Sentences with phrase «university contract research»

CAMBRIDGE — Late last month, concerned academic researchers met with representatives of funding bodies and university staff development offices to discuss the situation of university contract research staff (CRS).

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Wireless contracts written in clear language would be a start, but more needs to be done, said Catherine Middleton, the Canada Research Chair in Communication Technologies in the Information Society at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

The General Social Survey supplement measuring of broad - based employee stock ownership, profit sharing, and stock options is conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago on contract with the Employee Ownership Foundation.

The developer of the digital currency for payments Dash Core and the Arizona State University (ASU) have signed a contract worth $ 300 thousand to accelerate research and development in the field of blockchain.

«The combined value of federal grants and contracts for research and related activities at Vanderbilt University, including the Medical Center, totaled $ 424 million in fiscal year 2009.»

While a presidential order could regulate areas including employment, education, and federal contracts, the suggestion that religious groups could also be guaranteed protections in the marketplace «may just be feel - good» wording, according to Robin Fretwell Wilson, a University of Illinois professor who researches law and religion.

I am grateful to Professor Patricia Benner of the University of California Medical School (San Francisco) for calling my attention to the model proposed by Stuart E. Dreyfus in «Formal Models versus Human Situational Understanding: Inherent Limitations on the Modeling of Business Expertise,» Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contract: F 49620 -79-C0063), National Technical Information Service, February 1981, AD - AO97468 / 3.

Consider, for example, the vast involvement of college and university personnel in government contract research, and to a lesser degree in consultative services to industry.

Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research carries on sociological studies of homelessness under a contract with Operation Bowery.

CUNY brass authorized the no - bid contract through the university's main not - for - profit arm, the CUNY Research Foundation sources said.

Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Elizabeth Mackie (Information Officer, Personnel Division, University of Cambridge) for her help in compiling the statistics on contract research staff departmental affiliations.

University officials foresee «draconian clauses» in research contracts that would make it more difficult for them to involve foreign nationals in projects, says Toby Smith, senior federal relations officer for the Association of American Universities in Washington, D.C..

Like virtually all British universities, running costs are covered by government grants and minimal tuition fees paid by students, whereas research is supported by the government - funded research councils, foundations, and industrial contracts.

These terms also apply to temporary contracts financed from external funding sources (Drittmittel), as well as for an employee's transfer from one university to another university or research institution.

With the help of PdOC, the careers service has applied to the University of Cambridge for funding to appoint a staff member who would be responsible for dealing specifically with postdocs and other contract research staff.

Fearing they would soon be forced to offer many open - ended positions, universities and research organizations took drastic preventive action that made it difficult for young scientists to extend short - term contracts beyond even 3 years, Trautmann says.

But even today, scientists «are fired after 5 years at the CNRS» — the French national research agency — «so the research organizations or universities won't be obliged to give them an open - ended contract, which very much complicates their lives and the lives of the laboratories,» says Guillaume Bossis, a CNRS biologist at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier.

I spent the following year as a postgraduate fellow under contract with the physics department of the local university, continuing my research project at INFM - TASC.

In France, universities and public research organizations have long employed scientists in permanent positions through civil service contracts that must be won in nationwide, annual competitions.

«Neither the universities nor the public research organizations want to offer these open - ended contracts,» Bossis says.

It is important to make sure that your doctoral contract or university agreement and research funding allow you to take the time away.

His one - year contract is up in May, and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, which manages Gemini, is due to name a new director within weeks.

A major attraction for foreign researchers is that the French national research agencies and universities employ researchers on permanent civil service contracts.

As a result, most of the named institutions now classify postdocs as individuals in training, within 5 years of being awarded a Ph.D. degree, who are primarily engaged in research with minimal teaching or other responsibilities, and are in a temporary appointment that does not constitute an employment contract with the university.

An examiner can also decide to let an application proceed because the product is sufficiently different from its natural counterpart based on «structure, function, and / or other properties,» which may be reassuring to academia, says Robert Hardy, director of contracts and intellectual property management for the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR), a Washington, D.C. — based association of research universities.

Running the funding programs, including the peer - review process, will be contracted out to research organizations and universities.

