With the full briefs for the 2016 Starpack Awards now available online, the winner of the 2015 Student Category, Gavin Houseley urges school, college and
university Design departments to enter this prestigious student scheme organised by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
Not exact matches
«Social robots, if they're engaged in a public sense — even in a limited public sense — the
design has to include considerations for social interactions,» said David Harris Smith, associate professor at McMaster
University's
Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia in Canada.
She is also a visiting professor at Anhalt
University of Applied Sciences,
Department of
Design, Dessau, Germany.
For example, in the combined Garrett - Northwestern
University program, the student receives excellent training in modern research
design and methodology through the psychology
department of the
University, and also guidance in adapting modern research methods to religious data.
Prior to joining the
Department of Labor, Ms. Sasser worked on a series of economic and legal reform projects at the IRIS Center at the
University of Maryland and also worked at the World Bank
designing and conducting policy and country level evaluations in the Operations Evaluation
Department.
In addition, Dr. Butterfield has
designed and runs a year long counseling class for the
Department of Midwifery at Bastyr
University, and is an officer of several boards related to perinatal services: President — PATTCh; Training and Education Director (past Chair)-- Perinatal Support of WA; State Coordinator for Postpartum Support International.
The new state budget recently signed by Cuomo creates the
Design and Construction Corp., a three - member panel to be selected by Cuomo that will advise other state
departments on construction projects costing $ 50 million or more, such as large
university buildings, the new Penn Station and planned upgrades at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Key partners include: Greater Buffalo - Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), New York State
Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); Erie County, Niagara County, City of Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls, Association of Erie County Governments, Niagara County Supervisors Association,
University at Buffalo Regional Institute and Urban
Design Project (UBRI / UDP), Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement (CSCCE), VOICE Buffalo, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Buffalo (LISC), Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA), Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, The John R. Oishei Foundation, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), Belmont Housing Resources for WNY, Inc. (Belmont), Buffalo Niagara Partnership (BNP), Empire State Development, New York State
Department of State, Division of Smart Growth, Niagara County
Department of Social Services, and Niagara Falls Housing Authority.
New York City's
Department of Investigation (DOI) and Columbia
University Law School have teamed up to establish a center
designed to study...
Columbia
University paid Feniosky Peña - Mora, commissioner of the city
Department of
Design and Construction, more than $ 500,000 in 2015, according to his financial disclosure form.
Their prototype emerged from the Johns Hopkins undergraduate
design team program in the
Department of Biomedical Engineering, which is shared by the
university's School of Medicine and its Whiting School of Engineering.
Talboys made the most of the opportunities offered by his
university's
Department of Astrophysics and Space Research getting down to the nitty - gritty of
designing, building, and calibrating space instruments during summer placements and his final - year project.
«The policies in Africa right now were
designed for one purpose and one purpose only — to prevent transmission, but the mother was not part of the equation,» says Dr. Aditya Kaul, who is a professor in the
Department of Pediatric Infectious Disease at the New York
University Langone Medical Center.
Researchers at the Pharmacy
Department of the CEU Cardenal Herrera
University have published the
design of a new bioadhesive ocular insert which is placed inside the eyelid and releases a larger amount of medicine through the cornea in a controlled way in the international journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research.
«If we know the pathways involved, maybe we can reverse this, find better targets and
design better drugs,» says Dr. Yutao Liu, vision scientist and human geneticist in the
Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta
University.
«This study highlights the importance of confirming the validity of potential biomarkers in a relevant, large animal model and will be useful in the
design of future clinical trails,» commented lead investigator Stephen J. Kolb, MD, PhD, Associate Professor,
Department of Neurology and Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology, The Ohio State
University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Dr. Iwona Rudkowska, a research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology
Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval
University, says «additional well -
designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations.»
Lead author Nathan Call, PhD, director of Severe Behavior Programs at Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory
University School of Medicine, says his team's work is aimed at
designing treatment programs that families can stick to, and helping them do so. Call's co-authors were biostatisticians Scott Gillespie and Courtney McCracken, PhD in the
Department of Pediatrics, Mindy Scheithauer at Marcus Autism Center, and Andrea Reavis, now at Trumpet Behavioral Health.
Working at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the
Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the scientists then used a newly
designed injection system, engineered by a team from Arizona State
University, to stream the gel into the path of the X-ray pulses, which hit the crystals and produced patterns used to reconstruct a high - resolution, 3 - D model of the receptor.
A textile sample was produced from the cellulose fiber in collaboration with Aalto
University's
Department of
Design.
It grew out of a 2011 undergraduate senior
design project in the Wallace H. Coulter
Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory
University.
Four researchers from the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at West Virginia
University, in conjunction with the federal Materials Genomics Initiative, are finding ways to more quickly
design materials that will find their ways to the marketplace.
«With existing techniques, you can only see the outline of the virus,» said author Thomas D. Grant, PhD, research assistant professor in the
Department of Structural Biology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the
University at Buffalo and the
Department of Materials,
Design and Innovation in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Hauptman - Woodward Medical Research Institute.
Now, a researcher at the
University of Missouri has applied the Public Health Index (PHI) model, a tool he
designed that has been adopted by the Missouri
Department of Health and Senior Services, to help the Brazilian government identify and prioritize health risks affecting its population.
