• I first heard about him when his driverless car won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge . (steveblank.com)
  • Upon doing so, he became one of four directors of UCLA's Depression Grand Challenge, which aims to conduct a study of 100,000 people to search for genetic risk factors for depression. (wikipedia.org)
  • The promise of the technology has been recognized by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , which has awarded Klapperich, in collaboration with MakerHealth , located in Cambridge, MA, a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant to develop it. (bu.edu)
  • The University of Central Florida has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (ucf.edu)
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has announced the winners for the $100,000 for its Grand Challenge Exploration project. (marsdd.com)
  • Grand Challenges Explorations is a $100 million initiative that supports research to solve global health and development challenges. (bu.edu)
  • Cole's project is one of 76 grants announced by the Gates Foundation in the third funding round of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help scientists around the world explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. (ucf.edu)
  • UC Santa Barbara announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (independent.com)
  • Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) funds scientists and researchers worldwide to explore ideas that can break the mold in how we solve persistent global health and development challenges. (independent.com)
  • Bazan's project is one of over 85 Grand Challenges Explorations Round 6 grants announced today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (independent.com)
  • To receive funding, Bazan and other Grand Challenges Explorations Round 6 winners demonstrated, in a two-page online application, a bold idea in one of five critical global health and development topic areas: polio eradication, HIV, sanitation and family health technologies, and mobile health. (independent.com)
  • Applications for the current open round, Grand Challenges Explorations Round 7, will be accepted through May 19, 2011. (independent.com)
  • Launched in 2008, Grand Challenge Explorations grants have already been awarded to nearly 500 researchers from over 40 countries. (independent.com)
  • Closing Plenary reflected on the 2021 Research Excellence Framework and was delivered by Professor Sally Dibb and Professor Anne Marie Doherty . (hud.ac.uk)
  • In a display of strong international collaboration, the solar-powered oxygen concentrators were installed in the Hanaano General Hospital, Dusamareb in Galmudug State, early in February 2021.WHO collaborated with Grand Challenge Canada (GCC), one of the innovation funders on this intervention. (who.int)
  • The award comes from the university's Grand Challenges Grants Program , a $30 million initiative to support research that offers promising solutions to emerging societal issues like climate change, social injustice, global health and education disparities. (umd.edu)
  • Danielle Allen, Harvard University's James Bryant Conant University Professor, is the guest speaker for the launching of the new Democracy Laboratory at the University of Wyoming. (uwyo.edu)
  • Students from Glasgow University and Glasgow School of Art have won Oxford University's 21st Century Challenge Competition for their innovative water transport, sanitation and storage device. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Red Button Design have won Oxford University's 21st Century Challenge Competition for their innovative water transport, sanitation and storage device. (gla.ac.uk)
  • For the last year, an 18-member blue ribbon panel has been determining key grand challenges that will face society in the 21st century, challenges for which engineering will provide the solutions. (nsf.gov)
  • The 21st Century Challenge, the largest such competition in the UK, is designed to encourage commercial solutions to help solve the major social and environmental challenges of the 21st Century. (gla.ac.uk)
  • One of the grand challenges for the 21st century is sustainability that lessens dependency on fossil fuels. (newswise.com)
  • Grand Challenges Explorationsis a five-year, $100 million initiative of the Gates Foundation to promote innovation in global health. (ucf.edu)
  • The Democracy Lab is a new project from the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research and is funded, in part, by UW's Grand Challenges initiative. (uwyo.edu)
  • Facing Equality is an initiative of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Inequality, led by Professors Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden. (edu.au)
  • Grand Challenges is a $100 million initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (independent.com)
  • 2017-12-22T11:18:35-05:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvN2Y0XC8yMDE3MTIxNDA5NDExMzAxM19oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== The House Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee held a hearing on a bill by Representative Chris Stewart (R-UT) that would create Utah's sixth national park out of lands previously a part of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which was established by President Bill Clinton in 1996 and later significantly downsized by President Donald Trump in 2017. (c-span.org)
  • The House Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee held a hearing on a bill by Representative Chris Stewart (R-UT) that would create Utah's sixth national park out of lands previously a part of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which was established by President Bill Clinton in 1996 and later significantly downsized by President Donald Trump in 2017. (c-span.org)
  • In 2018, Hoek returned to UCLA full-time to resume his role as an engineering professor. (ucla.edu)
