The INIE funds offer the opportunity for the MIT-RINSC-UMASS Lowell collaboration to carry out frontier research and educational training in a number of areas vital to the well being of the nation.
EAS faculty members and graduate students carry out frontier research on both basic and applied aspects of subjects as diverse as satellite monitoring of volcanic activity, the deep structure of the Andes Mountains and Tibetan Plateau, natural and man-made earthquakes, the nature of the earth's ionosphere, ocean acoustics, controls on global climate, and improved weather prediction.
EAS faculty members and graduate students carry out frontier research on both basic and applied aspects of subjects as diverse as satellite monitoring of volcanic activity, the deep structure of the Andes Mountains and Tibetan Plateau, the nature of the earth's ionosphere, ocean acoustics, controls on global climate, and improved weather prediction.
He served in the Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, in 1848, carried out frontier duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1849, and participated in an expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1849.
In 2015 Africa and its boosters will start to worry that the debt boom is getting out of hand.Sovereign bonds issued by some of the world's most far-out "frontier" economies, often denominated in local currencies, are snapped up by hungry investors from Omaha to Zurich.
It's time to seek out new frontiers.
Rich countries have to "push out the frontiers," which means investing heavily in research and development and tertiary education.
And as you push out the frontiers, it gets more and more difficult to recover and more and more expensive to recover.
The example of Israel, where successive governments have lashed out across frontiers, was cited by many officials as a possible precedent.
This week Drs Veltman, 't Hooft, Zewail, Kohn, Blobel and Mundell will be back in their laboratories and offices doing what they do best pushing out the frontiers of human understanding.
