Sentences with phrase «work of academic science»

For decades, trainees — graduate students and postdocs — have performed most of the day - to - day work of academic science.

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It was expected to be an academic presentation to show if Theranos Inc.'s controversial blood - testing technology worked, and perhaps explain the science behind the claims that the startup could do lab tests with a fraction of the blood and cost of traditional machines.

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge Analytica, claimed it amassed the data of millions of people without their consent through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life that was created by an academic for Global Science Research.

I would be able to relocate for the right job and would also consider working overseas.I'm not interested in scientific publishing or journalism, but I am open to wider suggestions as I am feeling quite disillusioned about research and science in general following my recent experiences.What can a 35 - year - old academic do outside of science and technology?Jeff

To accomplish this work, RCP draws on a network of experts that includes researchers from all areas of science and technology; leaders from academic and government institutions; persons experienced in product development and technology transfer; and entrepreneurs and business managers from all fields.

Bill has also worked with the Science editorial team to raise awareness of Science / AAAS within academic institutions in developed and developing countries.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

Bridle also knew that the culture of academic science dictated working long hours, but she decided she didn't want this lifestyle.

«What this paper essentially tells us is that we have important, fundamental and basic forces working in the academic hiring system that are working against diversity, and that should be troubling to everyone in higher education,» said Marcia McNutt, the editor - in - chief of Science Advances.

But unlike other professions where work is often restricted to business hours, «lab sciences can be 24/7,» says Cathy Trower, research director of Harvard University's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.

During his doctoral work in genetics and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Munoz - Sanjuan grew «disillusioned about the dependency on peer review to make a living [in academic science], and universities» lack of appreciation for teaching excellence when evaluating for a tenure position.

► 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.

«There's really been an explosion of assistive technology that has changed young scientists» academic experiences and makes possible work experiences that might not have been possible 20 years ago,» says Virginia Stern, director of AAAS's Project on Science, Technology and Disability in Washington, D.C. (AAAS is the parent organization of Science Careers.)

He cites that while the nation of 9 million people boasts a positive working environment which emphasizes academic autonomy, public appreciation for science, and universal healthcare, there are still several hurdles to recruiting foreign scholars.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

Kinzig, for example, worked in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (see box) helping to distill academic science into policy - relevant inforScience and Technology Policy (see box) helping to distill academic science into policy - relevant inforscience into policy - relevant information.

However, science editors do work on the full range of academic titles, from undergraduate textbooks to research - level books and popular science, so there is plenty of room for creativity.

«I don't think I know of anyone working here who studied science policy as an academic discipline,» he notes, «although there might be some around.

People will enter knowing, Freeman proposes, that when their support ends in a few years, the also - rans must leave academic research and move on to other types of work, preferably using their scientific knowledge, in industry, government, patent law, science policy, high - school or community college teaching or other fields.

Too often, academic researchers seeking corporate support for their work try to convince industry scientists that what they do is great science, notes Michael Amiridis, a chemical engineer and dean of the college of engineering and computing at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

During the Biophysical Society's 61st Annual Meeting, being held Feb. 11 - 15, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Richard Ludescher, dean of Academic Programs and professor of food science in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers, will present the group's work exploring the fluorescent properties of food dyes.

Yet in the culture of academic science, there is a widespread belief that an excessive focus on safety can work against the goal of discovery.

The manager asked questions focused on René's ability to crank out good work under pressure, and René kept going back to the intricacies of the science involved, at a pace that sounded far too academic.

Heather Hava, right, who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, describes a computerized system she is developing with other graduate students participating in the eXploration HABitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge.

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

New research by academics from the University of Leicester and the British Museum working with colleagues from the British Geological Survey and Cambridge University, outlines the science behind the largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art in the Caribbean.

Successful trials of a communications system devised at the University of Leeds could signal the end of the fashionionable science parks in which academic researchers work side by side with high - tech businesses.

Being a rotator can be a heady experience for an academic, says John Conway, who recently retired as a mathematics professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «When you first start work here you are often told that you make recommendations only,» Conway wrote in 2005 about serving as a program officer (PO) in NSF's division of mathematics sciences.

It is an example of the work carried out by Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, a joint initiative between Imperial College London and three NHS hospital trusts.

A demand from Democrats for recorded votes on most of the 28 amendments before the committee prevented Smith from completing work on a bill that has provoked strong opposition from academic leaders, professional societies, and university - industry coalitions that advocate for science.

It diverts attention from the rigors of science and undermines an individual's work or academic performance.

This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders, the International FOP Association, the Ian Cali Endowment, the Weldon Family Endowment, the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB760 to P. Seemann and S. Mundlos); by Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Measures for Intractable Disease Research and the Academic Frontier Project of Saitma Medical University Research Center for Genomic Medicine, both from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences, and Technology of Japan (to T. Katagiri); and by grants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

At ASPB, we are privileged to publish the work of a range of authors whose scientific experience and academic leadership have helped establish our journals, Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell, as highly respected sources of knowledge for the advancement of plant science.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andScience and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

Delaglio looks back on these years spent working outside of the realm of academic science as tremendously valuable.

NOAA works closely with the academic and science communities on climate - related research projects to increase the understanding of El Niño and improve forecasting techniques.

Chris is on a number of national and international committees, working groups and initiatives related to the academic, clinical translation and commercialization of cell and gene therapies including; Founder and CEO of the London Regenerative Medicine Network (LRMN), Founding Member of the UK - Israel Science Council, Scientific Advisory Board of the UK Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Strategic Advisory Board of the Canadian Centre for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM), and Scientific Advisory Board of the Canadian Stem Cell Network.

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants R01 CA103866 and AI47389), the United States Department of Defense (grant W81XWH -07-0448), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, an American Cancer Society - Ellison Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a German Academic Exchange Service / DAAD Fellowship.

At past symposia, FoR worked to highlight some of the problems facing postdocs and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills.

Provides appropriate certification and titles, after examination, for individuals working at all levels of animal science, from on - farm production (Registered Animal Scientist), to expertise gained by academic degrees and experience (Professional Animal Scientist), to Diplomate status (Board Certification).

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, http://www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andScience and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, http://www.stfc.ac.uk) is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience, space and ground - based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications andscience, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

We are the leading conservation organization promoting the incorporation of genetic tools into standard conservation practice, bringing together the academic or commercial labs advancing the science and the conservation practitioners working in the field.

An active, renowned member of the academic science community until the very end, Perham was distinguished for his work on the chemistry of proteins and the assembly of giant protein complexes and was a leader in bringing the power of protein - engineering approaches to problems of protein structure and function.

Alice Hogan is currently an independent consultant, working with Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Simmons College Center for Gender in Organizations, and other academic institutions on programs and policies to advance the participation of women in academic science and engineering.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

Digital literacy encompasses vital skills that teach children how to be effective users of IT, but those are distinct from the academic subject of computer science that includes learning how computers work and how to create software.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

I switched my academic major at the University of Wisconsin from pre-medicine and nutritional sciences to urban education and spent the next decade working with city youth.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»