  • Dr. Singer joined the social work faculty at Loyola University Chicago an associate professor in 2015. (luc.edu)
  • Michael Cummings, a professor of biology with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies , is the recipient of a $50,000 Individual Project Grant that will support his work in analyzing genetic ancestry more accurately at the sub-chromosome level. (umd.edu)
  • The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by UCF Associate Professor Alexander Cole for research that shows promise in reviving a dormant gene found in humans and coaxing it to produce retrocyclin, a protein that resists HIV. (ucf.edu)
  • The Mutographs project is funded by a Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Grand Challenge grant and is led by Professor Michael Stratton, Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute (Cambridge, United Kingdom). (who.int)
  • This reflects our efforts to support smaller organisations , including entrepreneurs, SMEs and social enterprises, to face their future challenges, and collaborate to enhance organisational capacity necessary to meet societal and economic demands. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. (academickeys.com)
  • Welcome to the My Science Life feature of Brannon Andersen , Professor, and Chair of the Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Furman University. (databasefootball.com)
  • Professor and Chair, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. (databasefootball.com)
  • Together with Kumar, the work at MD Anderson was led by Nicholas Navin, Ph.D. , professor of Genetics and Bioinformatics & Computational Biology , and Andy Futreal, Ph.D. , chair of Genomic Medicine . (mdanderson.org)
  • as well as Dean Webster , professor and chair of the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials and postdoctoral fellow Ivan Hevus. (newswise.com)
  • Professor David Stephenson, director of the Exeter Climate Systems research centre at the University of Exeter will be giving a seminar on modelling weather and climate-related risks. (bristol.ac.uk)
  • Invited comments by Professor Rym Ayadi, Director of Research, Financial Institution Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels and HEC Montreal. (lu.se)
  • Through our new blog series, members of our Cancer Grand Challenges Scientific Committee reflect on where a global, multidisciplinary team could take us with each challenge. (cancergrandchallenges.org)
  • A new study led by the global Cancer Grand Challenges PRECISION team, including researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, shifts the long-held belief that all invasive breast cancers following ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) arise from the original DCIS lesion. (mdanderson.org)
  • The Cancer Grand Challenges PRECISION team was established to develop better tools to distinguish between high- and low-risk DCIS and thus avoid overtreatment for many women. (mdanderson.org)
  • Some of the speakers included Alibaba Group founder and executive chairman Jack Ma, Queens University Belfast cybersecurity expert Maire O'Neill, and Princeton University sustainability expert and original Grand Challenges report committee member Robert Socolow. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • This was the question Professor Chris Fritz sought to answer on Feb. 1, when he delivered the 21st Annual State Constitutional Law Lecture at the State University of New Jersey (Rutgers, Camden) School of Law. (unm.edu)
  • Beverly Woolf , Research Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. (cmu.edu)
  • He is with The University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor No. 3, and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. (usc.edu)
  • Biography: Mimi Koehl, a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, earned her Ph.D. in Zoology at Duke University. (usc.edu)
  • Professor Ahmed Elgammal, director of the Art & AI Lab at Rutgers University, made an even more heroic attempt at AI music composition. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Hoek is one of the original faculty founders of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, the university-wide endeavor that connects scholars across campus and partners outside of UCLA to make Los Angeles the first sustainable megacity by 2050. (ucla.edu)
  • Associate Professor Terence Sim from the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore stated in an exclusive interview with China-based news website The Paper that there are trends of facial recognition technology being abused, and that laws protecting such technology could be further strengthened. (nus.edu.sg)
  • He was a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and before that at Carnegie Mellon University . (steveblank.com)
  • What are the academics like at Grand Canyon University? (unigo.com)
  • My academic experience at Grand Cayon University succeded my expectations. (unigo.com)
  • I wholeheartedly recommend Grand Canyon University! (unigo.com)
  • Henrik shares the prize with Love Dalén, Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at Stockholm University. (lu.se)
  • The team is led by Dr Michael Hawkes, a professor from the University of Alberta with a special interest in paediatrics, who monitors these data on a regular basis. (who.int)
  • Today, the school management team was visited by a group led by Eva Åkesson, Professor at Lund and formerly vice-chancellor of Uppsala University) who has taken on the task of scrutinizing Lund's scientific visibility and how it can be enhanced. (lu.se)
  • one of them Professor Alexander Badenoch from Utrecht University, the other two Dr Kristin Skoog from Bournemouth University and Dr Hans-Ulrich Wagner from the Hans-Bredow-Institute at Universität Hamburg, both steering committee members of EMHIS. (lu.se)
