Sentences with phrase «sciences university leader»

The state's health sciences university leader, LSU Health New Orleans includes a School of Medicine, the state's only School of Dentistry, Louisiana's only public School of Public Health, and Schools of Allied Health Professions, Nursing, and Graduate Studies.

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Mariah Jones, a 29 - year - old resident of the District who studies political science at George Washington University, said she thought Obama should have waited until after the final votes were cast in the primary contests to endorse — though she thought endorsements from top Democratic leaders were predictable.

He has a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Canada Awards Silver Medal in Entrepreneurship, BC Science and Engineering Gold Medal and Business Leader of the Year Award.

The leaders of the Church, particularly the Popes, have continually supported the sciences, initially by founding universities all over Europe during the Middle Ages.

A trained psychologist based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he has become the leader of a relatively new field called contemplative neuroscience - the brain science of meditation.

Instead, one strategy has been to ask Muslim leaders and government officials for help, reported Robert Dowd, political science professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

An innovative educational leader, the university offers degree programs in arts and sciences, business, culinary arts, education, nutrition, hospitality, physician assistant studies, engineering and design.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

Chair: Dr Philip Smith, Chairman, Global Utilities Ltd, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and Chair of Milton Keynes Leaders» Forum Speakers: Keith Clarke CBE, former CEO of Atkins Global and Chairman of Forum for the Future Evan Davis, broadcaster and Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and takes place from 2 - 9 November 2013.

School of Fame 2016 — Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Student Hall of the Year — University Hall Katanga (KNUST), Student Financial Controller of the Year — Arthur Tony Henry (UCC) and finally Most Promising Student Leader of the Year — Nana Kwame Asafo - Adjei Ayeh (UG).

Higher education leaders from the University at Buffalo, ECC and Buffalo State and appeared along side Mayor Byron Brown Thursday at the Waterfront School, explaining that there will be future careers life science and advanced manufacturing in the region.

University of Cape Coast, University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana Institute of Management and Professional Studies (GIMPA), Zenith University College, Ghana Institute of Journalism, Islamic University College, University of Energy and Natural Resources, were the participating Institutions for this year's Championships, under the theme; «Shaping The Next Generation of Leaders Through Intellectual Discourse».

Researchers from the US» Texas Tech University have unveiled findings in the Social Science Quarterly journal suggesting that voters instinctively prefer their leaders to be taller.

That means Martinez — former District Leader for the 51st Assembly District and an adjunct professor in political science at Pace University — also wants an Occupy - inspired mayor, City Council and Congress.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

India «aims to produce and nurture talent in science, to stimulate research in our universities, to develop young leaders in the field of science, to reward performance,» Singh added.

Joseph Krajcik, Ph.D., is a Writing Team Leader for Next Generation Science Standards, director of the Institute for Collaborative Research in Education, Assessment, and Teaching Environments for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CREATE for STEM) m and a faculty member in science education at the Michigan State UnivScience Standards, director of the Institute for Collaborative Research in Education, Assessment, and Teaching Environments for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CREATE for STEM) m and a faculty member in science education at the Michigan State UnivScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CREATE for STEM) m and a faculty member in science education at the Michigan State Univscience education at the Michigan State University.

Selma Lendelvo, a researcher in the life sciences division of the University of Namibia's Multidisciplinary Research Centre (MRC), works with scientists and community leaders to find ways to ease such conflicts.

Developmental geneticist Edwina McGlinn's return to Australia to start her own lab next January at the Australia Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University in Melbourne will also be a milestone for Australian science: 35 - year - old McGlinn will be the first group leader appointed under a joint initiative between Australia and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

«This report certainly involved a lot of work and it reflects insights which somehow are expected: young researchers sacrifice their personal life for their career, with a lot of overtime, insecurity, pressure and difficulties to find a fixed position,» writes Thomas Schäfer, a group leader at the University of the Basque Country's Institute for Polymer Materials in Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain, in an email to Science Careers.

«All of you can be individual opinion - leaders,» with the use of social media, said Matthew Nisbet, associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a science communication researcher at AAAS.

«Swift's rapid response time enabled us to use it to rapidly search for and detect the electromagnetic counterpart of this gamma - ray burst after its detection by LIGO,» said Jamie Kennea, associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics, the leader of the Swift Science Operations Team at Swift's Mission Operations Center, located at Penn State's University Park campus.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

Before I became Speaker of the House in 2007, we listened to the experts who contributed to the National Academies of Science's report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, and we heard from scientific leaders at universities and innovative entrepreneurs across the country.

«This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter, and dark radiation,» said study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland.

One of the paper's senior authors, geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, publishes routinely in Nature and the Public Library of Science journals, and co-author Carlos Bustamante, of Stanford University School of Medicine in California, is a leader in the field.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

«Two - step processes our lab and others developed earlier lack a seamless interface and, therefore, lack the conductance sought,» said Liming Dai, the Kent Hale Smith Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and a leader of the research.

Knoedler says the NSF is still a leader in funding interdisciplinary collaborations, with the Science and Technology Centers and the Industry & University Cooperative Research Program.

Curt Rice, a linguist at the University of Tromsø in Norway and the Leader of Norway's Committee on Gender Balance in Research, also welcomes the report but expresses concern about its mild tone; the tone makes it unlikely that the recommendations will be implemented, he writes in an email to Science Careers.

Women leaders in science — from a university president and policy makers to an academic researcher and industrial scientists — see improvements in this field's gender balance, but they also know that more must be done.

My Ph.D. research was part of a larger study — Living Changes in the Life Sciences: Tracing the «Ethical» and the «Social» within Scientific Practice and Work Culture — at the University of Vienna's Department of Social Studies of Science, with Ulrike Felt as project leader.

«Dermal papilla cells give rise to hair follicles, and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so,» said co-study leader Colin Jahoda, PhD, professor of stem cell sciences at Durham University, England, and co-director of North East England Stem Cell Institute, who is one of the early founders of the field.

«As hurricane Harvey approached the U.S., hurricane hunters flew directly into the storm and dropped sensors to measure wind speed,» said Xiankang Dou, leader of the research team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

«Nobody particularly eats corn or soybean directly,» said Satish Gupta, a University of Minnesota professor of soil science and study leader.

Although we've heard these worrisome warnings many times before from congressional friends of science, research leaders, and university lobbyists, Congress has always scraped up needed cash at the last minute in previous years.

Dr Ludovic Jaubert, group leader in the Professor Nic Shannon's Theory of Quantum Matter Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) together with Prof Roderich Moessner from the Max Planck Institute in Dresden gave a theoretical explanation for the observation of double - layer structure of magnetic monopoles in spin ices.

«During the past four decades, allergic diseases have become a global health problem,» says project leader Professor Dabing Zhang, who leads the University of Adelaide and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Laboratory for Plant Science and Breeding.

Despite extensive efforts to develop practical applications for graphene and explore the exotic physics at work in its two dimensions, obtaining a usable sample is still more art than science, as Scientific American learned one slushy winter afternoon in the Columbia University lab of Philip Kim, one of our co-authors and a leader in the field.

But education leaders caution that those recommendations, by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), are deceptively challenging and will require overcoming steep obstacles at the thousands of U.S. colleges and universities that educate the next generation of workers.

Many of Iran's science policy leaders and university faculty members were educated in the United States or Europe, and 5600 young Iranian scientists last year had student visas to live in the United States while studying in non-sensitive fields.

«When I first saw this, I thought we were seeing something very peculiar,» said team leader Marco Chiaberge of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Joanna Lewis, an associate professor of science, technology and international affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, said China's wind power sector has also been aided by a steep decline in manufacturing and installation costs, as well as the establishment of a robust domestic supply chain, led by the nation's industry leader, Goldwind.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

To address this concern, the council, which advises the U.K. government on science and technology issues, recommended last month that universities, industry leaders, and funding agencies develop a national framework for research careers — a conceptual flow chart that describes paths researchers can and do take.

Additional coauthors include Columbia professor James Hone, Columbia graduate students Carlos Forsythe and Lei Wang; Nikolaos Tombros, a former member of the Kim lab at Columbia, now at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands; Kenji Watanabe, chief researchers in optoelectronic materials at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan; and Takashi Taniguchi, group leader in the Ultra-high Pressure Processes Group at NIMS.

This idyll has now been heavily shaken up by a team of physicists led by Matthias Kling, the leader of the Ultrafast Nanophotonics group in the Department of Physics at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, and various research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN - CNR) in Milan, the Institute of Physics at the University of Rostock, the Max Born Institute (MBI), the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and the University of Hamburg.

«If this finding is confirmed, it could be useful,» says study leader Gerald Nestadt, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of Johns Hopkins» Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder Program.