Sentences with phrase «scientific efforts at»

* Dr. Lee was recently named to lead the scientific effort at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn., beginning Aug. 1, 2013.

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«A hiring freeze at the FDA would conflict with and do significant damage to these bipartisan efforts to fill vacant positions and expand the scientific and technical workforce needed for a robust review of drugs and medical devices,» wrote Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

At the center of his efforts is a Roosevelt - era law called the Antiquities Act which allows presidents to designate «objects of historic or scientific interest» as National Monuments.

In many cases, therefore, the first efforts ever at a scientific understanding of the language, by native or foreigner, came from Christian missionaries.

The Christian myths of creation and of the last things can then be dismissed as primitive cosmology, while all talk of miracles can be treated as a misguided effort at scientific explanation.

At least the scientific community employs detached and objective standards that undermine our efforts to take refuge in the slanted judgments of shared faith.

At 9 pm EST tonight, I'll be a panelist at a Twitter party discussing food dyes — their prevalence in packaged foods, the scientific concerns about them, and efforts to remove them from the American food supplAt 9 pm EST tonight, I'll be a panelist at a Twitter party discussing food dyes — their prevalence in packaged foods, the scientific concerns about them, and efforts to remove them from the American food supplat a Twitter party discussing food dyes — their prevalence in packaged foods, the scientific concerns about them, and efforts to remove them from the American food supply.

At 9 pm EST tonight, I'll be a panelist at a Twitter party discussing food dyes - their prevalence in packaged foods, the scientific concerns about them, and efforts to remove them from the American food supplAt 9 pm EST tonight, I'll be a panelist at a Twitter party discussing food dyes - their prevalence in packaged foods, the scientific concerns about them, and efforts to remove them from the American food supplat a Twitter party discussing food dyes - their prevalence in packaged foods, the scientific concerns about them, and efforts to remove them from the American food supply.

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The Program is committed to promoting high standards for the practice of science and engineering; advancing the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications; engaging scientists, engineers and their professional associations in human rights efforts; monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging ethical, legal, and human rights issues related to science and technology; furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights; and initiating activities to address the impact of developments at the intersection of science, technology, and law.

Still other educational efforts will be aimed at the scientific community in general.

After the 2005 seismic survey, the scientific community gathered in support of a new drilling effort, but at $ 20 million, the price remained too high.

In an effort to assist the scientific and engineering community digest developments since Election Day, AAAS has made information available about its actions in response to administration policy shifts that impact scientific integrity and tracked Cabinet nominations as well as other relevant policy issues at www.ForceForScience.org.

At a time when other countries are ramping up their scientific efforts, they say, the United States shouldn't be resting on its laurels.

«This paper is a transparent effort to take the focus off the actual scientific debate and instead engage in race baiting, class baiting and other sociological devices to win a science argument,» said James Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.

Reading and considering such testimony would undoubtedly take more time and effort and could feel less «scientific» than looking at numbers, whether test scores, GPAs, or tallies of publications.

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor - in - chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the efforts to create vaccine platforms for rapid responses to epidemics.

Efforts to develop a long - range diversity plan at AGU have been motivated both by a desire to recruit the best minds to the enterprise and by several glaring statistics * concerning the future health of the scientific workforce:

The less noticeable but no less significant efforts at scientific cooperation have resulted not only from the recent government initiatives but also from ongoing efforts at science diplomacy by nonprofit organizations such as the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

Indeed, he had decided, at the age of 84, to bring his entire scientific efforts to a close.

They may not be part of the scientific mainstream, but these efforts are at least «scientifically plausible,» Clery writes.

Science Careers spoke with Isabelle Vernos, chairwoman of the ERC Scientific Council's Working Group on Gender Balance and research professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, about the funding agency's efforts to bolster the prospects of female applicants.

They were accompanied by Glenn Schweitzer, director of Eurasian programs at the Academies, who has spearheaded an 8 - year effort to nurture scientific ties with Iran in the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Professor Mike Bentley, a co-leader of the project based at Durham University said: «This paper is part of a wide range of international scientific efforts to understand the behaviour of this important glacier.

But this and other efforts should, at the very least, reduce the chances that the contributions made by the youngest participants of scientific studies will be lost.

Practicing what he preaches, McFadden collaborates with Ron Merrill at the University of Washington, Seattle, and he touts some of Australia's formal collaboration efforts like Australia's Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs), which bring together partners with different backgrounds (e.g., commercial, research, university) to achieve a similar scientific goal.

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.

The aim is to improve the quality of the reviews by making the process «more transparent and acceptable to the scientific community,» says Tasuku Honjo, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University, who is leading the effort on a part - time basis until his retirement from Kyoto next spring.

Dr. Cooper joined MDACC in 2006 as section chief of cell therapy at the Children's Cancer Hospital, where he cared for children undergoing bone marrow transplantation and led scientific efforts to develop new treatment approaches that pair genetic engineering with immunotherapies.

Although the Italian scientific culture seems, at times, to be more of an «ageocracy» than a meritocracy, I believe that I was hired on merit and that if I succeed in fulfilling or, indeed, surpassing the expectations my employers, my efforts will be appreciated and therefore rewarded.

Scott Lindell, director of the Scientific Aquaculture Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, notes that previous efforts at ranching have been scuppered by political and social arguments about who the fish belong to.

The study was an international collaborative effort, involving key contributions from Vikas Yadav and Kaustuv Sanyal at the Jawarharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India; Christina Cuomo at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Minou Nowrousian at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany; Teun Boekhout at CBS in the Netherlands; and Jean - Luc Souciet, Betina Porcel and Patrick Wincker at Genoscope in France.

The movement for LGBT workplace equality in the scientific enterprise and beyond has been driven predominantly at the grassroots level and on an institution by institution basis through the collective efforts of organizations like NOGLSTP, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and Federal GLOBE.

The NOAA portion of the prize is meant to spur the development of specific technologies that can help detect «sources of pollution, enable rapid response to leaks and spills, identify hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, as well as track marine life for scientific research and conservation efforts,» Richard Spinrad, chief scientist at NOAA, said in a statement.

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

When we at Science first recognized the crying need among young people for better mentoring about scientific careers — and about alternative careers to research — we never dreamed that our efforts to fill the need would be viewed as equally valuable in Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, China, and now Germany.

At a constant level of funding, the restructured U.S. program will be able to focus on fusion's underlying scientific foundations and will enable the nation to take the lead in selected areas of expertise as part of the international effort to develop fusion energy.

He hopes she'll take a broad look at efforts to investigate and prevent scientific misconduct at HHS and the National Science Foundation.

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

At the very least, American voters deserve to know who is behind these efforts [to deny scientific findings about global warming].

The news follows a warning issued late last month by the Australian Academy of Science that the country's strategic position in Antarctica is at risk because of a declining scientific effort there.

«This is an exciting and ambitious effort to focus the extraordinary scientific accomplishments from Europe to develop fundamentally new technologies based on the quantum state of matter,» says David Awschalom, a physicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois who is not involved in the project.

«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

At first, some JST activists devoted considerable time to the effort, causing «a little friction» with faculty members who were concerned that they get their scientific work done, Tolman says.

«The letter continues the decades - long efforts of the scientific community to persuade Congress to act on the climate crisis,» says Sarah Green, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University who studies climate change and who is affiliated with of several of the societies that signed the letter.

Julia Spaet, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, says that «the resources dedicated by a fleet of fishermen will always outmatch any scientific efforts to assess abundances.

In an effort to reverse this trend, the Dutch government has been supporting several initiatives aimed at stimulating scientific and technological innovation.

«The data presented at AACR provide important new models and mechanistic insights that inform our planned development efforts to evaluate the ability of microbiome therapy to augment immune checkpoint inhibitors,» said David Cook, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of Research at Seres.

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