Sentences with phrase «program supports scientists»

The distinguished investigator program supports scientists who are considered rising stars in their fields of study.

Particularly relevant have been the programs supporting scientists so that they can spend time in other European laboratories, but also various collaborative projects encompassing several research groups across many countries.

Not exact matches

Pharmanet's drug discovery program was recently expanded to include additional in vitro programs, which are to be undertaken by independent scientists at government - supported medical research facilities in Perth.

«But all it takes is a couple of dedicated teachers with a little support and guidance to run important research programs that can produce winners in this competition and more importantly kids who are going to go on to become scientists and change the world.»

Academic support, training, funding, and recruitment efforts are needed within biodefense programs to educate experts in policymaking and prepare scientists for bioterrorism challenges, according to a AAAS - sponsored workshop report.

The Program is committed to advancing the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, engaging scientists, engineers and their professional associations in human rights efforts, monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging human rights issues related to science and technology, and furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights through a variety of projects, activities and publications.

AAAS implemented the MWIRC program, with support and funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the goal to foster participation of U.S. female scientists and engineers in international science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and education collaborations, particularly female STEM faculty from underrepresented minority groups and with physical disabilities.

The article «Breaking through the polycarbonate ceiling» highlighted programs led by AAAS that aimed at early - career support as well as professional advancement, for women scientists and engineers, including programs such as COACh (career - training and networking program) and WISC (Women's International Scientific Cooperation).

«We owe the young scientists who are coming into the system, from the moment they start in a Ph.D. program until they finally get to the point that they're in faculty positions... a responsibility to give them clear information and good support in making effective, sound decisions that comport with their abilities and career aspirations,» Daniels said at a briefing on the report.

A new program aims to launch the careers of diverse life scientists — including women and members of other underrepresented groups — by providing up to 8 years of support, covering both the postdoctoral training and junior faculty stages.

The Program is committed to promoting high standards for the practice of science and engineering; advancing the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications; engaging scientists, engineers and their professional associations in human rights efforts; monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging ethical, legal, and human rights issues related to science and technology; furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights; and initiating activities to address the impact of developments at the intersection of science, technology, and law.

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

In a study supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Atmospheric System Research program, scientists used the Community Atmosphere Model version 4 to examine the relative importance of heating at different altitudes to the MJO.

The initial proposal states that ways to monitor and support visiting scientists will have to be put in place and that training on policymaking, leadership skills, science diplomacy and communication will need to be incorporated into the program.

American Heart Association - Beginning Scientist Programs The following programs are designed to support promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and funding research projects that can serve to bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for competition as an independent invesPrograms The following programs are designed to support promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and funding research projects that can serve to bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for competition as an independent invesprograms are designed to support promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and funding research projects that can serve to bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for competition as an independent investigator.

Reentry Programs Most programs designed to support scientists seeking to reenter the workforce after a career break made necessary by parenthood or the need to care for one's own parents are targeted towarPrograms Most programs designed to support scientists seeking to reenter the workforce after a career break made necessary by parenthood or the need to care for one's own parents are targeted towarprograms designed to support scientists seeking to reenter the workforce after a career break made necessary by parenthood or the need to care for one's own parents are targeted toward women.

Scientists greeted the report with cautious enthusiasm, praising the increased budget and the plans to launch the long - desired European Research Council (ERC), a Europe - wide grantmaking body that will fund individual scientists instead of the large and often unwieldy collaborations supported by previous FrameworkScientists greeted the report with cautious enthusiasm, praising the increased budget and the plans to launch the long - desired European Research Council (ERC), a Europe - wide grantmaking body that will fund individual scientists instead of the large and often unwieldy collaborations supported by previous Frameworkscientists instead of the large and often unwieldy collaborations supported by previous Framework programs.

In the past, we've heard from a young scientist who became a single mother after a grad school divorce, and about Germany's efforts to establish funding programs to support single - parent scientists.

I say fortunate because many training programs do not seem to support career development along this path, despite a stated interest in training physician - scientists.

Within MEXT are the two funding agencies, JSPS and JST, which support foreign scientists through grants and fellowship programs.

Bob Swap, an ORACLES program scientist in Washington, D.C., spent the month of July in Namibia shuttling between ministries and trying to rally support.

The office supports programs geared for scientists and engineers still early in their careers.

The plan for science and technology proposed by the Obama campaign, for example, calls for «comprehensive immigration reform that improves our visa programs to attract some of the world's most talented people to America» and supports an increase in the number of foreign scientists and technical people permitted to study, work, and stay in the United States.

The program offers training and financial support to turn scientists into teachers, but «a recently completed evaluation by Abt Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggests that the initiative is not having nearly the effect its supporters anticipated.»

