Sentences with phrase «professor of life sciences»

He is currently an assistant professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and an affiliate of the Wisconsin Energy Institute.

Neil Stenhouse Assistant professor of life sciences communications, University of Wisconsin - Madison Neil Stenhouse earned his Ph.D. in communication in 2015 at George Mason University where he conducted research with the Center for Climate Change Communication.

The positive relationship between swimming speed and larval orientation angle suggests that there was also an active response to tilting in turbulence,» said Karen Chan, assistant professor of life sciences at HKUST and one of the co-authors in the study.

«The promise of this technology is tremendous, as are the potential pitfalls,» says Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences communication, Morgridge affiliate and conference co-organizer.

«When assessing the security implications of genome editing, it will be particularly important to include the voices of all stakeholders,» says Dominique Brossard, professor of life sciences communication and Morgridge affiliate.

«It's so comprehensive,» said Nancy Grimm, a co-author and professor of life sciences at Arizona State University.

It's rather like studying lion behavior in a zoo rather than in its natural habitat,» said Steve Diggle, an associate professor of life sciences at the University of Nottingham.

Not exact matches

As an environmental sciences professor at Huston - Tillotson University in Austin, Jeff Wilson lived for a year in a dumpster as part of project designed to rethink home design and sustainable living.

Dr. Alan Schlechter, author of «U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (And Life),» is also the professor of the most popular elective class at New York University called «The Science of Happiness.»

Michael J. Behe, professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, said in 2006: «Science has now advanced enough to have uncovered the foundation level of life.

Alan Wolfe is professor of political science and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and Public Life at Boston College.

Rubin, a professor of political science at Duquesne University, assesses environmentalism from the standpoint of liberal constitutionalism; he notes that major environmentalists aspire to transform every segment of human existence, from our economic transactions to our private lives.

Alongside his 50 years of research into evolution, Professor Ayala has long been a champion of the interdisciplinary questions of faith and science, arguing repeatedly against both creationist / intelligent design and atheist approaches to the origins of life.

Though you can not completely eliminate your teenager's chances for depression, consider whether your child participates in physical and extracurricular activities, maintains a positive social life and understands how to cope with stress, suggests John Curry, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Center for the Study of Suicide Prevention and Intervention at Duke University in Durham.

Robert E. Kelly, professor or political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, was interviewed live on the BBC World News this morning to talk about the president of South Korea having been forced out of office last night after a months - long corruption scandal.

«All elected officials want to avoid uncertainty and risk and you're going to introduce more of that when you bring a bunch of people in and you have this live conversation at which the media is usually there,» said Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University and host of WRVO's Campbell Conversations.

Commenting on the significance of the symposium to Scotland Professor Steve Yearley, Director of the Edinburgh - based ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, said: «Scotland has long been at the forefront of life - sciences and social science research.

«New York is a deep blue state, but we don't have the firewall of progressive legislation that we would need to protect our most vulnerable residents from the worst onslaught of a Trump administration,» said Susan Kang, a CUNY political science professor who lives in IDC Sen. José Peralta's district and who volunteers with No IDC NY.

«I can't think of many things worse in life than being a Republican member of the Assembly,» said Hunter College political science professor Ken Sherrill.

«We make a particular sense of our lives and of our world that allows us to process and retain information and to decide what to do,» said Chater, professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School.

Common garter snakes, along with four other snake species, have evolved the ability to eat extremely toxic species such as the rough - skinned newt — amphibians that would kill a human predator — thanks to at least 100 million years of evolution, according to Joel McGlothlin, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

«Religious and spiritual struggles — conflicts with God or religious people, tough questions about faith, morality, and the meaning of life — these are often taboo topics, and the temptation to push them away is strong,» said Julie Exline, professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve and co-author of the research.

Dominique Brossard, professor and chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, agreed with Kahan that «audiences use science that supports their viewpoint.»

«The discovery of the microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding of human health — there are more microbes living on us and in us than our own cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.

In short, this isn't your old professor's world of life science.

