Sentences with phrase «year research mission»

Bartke enjoys Vietnam's tropical fruit during a 1 - year research mission from 1960 to 1961.

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For instance, in recalling Cara's hostile takeovers in recent years, she alludes to research on a U.S. rescue mission in Albania.

At the time of the research, Cone's book was used to teach the first - year courses in both «Mission and Ministry» and «Introduction to the Old Testament.»

Our mission at Williamsburg Distillery is to research, document, preserve, teach, and present the history of distillation from the Colonial American Period, the years 1600 to 1775.

MomsTeam Institute, Inc. is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation formed in November 2013 to continue and expand on MomsTEAM's fourteen - year mission of providing comprehensive, well - researched information to youth sports parents, coaches, athletic trainers, and other health care professionals about all aspects of the youth sports experience.

After years of research, and cloth diapering her children, Catherine Bolden, founder of The Willow Store began with a mission.

Julie C. Suarez, Associate Dean of Cornell CALS who nominated Boor for this year's award, said, «Dean Boor's passionate commitment to New York's farm and food community, and the Cornell CALS Land Grant mission of education, research, and outreach, is unparalleled.

While the One - Year Mission has concluded for retired astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's Human Research Program is focusing on comparing previous six - month mission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary fiMission has concluded for retired astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's Human Research Program is focusing on comparing previous six - month mission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary fimission findings to One - Year Mission preliminary fiMission preliminary findings.

Other science outlays included $ 46 million over 4 years to create 1500 industrial internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows within Canadian business, $ 49 million toward the transformation of the National Research Council into what officials call a «toolbox» for industry, and a commitment to extend Canadian participation in the International Space Station mission to 2024.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

After a two - year orbital tour around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft — carrying Southwest Research Institute's Alice ultraviolet spectrograph — will end its mission this week on Sept. 30.

Researchers with the U.K. mission, called CLARIFY (Cloud - Aerosol - Radiation Interactions and Forcing for Year 2016), initially looked at relocating its research aircraft to Ascension Island, but they couldn't make the switch work logistically.

«William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California,» won the astronomy prize for «conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and [for] leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission.»

Decades after NASA's manned moon missions, a flurry of new research shows that this ancient magnetic field lasted for more than a billion years.

«They call this comet encounter a once - in - a-lifetime event, but it's more like once - in - a-million years,» said CU - Boulder Associate Professor Nick Schneider, a LASP research associate and lead IUVS scientist for the mission.

The mission didn't seem worth its $ 700 million cost to some physicists, who felt that during its 40 - year gestation Gravity Probe B had been overtaken by other research.

The fledging Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, whose mission is to quickly translate the best ideas from basic science into budding technologies, avoided falling victim to any partisan battles this year as well.

``... NASA and NSF had to cancel their Antarctic - launched long - duration space science research missions for the year because NSF can not reopen facilities in time to get research balloons off on schedule.

Indeed, including the necessary neutral particles was very computationally expensive, and the final model took roughly a year to run on the Pleiades supercomputer located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and which supports hundreds of science and engineering projects for NASA missions.

The second is with regard to my research program, what is the mission, where do I want to take it in 5 and 10 years, and what do we need to accomplish to get there?

Ironically, the first mission in years that had much scientific research aboard was STS - 107, the final, tragic flight of Columbia.

The funding would also go to restarting a new set of climate missions, an idea backed last year by a National Research Council study.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Iniresearch measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research IniResearch Initiative.

Tell them a story — a believable, credible story — about what your lab will be like 5 years from now: well - funded, vibrant, productive, pursuing a valuable, ambitious but realistic research agenda that meshes well with the department's mission and with the other research going on in the department.

In the 48 years since it fell to Earth, the meteorite has spurred research into our planetary origins, leading most recently to a NASA mission, launched last fall, to collect more of this primitive material right from the source.

So» [t] ell them a story — a believable, credible story — about what your lab will be like 5 years from now: well - funded, vibrant, productive, pursuing a valuable, ambitious but realistic research agenda that meshes well with the department's mission and with the other research going on in the department.»

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

«The video surveys from this research mission verified the extent of rocky habitat estimated from sonar data collected several years ago, and the quality of rocky habitat in some areas exceeded expectations,» said Guy Cochrane, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist.

