Sentences with phrase «organizes public science»

I am the co-founder of Soapbox Science, an initiative which organizes public science communication events that brings cutting - edge science to the public, in an accessible, fun, free and un-intimidating way.

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Drug laws have also fostered drug - related murders and an estimated 40 percent of all property crime in the U.S. Ethan A. Nadelmann, whose article «Drug Prohibition in the United States» in the September 1, 1989, issue of Science has been a major catalyst for public discussion of legalization, argues that «the greatest beneficiaries of the drug laws are organized and unorganized drug traffickers.

Christopher Faricy, assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said Hillary Clinton's ability to develop a strong network of relationships at the state, county and local level helped her campaign outlast a campaign organized by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I - Vt.).

Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the science pointing to human - caused climate change, she said.

«We were trying to share science with the public,» says Seungwhan Kim, a physicist at Pohang University of Science and Technology who chairs the local organizing comscience with the public,» says Seungwhan Kim, a physicist at Pohang University of Science and Technology who chairs the local organizing comScience and Technology who chairs the local organizing committee.

Kenney and several other fellows, Jeff Dukes, Jessica Hellmann and Karen Lips, also organized activities at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in August 2017: an «Ignite» session about public engagement and a workshop based on the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology's Communicating Science workpublic engagement and a workshop based on the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology's Communicating Science workPublic Engagement with Science and Technology's Communicating Science workshops.

It says tobacco was and coal is under attack from «well funded, well organized NGO opposition driving regulatory policy, media messaging, and shaping public opinion — often with poor / no science.»

For Bolderson, that has meant organizing the annual science festival and training graduate students, postdocs, and other researchers to host their own public - engagement activities during the year.

The British Science Association, for instance, organizes its own annual science festival, as well as a science and engineering week aimed at the general Science Association, for instance, organizes its own annual science festival, as well as a science and engineering week aimed at the general science festival, as well as a science and engineering week aimed at the general science and engineering week aimed at the general public.

Brahim: My university organized a short training program in communicating science to the public to prepare for the contest.

NeuWrite groups also produce original writing and podcasts, and organize public events to further the understanding of science.

Committee for Postdocs and Students (COMPASS) Outreach Grants are intended to provide funds to ASCB members to promote science outreach projects — like visits to labs for students, organizing science fairs, or any other ideas for engaging the public.

ZIB celebrated this historic breakthrough by organizing a series of public events in which the computer as an instrument, computing, and digital science in general were presented in many of their fascinating aspects.

Linked Learning offers secondary students a multi-year course of study that combines academic and technical learning organized around broad industry sectors, such as biomedical and health sciences; finance and business; information technology; public services; and arts, media and entertainment.

In the U.S. there is an organized public relations campaign to dispute climate change science.

Yesterday afternoon (3/26/07) I attended a public workshop on «Rapid Changes in Ice Sheet Mass Balance» organized by the US Climate Change Science Program.

Brulle claimed to expose a network of nonprofit organizations executing «a deliberate and organized effort to misdirect debate and distort» the public's understanding of climate science.

Using litigation, science, public outreach and organizing, the media, and lobbying, we are making progress.

Philip Morris hired APCO to organize the front group TASSC (The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition) in October, 1993 to help fight public health efforts to control Environmental Tobacco Smoke that occurred in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ruling that secondhand tobacco smoke was a Group A human carcinogen.

The symposium is organized by the Department of Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, Sun Yat - sen University, and jointly supported by the Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology and APN (CRRP2016 - 10MY - Huang).

These Mertonian norms include: communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, originalism, and organized skepticism... These norms have been described as follows: «Communalism: Science is public knowledge, freely available to all... Universalism: There are no privileged sources of scientific knowledge... Disinterestedness: Science is done for its own sake.

Public Library of Science (screencapture):... In 1993, the editor of the widely read medical journal The Lancet asked Paul to organize a series of articles on the impact of climate change on health.

the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science

«We ask that the DOJ similarly investigate ExxonMobil for organizing a sustained deception campaign disputing climate science and failing to disclose truthful information to investors and the public,» according to the letter.