As a member you'll feel good knowing that you're supporting programs and initiatives that provide a voice for all of the sciences, and all scientists, everywhere.

«One part of the exchange program, administered by the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy and supported with a grant from the Lounsbery Foundation, may bring Cuban scientists to the United States as early as May, said Marga Gual Soler, project director at the AAAS center.

The funding is most likely to come by expanding existing programs at the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and elsewhere that could financially support a lot more qualified scientists than they currently do.

They see it as an attempt to undermine a program that biomedical lobbyists have complained is supporting low - quality research at a time when excellent proposals from top scientists are being rejected for lack of funds.

''... the Action Plan places great emphasis on better catch reporting, more investment in data collection and analysis, and extensive observer programs to support the efforts of scientists working in this field.»

A program to manufacture fusion targets and support for academic scientists who want to use the facilities would also be cut.

«We are delighted that the Administration has seen fit to keep a distinguished social scientist and public servant in the top leadership of the world's premier basic research agency,» says Howard Silver, executive director of the Consortium of Social Science Associations in Washington, D.C. «We look forward to continuing to work with her in ensuring NSF's support for all the sciences in its research and education programs.»

He works with AAAS career development programs to strengthen their offerings and to create new opportunities to support the career aspirations and development needs of future and current scientists.

This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).

«The work discussed at today's press conference is emblematic of the many ways in which satellite remote sensing supports our efforts at natural resource management and wildlife conservation,» said Woody Turner, program scientist for NASA's Biological Diversity Program at NASA Headquarters in Washprogram scientist for NASA's Biological Diversity Program at NASA Headquarters in WashProgram at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

But scientists say that the economic stimulus package moving quickly through the U.S. Congress provides so much support for research that Canadian scientists once again will be tempted to cross the border, offsetting gains made over the past decade as a result of faculty - recruitment programs.

One favorite success story is Erich Jarvis, a neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who, as an African - American student from Harlem, was supported by some of those programs and who in 2002 was named the nation's top young scientist.

By providing salary support to individual scientists at universities, the program allows participants to focus on basic research.

Tilghman, Rockey, and the others in the working group laid out several recommendations aimed at shortening and diversifying doctoral programs and postdoc positions, increasing the proportion of trainees supported by training grants and fellowships instead of research grants, collecting more data on career outcomes, improving postdoc salaries, and promoting the staff scientist career path.

The Senior Scientists and Engineers (SSE) and AAAS forms the AAAS / SSE STEM Volunteer Program to support K - 12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, foster STEM literacy, and motivate students to pursue STEM careers.

Starting in 2008, the university plans to recruit 20 basic scientists and 10 medical doctors each year, provided the German government decides in October to give additional support to the program.

The resources were provided through the NSF - supported Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program, which acts as a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise.

That's what archeologists, wildlife biologists, and wetlands scientists who have gotten funding from a little - known transportation program will face with shrinking federal support if a massive highway bill approved by the U.S. Senate becomes law.

The Association encourages its affiliates and all other institutions that employ, support, or educate scientists to develop policies that affirm the dignity of all scientists and their right to engage in scientific inquiry free of unlawful discrimination; to sponsor programs that sensitize people to the seriousness and unacceptability of discrimination based upon criteria unrelated to individual abilities; and to design procedures that guard against such discrimination in a prompt and fair manner, and which balance the requirements of due process with proper regard for the sensitive nature of the issues.

The panel also recommended that NIH establish a new program aimed at organizing and curating massive biological databases, such as one on the mouse genome; set aside funds for researchers to hire biocomputing help; and support scientists assembling midsize computer networks that are more powerful than desktop machines but easier to manage than supercomputers.

To help American scientists plan for their research experience in France, Science's Next Wave has compiled a collection of funding programs supporting exchanges between the two countries.

As well, their publication records make it easier to obtain salary support (i.e., from programs such as the CIHR - sponsored Clinician Scientist Award) during postdoctoral research training, further easing the transition to an independent position.

Several funding programs have been created recently to support young scientists on their way to independence.

But Dajani and Panter - Brick say the reality is more nuanced: Although teens had less fear and stress, the study did not meet the scientists» strict definition of resilience, and the program did not appear to strengthen teens» social support, even though Mercy Corps's internal evaluations suggested that it did.

This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (OCI - 1053575), an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Fellowships for Young Energy Scientists program of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, which is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Through a combination of a variety of information gathering activities and Committee deliberations, the Committee has concluded that the nation's need for these scientists remains strong and that the NRSA program, while small compared to the many other sources of doctoral and postdoctoral support, is enormously powerful in terms of its ability to change research emphases and to attract the highest quality individuals to research careers in the basic biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences.