Sentences with phrase «research workforce for»

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As the ability of Unifor and UAW to set industry benchmarks diminished along with the Detroit Three's workforces, though, Toyota began paying wages markedly below union rates in certain U.S. regions, notes Kristin Dziczek, director of the Center for Automotive Research's labour group.

As companies continue to seek the winning formula for attracting millennial talent, new research from global public relations firm Weber and Shandwick and KRC Research finds that CEO activism may be the key to getting the attention of today's younger woresearch from global public relations firm Weber and Shandwick and KRC Research finds that CEO activism may be the key to getting the attention of today's younger woResearch finds that CEO activism may be the key to getting the attention of today's younger workforce.

So they see it as a step backward when they enter the workforce and get a heavy computer or antiquated smartphone,» said David Willis, the head of mobility and communications research for Gartner.

For example, not only are millions of Baby Boomers now reaching retirement age, some 90 million so - called Millennials or «Gen - Yers» are now entering the workforce — and creating new patterns of consumption and demand, says Jack Plunkett, CEO at Plunkett Research.

(Nearly half of retirees leave the workforce earlier than planned, for reasons including work layoffs, health problems and caregiving for a family member, according to the 2017 Retirement Confidence Survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.)

A 2016 Pew Research Center survey shows that more than half of the adults in the workforce today realize that it will be essential for them to get training and develop new skills throughout their career in order to keep up with changes in the workplace.

Employer branding and research company Universum recently released its 2016 Global Workforce Happiness Index and, among other insights, it has one big one for U.S. business leaders: Our employees are restless.

The country's largest workforce by demographics, millennials are willing to give up a percentage of their salary for long - term job security, flexible office hours and a management structure that emphasizes mentorship and a better career trajectory, according to new research from survey software firm Qualtrics and venture capital firm Accel Partners (a Qualtrics investor).

«When you have workers that already possess much of what you need, it makes a lot more sense to retrain them than to go out and hire new workers — who may be more educated — and then wait a year or more for them to get up to speed with how the company operates,» explains Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

With a highly skilled and educated workforce, more than 150 + leading research facilities, five Centres of Excellence such as Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR) and world - class incubators and accelerator programs, we are accelerating theresearch facilities, five Centres of Excellence such as Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR) and world - class incubators and accelerator programs, we are accelerating theResearch (WatCAR) and world - class incubators and accelerator programs, we are accelerating the future.

Drawing on behavioral science research, we share strategies for managing bias across the employee experience — from attracting and hiring candidates to developing and retaining your workforce.

According to current research and emerging best practices, managers should keep a few important points in mind when creating recognition programs for Millennial members of their workforce.

Overall, GVBOT is pleased with the increased funding for research and efforts to encourage workforce participation from underutilized sources of labour.

Moms, prepare to feel guilty, but only just slightly: There's new data out there that link the more years you spend in the workforce with chubbier children.Researchers looked at body - mass index (BMI), which is a measure of weight - for - height, and found that the more years a woman spends at work after her child's birth, the more that child's BMI rises, according to research in the January / February issue of the journal Child Development.

«The new Nano Utica facility will serve as a cleanroom and research hub for Nano Utica whose members can tap into the training here at SUNYIT and local workforce, putting the Mohawk Valley on the map as an international location for nanotechnology research and development.

The best way for New York State to grow its economy is by expanding investment in a well - educated workforce, according to a new study published by Economic Policy Institute for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN).

By turning cell biology into an engineering discipline, CCC aims to develop new chemicals and materials for medical and consumer applications, while at the same time training a more diverse research and manufacturing workforce.

An article this week in Science looks at the challenge of organizing and maintaining research programs at 2 - year institutions, and the faculty who take it on — partly to prepare their students for futures in the scientific workforce and partly to suit their own desire to keep doing research.

Beyond working to expand diversity among the STEM workforce, Johnston said the alliance seeks to «improve job security and shore up support for curiosity - led research and the rapid translation of scientific and technological discoveries.»

The International Linear Collider (ILC) took another small step forward yesterday when Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) released a plan for getting the country ready to host the $ 10 billion project by tripling its relevant science and engineering workforce over the next 4 years.

CBEN's executive director, Kevin Ausman, discusses the Rice vision for nanotechnology research and the center's aim to identify, recruit, and train the nanoscience workforce of the future.

