Sentences with phrase «staff scientist for»

How distressing, therefore, to learn that Susanne Moser is a former staff scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

«Nobody knows the likelihood of a serious nuclear accident,» said James MacKenzie, a physicist who is a senior staff scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a scientific public - interest organization.

«How much a lunar return costs depends very strongly on how you go about doing it, and on what scale, so there is no single answer to this question,» Paul D. Spudis, a senior staff scientist for the Lunar and Planetary Institute, says via email.

For example, Nick Cross, a staff scientist for the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy in the United Kingdom, develops software to process and archive imaging and other data from large astronomical surveys.

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Aside from making strategic acquisitions, DairiConcepts has enjoyed significant vertical growth due in part to the extensive technological experience maintained at a staff level and through food scientists working for DFA and Fonterra.

Donations to the Fund for Nature enable Mass Audubon staff and volunteers — land protection specialists, scientists, teachers, environmental advocates, and others — to carry out our important work.

The Board of Trustees, Members of the Advisory Council and Staff of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) wish to commiserate with Nigerians on the death of an erudite scholar, a selfless personality and brilliant political scientist, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, who was a Member of our Advisory Council and Director - General of the Electoral Institute until his death.

The Board of Trustees, Members of the Advisory Council and Staff of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) wish to commiserate with Nigerians on the death of an erudite scholar, a selfless personality and brilliant political scientist, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, who was a Member of our Advisory Council -LSB-...]

He currently has two Ph.D. - level scientists on his staff and open positions for three more.

NIH should limit support for graduate students to 5 years (and another 5 years for postdocs), the report says, and NIH and institutions should use fewer trainees and rely more on permanent staff scientists.

They propose, for example, altering «the ratio of trainees to staff scientists in research groups.»

The Project on Science, Technology and Disability organized a resource room for handicapped scientists and staffed it for the duration of the meeting.

In particular, «[t] he calls for greater transparency in career pathways, funding streams for junior scientists, support for staff scientist positions, and improving the research environment are all things that ring very true in the US too.»

Refer broader, longer - term research questions or needs for additional input from other scientific fields back to AAAS staff so they can identify a longer - term partner or team of volunteers for the project from the On - call Scientists roster.

«People have been creating these really high - pressure states for decades, but what they didn't know until MEC came online is exactly how these high pressures change materials — what drives the change and how the material deforms,» said SLAC staff scientist Bob Nagler, a co-author of the report.

And so Lamb, along with Caltech graduate student Jeff Prancevic and staff scientist Brian Fuller, set out to model the behavior of steep channels on an artificial watercourse — a flume — that they created for just this purpose.

Q: What was it like moving from a postdoc at SLAC to becoming a staff scientist, then director of the Center for the Advanced Studies of Accelerators at Jefferson Lab?

High on his list is the creation of a staff scientist position for researchers who love the bench but don't want to deal with the added responsibilities that come with assistant professorships.

Grouping T cell receptors for a given epitope revealed underlying common features that characterized the bulk of the repertoire,» said first author Pradyot Dash, D.V.M., Ph.D., a staff scientist in Thomas» laboratory.

She calculates that postdocs cost on average just $ 16.50 per hour, as compared with approximately $ 30 per hour for staff scientists and between $ 21 and $ 34 for graduate students.

«Overall the turnaround for sample analyses fit a relevant clinical window for future comparative oncology trials to model human PMed advancements,» said Dr. William Hendricks, a TGen Staff Scientist and another author of the study.

Some of these include higher and more predictable federal research funding, shorter graduate and postdoc training periods, greater use of staff scientists, and better career training for students and postdocs.

One participant, for example, wondered aloud why any researcher would want a staff scientist position, which does not permit full research independence.

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

Attention focused on funding, postdocs, staff scientists, and training for nonacademic careers.

As of 2015, doctorate - granting universities employed roughly 25,200 doctoral - level staff scientists (see chart below for the top 15 employers).

Noted for its wide - ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to scientists, students, technicians and supporting staff.

In his division, staff scientists can apply for and hold grants and participate in faculty meetings.

The extent to which the number of staff scientist positions will continue increasing remains to be seen, but the role can offer an appealing option for those who want to stay close to research while also expanding their skills and responsibilities.

When Spurgeon's postdoc PI offered her a staff scientist role, for example, it was in part because he knew that his administrative duties would soon demand most of his time.

Participants agreed that culture change is needed to build respect for staff scientists within academe.

When a grant ends, for example, a PI can start paying a researcher from another one, and if a staff scientist has to change labs, institutions may have hiring policies that favor current employees.

Scientists, for example, can attend member - hosted events or organize their own event by inviting lawmakers or their staff members who specialize in science and technology policy to visit their institution's facilities, said Josh Shiode, senior government relations officer at AAAS.

For scientists unwilling or unable to compete at this stratospheric level, Janelia will also offer «career opportunities... doing really exciting science» as staff research specialists.

«This was strange because it meant that, contrary to what we believed, MYC isn't necessary for cells to reprogram efficiently,» said Tim Rand, MD, PhD, staff scientist at Gladstone and a first author of the study.

Regularly scheduled staff meetings, a prominent feature of American lab life, provide opportunities for scientists at all levels to question, openly and publicly, their colleagues» — and even their superiors» — data and conclusions.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

«We wanted to see if there was a difference in the lignin - hemicellulose network if you substituted water - resisting aldehydes in the lignin for water - attracting alcohols,» said Loukas Petridis, an ORNL staff scientist.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

Thus lignin binds exactly where it is least desired for industrial purposes,» said ORNL staff scientist Loukas Petridis.

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«One thing that's driving a lot of general physiological changes in people is changes in the diet,» says the study's corresponding author Pamela Maher, a senior staff scientist in the laboratory of professor David Schubert at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

«Our findings present new potential targets for therapeutic regulation of cross-presentation,» said Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., first author of the study and staff scientist in the Gabrilovich Lab.

Science & the Public Science News Staff March for Science will take scientists» activism to a new level Historians called it an «unprecedented» event (SN Online: 4/19/17): More than 1 million people marched in support of science on April 22.

«This is one of the niches that LCLS is perfect for,» said SLAC Staff Scientist Sébastien Boutet, a co-author of the report.

The scientists and staff at the Mesa location — roughly 15 % of the NCAR workforce — left work Tuesday afternoon when smoke from the blaze threatened to enter the ventilation systems for the computers.

The project began last month when four scientists from the CSIRO Division of Applied Physics went to Indonesia to work with staff at the Research and Development Center for Calibration, Instrumentation and Metrology (KIM).

Menno Schilthuizen, a research scientist at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History, says that the restructuring at Leiden will negatively affect the creation of the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity, which was counting on the scientific expertise of the staff now laid off.

Walter Kaufmann, Staff Scientist in IST Austria's Electron Microscopy Facility, performed part of the research for the current study.

But when scientists searched for those lines, it soon appeared that the National Institutes of Health, which tracked down the lines for the president's staff, had been guilty of a kind of irrational medical exuberance.