Sentences with phrase «working on a research grant»

Shlian is a guest lecturer and visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan's Material Science Department, where he is currently working on a research grant to translate paper structures to micro folds on a nano - scale.

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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has just given them a grant to start up the first international network for global research on the impact of domestic violence Research Council of Canada has just given them a grant to start up the first international network for global research on the impact of domestic violence research on the impact of domestic violence at work.

He has conducted on - farm research in cooperation with USDA and Land Grant Universities, and work on a national organic research agenda and national legislation to fund on - farm organic systems research.

Additionally, at Oregon State University, the Research and Service Grant funds connect the craft brewing community with world - class research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft Research and Service Grant funds connect the craft brewing community with world - class research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft brewers.

«Global philanthropic support for efforts to prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflicts totaled $ 283 million in 2013... 288 foundations awarded nearly 2,000 grants in support of more than 1,200 organizations working for peace, justice, diplomacy, and national and global security, from conducting research on the prevention of nuclear terrorism to supporting citizen journalism in Egypt.

Work on this review was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme, grant number 10 / 106/01.

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the Unitedresearch fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

David Comerford is a Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Stirling, working with Prof David Bell, on ESRC funded grants, studying issues around the economics of constitutional change in Scotland, before and after the independence referendum in September 2014.

He says it will take about a year to catch up on the research literature he missed while working on the book, but the grant he rewrote five times is now in hand, so the lab is bigger than it's ever been.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

She worked with these participants in developing research questions, designing field studies, presenting the results as co-authors on a poster presentation at a national conference and writing grants supporting the project.

In 2008 he won his first - ever official research grant and used the money to travel to conferences, as well as fund collaborators like Gryb and Gomes, the first two scientists to complete Ph.D. s on Barbour's shape dynamics, work that had its origin right there on the farm.

The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.

Restrict the possibility of spending time after graduation on research grants without enrolling into a PhD program; raise the minimum requirement for becoming a tenured researcher from a laurea to a PhD; transfer work load from the 1st and 2nd level degrees to the 3rd, and promote the latter as much as the two former; reserve the doctor title to PhDs.

«This research is also of interest to researchers in the European space program on the Mars Explorer, since another investigator on the ARC grant, although not working on this aspect, was Howell Edwards, who was involved in instrumentation for the Mars Explorer.»

The research, which builds on previous work by Dr. Rassool and Dr. Baylin, was funded by a number of grants, including Stand Up To Cancer's inaugural Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research — a $ 250,000 grant awarded to the two researchers research, which builds on previous work by Dr. Rassool and Dr. Baylin, was funded by a number of grants, including Stand Up To Cancer's inaugural Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research — a $ 250,000 grant awarded to the two researchers Research — a $ 250,000 grant awarded to the two researchers in 2012.

A grant review committee might reject a grant to work on a new squid or squirrel, citing a lack of research in the area.

That, as numerous experts and reports have argued, is the «pyramid» system of depending on the cheap labor of temporary trainees financed by professors» grants to do the work of funded research.

Maybe you were awarded a grant to research something and then your interest in that thing waned, but the money paying you to work on that thing didn't.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

To help make that happen, the research team recently won a grant from MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation to develop a business plan for a startup that could work on commercializing the technology and performing clinical trials.

Hazen's work on the oil spill sprang from techniques developed as part of BP's $ 500 million grant to the Energy Biosciences Institute — a research and development joint effort between LBNL, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois — Urbana - Champaign.

Barbara Beltz, a biology professor at Wellesley College who has hosted three postdocs on her research grants over the past several years, says that at least one Wellesley science department (neuroscience) has funding and a plan in the works to hire postdocs who have an interest in teaching at a liberal arts college.

Calling for a «modest revolt,» 20 United Kingdom scientists, including one Nobel laureate and eight Royal Society fellows, have launched a scathing attack on the U.K.'s seven research councils for now requiring grant applications to include a 2 - page statement on the economic impact of the proposed work.

This work was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health grants MH087581, MH0754047 and MH089800 and grants from the International Mental Health Research Organization, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Under the reforms, CIHR essentially obliterated its array of existing grant programs, replacing them with a regime that essentially awards two types of grants: «Foundation scheme» grants that provided $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years for work on more open - ended research (with duration and size pegged to how «established» a researcher was); and «Project scheme» grants of $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.

Other grants will fund work on tomatoes, soybeans, a mustard called Arabidopsis, and cotton, as well as research on the role of stress in gene expression.

Mirhosseini's work on the project was supported by a Research Experience for Undergraduates grant from the National Science Foundation.

