University Research Initiative Research Program Summaries

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Initiative

Overview of the Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA) Research Initiative on Quality of Life of Older Japanese Adults

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoji Tanaka ◽  
Morihiko Okada
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Research Program ◽  
University Research ◽  
Japanese University ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
Japanese Adults ◽  
Ibaraki Prefecture ◽  
Research Alliance ◽  
The University

An overview of the mission, research goals, structure, and organization of a major Japanese university research program is presented. The research program is part of a larger initiative known as the Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), which is based at the University of Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, about 60 km northeast of Tokyo. The TARA Research Foundation was established at the University of Tsukuba in May 1994.

California Dreaming

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Patrick McCray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Initiative ◽  
Global Research

This chapter considers the “existential crisis” faced by nanotechnology. A few years after nanotechnology blossomed into a global research initiative that consumed billions of government and corporate dollars, questions began to emerge over about what nanotechnology was and who was a nanotechnologist. Fundamentally, nanotechnology's own history was the catalyst for its existential angst. Vastly different interpretations of nanotechnology, both as a research program and as a vision for the future, emerged between Drexler's early publications and the launching of a major national initiative in the United States two decades later. To complicate things further, just as enthusiasts co-opted Gerard O'Neill's ideas, Drexler's visioneering took on a life of its own.

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