Sentences with phrase «science goals of the mission»

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,» Holt often connected his response with the importance of the AAAS mission to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people and its related goals.

The research is driven by several mission goals of Los Alamos's Nuclear and Particle Futures research pillar in basic and applied nuclear science.

The mapping of the near - Earth asteroid Bennu is one of the science goals of NASA's OSIRIS - REx mission, and an integral part of spacecraft operations.

BOSTON — For the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s, NASA is making the search for evidence of life on another world the primary science goal of a space mission.

Even if we never hear from Philae again, the team are very happy with the mission and say they have achieved 80 per cent of their initial science goals.

The next day he announced, «We will recover 100 percent of the mission goals, with the same science outcome.»

It's not just the total number that matters, but also the types of orbits missions use for achieving their science goals.

Other top performers recognize the critical importance of basic science to the mission of helping patients — and the equally important goal of attracting top - notch recruits.

Now, the team will be directed to retain the basic elements of the mission but to seek cost - saving reductions without jeopardizing its science goals.

Maria Zuber, principal investigator for GRAIL, a mission to measure the Moon's gravitational field, used instrument designs from GRACE, an Earth - science mission with similar gravity - measuring goals, and adapted the spacecraft's design from that of a classified military satellite.

Ric Weibl, director of the AAAS Center for Careers in Science and Technology, said that the career and professional development activities at the AAAS annual meeting are central to the AAAS mission, as they serve the association's broad goals to enhance communication among scientists and the public and to strengthen and diversify the scientific and technological workforce.

, welcoming the continued inclusion of the successful Excellent Science pillar in FP9, and setting out our position for research priorities and mechanisms to engender a mission - based approach to close the research and innovation cycle through increasing support for collaborative basic research, encouraging increased levels of trans - disciplinarity and emphasising the importance of plant science in meeting the UN Sustainable DevelopmentScience pillar in FP9, and setting out our position for research priorities and mechanisms to engender a mission - based approach to close the research and innovation cycle through increasing support for collaborative basic research, encouraging increased levels of trans - disciplinarity and emphasising the importance of plant science in meeting the UN Sustainable Developmentscience in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The goal of the satellite mission conceived in 2013 during the annual space science and technology summer school organised in Alpbach, Austria, is to develop space weather forecasting.

The mission of QBI, located on the UCSF Mission Bay health sciences campus, is to drive forward the application of computation, mathematics, and statistics toward a deeper understanding of complex problems in biology, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments for dmission of QBI, located on the UCSF Mission Bay health sciences campus, is to drive forward the application of computation, mathematics, and statistics toward a deeper understanding of complex problems in biology, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments for dMission Bay health sciences campus, is to drive forward the application of computation, mathematics, and statistics toward a deeper understanding of complex problems in biology, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments for disease.

The workshops include an overview of the MSL mission and science goals, an overview of SAM, a presentation by a SAM scientist, and an introduction to Mars and MSL educational activities and resources.

The mission of CBCS is to provide a state - of - the - art platform and expertise for the generation of high - quality bioactive chemical tools (small organic molecules) for applications within life science research in general and with the ultimate goal to explore complex biology.

Moreover, Cornerstone will assess the impact of the MAVEN E / PO project within the broader context of educational goals outlined by the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and Mars Exploration Program Public Engagement (MEPPE).

With this in mind, if you're a keen supporter of space exploration — which includes both manned and un-manned missions, the latter being arguably far more important to science — you might want to know which Presidential candidate for the 2016 elections would be most interested in helping NASA achieve its goals.

Dr. Paul Hertz, Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division Science Mission Directorate, will discuss the latest news from the troubled Kepler observatory spacecraft, launched in 2009 with the goal of discovering Earth - size planets orbiting other stars.

«Really, the big thing in this package of six papers is that we've accomplished the mission goal of finding a habitable environment,» Caltech's John Grotzinger, the principal investigator for Curiosity's $ 2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, told NBC News.

One of the prime mission goals for NASA's brand new Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is to search for organic compounds in Martian soil.

This page provides the final SAG15 report status reports and documents in support of the development of the EXOPAG Study Analysis Group 15: Science Goals for Future Direct Imaging Missions.

As a not - for - profit institution, our goal is to collect only the information about our users and their use of our services that will help us provide the best online experience possible and implement Science Buddies» mission to build science liScience Buddies» mission to build science liscience literacy.

In their recommendation, in fact, the NASA - appointed Science Definition Team said that the primary goal of the mission would be «to search for evidence of life on Europa.»

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

«The goal is to have every single science PDF ever written available for free on the Internet and to build a network of scientists interacting with those papers that will change the face of peer review,» the San Francisco - based company told CNet of its mission.

«Understanding what drives the meteorology on Saturn, and in general on gaseous planets, has been one of our cardinal goals since the inception of the Cassini mission,» said Carolyn Porco, imaging team lead, based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. «It is very gratifying to see that we're finally coming to understand those atmospheric processes that make Earth similar to, and also different from, other planets.»

Program Mission & Goals The Master of Science in Counseling program is designed to develop professional counselors and to prepare students for further graduate study in related doctoral programs.