Sentences with phrase «science faculty working»

(6) Inevitably, younger science faculty working in this environment with hyper - competition start asking themselves, «Is this really what I wanted to do when I worked to become a professional scientist?»

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All students in the Master of Science in Information Security & Assurance Program will enjoy learning opportunities that allow for direct interaction with remarkable faculty members who have made information technology their life's work.
He was excited when he arrived on campus because, after years of working in other environments, he thought that he was finally about to learn, from his colleagues on the faculty, how one could teach science in a way that was integrated fully with the faith.
This is the line taken by what in North America today is frequently described as «process thought»; its greatest exponent was the late Professor Alfred North Whitehead in his works Process and Reality (his book has been re-arranged, and provided with excellent explanatory notes by D. W. Sherburne, under the title of Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality), Science and the Modern World, Modes of Thought, Adventures of Ideas, Religion in the Making, and Symbolism, all of them written after Whitehead had joined the faculty of Harvard University in the United States in the 1920's.
Working with expert faculty, students will learn new skills in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields while cultivating a love of exploration, discovery, and scientific inquiry.
These were the first steps in a journey that took her to Wisconsin (where in 1983 she earned a Master of Science in Food Science from Wisconsin University), Kenya (where she completed a two - year assignment, from 1981 - 1983 with Winrock International working with limited - resource farmers) and California (where she earned her PhD in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis in 1994) before returning to Cornell CALS in 1994 as the first woman faculty member in the Department of Food Science.
In the Albany area, students, faculty and private firms work together and separately at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CSNE) to conduct education, pure research and cutting - edge commercial nano - industry products.
«The Princeton Review» praises SUNY Purchase for its excellent conservatories and liberal arts and science programs, and recognizes faculty who «actively work in -LSB-...]
A contest will recognize ongoing or prospective public science engagement by affiliated graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty working in or beyond the university community, with four $ 1000 awards per institution.
Few universities advertise faculty positions in network science per se; with some exceptions, network researchers are housed within disciplinary departments and must convince hiring and tenure committees that their work constitutes a significant contribution to their home field.
Hammond was one of only a few MIT faculty members selected to present their work to the president in what turned out to be like a grown - up version of a science fair.
Computer science also seems healthy, with a relative few finding work in academia but a very good faculty - to - postdoc ratio, suggesting that Ph.D. computer science graduates have very strong nonacademic career prospects.
According to the project's press materials, clean energy experts from the two sides will work arm - in - arm at central China's Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where the ICARE faculty is located.
Students in the senior - level computer science elective course are working in teams to develop and implement their own AI programs under the instruction of Don McLaughlin, research associate and retired faculty member of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Enginscience elective course are working in teams to develop and implement their own AI programs under the instruction of Don McLaughlin, research associate and retired faculty member of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical EnginScience and Electrical Engineering.
More than 80 faculty in departments from electrical engineering to agricultural economics to plant sciences are working in teams on these projects.
Schaal, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, called for more effective communication and public engagement by scientists in explaining their work, both to policy makers and to the general public, across a range of topics — climate change, evolution, stem cells, and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
The team headed by Thierry Soldati, Professor at the Biochemistry department in UNIGE's Science faculty, has been working on a model system that acts like the macrophages in our immune system: the social amoeba Dictyostelium, a unicellular microorganism.
In the first 3 decades of the 1900s, Humboldt and its medical faculty at Charité Hospital — where bacteriologist Robert Koch and immunologist Paul Erlich once worked — was one of the world's top science centers.
More than ten Virginia Tech faculty members and students are working on the project, including co-principal investigator Liwu Li, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Science; Clay Caswell, an assistant professor of bacteriology in the veterinary college; Rich Helm, an associate professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Dan Slade, an assistant professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and Tanya LeRoith, a clinical associate professor of anatomic pathology in the veterinary college.
«It was helpful to Riccardo,» Schindall tells Science Careers in an interview, «that the faculty member that he worked for» — Schindall himself — «was driven to focus on things with real commercial potential.
This multimillion - dollar, five - year project involves some 30 faculty members from the Laboratory for Computer Science, working in collaboration with the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
The event will bring together dozens of researchers, students and faculty members from departments ranging from engineering to math to the medical sciences in order to share ideas and work collaboratively to come up with innovative solutions to emerging issues in neuroimaging and neuroscience.
He spent some time working with the Smithsonian and now works with humanities and social science faculty at UC Boulder.
«The work of Botstein, Davis and Hogness perfectly exemplifies the spirit of the Alpert Prize, namely, to honor great science that has profound translational significance,» said Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Cavalieri and Griswold emphasized that many have contributed to the overall success of WSU plant sciences programs and cited several examples of work by plant science faculty at WSU that have had global impact.
RICHLAND, Wash. — Washington State University professor Xiao Zhang has received a prestigious National Science Foundation award to junior faculty for his work in converting tough plant material to liquid fuels.
On February 14, 2012, internal documents from the Chicago - based Heartland Institute were leaked to the public, including budget and fundraising documents revealing Heartland's financial donors, Heartland's climate science denial campaign work in 2012 and detailed payments to federal employees, university faculty and career climate skeptics.
Following the leak of internal Heartland Institute documents, six universities with faculty listed in Heartland's budget for work relating to denying the science or implications of global climate change received letters from Greenpeace asking for conflict of interest investigations (see the Chronicle of Higher Education's coverage).
In this session, the Director of Science Outreach at Penn State University will share the secrets employed in the College of Science that successfully reduce barriers for faculty to do meaningful and interesting outreach work.
