Sentences with phrase «with volunteer scientists»

The Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights & Law Program works with volunteer scientists and human rights organizations to apply knowledge toward global challenges and contributes to multiple activities to ensure the free pursuit, access and application of science is used to uphold human rights.

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She volunteers with the Lake Charles Pit Bull Rescue and wants to be a pharmaceutical scientist when she grows up.

There is evidence from Canada and Argentina that initially yields increased with GM and pesticide use fell.However, Charles Benbrook, an independent US scientist formerly of the US Department of Agriculture, carried out a series of systematic studies that showed that over a five - year period, yields began to fall and pesticide use markedly increased to counter the proliferation of volunteers and superweeds.

Simmons stopped working with Physicians for Human Rights in 1999, and when she heard that AAAS was looking for volunteers to participate in the original On - call Scientists program, she saw it as another opportunity to get involved.

Collaborating with Citizen Scientists by Lucas Laursen, 25 June 2010 Scientists and industry professionals are not your only options for collaborators; volunteer citizens can also help you collect and even analyze data.

The folks who volunteer to lie in bed for three months with their feet elevated slightly above their heads so that scientists can study the physiological effects of being in zero gravity tend to be passionate about space flight.

To respond to these and similarly urgent requests, we have created an On - call Scientists Hotline made up of especially experienced On - call Scientist volunteers each with an exemplary record of contributing to human rights questions in a wide breadth of fields.

Connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

In addition to the scientist, engineer, and health professional volunteers - who now number over 1,200 in 65 countries — human rights practitioners can now consult with a vanguard team of scientists and engineers who are available to answer one - off questions quickly, in real time.

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Scientists who volunteer to take part in the scheme are paired with an MP, usually from the scientist's area.

Like SEP, HutchLab has also offered memorable experiences to the FHCRC scientists that volunteer with us.

The scientists obtained samples of H. pylori from two volunteers infected with the microbe and then wiped out the infections with antibiotics.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

For example, a Psychology 101 student, familiar with how scientists run experiments, might volunteer as a study subject in which they are asked to wear a backpack, and guess the incline of a hill.

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

Scientists have a duty to inspire the next generation of researchers, says Knight, shown here explaining the workings of an MRI with the help of a young volunteer.

Volunteering with organizations that support causes important to scientists provides a chance to engage with the broader community and make science visible.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

The scientists presented their volunteers with three vials of scents at a time: two matched, and one different.

«Our goal was to obtain a more comprehensive view of the current state of knowledge on the benefits of volunteering among older adults,» said Dr. Anderson, a senior scientist with Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and associate professor, University of Toronto.

So scientists at Complutense University of Madrid actually got into cars with volunteer drivers and distracted them.

«ECAS was pleased to work with community scientists to study the long - term effects of this beautiful lake and the birds that depend upon it,» said John Reuland, volunteer coordinator for the Lake Abert study.

It also offers to put interested scientists in touch with the organizers of media training courses, and to add volunteers to a database of researchers willing to respond to press queries.

Finally, the scientists drew blood samples and split the volunteers into three groups for further meetings with counselors.

A clinical trial in which volunteers were infected with dengue virus six months after receiving either an experimental dengue vaccine developed by scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or a placebo injection yielded starkly contrasting results.

AAAS On - call Scientists This program connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical Scientists This program connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

The cognitive scientists fitted skullcaps with 128 electroencephalographic (EEG) electrodes to the heads of eight long - term Buddhist practitioners and 10 student volunteers.

The scientists recruited 10 volunteers with obesity to live in BIDMC's Clinical Research Center (CRC) for two five - day sessions.

He collaborated with park managers, citizen scientist programs, and volunteer groups to obtain samples.

On - call Scientists connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical Scientists connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

«He said the meetings allow U.S. scientists, who volunteer their time, to combine their knowledge with the work of colleagues around the world.

She knew a physicist who did educational outreach (but had just lost his grant, so he couldn't offer me any work), who knew a space scientist (who did no outreach or education at all), who knew a geologist (who occasionally volunteered in the schools), who knew an evolutionary ecologist (who worked for a nonprofit with no money at all), who knew the director of another local nonprofit educational company.

Hamm performed his own chromosome squash with six juvenile monarchs — real ones given to him by Kansas - based Monarch Watch, a network of scientists, teachers, and volunteers that supports research on the butterfly.

To do so, scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, recruited 10 volunteers and asked them to wash with mild soap for 1 week.

Their app, Cachalot, is available for free on the iPad and was created with the help of volunteers: marine scientists wrote it without charge from lecture notes, a computer science class designed it, and institutions, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, donated images and video.

For volunteers and scientists alike, working at the event resonated with what they've taken away from a lifetime of working in the sciences — both the good and the bad.

«This discovery reverses food allergies in mice, and we have many people with allergies volunteering their own cells for us to use in lab testing to move this research forward,» said professor John Gordon, lead scientist behind the discovery just published in the current issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

In a study currently recruiting patient volunteers, the Einstein scientists (who have no financial relationship with Deciphera) are studying whether rebastinib can improve outcomes in metastatic breast cancer.

I was always interested in being some sort of scientist and experiences volunteering at a small aquarium, along with taking an conservation biology class in high school, fostered that interest.

Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary pool of volunteer participants: 182 Vietnam veterans with highly localized brain damage from penetrating head injuries.The research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Medical Numerics, in Germantown, Md.; George Mason University; the University of Delaware; and Kessler Foundation, in West Orange, N.J.

The team, led by scientists at the UCL Huntington's Disease Centre working with colleagues in Sweden, the USA, Canada, France and the Netherlands, measured neurofilament levels in blood samples from the TRACK - HD study, an international project that followed 366 volunteers for three years.

Scientists are able to network and connect with volunteer groups through the NASA Nationwide online community and can also get involved in developing E / PO resources for the NASA Nationwide community.

Scientists prepared a tea made from burdock root and fed it to several human volunteers with knee osteoarthritis.

This study noted a similarly blunted increase, and scientists in this study fed vitamin C to 16 untrained male volunteers and found that «serum cortisol concentrations significantly declined after supplementation compared with baseline».

Scientists gave 126 volunteers vitamin D3 supplements, with the patients» blood levels having been measured beforehand.

The military guarding peace in their native land, the guards of the order, daily venturing their lives for the peace of mind of all people, volunteers, firefighters and rescuers, Red Cross staff, doctors and scientists, often exposed to potential danger - all these are modern heroes who deliberately chose their path simultaneously with the choice of profession.

They offer classes and field trips «presented by volunteer instructors from the area, including retired scientists, UT professors, retired teachers, people with in depth knowledge of hobby subjects and retired ministers,» said Don Miller of Oak Ridge.

Today, thanks to the efforts of an extraordinary team of volunteers, scientists, and medical professionals, people with cystic fibrosis are living into their 30s, 40s and beyond.

Consider job shadowing with veterinarians, scientists, working on a farm or volunteering at an animal shelter.