Founded by Paul F. Glenn in 1965, the mission of the Glenn Foundation For Medical Research is to extend the healthy years of life through research on mechanisms of biology that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of translating research into interventions that will extend healthspan with lResearch is to extend the healthy years of life through research on mechanisms of biology that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of translating research into interventions that will extend healthspan with lresearch on mechanisms of biology that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of translating research into interventions that will extend healthspan with lresearch into interventions that will extend healthspan with lifespan.

The Glenn Foundation's mission is to extend the healthy productive years of life through research on the mechanisms of biological aging.

The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company have established a five - year, $ 10 - million Innovation Alliance to foster scientific collaborations and advance each organization's research missions.

The young scientists and engineers receive up to a five - year research grant to further their study in support of critical government missions.

Over the years, IRRI has conducted rigorous rice research as part of the mission to ensure food and nutrition security for future generations.

Year in Review: Calico and the Buck Institute Are Collaborating on Research into Aging and Potential Therapeutics for Age - related Diseases Top Grant from the NIH Faculty Awards Published Research Buck Faculty Share Their Expertise Worldwide Buck Labs Focus on mTOR Pathway Live Longer, Live Well — New Donor Groups Get Behind the Buck's Mission Full STEAM Ahead: Unique Partnership Helps Marin and Sonoma Schools Meet New Science Standards Energy and Climate Change Visionary Jostein Eikeland Pledges $ 5 Million to the Buck Scientific Advisory Board Board of Trustees Financial Summary Buck Advisory Council Cumulative Donors and Sponsors Honor Roll of Donors

The center also participates in the national «MICROMouse» program, which awards competitive one - year grants up to $ 75,000 for research projects that have the potential to enhance and advance the mission of the MMPC as a resource for scientists using mice to study diabetes and obesity.

This mission to become a truly conscious consumer led her into five years of research on the many toxins we are exposed to and the possible effects of these substances on our lives.

Over the past 12 years, the IAYT has made major strides with its mission to establish yoga as a respected and recognized therapy in the West, from publishing an annual peer - reviewed medical journal to presenting at academic research conferences.

Utilizing 19 years of research, Piane makes it her mission to create stronger connections and ignite love.

Winners receive up to a five - year research grant to further their study in support of critical government missions.

Winners receive up to a five - year research grant to further their studies in support of critical government missions.

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

The final piece of an eight - year, $ 10 million research project on KIPP, whose mission is to help low - income students graduate from college, found that campuses across the nation continued to increase test scores at every grade level over the past five years.

With an understanding of the university's mission, leadership in Council Grove and Unified School District 417 worked with university faculty to acquire federal funding for a 5 - year research and extension project, the «Power Up Club» for elementary students in an afterschool setting.

Throughout the seven - year program of research, CREATE regularly disseminated updates on its activities, summaries of research findings, and other information relevant to its mission.

To further the organization's mission in her capacity she draws upon a wide depth and breadth of practical and theoretical knowledge and experience gained from: ten years serving the SC Department of Education Title I, Part C Education of Migratory Children / Youth program, five years as the state coordinator and five years as a state recruiter / outreach worker; working as an Spanish / English interpreter / translator for the University of SC's Center for Child and Family Studies HABLA project and an undergraduate professor in Political Philosophy and Ideology and World Politics; serving in the United State Peace Corps for three years in Mali, West Africa to improve women's financial sustainability and promotion of girls education; employment at the UN headquarters; living / studying / working / conducting research in the Philippines, Syria, Mali, France, and Spain; obtainment of a PhD in International Relations from the University of South Carolina in 2012; a MS in International Business, and a MA in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University in 2001; and a BA in International Studies with a focus in Management, French, and Spanish from the College of Saint Elizabeth in 1999.

For 25 years, our mission at Corwin of «Helping Educators Do Their Work Better» has guided us in finding practical, research - based solutions to the challenges that educators face.

Pulling together years of research into a dissertation may appear a daunting mission.

In 2001, after a twenty - five year nursing career that included education, clinical leadership, and research, Leslie founded Maine Desk, LLC with a mission to provide writing consultation and support to novice and established authors.

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Skip ahead a few years, Robert has now joined the armed forces as well and both of them are on a mission to infiltrate a suspicious research facility deep in the jungles of Georgia.