The 2011 International Year of Chemistry will be a springboard for our greater ambitions in the sciences.
This, over the long term, will do us enormous harm in the sciences.
During the first day of the meeting, the experts will discuss trends in the sciences and the role of UNESCO in the present environment.
Now there still may be a case for the government investment of dollars into truly basic, risky research, as the government does in the sciences.
Given the lack of interest in the sciences, and particularly chemistry, among many students, the IYC aims to attract more young people to this discipline.
It is the 100th year the prize will be awarded, and the first time that any Nobel in the sciences has gone to more than one woman.
In the sciences, on the other hand, the giant, well-funded research lab, owned by a government or corporation, has a surprisingly strong track record as an innovation incubator.
Nearly half of all graduate students in the sciences in the U.S. are now foreigners, most of whom will be heading home, not staying here as once would have happened.
In my day job at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, I get to work with remarkable people around the world who are experts in the sciences and science policy.
Finding direct evidence in the growing field of genomics should not have been a major surprise to any biologist or to any theologian experienced enough in the sciences being discussed at the conference.
Reminded me of what inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has said about our inability to think exponentially (the reason perhaps that we cannot fathom the accelerating rate of change in the sciences).
The talents of society needed to be mobilised for the good of society and not only in the sciences and in mathematics but also with regard to economic growth and new ideas.
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My colleagues and I had an outrageous dream: Perhaps a young research university -- just 20 years old -- could alter the course of minority performance in higher education, particularly in the sciences.
And even if those educated in the sciences pursue employment in other areas, learning the scientific method in an accessible manner helps to cultivate critical thinking skills that are useful as a consumer and citizen.
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UNESCO, which has a specific mandate in the sciences, has long promoted science for sustainable development through programs and platforms such as the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the International Hydrological Programme, the International Geoscience Programme and the Man and the Biosphere Programme.
It featured only women who had expressed an interest in pursuing a degree or career in the sciences and asked them to answer nightly questions related to their romantic or intellectual goals and activities on that day and their feelings about their attractiveness and desirability.
The Department of Energy is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
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The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
In coordination with the Regional hydrologist at the Regional Bureau for Sciences in Nairobi and the Division of Water Sciences at Headquarters, and through an active partnership with the National IHP Committees, implement the water sciences programme in the cluster countries, directed towards integrated and sustainable water resources management and transboundary cooperation.
In order for the mathematisation of nature, that many historians regard as the core of the scientific revolution, to be consummated it became necessary in the 16th and 17th centuries to reform the prevailing education system and introduce a thorough grounding in the mathematical sciences in order to produce the mathematicians, astronomers and physicists capable of carrying out the task.
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Tom James, associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences, noticed the way that his son was interacting with and talking about the game and put things into action.
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Supervise the development of outreach activities in the Earth sciences especially through the development of standard setting mechanisms for international cooperation and networking in the creation of Geoparks to raise the awareness of decision makers and the general public on the evolution of the Earth and its resources and the important role geoscientists have in the sustainable development of our planet.
In coordination with the other Programme Specialists in the Accra Office and other Natural Sciences Programme Specialists based in the sub-region identify, plan, support and implement inter-disciplinary and intersectoral projects in the field of Natural Sciences.
The firm says that, although it is not very familiar with open-source approaches in the life sciences, the technology seems to complement, not threaten, its business model.
If these penitents really are serious about the damage they're about to cause in the life sciences, the next step is to send a real bill to the House.
This question, which at its more fundamental level is related to deep-seated epistemological and methodological controversies over objectivity in the social sciences, is of utmost practical relevance in the field of migration and multiculturalism which has been characterized by rather close relations to public policy concerns.
Nevertheless, some 11, 000 experimental studies are known in the social sciences (compared with over 250, 000 in the medical literature).
University of Colorado Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. reports on another 2011 study, published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal showing that flooding has not increased in the United States over the last 85 to 127 years.
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