Sentences with phrase «university research leaders»
Award recipients are selected by a panel of respected scientists and university research leaders.
https://www.aaas.org/ Not exact matches
Here are five research projects taking place at Canadian universities that teach important lessons for today's business leaders.
Dr Brad Tucker, a Research Fellow and Outreach Manager at Mt Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University, said: «Stephen Hawking not only was a leader in cosmology and astrophysics, but also pushed us all — to challenge ourselves and the unknown.
Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.
A current high school junior with a passion for mathematical finance and socially responsible investing, Shivam has already proven himself as a. thought leader as a contributor at Wall Street Survivor and his financial research at Stanford University under Professor Fuhito Kojima.
Composed of leaders from the private sector, universities, colleges and polytechnics, the Roundtable works to help young Canadians transition from education to the workplace, strengthen research collaboration between industry and institutions, and help Canadian employers as they adapt to the economy of the future.
Composed of leaders from the private sector, universities, colleges and polytechnics, BHER works to support young Canadians as they transition from education to the workplace, strengthen research collaboration between industry and institutions, and help Canadian employers as they adapt to the economy of the future.
Very few of the Catholic universities (with the exceptions of Notre Dame and Georgetown) are considered on the vanguard of any cutting edge research by leaders in the field, whether in biology, physics or astronomy.
In October, the Boston - area research university had barred the group from using Tufts in its name, receiving student activity funds, or reserving campus meeting spaces because TCF required its leaders to adhere to its statement of faith.
But a recent study by the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia for Stewardship Journal suggests that some significant differences are emerging between the leaders of evangelical relief and development (R&D) agencies and their donor constituencies.
The stars on university faculties became the leaders in specialized research.
The think tanks that provide research supplementary to the universities are also heavily biased by the sources of their funds and the selection of their leaders.
Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.
Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.
Stellenbosch University is acknowledged as a world leader in research on optimising packaging design for the fruit industry.
Associate Professor, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland; Centre Leader, Hermitage Research Facility; College of Experts, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
The completed sequencing of the seven wild rice varieties is a significant progress to drive further genome evolution and domestication,» explained Dr. Rod Wing, leader of the International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP), an AXA Chair holder at the International Rice Research Institute, Professor at the University of Arizona, and one of the lead scientists in the study.
Co-founded and jointly led by Stanford University and The Culinary Institute of America, the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative is a working group of leading scholars, foodservice business leaders, and executive chefs from invited colleges and universities who are accelerating efforts to move Americans toward healthier, more sustainable, plant - forward diets.
Reliable statistics on the incidence of sexual abuse by coaches in youth sports are hard to come by, according to Celia Brackenridge, Director of the Centre for Youth Sport and Athlete Welfare at Brunel University in London and a leader in sports abuse research.
Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.
Rush University Medical Center faculty and staff have been international leaders in conducting translational research to provide the scientific evidence for the use of mothers» own milk to reduce complications in very low birthweight infants infants during the NICU hospitalization.
RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
The APC national leader said the theme of the symposium was apt and timely, commending the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training and Bayero University for the initiative.
Chair: Dr Philip Smith, Chairman, Global Utilities Ltd, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and Chair of Milton Keynes Leaders» Forum Speakers: Keith Clarke CBE, former CEO of Atkins Global and Chairman of Forum for the Future Evan Davis, broadcaster and Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and takes place from 2 - 9 November 2013.
The University at Buffalo Foundation used an offshore fund to invest in fracking and fossil fuels, even as university officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainabilityUniversity at Buffalo Foundation used an offshore fund to invest in fracking and fossil fuels, even as university officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainabilityuniversity officials sought to portray UB as a national leader in climate - change and sustainability research.
The summit, which was held at Cornell University in Ithaca, brought together many agriculture, research and business leaders to discuss new developments and strategies to grow New York's hemp industry.
The Innovation Hot Spots Competition is designed to make New York State a leader in attracting venture capital and industry - sponsored research spending: Currently, New York's universities rank 2nd nationally (California is 1st) in total research dollars spent.