Starting this past summer, groups within public universities and research institutions — including contract researchers — began holding educational events to alert their communities about the law's implications.

In an attempt to rationalise a situation in which a researcher would end up having a string of 5 - year contracts, the 12 - year rule — 15 years in medicine — capped the time period that a university (or publicly funded research institute) is allowed to hire using temporary contracts.

Universities have spectacularly expanded their contract research portfolios, as they are forced to generate income and demonstrate their scholastic merit from the scale of their research income.

According to figures from the Italian Ministry for Education, University, and Research, slightly more than 2000 short - term contract researchers are absorbed into the system in a typical year.

«The temporary research staff will be the first to be left behind, just not hired anymore» once their contracts run out, says Marcella Ravaglia, a 32 - year - old postdoctoral computational chemist at the University of Ferrara who is also an RNRP member.

The Ministry for Education and Research has officially stated that contracts can be extended and that university administrations are fully entitled to do this.

«I acknowledge my obligation to assign inventions and patents that I conceive or develop while employed by University or during the course of my utilization of any University research facilities or any connection with my use of gift, grant, or contract research funds received through the University.

In 2008, the agency contracted with Discovery Logic / Thomson Reuters and research economist Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, to do a modeling study.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to award a 5 - year contract for the facility, home to the largest radio telescope in the world, to a consortium comprising SRI International, the Universities Space Research Association, Universidad Metropolitana, and other institutions.

While discovery - type positions tend to be filled by postdocs and graduate students, people who perform drug formulation research and contract manufacturing at places like the universities of Kentucky, Iowa, and Maryland often take permanent positions as group leaders, supervisors, or technicians, Mayer adds.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

Professor Asif Ahmed, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health and Professor of Vascular Biology at Aston University, said: «Our latest research highlights that compounds that deliver low levels of carbon monoxide can block specific ion channels in the heart muscle to allow the muscle time to contract properly and forcefully in a coordinated fashion.

Clinical researchers can end up anywhere from academia, where posts are based at university medical school research units or at hospital research units, to pharmaceutical or biotech companies, or in contract research organisations (CROs), which carry out clinical trials for drug or biotech companies.

Organic chemist Carolyn Bertozzi, an HHMI investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, says she's already cancelled some expensive service contracts, stopped paying some travel costs for job candidates, and plans to reduce the size of her 34 - member research group through attrition.

Influenza: Besides stopping grants for controversial GOF studies of H5N1 in the lab of University of Wisconsin, Madison, virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, the pause covers contracts for NIAID's five Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS).

In spite of the less secure work contracts and the lack of civil service status for professors, he and quite a few other scientists working at private research universities can well imagine a long - term stay at these institutions.

The research is done at 14 EPA laboratories in 12 states, and through external grants to universities and contracts with private firms.

In closing, this could have been avoided (theoretically) with good university policies regarding intellectual property and an agreement among the university, Centrifuge, and BigPharmaCo when the research contract was first developed.

Although Ph.D. students may also get such a contract for 1 year, the ATER positions allow young researchers to receive a salary for their teaching while carrying their research on the side and applying for a permanent position within universities.

Callarman is involved with technology transfer policies at ASU, and as a business professor he tends to believe that faculty and universities «sell their souls» when they do contract research.

University of Texas at Austin economics professor Michael Geruso and Harvard Medical School research fellow Timothy Layton investigated risk adjustments in private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, finding the costly practice of upcoding to be most prevalent among highly integrated insurance plans — or insurers that are more tightly connected with the physicians they contract.

The Office of Research Development Services (RDS) provides assistance to GUMC faculty, students and staff in identifying sponsored research funding opportunties, developing sponsored research grant, contract and cooperative agreement proposals, budgets and application packages in accordance with sponsor and University requiResearch Development Services (RDS) provides assistance to GUMC faculty, students and staff in identifying sponsored research funding opportunties, developing sponsored research grant, contract and cooperative agreement proposals, budgets and application packages in accordance with sponsor and University requiresearch funding opportunties, developing sponsored research grant, contract and cooperative agreement proposals, budgets and application packages in accordance with sponsor and University requiresearch grant, contract and cooperative agreement proposals, budgets and application packages in accordance with sponsor and University requirements.

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