Several conclusions now can be drawn: (1) research grants are used to pay for indirect expenses by all science faculty researching in a laboratory, (2) many scholarly investigations by faculty not needing to work in a research laboratory have their indirect expenses paid by some internal budget at the same institutions, (3) research grant awards for indirect expenses at some institutions exceed the amount given for direct expenses, and, (4) direct experience with paying for indirect expenses leads many Principal Investigators to have questions and suspicions that some type of hidden purpose or scam might be going on with the current system for using research grant funds to pay for indirect expenses.
After receiving an appointment as Associate Professor and Faculty Chair of Education at the University of Detroit Mercy, Dr. Wilson continued her pioneering work by leading faculty to develop the first field - based Master of Science degree that had as focus the theory of mediated learning, cognition, and other works of Reuven Feuerstein.
New research conducted by the JPB Research Network on Toxic Stress, synthesis of current science conducted by the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and the work of affiliated faculty members and research partners of the Center on the Developing Child all contribute in important ways.
Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel will be leading this exciting expedition for K - 12 teachers and leaders, Science or STEM education specialists, scientists and engineers, university faculty, and anyone interested in learning more about Panama's rich biodiversity, geology, engineering of the Panama Canal, technology tools of indigenous peiple (Embera Tribe) that how they live sustainably, rainforest ecology, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Station's work.
This position will work directly with computer science and related faculty, the Ohio State developer community, university instructional designers and educational technologists, and Apple coding...
The work of leaders in the Mind, Brain, and Education Science field, such as Dr. Kurt Fischer, Dr. Mary Immodrino - Yang, Dr. Daniel Willingham, Dr. Carol Dweck, and Dr. Michael Posner have been integral to early thinking of the CTTL as have connections to the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) and Learning and the Brain Society, which holds an annual conference attended by St. Andrew's faculty.
In partnership with the state's Council on Postsecondary Education, the Education Professional Standards Board, the Kentucky Center for Mathematics, and others, KACTE helped develop regional workshops and online training to prepare faculty for this work, first in math and literacy and later adding content from the Next Generation Science Standards.
Their work at SDRG and at the University of Washington has furthered the goals of prevention science through their mentoring of graduate students and junior faculty and teaching of courses in prevention science for graduate and undergraduate students.
That's why it's important for community college leaders to work with high school faculty — and to do it on their turf, says Mary Aycock, academy development manager of the central region for the National Academy Foundation (NAF) and former director of Early College Health Science Academy at the Butler Community College (BCC) in Rose Hill, Kan..
I wanted to help foster interdisciplinary research work involving content specialists in a variety of disciplines and College of Education faculty who specialize in applying the learning sciences to disciplinary learning in order to educate better teachers for the state's schools,» Reutzel says.
Working together with a local university, middle school science teaching faculty members wrote and aligned curricula, explored relevant science education literature, tested lessons with summer school students, and prepared evaluation measures for their year - long implementation of laptops, probeware, and other scientific hardware and software.
She also has a passion for how technology and specifically virtual classrooms can be used to impact teacher preparation As the Lockheed MartinEminent Scholar, she works collaboratively with outstanding UCF faculty in mathematics and science to Direct the Lockheed Martin / UCF Mathematics and Science Ascience to Direct the Lockheed Martin / UCF Mathematics and Science AScience Academy.
We just now got an Environmental Studies Minor approved to start next year, and I've been working on the science faculty to offer courses the non-science major students can take (without 8 science course as prereqs, as required for their Env Science courses in their Env Sci science faculty to offer courses the non-science major students can take (without 8 science course as prereqs, as required for their Env Science courses in their Env Sci science major students can take (without 8 science course as prereqs, as required for their Env Science courses in their Env Sci science course as prereqs, as required for their Env Science courses in their Env Sci Science courses in their Env Sci major).
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2011, Prof. Kopp served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he worked on the U.S. government's efforts to incorporate climate change into benefit - cost analysis and on the development and launch of the Clean Energy Ministerial.
In one amusing corner, we find 3 senior faculty associated with astronautics at University of Southern California, none of whom who've ever published peer - reviewed work on cliamte science that I can find:
However, realizing that that might not work for all the city's inhabitants, Bike Portland reports on Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) going one better - giving students (and faculty) up to 50 dollars a month for riding their bikes.Of course, the Bicycle Commuter Act lets employers provide a $ 20 monthly incentive to employee cyclists.
Under a three - year, $ 700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, faculty from two UMass research centers, the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Electronic Enterprise Institute, will work with the National Mediaton Board, an independent federal agency that works to help resolve labor relations disputes in the railroad and airline industries, to investigate the use of technology and ODR to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the process.
«The hospitals and faculty practice plan of our academic health sciences center have worked with the attorneys of Yong Gruber Associates, LLP for many years.
Kathrani was inspired to work with his colleagues in the computer science department when he saw their previous collaboration with the architecture faculty, where students walked through a virtual park to identify the best place for a skateboard ramp.
The legal faculty is piloting three games and Kathrani is working with computer science colleagues on an augmented reality (AR) project which will include a mobile app for tackling test cases.
Position Summary: The Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New York University seeks a Data Curator: an information scientist who will work with faculty, researchers, and students in applied urban science to acquire and organize data related to New YorScience and Progress (CUSP) at New York University seeks a Data Curator: an information scientist who will work with faculty, researchers, and students in applied urban science to acquire and organize data related to New Yorscience to acquire and organize data related to New York City.
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