«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).
India «aims to produce and nurture talent in science, to stimulate research in our universities, to develop young leaders in the field of science, to reward performance,» Singh added.
Joseph Krajcik, Ph.D., is a Writing Team Leader for Next Generation Science Standards, director of the Institute for Collaborative Research in Education, Assessment, and Teaching Environments for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CREATE for STEM) m and a faculty member in science education at the Michigan State University.
Selma Lendelvo, a researcher in the life sciences division of the University of Namibia's Multidisciplinary Research Centre (MRC), works with scientists and community leaders to find ways to ease such conflicts.
Mott studied the University of Florida IFAS Extension's county directors, but he said his research likely applies to leaders everywhere.
«Our research suggests that in mice, males may be more vulnerable to the effects of maternal inflammation than females, and the impact may be life long,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology / obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Mresearch suggests that in mice, males may be more vulnerable to the effects of maternal inflammation than females, and the impact may be life long,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology / obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal MResearch Center for Fetal Medicine.
«Down the road, we hope to be able to treat pregnant women whose babies are at risk for this type of neurologic damage and prevent it from happening,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.
Anu Suomalainen - Wartiovaara became a group leader and Academy of Finland research fellow at Helsinki University last year.
Jürgen Hauer, a co-author of the report and a junior research group leader at the Photonics Institute of the Vienna University of Technology, explained that natural systems have evolved to use light efficiently, but there are some caveats before engineers can design a solar cell that works as effectively as a leaf.
«Swift's rapid response time enabled us to use it to rapidly search for and detect the electromagnetic counterpart of this gamma - ray burst after its detection by LIGO,» said Jamie Kennea, associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics, the leader of the Swift Science Operations Team at Swift's Mission Operations Center, located at Penn State's University Park campus.
Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.
«It is very clear that synthetic binding technologies are now mature,» said study co-author Shohei Koide, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Chicago and a world - leader in monobody research and design.
«A heads - up display using our new technology installed in a car would allow a driver to see the displayed information even if he or she moved around or was shorter or taller than average,» said research team leader Pierre - Alexandre Blanche of the University of Arizona, USA.
Research leaders say that waiting a few months for stronger evidence — such as quantitative proof of a drop in UK — EU collaborations, or an exodus of non-British EU academics (who make up 15 % of UK university staff)-- could be too late.
«This research makes it possible to transport genetically modified mice safely and easily to research organizations around the world,» said study leader, Dr. Toru Takeo of Kumamoto University.
As if to illustrate that point, Representative George Miller (D — CA), who chaired the 30 April hearing and represents the congressional district just north of Berkeley, commented that «as chairman of the [House] Education [and Labor] Committee and chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, I meet all of the time with leaders from the research - university community.»
► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.
«Two - step processes our lab and others developed earlier lack a seamless interface and, therefore, lack the conductance sought,» said Liming Dai, the Kent Hale Smith Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and a leader of the research.
«Prostate cancers only kill men after they have spread or «metastasised» from the prostate,» says project leader Dr Luke Selth, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide's Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories and a member of the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men's Health.
Industry partnerships thrive at the Center for Sensory - Motor Interaction at Aalborg University in northern Denmark, a global leader in pain research.
Knoedler says the NSF is still a leader in funding interdisciplinary collaborations, with the Science and Technology Centers and the Industry & University Cooperative Research Program.
Curt Rice, a linguist at the University of Tromsø in Norway and the Leader of Norway's Committee on Gender Balance in Research, also welcomes the report but expresses concern about its mild tone; the tone makes it unlikely that the recommendations will be implemented, he writes in an email to Science Careers.
My Ph.D. research was part of a larger study — Living Changes in the Life Sciences: Tracing the «Ethical» and the «Social» within Scientific Practice and Work Culture — at the University of Vienna's Department of Social Studies of Science, with Ulrike Felt as project leader.