Sentences with phrase «world of academic science»

The recommendation to emphasize research attempts to impress upon you, the young scientist, the fact that establishing yourself in the world of academic science will be difficult.

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«Between the pure science in an academic model, in the ivory tower, so to speak, and the ultra-cutthroat laser focus of a biotech, we have to somehow bridge those two worlds in order to get [therapies] to patients» faster, Parker says.
Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
Our task is to rediscover the theological dimension of the world, a dimension removed from it by traditional academic theology which abandoned the world to science.
That's an impressive head count for such a new outfit; it also suggests that membership in such a Catholic organization is not an impediment to being taken seriously in the highly competitive academic world of natural science.
The daughter of Gertrude Elizabeth Anscombe and Alan Wells Anscombe (science master at Dulwich College), Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, known to the academic world as «Miss Anscombe» and to her friends as «Elizabeth,» was born on March 18, 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, where her father, then a British army officer, was posted.
Prairie Moon Waldorf School offers a rich and comprehensive academic program which includes English based on world literature, myths, and legends; history that is chronological and inclusive of the world's great civilizations; science that surveys geography, astronomy, meteorology, physical and life sciences; and mathematics that develops competence in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.
The Waldorf pedagogy integrates literature, movement, theatre, and the visual and musical arts with a rigorous academic study of science, math, world languages, history, and geography.
Angst over the landscape has spilled from the academic world of preprints and colloquia into blogs, a number of recent popular science books, and even the pages of the New York Times Book Review.
The quality of science in biotech and pharma is world class and much is done in collaboration with academic labs.
The report, «U.S. Academic Scientific Publishing,» published November 19, follows a July 2007 NSF study which found that the absolute number of science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S. - based authors in the world's major peer - reviewed journals plateaued in the early 1990s even as funding and personnel increased.
Within days, a number of World Wide Web sites sprang up, starting with Sony, NTT and an academic called Stephen Turnbull in Tsukuba Science City outside Tokyo.
Venturfest's core goal is to give scientific inventors — typically group leaders or postdocs from academic labs and early stage start - up companies — an opportunity to pitch science - enterprise ideas to an audience including investors and other professionals of the business world.
UCSF «is among the top universities in the world,» placing fifth in in life sciences in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, according to the UCSF webworld,» placing fifth in in life sciences in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, according to the UCSF webWorld Universities, according to the UCSF website.
Instead of encouraging the brain drain, top world academics, funders, and researchers should collaborate to build scientific infrastructure in the less resilient regions not only to improve their self - ability to conduct, access, and use the best science but also to ensure that they can contribute to global scientific debates while developing local solutions with cost - effective, participatory, and sustainable strategies (including the reconnaissance and use of indigenous knowledge in some cases).
Freeman Dyson, one of the great theoretical physicists of our time, states that «The science of the academic world tends to be dominated by unifiers, while the science of the industrial world tends to be dominated by diversifiers.»
The inquisitive souls who have made it into the academic science world will find no shortage of practical ends for even esoteric types of research — the curative applications are celebrated in this month's issue.
Yet every month in Brooklyn, the meeting of the Secret Science Club (secretscienceclub.blogspot.com) is packed with science scenesters, draft beers in hand and eyes affixed to the researcher onstage — part of a burgeoning after - hours world that has a surprisingly academic mindScience Club (secretscienceclub.blogspot.com) is packed with science scenesters, draft beers in hand and eyes affixed to the researcher onstage — part of a burgeoning after - hours world that has a surprisingly academic mindscience scenesters, draft beers in hand and eyes affixed to the researcher onstage — part of a burgeoning after - hours world that has a surprisingly academic mind - set.
Consequently, it was a special pleasure and honor for the Next Wave staff of young scientists — and for the leaders of both Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which owns Science — when the world - renowned Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), in partnership with the German - American Academic Council Foundation (DAAK), decided to join our growing global community by supporting the creation of content for the Next Wave Web site.
During 2005, Science's Next Wave also offered more of the same: the same insights into career opportunities for scientists, in and out of the academic world and sometimes out of science Science's Next Wave also offered more of the same: the same insights into career opportunities for scientists, in and out of the academic world and sometimes out of science science itself.
