Sentences with phrase «week engineering research»

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After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

For six weeks I spoke to scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center and at Stanford University; engineers at Hewlett - Packard and Apple Computer; self - employed researchers; consultants at small high - tech startups.

Raskin also reported that not one story coming out of the six - week conference dealt with UNESCO's battle against illiteracy, its development of alternative energy sources, its educational programs for scientists and engineers, its basic research into food production, and scores of other accomplishments during 1980.

This week, Trisha Gura interviews protein engineer Jasper Akerboom, who left his job as a research specialist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Virginia to pursue a career as a brewresearch specialist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Virginia to pursue a career as a brewResearch Campus in Virginia to pursue a career as a brewmeister.

In 1975, O'Neill spearheaded a ten - week - long study at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, working with engineers, social scientists, and other researchers, as well as architects, to see whether such structures were feasible.

Last week, the Merrill Lynch Forum announced the second round of winners of their Innovation Grants Competition, awarding almost a quarter - million dollars in 2 years to young scientists and engineers who could successfully explain the commercial applications of their dissertation research.

The new findings, based on detailed computer simulations using the best available global circulation models, are described this week in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of environmental engineering Elfatih Eltahir, MIT Research Scientist Eun Soon Im, and Professor Jeremy Pal at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

«With Teresa Woodruff's research using Draper's human organ system platform, we have a compelling demonstration of the importance of a microenvironment that permits cells to function in vitro as they would in vivo, and the power of being able to interconnect organ models on a platform and operate them in a stable and precise manner for weeks to months,» said Jeffrey T. Borenstein, a biomedical engineer at Draper.

► Also in this week's issue is a Q and A with «European research commissioner Carlos Moedas, a smiling, mild - mannered polyglot with experience in engineering, real estate, and investment banking, to discuss his plans for science in the European Union.

Three years ago, a U.S. National Academies committee recommended (in the report The Gathering Storm) doubling federal investment in basic research in math, the physical sciences, and engineering while, at a minimum, protecting the health sciences against inflation (the cost of which, in math, the physical sciences, and engineering, equals the amount by which the nation's expenditure on health care increases every 7 weeks).

For Dhruvit Patel, a rising senior majoring in mechanical engineering and physics at Rutgers University, the 10 weeks he spent at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) were a welcome opportunity to do hands - on research.

Update on Macchiarini's investigation Karolinska University Hospital, which investigated ethical research misconduct by tissue engineering pioneer Paolo Macchiarini, has released report this week.

This 10 - week summer program exposes undergraduate students to neural engineering research, and how it can help people heal, feel and move again.

The research team, which consists of graduates and undergraduates in Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary materials science program and department of mechanical engineering, describe this achievement in a paper titled «From the Junkyard to the Power Grid: Ambient Processing of Scrap Metals into Nanostructured Electrodes for Ultrafast Rechargeable Batteries» published online this week in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

The MDI Biological Laboratory inaugurates its Center for Science Entrepreneurship this week with a new course that will help University of Maine and College of the Atlantic science and engineering undergraduates explore approaches to biomedical research using concepts and tools that promote collaboration across disciplines.

In 2007, a 36 - year - old Chicago woman died three weeks after her knee was injected with genetically engineered viruses as part of an investigational treatment researching gene therapy's potential in easing the pain of rheumatoid arthritis.

Undergraduate students spend 10 - 12 weeks on site participating in an astronomy, engineering or computer science research project.

At the prestigious American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting this week, MedImmune will unveil for the first time how we are packing a one - two punch to cancer cells into one specially - engineered monoclonal antibody.

This 10 - week summer program on the University of Washington (UW) Seattle Campus gives students an intensive neuroscience and neural engineering lab research experience, supplemented by workshops in ethics, communications and scientific presentation skills.

Unlike these other programs, which offer intensive lab research experiences over many weeks, YSP - REACH offers students a broad overview of neural engineering within a shorter timeframe.

Hyundai U.S. Chief John Krafcik shared the info last week, and even he was surprised: «I know you all can't believe this,» he said during a presentation about the 2012 Hyundai Genesis at the automaker's engineering and research center in Superior Township, Michigan.

Research scientists, policymakers and ethicists gathered in Berlin this week to discuss the emerging field of «climate engineering» and what it... Read More

Less than three weeks after two US researchers called for global agreement on the governance of geo - engineering research, British meteorologists have provided a case [continue reading...]

Just last week, Svensmark and other researchers from the Centre for Sun - Climate Research at the Danish National Space Centre published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A — the mathematical, physical sciences and engineering journal of the venerable Royal Society of London — announcing that they had experimentally verified the physical mechanism by which cosmic rays affect cloud cover.

LONDON, 31 March — Less than three weeks after two US researchers called for global agreement on the governance of geo - engineering research, British meteorologists have provided a case study in potential geo - engineering disaster.

In a new research paper published this week, MIT engineers describe how they were able to devise a system wherein wireless routers at a mass gathering can more seamlessly work together and, in turn, reduce the incidence of interference and inadvertently throttled Internet access.

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