q: What was it like moving from a postdoc at SLAC to becoming a staff scientist, then director of the Center for the Advanced Studies of Accelerators at Jefferson Lab?

He conducted the research with Jeff Urban, Facility Director of the Inorganic Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry, and a team of scientists that included staff at the Advanced Light Source.

The CFS laboratories are organized into sections specializing in biology, chemistry, documents / photoanalysis, electronics, firearms / tool marks, and toxicology, which are staffed by technologists, scientists, administrative support, and a coterie of managers.

To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.

Grouping T cell receptors for a given epitope revealed underlying common features that characterized the bulk of the repertoire,» said first author Pradyot Dash, D.V.M., Ph.D., a staff scientist in Thomas» laboratory.