  • A team of researchers including Arts & Science graduate students Ilya Musabirov, Mohi Reza, Pan Chen, and Harsh Kumar and led by Arts & Science Assistant Professor Joseph Jay Williams has been awarded the US$500,000 grand prize in the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge. (utoronto.ca)
  • Doug Reed, assistant professor of philosophy and creator of the popular undergraduate course "Philosophy 110G: Love and Sex," is thinking about breakups. (uri.edu)
  • One of them is Ryan Lilien , a UofT Assistant Professor and researcher for their Computational Biology department. (marsdd.com)
  • In 2004, he came to UCLA, climbing the ranks from assistant professor to full professor. (ucla.edu)
  • I am pleased to recognize the 2016 Gordon Prize recipients and Worcester Polytechnic Institute for their transformational program to develop engineering leaders prepared to tackle society's greatest challenges," said Mote. (wpi.edu)
  • MIT and Olin College students built an unmanned surface vehicle that took the grand prize at the 2014 Maritime RobotX Challenge. (mit.edu)
  • In October, we posed 9 new challenges to the research community, each with the potential to change the way we think about cancer. (cancergrandchallenges.org)
  • Join us for this session of Public Health Grand Rounds as experts discuss the challenges for research, drug development, patient care, and the past, present and future of the national registry. (cdc.gov)
  • A future-focused pro bono research project by Professor Calvin Jones and Future Generations Commissioner for Wales Sophie Howe produced a series of actions public organisations must take to be cognisant of future skills needs. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Collaborative research from Professor Calvin Jones and the Institute of Welsh Affairs found moving to 100% renewables in Wales can increase energy security, reduce fuel poverty and tackle climate change. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • The Research Directors introduced the FIMM Grand Challenge programs and their future plans. (helsinki.fi)
  • The research in all three grand challenge areas has been most successful. (helsinki.fi)
  • Speaker: Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, Abstract: Mahta Moghaddam, engineering professor at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, discusses her research in radar systems, microwave remote sensing for environmental applications, medical imaging, and focused microwave therapy and intraoperative monitoring systems. (usc.edu)
  • This Frontiers in Pharmacology research topic targets those parts of a solution to these challenges which embrace the common competencies and ethical good practices needed by a multi-disciplined workforce to deliver its goods. (fpm.org.uk)
  • His vision for the wastewater treatment plan of the future - one that transforms waste into energy, fertilizer and clean water - was one of the first research projects envisioned and funded by the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. (ucla.edu)
  • Guillermo Bazan, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project funded by the Foundation. (independent.com)
  • As a professor at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering you will establish and lead your own research group. (academickeys.com)
  • Priya Duggal, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will discuss her research on host genetic susceptibility to infectious disease, focusing on AFM. (cdc.gov)
  • Grand challenges for social work: 20th Annual Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference, January 13-17, 2016, Washington, DC. (cdc.gov)
  • Crafting appropriate research protocols also poses a challenge as linguistic and cultural barriers may exist between the research team and the target population, potentially biasing measures and instruments. (cdc.gov)
  • The response to the COVID-19 pandemic poses a Grand Challenge Science problem with immediate impact for global health and well-being. (nvidia.com)
  • Recruitment poses challenges. (cdc.gov)
  • Eric Hoek, professor of civil and environmental engineering in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has been appointed faculty director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge . (ucla.edu)
  • Andreas Fickers, director of the C 2 DH, claimed and therefore one can say that "hands on transnational radio history" might be the headline of what international researchers in this field did during their stay in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. (lu.se)
  • The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) held the 2015 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS) in Beijing, China, on September 15-16, 2015. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • The inaugural summit , held in London in 2013, started the conversation about ways to meet these challenges. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • The day before the summit was Student Day during which undergraduate teams from the three host countries competed in pitching entrepreneurial ideas for addressing one or more of the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Join us at the Summit and gain a better understanding of the UWA Grand Challenges and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). (edu.au)
  • On September 26, 2014, in a speech at the Global Health Security Agenda Summit , President Obama announced a "Grand Challenge" to design improved PPE for use by healthcare workers during treatment of Ebola patients. (cdc.gov)
  • Whether their focus is on climate change, healthcare or autonomous vehicles, our researchers are using data analytics to answer challenging questions. (derby.ac.uk)
  • The position can be filled at any level of the Aalto tenure track system (assistant, associate or full professor). (academickeys.com)
  • He led a team of computer scientists at Playform AI to conquer the grand challenge of completing Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony . (mentalfloss.com)