Last week, a coalition of universities and professional societies warned legislators working on the defense bill that «a mandatory increase in the SBIR - STTR allocation across federal agencies will result in funding cuts for investigator initiated, peer - reviewed grants that are the cornerstone of the nation's research enterprise.

This work was supported by funding from UMass Amherst, a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and a fellowship from the Center for Research on Families at UMass Amherst.

During the period 2013 - 2016, SINTEF and the Gdansk Technical University (TUG) have been working together on the project called LEO (Low Emission Optimized tires and road surfaces for electric and hybrid vehicles), which is being funded by the Polish - Norwegian Research Programme CORE 2013 (NCBiR — EEA agreement, Norway Grants).

Taken for Granted: Ain't Misbehavin» Next, our columnist investigates the impact of the structure of the systems in which we work on the frequency of research misconduct and concludes, with experts on the subject, that science works best without hierarchy.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is scrambling to push out research grants for work on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and has given a cautious all - clear to in - house stem cell researchers after an appeals court yesterday temporarily lifted a ban on federal funding for hESC research.

French doctoral students are on the warpath over low government research grants and poor working conditions.

Tilghman, Rockey, and the others in the working group laid out several recommendations aimed at shortening and diversifying doctoral programs and postdoc positions, increasing the proportion of trainees supported by training grants and fellowships instead of research grants, collecting more data on career outcomes, improving postdoc salaries, and promoting the staff scientist career path.

Lynch applied for a small grant from the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, which funded Hall to work on a project to apply lasers for slicing his root samples.

When he and Bane became interested, Carden was awarded a UAH Research and Creative Experiences for Undergraduates Program (RCEU) grant to work with Dr. Moriarity on this project.

Fellowship grants to individuals «made primarily to assist scholars and creative artists to carry on their own works of research and artistic creation» for which the grantor has no control over the outcome of the research were considered gifts (Stone v. Commissioner, 1954; 23 T.C. 254).

A virologist who worked on biodefense vaccines and was active in South Carolina politics has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and using research grants to defraud the U.S. government.

She argued that her research support had been minimal, that she had been granted far less lab space than her male colleagues, and that she had been pushed into working on a defense contract that impeded more prestigious research.

He has received grants for this work from the Brazilian Boticário Foundation and a small film company; the rest of the time he relies primarily on his Goeldi salary, which includes the many research grants he gets from such places as the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank.

Universities are also increasingly dependent on foreign graduate students and postdocs to do the work that allows universities to maintain their research operations and compete for grants, Sullivan added.

Research development officers often cover a wide range of topics, so you need to be comfortable working in scientific fields outside your own: Joanna Downer, associate dean of research development at Duke University School of Medicine, notes that in 7 - and - a-half years of working in the area, she has yet to work on a grant involving her Ph.D. discipline, chResearch development officers often cover a wide range of topics, so you need to be comfortable working in scientific fields outside your own: Joanna Downer, associate dean of research development at Duke University School of Medicine, notes that in 7 - and - a-half years of working in the area, she has yet to work on a grant involving her Ph.D. discipline, chresearch development at Duke University School of Medicine, notes that in 7 - and - a-half years of working in the area, she has yet to work on a grant involving her Ph.D. discipline, chemistry.

The policies governing NIH grants, contained in a document called Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21, do not include a broader impacts criterion, although PIs and postdocs each have a «dual role» as persons who are simultaneously both working on a specific research project and giving or receiving training, says Walter Schaffer, NIH senior scientific adviser for extramural research, in an interview with Science Careers.

Because of the on - call, deadline - driven environment, many scientists in research development work late nights and weekends when grants are due.

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. SGrants 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. Sgrants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

This work was supported by an intramural grant from the Medical College of Georgia (Child Health Discovery Institute), National Institutes of Health Grants NIDDK K01 - DK100616 and NIA P01 - AG036675 - 01, American Diabetes Association Grant 1 -16-JDF-062, and the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Progrant from the Medical College of Georgia (Child Health Discovery Institute), National Institutes of Health Grants NIDDK K01 - DK100616 and NIA P01 - AG036675 - 01, American Diabetes Association Grant 1 -16-JDF-062, and the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research ProGrant 1 -16-JDF-062, and the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program.

OSR Grants and Contracts Officers works collaboratively with the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) Clinical Research Management Office (CRMO) on LCCC clinical trial contract and budget negotiation, including spending account and sub-site setup.

His work came under scientific scrutiny beginning in 2007, but it was the discovery by The Cancer Letter in 2010 that he had claimed to be a Rhodes Scholar on a grant application that focused intense attention on his research.

Funding: This work was supported in part by the Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas «Systems Molecular Ethology» from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.