Research – terry

Humanity’s greatest risk: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food, water crises: scientists

terry / February 6, 2020

Future Earth, Stockholm, Sweden Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, […]

Abdallah Daar, Agriculture, Biotechnology, Environment, food, Future Earth, Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT), Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, soil, UN SG's Scientific Advisory Board, United Nations, Zakri Abdul Hamid

Investing ~3.5% GDP in science, technology, innovation: benchmark for sustainable development

terry / July 9, 2015

UNSG’s Scientific Advisory Board Paris 9 July 2015 UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board calls for advisor, not observer seat for science

Global Health, Global health innovation, Global Mental Health, Grand Challenges Canada, Peter A. Singer

‘Saving Brains’ of kids in developing countries: Grand Challenges Canada funds 14 bold new ideas

terry / October 23, 2013

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 23 October 2013 4 projects nominated for grants up to $2 million; 10 projects awarded $270,000

Global Health, Global health innovation, Grand Challenges Canada, Health in Developing Countries, Peter A. Singer

Major awards announced for innovative solutions to prevent infant/maternal deaths

terry / July 31, 2013

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto Saving Lives at Birth 31 July 2013 Some 22 projects from nine countries: Australia, Canada, Guatemala,

Bioscience Education, Biotechnology

Canadian girl, 16, invents disease-fighting, anti-aging compound using tree particles

terry / May 8, 2012

Bioscience Education Canada, Toronto 8-May-2012 Powerful anti-oxidant discovered in tree pulp; Grade 12 researcher wins top honors at national biotech

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Biodiversity, Consortium for the Barcode of Life, DNA Barcoding, Environment, Global Health, Jesse Ausubel / Program for the Human Environment, Marine Biology, Rockefeller University, The Rockefeller University

Quack medicines, insect immigrants, and what eats what among secrets revealed by DNA barcodes

terry / November 27, 2011

Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 27-Nov-2011 Global ‘barcode blitz’ accelerates; 450 experts converge on Adelaide Nov. 28-Dec.