Without an expanding economy and an expanding federal budget for scientific research, an expanding research workforce can not be supported.

it is integrated into many different sectors and may take just as many forms — in the police force, the army, for corporate wellness (a service that provides companies with health and exercise programmes for a healthier and more productive workforce), GP referral schemes, clinical research, health / life insurance companies, in drug companies, government agencies (i.e., Transport for London), nutrition and supplement companies, office furniture (i.e., biomechanics and ergo - friendly furniture)?

With a 5 - year term for research grants and a competitive renewal rate of about 53 %, supporting an expanded scientific workforce is a tall order for NIH, even as the research budget continues to grow at a modest pace.

In preparation for the summit, the participants, who represent a wide range of expertise, divided into working groups focusing on workforce structure, training, and research funding.

-- Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence, a report from the National Research Council

Big Hopes, Small Changes for Biomedical Training Michael Price, 14 December In implementing the recommendations of its Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, the National Institutes of Health decides to play it safe.

«We know a lot about the closures and about the workforce challenges, but we don't really know how these things impact women and the health of their infants,» says Britta Anderson, a senior research scientist at NORC's Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis at the University of Chicago.

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Fourteen years later, she co-chaired the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Howard H. Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Bethesda, Maryland, Andrea L. Stith of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, and Susan A. Gerbi of Brown University's Division of Biology and Medicine, for example, argue in the current issue of The FASEB Journal that «over-reliance on a temporary workforce» of foreign scientists «may have far - reaching, negative consequences for our own research enterprise.»

To bolster the research workforce, the government is promising larger grants for trainee science teachers and doctoral students as well as improved salaries for science teachers and postdocs.

The impetus for the new program, called «Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research Workforce,» came from a strategic plan (the Roadmap) drawn up by NIH Director Elias Zerhouni after his arrival in Bethesda 2 years ago.

Before we can make recommendations for the future, we need to better understand the composition of today's biomedical research workforce, and that's where the analysis and modeling group really comes in.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

The 1 - million target doesn't distinguish between associate and bachelor's degrees, for example, nor does it mean that every student will become part of what is generally defined as the nation's scientific workforce — as a faculty member, for example, or working in a corporate research lab or federal research facility.

The Australian government and a big part of its research workforce are headed for a showdown.

ACS believes strongly that economic growth in the U.S. is based on three foundations: sustained support for scientific and medical research that leads to technological innovations, a strong science education enterprise that prepares a world - class workforce and a robust business climate that will make American companies competitive with our international competitors.

Varmus also pushed for controversial changes he sees as necessary to help the research workforce «adjust» to budgets that aren't expected to grow.

This was the subject of a recent meeting convened by the Network on the Scientific Workforce of the National Bureau for Economic Research and the Labor and Workforce Program of Harvard Law School.

The research was published in the online version of Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, in a paper called «Cascading Delay Risk of Airline Workforce Deployments with Crew - Pairing and Schedule Optimization.»

In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage innovation, and grow a strong and talented science and technology workforce.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

TWD is the focal point for NIGMS programs aimed at developing a strong and diverse biomedical research workforce.

Increasing access to competitive research and technology development platforms, from the edge of space to low - Earth orbit and beyond, provides students a critical tool for their workforce development and training to become the United States next generation of space scientists and engineers.

Georgia CORE aims to increase the skills and competencies of the cancer research workforce; raise awareness about the opportunities and benefits of clinical trials; incorporate the perspectives of patients and survivors into clinical cancer research; advocate for clinical trials financing, regulatory improvement and resource development; promote access to and enrollment in clinical trials; and stimulate dialogue and collaboration among multi-disciplinary cancer researchers.

The purpose of the NSF - Simons Research Centers for MathBioSys is to support innovative, collaborative research at the intersection of mathematics and molecular, cellular and organismal biology, to establish new connections between mathematical sciences and biological sciences and to promote interdisciplinary education and workforce tResearch Centers for MathBioSys is to support innovative, collaborative research at the intersection of mathematics and molecular, cellular and organismal biology, to establish new connections between mathematical sciences and biological sciences and to promote interdisciplinary education and workforce tresearch at the intersection of mathematics and molecular, cellular and organismal biology, to establish new connections between mathematical sciences and biological sciences and to promote interdisciplinary education and workforce training.

The overarching goal of the Professional Development Core (PDC) is to address the unmet need for more diversity in the biomedical research workforce by creating and nationally disseminating transformative, high - impact, professional development programs to support mentees from diverse backgrounds in biomedical / bio-behavioral disciplines.