Sentences with phrase «transformative research by»
The Parkinson's Foundation pilots transformative research by investing $ 4.5 million in innovative projects.
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«Today's flight demonstrates that Washington state's innovation economy is once again at the forefront of collaborative, transformative research by using material that would otherwise be discarded to create a new biofuel,» said DelBene.
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As a multi-stakeholder initiative with 80 institutional members, the Sustainable Rice Platform, co-convened by UN Environment and the International Rice Research Institute, offers partners the opportunity to participate in this transformative process and make a real contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.»
She uses empirical research conducted in Bolivia, Sweden, the US, India, and Canada to explore and theorize shifting conditions and strategies of social change, including the criminalization of dissent, new approaches to law by social movements, and broader theoretical questions about the transformative potential of law.
It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.
The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment, says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.
The development of the technology was funded by two grants from the National Institutes of Health that support pioneering and potentially transformative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research.
The overarching goal of the Professional Development Core (PDC) is to address the unmet need for more diversity in the biomedical research workforce by creating and nationally disseminating transformative, high - impact, professional development programs to support mentees from diverse backgrounds in biomedical / bio-behavioral disciplines.
Another product from the project is a 2017 review of gender - transformative methodologies for Ethiopia's agriculture sector, co-authored by Kristie Drucza, project lead, and Wondimu Abebe, a research assistant, both from CIMMYT.
The Wyss Institute creates transformative technological breakthroughs by engaging in high risk research, and crosses disciplinary and institutional barriers, working as an alliance that includes Harvard's Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences and Design, and in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston University, Tufts University, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University of Zurich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This is reflected by mixed evidence that soliciting transformative research led to increases in transformative outcomes compared with the typical model.»
The NSF defines transformative research as being «driven by ideas that have the potential to radically change our understanding of an important existing scientific or engineering concept or leading to the creation of a new paradigm....
The 2015 mid-term evaluation report of LABEX IAST resulted in a very positive assessment by the international jury: «This is a high - risk, high - potential project that can lead to transformative research in the long term, Intersection between economics, biology, psychology, and other fields, perfectly suited for funding by a public research agency.
Which is transformative but still barely a kind of supported by medical research.
But the exclusive survey, conducted by the Education Week Research Center for this year's edition of Technology Counts, found that teachers, on the whole, still face systemic challenges in adapting their instruction to new technologies in transformative ways.
«With input we gathered at the Massachusetts Education Innovators breakfast at Harvard, and the extensive research that has been done by Sir Michael Barber and the Brightlines team, we can identify the actions and innovations that will lead to the transformative change that we need.»
A vital part of the HGSE community, we aspire to provide transformative adult learning experiences by bringing together diverse professionals, connecting them with each other and with HGSE's leading faculty and research, and engaging them in important problems of practice.
The Digital Strategy will enable us to maintain a position of leadership by providing a foundation for the transformative enhancement of research, teaching and innovation through digital technologies and communications.
Many of those reports were summarized in a March 2013 research brief by the Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education (CReATE).
Research documents that art - integration can have a transformative effect on schools by improving school culture and increasing student achievement.
«This ruling furthers the purpose of copyright by recognizing that Google's Book search is a transformative fair use that advances research and learning.»
Hotrock Energy Research Organization (HERO) is committed to reducing the environmental footprint of power generation and impact to pristine landscapes by engaging in collaborative and transformative research into the science and technologies related to Enhanced Geothermal Systems and other advanced geothermal energy technResearch Organization (HERO) is committed to reducing the environmental footprint of power generation and impact to pristine landscapes by engaging in collaborative and transformative research into the science and technologies related to Enhanced Geothermal Systems and other advanced geothermal energy technresearch into the science and technologies related to Enhanced Geothermal Systems and other advanced geothermal energy technologies.
The work by this year's pro bono champions included valuable research while interning for an anti-trafficking charity, a «transformative» repayment of # 7,200 benefits for a client with mental health and addiction problems, and help for clients through a county court triage scheme.
The product of this socioeconomic research resulted in my attending the 2001 United Nations World Conference on the Elimination of Racism in Durban, South Africa, at which I successfully advocated as a credentialed member of a NGO, for the inclusion of mediation processes based on my Transformative Voice and Global - Meta Power Structural Arrangements models, in the conference's Declaration and Programme of Action, which was adopted by consensus by the international member states of the United Nations.
On the second day, the panel of accomplished and wise Aboriginal women (led by senior federal advisor Kerrie Tim, with Eileen Cummings, June Oscar AO, and Karen Nangala Woodley) was also a standout because it reminded us how important it is that we acknowledge that our research is taking place in a context of a colonised white Australia, and that white research has long been used to entrench racism and sexism in Aboriginal communities, rather than to enhance understanding and bring about transformative social change.