Sentences with phrase «on women in science»

Ghada shows how women are breaking gender stereotypes in Egypt, and gets ideas on women in science from Lindau researchers, Germany's federal education minister Annette Schavan, and the Countess Bernadotte at Lindau.

Gender equality has not yet been achieved in science, medicine, and engineering, but NYSCF, through its Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering, is committed to making sure progress is made.

She chairs the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Institute of Medicine's National Research Council Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and is a Councilor of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS).

In the past, she has served on the boards of the Massachusetts Life Science Center (Gubernatorial appointment), Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the advisory councils for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, the Biology Directorate of the NSF, and the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

There was a strong emphasis on women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at this year's meeting, and as such, many of the young scientists involved in discussion panels and sessions were women.

Held during the 30th Annual NOBCChE (National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers) Conference in New Orleans, the second annual workshop on women in science was a big hit with participants.

Due to the great success of the NOBCChE symposium on women in science, the workshop planning committee members hope the session will be presented at future conferences.

«I am very pleased,» says Alice Agogino, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a member of the National Academies» Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the former head of the National Science Foundation who chairs the National Academies of Sciences» Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, said that she and fellow committee members are «ecstatic» about McNutt's nomination.

Editor's note: This year, Next Wave will run a continuing series on Women in Science in Germany.

And that's before anyone gets to scandals in Summers» past, like the comments on women in the sciences or the Shleifer affair, not to mention the consulting and speaking fees he'll need to report on his financial disclosure forms.

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In fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United StateIn fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United Statein the United States.

Morneau plan to raise long - term growth is counting on waves of new measures designed to advance fundamental science, nurture the innovative economy and to knock down many of the barriers preventing women from fully participating in the workforce.

Ivanka Trump, leading her father's delegation to a Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India, on Wednesday called for more women to enter engineering and the sciences.

The discussion touched on all the usual culprits for the underrepresentation of women in tech industry leadership roles: discrimination in the workplace, the «pipeline problem» of too few girls studying math and science, the difficulty of balancing motherhood with the demands of a startup.

The global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington, is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» — see climate change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.

They pride themselves on their hatred for science, education, women, minorities, children after childbirth and attempts to restrict military guns in civilian hands.

It's environmentally and community friendly: A recent story in the LA Times focused on the growing body of social science indicating that «women consistently (highly) rank values strongly linked to environmental concern — things such as altruism, personal responsibility and empathy.»

@Rachel, Many Atheists are simply trying to counter-act the influence of Christians in their lives, such as science in science class, gay marriage, stem cell research, women's choices on reproduction.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Seven centuries ago Aquinas, in an age that venerated Augustine as an authority, broke with him on key issues of spirituality such as matter, time, women, history and the importance of the natural sciences.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

A socio - biologist can tell a young woman on the best scientific authority that nature designed her, body and mind, to conceive, bear and care for children, but it he can not tell her in the name of science that in so doing she will fulfill her human possibilities, and he can not answer her when she declares war on such natural necessities.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

I personally have met several such mystics - men and women who have known what it is to be filled with a rushing mighty wind, such as the earliest Christians experienced on the day of Pentecost, and who have become intensely aware of that same unity in the spiritual world that science has established in the world of matter.»

Our upcoming main stage event in Los Angeles on October 28th features a talk on the evolution of the LA food scene by renowned restaurant critic, Jonathan Gold; a talk on building a kind coffee empire by Todd Carmichael, TV host and the founder and CEO of La Colombe; insights into how vegetables have become a trend by the woman whose company has been responsible for introducing kiwis and other fruits to the American market, Karen Caplan of Frieda's and other talks on the science of flavor, the convergence of sci - fi and food, leaving a popular band to become a chef, and much more.

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're talking to Marcia DeLonge, a senior scientist and agroecologist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about working in environmental sScience, we're talking to Marcia DeLonge, a senior scientist and agroecologist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about working in environmental sciencescience.

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special OlympicIn her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympicin the Special Olympics.

This bad boy is backed up by science and they aren't afraid to share the stats: Plantscription ™ was tested in a 20 - week consumer study on women ages 42 - 63.

From the numerous conversations (both on the telephone and via email) that MomsTEAM's Senior Health and Safety Editor, Lindsey Barton Straus, and I have had over the years with our friends at US Lacrosse, especially CEO, Steve Stenersen (who I started talking to way back in 1999 - 2000), director of health and sport safety, Bruce Griffin (who was one of the principal authors of the draft standard), and Ann Carpenetti, vice president of lacrosse operations and co-chair of the women's lacrosse headgear task group, I am confident that the draft standard is based on sound science.

Our combination of advanced science, excellent success rates, focus on safety, longstanding stability and extensive patient support combine to create a positive experience for every man and woman in our care.

but the birth i want isn't just some selfish fantasy — i'm making these choices based on what science and millenia of birthing women have proven are the safest, healthiest, and most positive ways to bring a child into the world / interact with them in their first few hours of life.

From 1988 - 1991, I collected interview data on the self - and body - images of 40 professional women and homebirthers in relation to their beliefs and choices about pregnancy and birth, and published that study in Social Science and Medicine and elsewhere.

I think this is an example of, when science is on our side, particularly, well I think either way, if it's living or deceased, I, yeah, because I remember the article about the woman in Sweden and I want to say, the donor was maybe in her 60's.

Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls», a book about women in science or just a book with a female protagonist and plant the seed of success early on.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

These were the first steps in a journey that has taken her to Wisconsin, Kenya, and California, before returning to her roots in 1994, where she became the first woman on the Department of Food Science faculty at Cornell University.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption against EU officials in Kosovo, commitment to science and, with Steve Rotheram MP, on tyre safety.

Encouraging future generations of women to pursue careers in transport and engineering is the aim of the «Innovative Women in Transport and Engineering» exhibition sponsored by the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) being launched at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum on Thursday 15 Mwomen to pursue careers in transport and engineering is the aim of the «Innovative Women in Transport and Engineering» exhibition sponsored by the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) being launched at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum on Thursday 15 MWomen in Transport and Engineering» exhibition sponsored by the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) being launched at Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum on Thursday 15 March.

Science and the L'Oréal Foundation are proud to bring you our next Women in Science booklet, this time with a focus on women pursuing research in «green science&Science and the L'Oréal Foundation are proud to bring you our next Women in Science booklet, this time with a focus on women pursuing research in «green science&raWomen in Science booklet, this time with a focus on women pursuing research in «green science&Science booklet, this time with a focus on women pursuing research in «green science&rawomen pursuing research in «green science&science».

France Addresses Gender Gap in Science Melissa Mertl reports on the current situation of French women in science and the French government?s activities to supporScience Melissa Mertl reports on the current situation of French women in science and the French government?s activities to supporscience and the French government?s activities to support them.

He has conducted qualitative and quantitative research on the experiences of women, people of color, and LGBT persons in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

WOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggWOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggestIN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suSCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggestin science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suscience - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggwomen, a new study suggests.

Science and the L'Oréal Foundation have teamed up once again to bring you the latest Women in Science booklet focusing on 16 women in five different areas of biology resWomen in Science booklet focusing on 16 women in five different areas of biology reswomen in five different areas of biology research

Check out these exceptional women who are making a difference by advancing and popularizing science through entertainingly clever content on Twitter and in the media.

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Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, 2007).

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