  • The panel will bring together global thought leaders to discuss grand challenges of artificial intelligence. (cmu.edu)
  • The new approach replaced the traditional, rigidly prescribed engineering curriculum with a flexible and academically challenging program aimed at helping students learn how to learn by synthesizing classroom experience in projects that solve real-world problems. (wpi.edu)
  • It challenges them to solve problems that would be typically encountered in their professional discipline. (wpi.edu)
  • Grand Rounds are presented live every 3rd Tuesday of each month. (cdc.gov)
  • Check out the Grand Rounds On Demand archive for our past presentations. (cdc.gov)
  • Get notified about the latest updates from Public Health Grand Rounds right in your inbox by setting up an alert today! (cdc.gov)
  • The 2015 GGCS focused on the themes of the NAE Grand Challenges report - Sustainability, Health, Security/Resilience, and Joy of Living - along with Education, Energy, and Infrastructure. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Jonathan Flint FRS is a British behavior geneticist and Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. (wikipedia.org)
  • Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering launches a new tenure track professor position in the field of Process Systems Engineering. (academickeys.com)
  • The winners of these grants show the bold thinking we need to tackle some of the world's greatest health challenges," said Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Program. (ucf.edu)
  • Hear from some of our UWA Grand Challenges Champions, UWA's plan to be Carbon Neutral by 2025, and our Students Making a Difference grants. (edu.au)
  • National Academy of Engineering" and "NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering" are registered trademarks of the National Academy of Sciences for the National Academy of Engineering. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Professor Koehl is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. (usc.edu)
  • Great age does not necessarily imply greater wisdom or grander experience [Stoller, 2016]. (bvsalud.org)
  • Part of the Grand Challenges curriculum, Cooperative Business Management (AEM3260/5260) focuses on engaged learning with community and cooperative clients. (cornell.edu)
  • So today, we're issuing a challenge to inventors and entrepreneurs and businesses of the world to design better protective solutions for our health workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Our workforce is our greatest asset" is a corporate tribute which speaks as much for the global enterprise of medicines development as it does for the crew of an ocean-going liner or the team that mounts a grand opera production. (fpm.org.uk)
  • GCE winners are expanding the pipeline of ideas for serious global health and development challenges where creative thinking is most urgently needed. (independent.com)
  • According to Professor Mahmoud country development. (who.int)
  • He is an Associate Professor at ANU, and holds an ANU Translational Fellowship. (edu.au)
  • We challenge theory and practice to inform the reshaping of business and co-produce solutions that enable organisations to navigate complex problems linked to technological change, demographic shifts, the climate emergency and transient populations. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • This GGCS was the second in a series inspired by the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering , 14 ambitious goals identified by some of this generation's leading technological thinkers and doers that are believed to be both achievable and necessary to help people and the planet survive. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Launched in 2013, the long-term goals of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge are to achieve 100% renewable energy, 100% local water and enhanced ecosystem health for Los Angeles County by 2050. (ucla.edu)
  • In pinpointing this, an accreditation is an exercise in learning and in setting high goals, goals that challenge and inspire. (lu.se)
  • Aalto has six schools with nearly 11 000 students and a staff of more than 4000, of which 400 are professors. (academickeys.com)
  • I am going for Nursing I know that they recently just raised the GPA for nursing which is challenging, but they give their students a lot of help. (unigo.com)
  • Their percentage for the letter grades are a little different than the usual, it's challenging but like I mentioned they are very helpful to their students. (unigo.com)
  • The aim of the event was to prompt international cooperation to creatively address some of the most pressing issues of the time: the Grand Challenges for Engineering-including carbon sequestration, cybersecurity, health care, innovations in infrastructure, and education of the engineers who will take on such challenges. (engineeringchallenges.org)
  • Bringing together our expertise to meet the challenges of the digital future and to deliver the ambitions of the Industrial Strategy and Midlands Engine's vision. (derby.ac.uk)
  • Members of the panel will announce the challenges--findings that considered input from countless members of the engineering community and general public and were reviewed by more than 50 experts--on Feb. 15, 2008, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston. (nsf.gov)
  • We try and understand the history and resources of planet Earth, the rate and magnitude of human transformation of planet Earth, and addressing the grand challenge of how 9 billion people in 2050 can all live within the means of one planet and yet meet the social foundations of a decent life. (databasefootball.com)
  • Key components of the Grand Challenge include broadly soliciting new ideas through social media ( crowdsourcing ), forging public/private partnerships, and providing critical funding for promising designs. (cdc.gov)