And during Rio+20, the Siemens Foundation will launch a global competition to identify and sponsor technical solutions that will contribute towards sustainable development.
The E.P.A. has a long history of sponsoring technical innovations to help collect the data it needs, but Dr. Paulson views that as the beginning of a new chapter in environmental health research.
On May 24 25, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the University of Michigan sponsored a technical workshop on the topic of connecting social and environmental factors to measure and track environmental health disparities.
The other, Skills USA-VICA, supports vocational programs and sponsors technical competitions.
In what it calls "a small token of our gratitude" toward Linux programmers, Lindows.com is sponsoring a technical conference on the WINE system on March 15 and 16 in San Diego at which leading WINE developers will be recognized.
No2ID sprang out of a one-day conference held at the LSE in May 2004, organised by Privacy International and sponsored by skeptical technical website the Register.
Many administrators fear such departures could erode the quality of government-sponsored technical and scientific research over the next several years, including some work affecting national security.
Second, UN-sponsored technical assistance programs, funded from 1965 through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), provide systematic assistance in fields essential to technical, economic, and social development of less-developed countries.
In modern times, it has not been a professional school — to become a professional chef in France one has to serve as an apprentice for years in a restaurant or hotel kitchen, and that training is often supplemented by attendance at a government-sponsored technical institution.
We await results from the NCI/NHGRI-sponsored "technical demonstration project" – a pilot project for The Cancer Genome Atlas initiative, in which approximately 200 highly-curated lung adenocarcinomas are being analyzed for chromosomal gains and losses simultaneously with mutational profiling of about 1000 genes thought to be relevant to lung tumorigenesis.
At a speech on the opening day of an annual technical symposium sponsored by the Wireless Communications Association, a trade organization of equipment makers, Mr. Maloney said that growth in wireless communications would be as fast as the Internet expansion of the mid-1990's.
