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unusual facts about Applied research



National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program

Grants were made to scientists at both public and private laboratories for basic and applied agricultural research in priority areas as designated in the research title of the 1990 farm bill (P.L. 101-624, Title XVI), as amended.


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Alouette 1

The mechanical frame and the deployable STEM antennas were made by the Special Products and Applied Research (SPAR) division of de Havilland Canada (DHC) in Downsview, Ontario, in a building which many years later (until 2012) housed the Canadian Air and Space Museum.

Cornelius J. Barton

Upon earning an M.S. and Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering, he joined US Steel's Research Laboratory in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, as a research manager in the Advanced Applied Research Division.

Coventry University Business School

The School hosted (with the Applied Research Centre in Sustainable Regeneration) the Regional Studies Association's 2009 Policy Conference in December 2009, on the topic of Beyond The Global Credit Crunch: Prospects and Policies for Mature Industrial Regions which featured an impressive line up of speakers including Mark Prisk MP.

Engagement Game Lab

The Engagement Game Lab is an applied research lab at Emerson College, which develops and studies the effects of games as they apply to civic engagement.

ESSL

European Severe Storms Laboratory, a non-profit organization dedicated to basic and applied research on severe convective storms

James C. Sharf

In 2006, he was awarded the M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for developing the valid, legally defensible employment tests used by the Transportation Security Administration to hire fifty-thousand airport security screeners nationwide in 2002.

Lock-in amplifier

The lock-in amplifier is commonly believed to be invented by Princeton University physicist Robert H. Dicke who founded the company Princeton Applied Research (PAR) to market the product.

Mansukh C. Wani

In 2000, Dr. Wani received an award for applied research in medicine, the Charles F. Kettering Prize, from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.

Microsoft Research Labs

Microsoft FUSE Labs (FUture Social Experiences Lab), an applied research group that focuses on real-time and media rich experiences

Microsoft adCenter Labs, an applied research group that focuses on products such as Paid Search, Content Ads, and Behavioral Targeting on Microsoft adCenter, including keyword and content technologies, audience intelligence, ad selection and relevance, social networking, and video and interactive media

Microsoft Live Labs, an applied research group that focuses on internet products and services, including natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, computational linguistics, and distributed computing

Modern elementary mathematics

Psychology in mathematics education is an applied research domain, with many recent developments relevant to elementary mathematics.

Natural Resources Research Institute

With a strong belief in its long-term value, U.S. Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Gerald Heaney advocated for applied research.

Robert C. Miller

Col. Robert C. Miller, USAF (b. 1920, d. 1998), was an American meteorologist, who pioneered severe convective storms forecasting and applied research, developing an empirical forecasting method, identifying many features associated with severe thunderstorms, a forecast checklist and manuals, and is known for the first official tornado forecast (1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes), and it verified, in 1948.

Rovira i Virgili University

This research activity is carried out by the URV’s research staff in the framework of RDI structures, research centres and institutes, the function of which is to organize basic and applied research, provide technical consultancy, drive both scientific and pedagogical renewal, and promote lifelong learning.

Savannah River National Laboratory

The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is the applied research and development laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) near Jackson, South Carolina.

Sino-Forest Corporation

Sino-Forest Applied Research Centre for Pearl River Delta Environment (ARCPE) officially opened on 22 June 2009 at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

University of Ulm

Research centers of companies like Daimler, BMW, Siemens and in the past also Nokia, AEG, have been established at the site, in addition to institutes of the university focusing on applied research.