Andrew Pollack's news articles on issues related to genetic engineering applied to agriculture illustrate why.
Genetic engineering applied to agriculture has suffered a similar fate since it emerged on the scene about two decades ago.
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If Bittman had any desire to learn about the subject, he might have sought out a source like the 2010 National Research Council report on genetic engineering applied to agriculture.
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He missed the nuances about genetic engineering applied to agriculture and food production and as is his wont, devoted ample ink to the anti-biotech crowd, including the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology (which Pollack described only as a "nonprofit group, " although "doctrinaire anti-biotechnology lobbyists" would have been more accurate) and the radical, notoriously mendacious Friends of the Earth.
Donald Goldfarb, the interim dean of Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the latest project is aimed at helping the university's engineering school overcome its biggest hurdle in reaching the topmost echelon of the field: its relatively small size.
In between competing and training, 31-year-old Bromley works as a research officer the university's department of engineering and applied science.
But new technology developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science could finally help solve the problem.
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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of almost 5, 000 students.
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Some 13 incubators either have been launched or are under creation, while partnerships with Columbia University and Cornell University are expected to bring dedicated engineering and applied-sciences facilities to the city.
It would be solely an engineering and applied-science school.
Narendra studied engineering, then applied to B-school with the avowed goal of eventually starting his own agribusiness venture.
But other companies, such as General Electric and Tata's chemicals arm, have applied frugal engineering techniques to produce cheap products with great success.
Aperion's 12 years of experience in designing award-winning home theater speakers, has been applied in engineering the ARIS from the ground up for natural and low-distortion reproduction of sound, even at loud volumes.
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By the reckoning of Lena Wilson, chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, who joined Mr Swinney for today's strategy launch, there are around 600 companies currently using skills that could be applied to the low carbon economy, but which are not yet being applied: traditional engineering, for instance, or aerospace.
As he explained in an August 22 interview, in 2002 Spanos earned degrees in computational and applied mathematics and mechanical engineering at Rice University.
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Indeed, for big, high-value choices, that seems obvious: when Starbucks introduced its instant coffee, or when Applied Materials moved its manufacturing and engineering base to Asia, those decisions involved sizable amounts of resources and significant risk.
The platform is a result of a collaboration between the Swiss and German institutes, as well as the University of Rome, the Institute of Applied Mechanics and the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, in Munich.
Around the same time, Dr Xiao applied to be elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
While the new applied sciences school is expected to drive up the number of engineering graduate students in the city by 70% next year, some students are fueling growth on their own, little by little.
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