As life science and technology startups are coming off an unprecedented boon in growth and investment, professors are tapping consulting allowances, participating in entrepreneurial training, and negotiating leaves of absence to create and manage commercial ventures — and experimenting with new methods to make it all work.

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

In a study of small fishing communities, Xavier Basurto, an assistant professor of sustainability science at Duke University and colleagues, show that the coexistence of pro- and anti-sociality in groups may be more common than previously thought, especially for fishers living in marine protected areas.

«If we can understand how the landscape has changed over decades and what that does to water quality, human health, and ecosystem health, we can begin to make predictions for the future,» said senior author Kathleen Alexander, professor of wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

If we as scientists can't tell a story that leads back to how something will make people's lives better, we won't be effective communicators,» said Arthur Lupia, the Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan, who is on the LLI advisory board.

Standing in front of five professors for an hour and a half, chalk in hand, blackboard blank, bowels clenched, preparing to field science questions, has to be one of the most harrowing experiences of a grad student's life.

«I think we're at our best when climate scientists connect the impacts of [climate change] to our personal lives, to our economy, to our families, to our communities,» Hill is an associate professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis.

«Early life exposure to lead causes a long lasting impact on gut microbiome, and the change of gut microbiome may partially contribute to the increased body weight in adult life,» said lead author Chuanwu Xi, associate professor of environmental health science.

«Plants don't have ears to hear, fingers to feel or eyes to see,» said Gary Stacey an investigator in the MU Bond Life Sciences Center and professor of plant sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

«The intestinal bacteria, or «gut microbiome,» you develop at a very young age, can have a big impact on your health for the rest of your life,» said the study's lead author Dan Knights, a University of Minnesota assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Biotechnology Institute.

In The Long, Long Life of Trees, Fiona Stafford — an author, radio host and University of Oxford literature professor — explores the science and symbology of 17 common trees.

«Ticks and the bacteria they carry are very opportunistic,» said George Poinar, Jr., a professor emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology of the OSU College of Science, and one of the world's leading experts on plant and animal life forms found preserved in amber.

Assistant Professor Lin Qingsong, who is from the Department of Biological Sciences under the NUS Faculty of Science and is one of the scientists who led the study, explained, «Many people may not realise that more human lives are lost to the tiny mosquito, more specifically malaria parasites, each year as compared to ferocious animals such as lions and sharks.

«The way manufacturing and commerce are structured in the world today means that air pollution mortality is being felt disproportionately by people living in or near producing regions, often far from where goods are consumed,» said paper co-author Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine.

Dennis Miller, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts & Science and an investigator with the Bond Life Sciences Center, and researchers in the Center for Translational Neuroscience at MU, study therapies for drug addiction and neurodegenerative disorders.

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

Marlis Douglas, associate professor of biological sciences and Bruker Chair of Life Sciences, said the genetic data were also evaluated to identify these snakes as individual species.

«You should definitely pay attention to where you put your food waste, and you should feel good you live in a place where compost is an option,» said paper author Sally Brown, a UW research associate professor of environmental and forest sciences.

«The big news is that we now have evidence of a function for RNA that is being exchanged between dodder and its quarry,» said Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, an author of the paper.

«In this study, for the first time, we determined these risk factors may also be indicative of early memory complaints, which are often precursors to more significant memory decline later in life,» said Small, who is also a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance, offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as oil - rigs and pipelines, disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.

«We basically can't live without our cellphones, our digital devices,» says Pattie Maes, a professor of media arts and sciences and Kapur's thesis advisor.

Although the percentage of doctorates awarded to women in life sciences increased from 15 to 52 percent between 1969 and 2009, only about a third of assistant professors and less than a fifth of full professors in biology - related fields in 2009 were female.

«If you can cool the person rather than the building where they work or live, that will save energy,» said Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University and of photon science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the study's principal investigator.

«Gil's absolutely convinced that he discovered life on Mars,» says Paul Davies, head of Arizona State University's Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, where Levin was an adjunct professor before retiring.