The Vetmeduni Vienna plays in the global big leagues with its excellent 8th Place finish in the 2017 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities for the «Veterinary Science» curriculum.
As for the Wellcome Trust, it's an unabashed supporter of basic science, usually through research grants or infrastructure support to academic scientists, but the charity wanted to better translate discoveries into health benefits to the developing world.
Boston, Cambridge and the surrounding communities comprise one of the world's epicenters of academic and corporate leadership in biomedical science.
Embedded within MD Anderson's culture of innovative academic science and clinical excellence, the institute aligns drug discovery and development research directly with the world - class science and clinical care for which MD Anderson is known.
The metric - which ranks journals by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set period, usually the preceding two years - has become «an obsession in world science», says a coalition of academics, editors, publishers and research funders, in a declaration published on 16 May.
Recently I was invited to give a talk at the UNAI - START (United Nations Academic Impact — Science and Technology Accelerating Rapid Transformation) conference, on the role of nanotechnology in developing new solutions for energy, water, and health care — problems reaching crisis proportion in our world and requiring urgent action across all levels.
In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
Joining the Ed School as an assistant professor, fresh from completing his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Davies Escobar will be teaching two courses this academic year: The Politics of Education in the Developing World and Comparative Education and International Development.
STEM helps students understand how the academic principles of science, technology, engineering and mathematics impact their world and prepares them for the workforce of tomorrow.
We have a goal that each major academic discipline has an AP target course that all students will complete prior to graduation (e.g. AP English Language, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP US History), but we also strive to offer a variety of elective AP courses (e.g. AP English Language, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Spanish Language, AP Microeconomics, AP World History, AP Human Geography, AP Art History, and AP Music Theory) which will further expand and enhance a student's education and learning.
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STEM helps students understand how the academic principles of science, technology, engineering and mathematics impact their world and prepares them for a successful life as a global citizen.
As an approach for secondary education reform, UNITE - LA, partnering strategically with the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce, champions Linked Learning which integrates rigorous academics with career - based learning and real world workplace experience in a wide range of fields, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics, (STEAM).
English, reading or language arts World languages Arts Mathematics Economics Science Geography History Government and Civics In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into curriculum:
OverDrive, the world's largest provider of digital content to academic and public libraries, announced a new partnership today that will increase its catalog of offered titles, specifically in key areas of business, science, and research.
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The new ambitious outline for learning is staged to help England meet the academic standards of some of the highest achieving countries in the world, but is also designed to help keep the students as educationally prepared as possible to go into the higher maths and sciences at the secondary school level.
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Unlike science and other academic disciplines, humane education has a philosophical component that strives to establish a sense of responsibility and make the world a better, more humane place.
The show negotiates the «space between science and poetry», highlighting artists whose works are inspired by a steady diet of both populist and academic contemporary media to create what they hope is «a paean to the natural world».
Your ideas about purity are simply biblical and have nothing to do with the real world of science, academic or industrial.
In the academic world, the realm of the IPCC, and the peer reviewed literature, the jury consists of the consensus scientists who control the university science departments, the IPCC and most of the peer reviewed journals.
Thank you, Chris Mooney and the useful idiots of the academic world - destroying science and the journals with political correctness one step at a time.
Carbon Tracker has been a significant force in mainstreaming the concept of a carbon budget, applying the science developed by the world's leading academics and climate experts.
My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?
«There are uncertainties inherent in estimating the magnitude of indirect land use emissions from biofuels, but a policy that implicitly or explicitly assigns a value of zero is clearly not supported by the science,» states the letter, which is signed by experts from the World Bank, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and a wide array of academic institutions, among others.
At this point we can no longer separate the «Science» from the politics since it is no longer an academic «controversy» but the basis for a radical transformation of our world economy.
I realise that there is no such thing as a Supreme Court of Science, but you are in the academic world, and I would hope you would know some eminent, unbiased, scientists who would be prepared to «rule» on this issue.
So, «falsifiable» has no role to play in our dirty, one - and - one - half - significant - figure real world exercise, and it can not even be found in the most rarefied, academic discussion of science.
What followed would provide academics with a case study of how science is done: researchers around the world looked at the problem in a score of ways, and delivered what may be a dozen tentative answers.
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