Before Coleman, a good school was defined by its «inputs» — per - pupil expenditure, school size, comprehensiveness of the curriculum, volumes per student in the library,
science lab facilities, use of tracking, and similar indicators of the resources allocated for the students» education.
Once family background and the nature of the peer group at school were taken into account, student achievement was unaffected by per - pupil expenditure, school size,
the science lab facilities, the number of books in the library, the use of tracking by ability levels to assign students to classrooms, or other factors previously assumed to be indicators of what makes for a good school.
Not exact matches
State - of - the - art ice engineering tanks, chemistry
labs and computer
science facilities are just some of the resources available at Memorial University.
With 12
science labs, various art
labs and an extensive area of athletic
facilities the high school is fulfilling its mission to prepare all students to be college ready, future focused and globally aware.
Our
facilities and
labs offer state of the art equipment for exploring physical
sciences, the natural world, and the great outer space while our fun summer activities help campers build crucial communication, teamwork, and problem solving skills.
Additions this summer and next will include
science classrooms, a computer
lab, an art classroom and a multimedia presentation
facility.
For Amy Replogle,
science core
facility technician at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, keeping her toe in the professorial pool takes the form of teaching
lab classes occasionally.
After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of
Science User
Facility located at Berkeley
Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.
But DOE's Office of
Science will spend only half its budget on work by university researchers, with much of the rest going to its ten national laboratories and research
facilities, from Brookhaven in New York state to the Pacific Northwest National
Lab in Washington state.
Research at Brookhaven
Lab's CFN and SLAC's SSRL — both DOE user
facilities — was supported by DOE's Office of
Science.
The following Berkeley
Lab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analys
Lab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's
lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analys
lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analyses.
SLAC's instrument benefits from a high - energy, ultrabright electron source originally developed for the
lab's femtosecond X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility.
Some of those jobs involve doing serious
science in research
labs and other
facilities, where technicians often play important roles.
Microscopy and scattering data gathered at the Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light Source, also a DOE Office of
Science user
facility located at Berkeley
Lab, were compared with molecular dynamics simulations conducted at NERSC.
«This material could be used to help stabilize temperature,» said study co-lead author Fan Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley
Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility where some of the research was done.
The method was developed at Berkeley
Lab's Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility, by a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Berkeley
Lab, Stanford University, and other institutions.
Kharzeev had explored similar behavior of subatomic particles in the magnetic fields created in collisions at the
Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/), a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility where nuclear physicists explore the fundamental building blocks of matter.
This work was supported by the DOE Office of
Science and used the
facilities of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) located at Berkeley
Lab.
The computing was performed at Berkeley
Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility.
NERSC is a DOE Office of
Science national user
facility operated by Berkeley
Lab.
David Prendergast, a
Facility Director at Berkeley
Lab's Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy National User
Facility for Nanoscale
Science Research, helped the Texas A&M team design and interpret their calculations, which were experimentally verified in part by Fakra using Berkeley
Lab's Advanced Light Source along with structural data collected at Argonne National
Lab's Advanced Photon Source.
To analyze the chemical complexity of the material, the scientists used beamline 8 - ID at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS - II)-- also a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility at Brookhaven
Lab.
Image analysis relied on heavy computational work that was carried out at Berkeley
Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility.
The researchers relied on a technique developed at Berkeley
Lab's Molecular Foundry, a research
facility for nanoscale
science, to image the individual molecules that make up these structures.
But they could be enhanced by utilizing the supercomputer
facilities found at DOE's weapons
labs and the scientific computing expertise at the Office of
Science.
«Uranium dissolved in groundwater flows slowly into nearby rivers, where it becomes diluted below the uranium concentrations naturally present in river water,» says John Bargar, SLAC's project lead and researcher at the
lab's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility.
Then they cut the electrode into extremely thin slices and took them to Berkeley
Lab for examination with intense X-rays from the Advanced Light Source synchrotron, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility.
The researchers characterized the materials at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility at Berkeley
Lab.
«These arrays of nanoparticles with predictable geometric configurations are somewhat analogous to molecules made of atoms,» said Brookhaven physicist Oleg Gang, who led the project at the
Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility.
The study involved 25 researchers from 11 institutions and Sam Houston State University's Southeast Texas Applied Forensic
Science Facility (STAFSF), a seven - acre outdoor human decomposition research
lab.
The new resist effectively combines the material properties of two pre-existing kinds of resist, achieving the characteristics needed to make smaller features for microprocessors, which include better light sensitivity and mechanical stability, says Paul Ashby, staff scientist at Berkeley
Lab's Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of
Science user
facility.
It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven
Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.
Construction is under way for the Interdisciplinary
Science Building (ISB), a future world - class
facility for energy research at Brookhaven
Lab.
Researchers at the Lifelong Brain and Cognition
Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced
Science and Technology at the University of Illinois have utilized the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
facilities available in Beckman's Biomedical Imaging Center to measure the moment - to - moment variability in brain activity, more specifically in the blood oxygenation level - dependent (BOLD) signal.
All the while Bath has turned the system into a significant research tool on the Brown campus and beyond.In 2012, with funding from the Brown Institute for Brain
Science through the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Scientific Innovation Fund, Serre and Bath opened their
lab up as a «core» called the Rodent Neurodevelopmental Behavioral Testing
Facility.
Repair
facilities, dormitories, administrative buildings, a firehouse, power plant, water distillation plant, wharf, stores, clubs, warehouses, a
science support center, and the first - class, 4,320 square - meter Crary
Lab are linked by above - ground water, sewer, telephone, and power lines.
Supercomputing clusters at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility hosted at Berkeley
Lab, provide the infrastructure for the Materials Project.
In a study published ahead the week of January 8, 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility, and the DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab), report the first results of a long - term plan to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of 300 Aspergillus fungi.
Located on the center of Long Island, New York, Brookhaven
Lab brings world - class
facilities and expertise to the most exciting and important questions in basic and applied
science including sustainable energy.
The vision is for k - BELLA to be a collaborative research
facility that would be open to scientists from outside the
Lab, he says, which also syncs with the recommendations in the report to foster a more cooperative environment for laser
science and scientists.
User Facilities: Portions of the computational work were performed using resources at EMSL (a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and NERSC (the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of
Science User
Facility supported by the DOE Office of
Science and located at Berkeley
Lab)
The vision is for k - BELLA to be a collaborative research
facility that would be open to scientists from outside the
Lab, he said, which also syncs with the recommendations in the report to foster a more cooperative environment for laser
science and scientists.
Stephen Gagnon is the Acting Manager of
Science Education for the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility (Jefferson
Lab) in Newport News, Virginia.
The research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing
Facility and NERSC, which are DOE Office of
Science User Facilities at ORNL and Berkeley
Lab, respectively.
The building is designed as a three storey structure with state of the art
facilities for all its students including sixteen
science labs, thirteen art and design technology classrooms and a drama studio, in addition to over 60 other classroom and teaching spaces.
The study conducted by leading education interior specialist, Innova Design Solutions, also revealed that a damning 63 % of respondents view
science labs as low tech, with 11 % saying their
facilities are very low tech.
Those that do open are rarely funded at a level that would allow them to provide the sorts of
facilities, like up - to - date
science labs and sports fields, that public schools regularly supply.
The survey also found that 63 per cent of respondents view
science labs as low tech, with 11 per cent saying their
facilities are very low tech.
This means the Junior students can utilise the
facilities of the Senior School such as the
science labs, state - of - the - art music centre, aquatic centre and gymnasium.
Among the
facilities each teaching team would have are a
science lab, a computer
lab, a presentation / mini-library space, and a set of bathrooms.