Easterday to Fund Ag Waste-Based Bioenergy Research at WSU Tri-Cities
RICHLAND, Wash. — A prominent agricultural family is giving $225,000 to support research being conducted in the Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University Tri-Cities.
Cody Easterday, president of the Pasco-based Easterday Ranches and Easterday Farms, announced the three-year pledge gift of $75,000 per year.
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Curiosity Creates Cures: The Value and Impact of Basic Research
This site introduces the work of basic biomedical scientists -- scientists who seek answers to key biological questions like how cells talk to each other, how biological machines fold into their active shapes, and how genes are regulated. Topics include Alzheimer's disease, anthrax, flu vaccines, Nobel Prize winners, and more.
UCL's research with impact
With dedication and a creative approach, academic research can be used to tackle the world's most urgent problems - that's what we believe at UCL.Our research approach is built on foundations of excellence in the fundamental disciplines, encouraging UCL people to work together and transform society with their ideas and innovations.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/research
Research and Statistics: A Personal Account
Jessica Utts, Professor of Statistics, is interested in applied statistics, and has published most extensively on the use of statistics in parapsychology.
Tobacco Research That Informs Public Policy
Professor Connie Pechmann discusses her research on cigarette and anti-smoking advertising impacts on youth in this lecture.
Building a Successful Research Program
Presentation for Doctoral Symposium at ICSM (International Conference on Software Maintenance), Timisoara, Romania, Sept 13, 2010
BURN - Biosciences Undergraduate Research at Nottingham
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file. Research produced 2006 - 2009. BURN brings final year undergraduate research work to public view in a professional and relevant way. The students represented here have risen to the challenges of doing rigorous research and presenting their work to a wider audience. Their articles show the distance they have travelled during their studies. They also demonstrate the inquiry and critical thinking skills that have been
"I think we are going to need a bigger boat" (Federating University Research Computing Assets)
JAMES CUFF (Harvard University)
For the past four and a half years, we have been slowly coordinating and
compiling existing and net new computing assets at Harvard University.
Growth from 200 to over 12,000 processing cores has subsequently put
significant strain on both the traditional data center and the requisite
wide area networking infrastructure available within the Cambridge campus.
In summary, the team had to get and continue to be rather "creative" to
attempt meet the demands of the
Dance Injury Biomechanics Research
Dr James Shippen discusses his work that uses biomechanics and motion capture to help prevent injury in dance.
Empirical Research Methods in Software Engineering
This course will explore the role of empiricism in software engineering research, and will prepare students for advanced research in SE by examining how to plan, conduct and report on empirical investigations. The course will cover all of the principal methods applicable to SE: controlled experiment, case studies, surveys, archival analysis, action research and ethnographies, and will relate these methods to relevant metatheories in the philosophy and sociology of science. The course will critic
Cannabis in Research
Dr Stephen Alexander has recorded the first podcast for the British Journal of Pharmacology. In this podcast Dr Alexander delves into the depths of cannabis research to find out how future medications might benefit from current work on this exciting topic.
Dr Stephen Alexander - Associate Professor in Molecular Pharmacology in the School of Biomedical Sciences
HABHRCA: The Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act
This website describes HABHRCA, a legislative Act that authorizes funding for research on harmful algal blooms (HABs) and hypoxia to advance scientific understanding and our ability to detect, assess, predict, control, and mitigate events. The site discusses the Act, gives an overview of The Interagency Task Force on Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia, and features links to past plans and reports called for by HABHRCA 1998. It also serves as a jumping point to conferences and workshops, pertinent
Using TILT to effectively employ online databases for research
This is on online interactive assignment consisting of 3 tutorial modules.
Beacon for green research
Helping the world's fastest growing economy develop greener building methods, the University has launched the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies at its campus in Ningbo, China.
In this podcast Professor Jo Darkwa, director of CSET talks about this eagerly anticipated centre and how it will house some of the world's leading experts on sustainable energy research.
Professor Jo Darkwa
New Venture Development and Industry Analysis Map (undergraduate level)
The objective of this course is to equip McGuire Entrepreneurship Program students with the conceptual and analytical tools necessary for developing a strong sustainable competitive advantage for your proposed new venture. The proposed business will not succeed without identification and understanding of the industry, the company's niche, its key competitors, likely customer relationships, supplier power, switching costs, the role of technological change and government regulation; the proposed b
Radical Research and Video Activism - Ewa Jasiewicz
Ewa Jasiewicz is a writer, journalist and activist who takes a radical approach to her work.
She was in Baghdad during the US/British occupation of Iraq (including a group protest inside the press conference of the Supreme Commander of the US Occupation Forces General Sanchez where she got physically ejected) and was reporting from inside Gaza during the 2008 siege by Israel. She is currently involved in the Free Gaza floatilla taking sail this spring and is featured in the recent film ‘To Sh
Pupil Participation in School Design - Design and Ergonomics Applied Research Group
A collaboration between ergonomists and children’s geographers to understand factors which effect the participation of pupils in the Building Schools for the Future Programme.
The two year AHRC funded project was completed in June 2009. The funding was used to support Coventry and Northampton Universities’ observations of the way and extent to which pupils were involved in the early stages of the design of their schools. The activities of 10 diverse schools in rural and urban areas around t
Volcanic Activity: Vesuvius Buries Pompeii
This 1:24 video is about Vesuvius burying the city Pompeii five feet under ash. The ash had impacted the people and still keep their form until this day.
Research Projects; Point of view: Heat Transfer - Kristie Boering, Berkeley Chemistry
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Social Psychology Research Methods
This site allows students to read about the five methods of doing social psychology research, provides interesting examples of each method, gives students the opportunity to test their knowlege on a practice test and post test. The examples used are ones that will keep students interested at the s