M. Bockrath, D. H. Cobden, P. L. McEuen, N. G. Chopra, A. Zettl, Molecular
Design Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and
Department of Physics,
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Still, Harland, 34, was part of a team at the sports technology
department at Loughborough
University in the United Kingdom that worked with a prototype of the Adidas Jabulani, developing and testing different
designs for the ball and studying how surface features, such as seams and grooves, affect the ball's aerodynamics.
Peter Lunenfeld is a professor in the
Design Media Arts
department at the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Whiteley, who runs Lancaster
University's
Department of Visual Arts, begins
Design for Society with a resume of the development of the consumer ethic in the US, where designer Raymond Loewy defined his aesthetic ideal as «a beautiful sales curve shooting upwards».
Lucina Uddin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the
Department of Psychology at the
University of Miami, who was not part of the research team, said, «The combination of multiple neuroimaging modalities is a clear strength of the current study, and the authors are to be commended for undertaking the difficult task of trying to reconcile results from methods
designed to tap different aspects of brain structure and function.
Researchers from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) and the Centre for Immunology and Infection (CII) in the
University's
Department of Biology
designed experiments to test the bioactivity of plant - derived flavonoids.
The EPRI project to
design a prototype smart grid, called the Complex Interactive Networks / Systems Initiative, was conducted from 1998 to 2002 and involved six
university research consortia, two power companies and the U.S.
Department of Defense.
The lead authors are Parisa Hossienzadeh, Gaurav Bhardwaj and Vikram Mulligan, of the
University of Washington School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and the UW Institute of Protein
Design.
«Peer behavior is perhaps the most enduring social correlate of both contemporaneous and subsequent alcohol use, so studies specifically
designed to explore the etiology underlying these associations, and particularly those that examine mechanistic processes, are tremendously important to the field,» added Shawn J. Latendresse, assistant professor in the
department of psychology & neuroscience at Baylor
University.
«Using an analogy from classical physics aids us in more efficiently
designing and illustrating control elements for phenomena in the quantum world,» reports Stefan Glaser, professor in the
Department of Chemistry at the Technical
University of Munich (TUM).
Professor Laura Cipolla, from the
Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the
University of Milano - Bicocca, added: «Based on our background on the chemical modification of bio - and nanostructured materials, proteins, and carbohydrates, we
designed a new chemical approach in order to force the organic component polycaprolactone to stay together in a stable way with the inorganic component silica.»
Principal Collaborators: Jean - Jacques Hublin, Director of the
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Tracy Kivell, School for Anthropology and Conservation,
University of Kent Mark F. Skinner,
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser
University Philipp Gunz,
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Dieter Pahr, Institute of Lightweight
Design and Structural Biomechanics, Vienna
University of Technology Christophe Boesch,
Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Shara Bailey,
Department of Anthropology, New York
University)
That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of
University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the
department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to
design levee heights and alignments.
TexRAD was originally a joint venture between the
University of Sussex, Imaging Equipment Ltd, Cambridge Computed Imaging Ltd (CCI) and Miles Medical Pty Ltd, based on research by Professor Chris Chatwin, Dr Rupert Young and Dr Balaji Ganeshan from the
Department of Engineering and
Design at the
University of Sussex and Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), and Professor Ken Miles (formerly BSMS).
A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been
designed by a team at the
University of California, Davis,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The France And Chicago Collaborating in The Sciences (FACCTS) program is
designed to enhance science at the
University of Chicago by encouraging closer relations between researchers in Physics Sciences
Department (PSD) and Biology Sciences
Department (BSD) and high - level research teams and institutions of higher education in France.
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Design of NEID and HPF, two large Echelle spectrographs to search for habitable planets «by Chris Schwab, Senior Lecturer
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie
University
A team of researchers from the
University of Chicago, Northwestern
University, the
University of Illinois at Chicago and the U.S.
Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory have engineered silicon particles one - fiftieth the width of a human hair, which could lead to «biointerface» systems
designed to make nerve cells fire and heart cells beat.
Welcome to the Community College Internships (CCI) program, a premier
Department of Energy internship
designed to bring community college students into the technical research setting at the Ames Laboratory and Iowa State
University to work with scientists and technicians who are leaders in their respective fields.
Organophosphates are «
designed» to have toxic effects on the nervous system, says the lead author of the study, Maryse Bouchard, PhD, a researcher in the
department of environmental and occupational health at the
University of Montreal.
Scientists at Cornell
University have developed a «flu and cold preventing» fibre that is being featured in the «Glitterati» clothing line introduced by Olivia Ong at the College of Human Ecology's
Department of Fiber Science and Apparel
Design.
So if you have a very flimsy, flowing something that mixes well with air, it will burn quite readily,» says Martin Bide, a professor in the textiles, fashion merchandising, and
design department at the
University of Rhode Island.
Corner has more than 20 years experience in the higher education sector; prior to London College of Fashion, she was head of the Sir John Cass
Department of Art, Media and
Design at London Metropolitan
University.
Currently, I am a graduate student at the Teachers College, Columbia
University in the
department of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies
Design.
The voluntary testing program is sponsored by the state
department of education and is
designed to serve as a «diagnostic tool» for students, counselors, and curriculum planners, according to Duane Clow, professor of mathematics at the
university and the director of the testing program.
Universities continually express a growing need to have Instructional
Design departments dedicated to implementing technological advancements.