Sentences with phrase «team science projects»

Funders should regularly review the balance, flexibility, length and magnitude of support they offer for team science projects.

Not exact matches

«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

WCA is a team of expert HR consultants with decades of combined experience with a diverse range of industries including hospitality, financial services, construction, mining, oil & gas, project engineering, science & education, IT and native title.

The UK's Natural Environment Research Council said research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Throughout the school year and during the summer, students practice science skills through the study of local habitats, learn about Massachusetts» native wildlife, work as a team to plan and execute stewardship projects that benefit their school and the larger Lowell community, and participate in community - based events.

Shedd Aquarium is teaming up with an international research project called Global FinPrint, a Paul G. Allen initiative, to engage Chicagoland teens with a hands - on STEM application through citizen science.

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

Last year for my fourth grade science project I surveyed 3 high school hockey teams about whether players had experienced concussions, how many concussions, what symptoms they had and how long it took for them to be symptom free.

This project will bring together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from analytical sciences, predictive modelling, law, criminology and business studies, and will contribute to consumer confidence and trust in UK food supply chains.

In October 2003, toward the end of the project, the executive committee and the University of Toronto team also published a Policy Forum article in Science.

From the Building with Biology website: «The Building with Biology project team has received supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to develop a new public forum on human genome editing called Editing our Evolution: Rewriting the Humane Genome.»

Over the course of the three - year curriculum project, the research team will design materials for students along with a professional development program and materials for teachers and a set of assessments for evaluating students» understanding of the energy concepts and science practices that are targeted in the new unit.

The Project 2061 research team presented their findings this spring at meetings of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Antonio, TX.

With that in mind, geographer Ruedi Seiler, a PhD student at WSL, and dendrologist Paolo Cherubini, Head of Dendrochronology at WSL, teamed up with Nicolas Houlié four years ago to embark upon a cross-disciplinary research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science is leading the multidisciplinary team that has received a four - year, $ 1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health for a project titled «Virtual Neuroprosthesis: Restoring Autonomy to People Suffering from Neurotrauma.»

Edward Goolish, science projects manager for NAI at its central offices at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, calls the research fellows «ambassadors who communicate between teams of scientists and the public.»

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

Mack serves on the project's international science team tasked with implementing the field campaign.

BALSA brings teams of science trainees into partnerships with startups and established corporations for 8 - to 12 - week consulting projects.

Astronomer Ronald Gilliland of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and his team observed the cluster nearly continuously for 8.3 days last July, one of the largest chunks of time granted for a single Hubble project.

Citizen Science — projects which involve collaboration between professional scientists and teams of enthusiastic amateurs — is big these days.

The project was successful; drug giant Novartis licensed the contact - lens technology last year and Otis is now director of the Google life - sciences team's hardware and medical - device development.

Google's life - sciences team is working on a range of projects that involve developing new ways of monitoring health.

Drawing from the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science database, they conducted a survey among U.S. scientists who had published a research article between 2001 and 2006, inquiring about the project, the size of the team, and how the work was organized.

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

Reich and lab members, Swapan Mallick and Nick Patterson, teamed up with previous laboratory member Sriram Sankararaman, now an Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, on the project, which found evidence that both Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry has been lost from the X chromosome, as well as genes expressed in the male testes.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, and his colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

In a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Empa and the University Hospital Zurich thus teamed up to develop the sensor «Glucolight,» which gages the blood sugar level through the skin, without taking any blood.

Enserink and the Science news team worked with Senior Designer Chrystal Smith and Graphics Managing Editor Alberto Cuadra on the project.

More than 80 faculty in departments from electrical engineering to agricultural economics to plant sciences are working in teams on these projects.

Dr Dudok de Wit's team at the International Space Science Institute in Bern, and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, have been using the datasets identified through the network to describe the Sun's influence on climate from 1850 up to the present day, as well as a forecast up to the year 2300.

In addition to those activities, this year's activities include hosting a journal club — in which cross-disciplinary teams present a company and its technology from both the science and business perspectives — a bioterrorism information event, developing a series of primers to introduce scientists to basic concepts in business and business students to basic concepts in science, and consulting projects to provide that elusive on - the - job experience.

Penn State researchers did the geophysics for the project and the research team's results are reported today (Sept. 13) in Science.

That's a project I teamed up on with one of the co-authors of the Science paper, Harvard undergraduate Adrian Veres.

In «A Phoenix Flies to Mars», Andrew Fazekas, the Canadian Editor for Science's Next Wave, writes about the NASA Phoenix polar lander, and Canada's contribution to the project: a sophisticated meteorological station developed by a team of Canadian scientists and engineers that will analyze Mars» arctic climate.

«Project management isn't an integral part of any degree program... as far as we know,» says Henner Willnow of the consulting firm Steinbeis Team Northeast and one of the workshop lecturers, speaking about degree programs in natural sciences.

Over the past few years, both teams have raised tens of millions of dollars toward the billion - dollar - plus projects in the hope that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) would come up with the balance.

«This new finding is of paramount importance to unlocking the multitude of processes behind particle behavior in the belts,» says Barry Mauk, project scientist for the Van Allen Probes at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «To have one of the primary science objectives of the mission met within just over a year of launch is a testament to the quality and quantity of the data the instruments on the probes are gathering, and to the teams analyzing them.»

In addition to adding new sensors and improved cloud computing support, the team's next steps includes plans to offer Waggle kits to scientists to support evaluation and hack - a-thons, allowing projects to extend and modify the platform for their own science project.

From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists — people like Bourassa who are excited about a science field but don't necessarily have a formal educational background — shared 30 reports of these mysterious lights in online forums and with a team of scientists that run a project called Aurorasaurus.

A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Department of Botany, Data Science Lab, and Digitization Program Office recently collaborated with NVIDIA to carry out a pilot project using deep learning approaches to dig into digitized herbarium specimens.

The team consists of Project Associate Professor NISHIDA Keiji and Professor KONDO Akihiko (Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University) as well as Associate Professor YACHIE Nozomu (Synthetic Biology Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo) and Professor HARA Kiyotaka (Department of Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka).

A document that Li gave Science includes a slide that shows Leonhardt heading up a team of four researchers and explains that one of the laptops, along with several other computers, workstations, and a printer that the center later purchased, were for these scientists, who would together work on «Casimir force, etc.» The label on the slide itself refers to a different line of research, metamaterials, and Liu, one of the scientists pictured in the presentation, laughed when asked about the project: «I don't know anything about Casimir forces.»

The team became interested in curiosity because of its ongoing collaborative research project to improve public engagement with science documentaries involving the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Insproject to improve public engagement with science documentaries involving the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical InsProject at Yale Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

His team is part of two projects funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 science fund.

When the team checked the DNA of a larger group of nearly 111,000 people, they found that about one in 200 carried one of the four APOC3 variants, reported Jacy Crosby of the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, who represented a large consortium called the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Exome Sequencing Project.

«People set up a dichotomy of investigator - initiated projects versus team science, but that's not the contrast we're making,» he says.

So in 2013 the nonprofit Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had led a replication project for psychology papers, teamed up with Science Exchange of Palo Alto, a service that matches scientists with contract labs that do experiments for hire.

«The Advanced LIGO detectors are a tour de force of science and technology, made possible by a truly exceptional international team of technicians, engineers, and scientists,» says David Shoemaker of MIT, the project leader for Advanced LIGO.

Julio E Valdivia - Silva, SETI Researcher Associate of Nasa, who is leading the project's science team, added: «I am excited to put potatoes on Mars and even more so that we can use a simulated Martian terrain so close to the area where potatoes originated.»