His advisor, Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute, an HHMI investigator, and a David H. Koch Professor of Biology at MIT, is frequently in high demand, but Kohn says he has felt fully supported in his work — including in the bold ideas and unconventional projects he undertakes in his free time.
In January 2012 the U.S. Department of Defense released its strategic defense guidance, titled Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, that foresaw a greater need for unconventional military actions undertaken by specially designated, selected, trained, equipped, and supported units known as special forces (SF) or special operations forces (SOF).
"The exploration of unconventional hybrid cycles" undertaken by Ong and Ghoniem "represents the future of clean energy production in this country," says David Tucker, a research scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory in West Virginia, who was not involved in this research.
Markets began to assume the Open Market Committee would undertake "unconventional" action perhaps by purchasing long-term Treasury bonds (incidentally, Tuesday's statement said the Fed was evaluating the purchase of long-term Treasurys).
And, of course, the Fed has -- in its own words -- undertaken "unconventional measures" to push up inflation.
Authorities have cited an online manifesto by Dorner that claims he will undertake "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" against on- and off-duty LAPD personnel and their families.
As a result, the ECB recently lowered policy rates to the ZLB, has started undertaking additional unconventional monetary policies, and is now encouraging fiscal expansion among eurozone countries that are able to do so.
They also want to know about secondments, honorary degrees and if there is research undertaken into unconventional gas and oil (whoever funds it).
Federal Reserve officials have hinted that they may undertake more unconventional monetary policy measures to try to encourage hiring and ward off deflation.
Here, he and a handful of associates — mostly his students from Dartmouth College's Contemporary Music Lab, joined for a time by a vacationing San Francisco family — undertook another unconventional piece: "... how time passes...".. by Chris Peck.
