Sentences with phrase «grant system works»

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And then there's that awkward question: Do dock-less bikes render the systems that U.S. cities have built out — working with nonprofits, sponsors, and grants — obsolete?

The squeeze system Sharei then designed to temporarily disrupt cell membranes — for which he's been granted most of his 10 patents — is the basis for SQZ Biotech, the company he co-founded in 2013 with the pioneering MIT professors he worked for: Klavs Jensen, the school's head of chemical engineering, and Robert Langer, a renowned bioengineer and serial entrepreneur.

David Grant, director of developer marketplace at Revel Systems, recommends employing loyalty tiers to give members something to work toward.

Thus believing theology can begin its work by taking for granted a system of theological concepts and affirmations with a proved scientific basis.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

He has conducted on - farm research in cooperation with USDA and Land Grant Universities, and work on a national organic research agenda and national legislation to fund on - farm organic systems research.

Prospective consultants are required to have a sound, general working knowledge of organic systems, including quality control and practices, conversion periods, national and international standards, basic financial implications, grant aid and support schemes, business practice and environmental management.

«We have registered GFI in the federal grant system so that we are eligible to apply for federal funding for the plant - based and clean meat projects we want to work with researchers to complete.»

I spent almost 4 years of my life trying to get the funding for that Point of Sale system — we applied for grants, we looked for a private funder, we approached the city — until finally we were able to get it funded through a parcel tax which was sold to the voters as a pay increase for our hard working and underpaid teachers, but which also contained a small portion vaguely dexcribed as «technology.»

Specifically, he pledged to «ensure that New York has done the work necessary to put itself in a position to win more critical federal grants to upgrade our rail system at reasonable cost to enable a reliable service that averages 100 miles per hour between New York City and Albany, Albany and Buffalo, and points in between.»

I will like to prove that the justice system works in Ghana, and no one must take it for granted,» he concluded

Grant Shapps» proposals for Local Housing Trusts have great potential to help reinvigorate rural England and create a living, working countryside, but this potential will never be realised when developments can be effectively vetoed by just one person cynically exploiting our outdated and ineffective system of registering town and village greens.

With hindsight maybe a bit more of that increase in spend should have been in the core taken - for - granted systems that work every day.

Bulgaria and Romania were granted accession earlier this year despite concerns over the transparency of their legal systems, but the biggest worry among existing members is the expected flood of economic migrants seeking work within their borders.

The revised bill gives states the option to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and pays states block grants for Medicaid, rather than using a cap system that would be more favorable to New York.

The debate during the most recent board meeting left both sides of the often - feuding board factions united that the present system isn't functioning since it's not clear whether the grants are working since there don't seem to be solid goals.

At Clarkson University, the highly regarded science and engineering school in St. Lawrence County, a professor working on smart energy grid systems was just awarded a grant by IBM.

In recognition of pressures on social services, grant funding for social care will be increased by an additional # 1bn by the fourth year of the spending review, and a further # 1bn for social care to be provided through the NHS to support joint working with councils «so that elderly people do not continue to fall through the crack between two systems».

But «I feel the same pressure with NSF» — the U.S. National Science Foundation — «because they also expect progress and [us] to work on what they fund us for,» says Balazinska, who now also has corporate grants worth $ 70,000 from Microsoft and Cisco Systems.

Eighty - two percent of the grants prepared with the help of the Grants Club have been successfully funded — proof that this system grants prepared with the help of the Grants Club have been successfully funded — proof that this system Grants Club have been successfully funded — proof that this system works.

That, as numerous experts and reports have argued, is the «pyramid» system of depending on the cheap labor of temporary trainees financed by professors» grants to do the work of funded research.

Whatever the reason, NASA's later grants to O'Neill, which continued till around 1980, according to Patrick McCray, a historian whose recent book includes chapters on O'Neill, tended to focus on his work on a mass propulsion system — potentially suitable for getting things up into orbit, but not explicitly space - colony - related.

In addition, we had to work with business administrators and faculty members to ensure that the payroll system included postdocs who were paid from outside grants.

The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (CA42471, AI40127, AI84167, AI095634), the European Union (FP7 grant EC - FP7 - SYBILLA - 201106), the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Molecular Systems Immunology and Physiology Research, the German Research Foundation (SFB 1054 TP A03), the Jane Coffins Childs Memorial Fund, the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences and the Finnish Doctoral Programme in Computational Sciences FICS.

Anja Strømme knows this system all too well: She was working at SRI International when she was asked to help NSF clear a backlog of grant applications.

Taken for Granted: Ain't Misbehavin» Next, our columnist investigates the impact of the structure of the systems in which we work on the frequency of research misconduct and concludes, with experts on the subject, that science works best without hierarchy.

I worked with software developers and research organizations including NIH to build research management systems such as eSPA1, a system to link NIH research grants with publications and patents.

For example, we will be able to collaborate with researchers that work on integration of active and passive devices in silicon for telecommunication («Silicon Photonics for Future Systems» EPSRC program grant) or sensing applications («Mid-IR silicon photonics sources, detectors and sensors» funded by the Royal Society) and that will certainly facilitate progress achieved in MIGRATION.»

These controversial reforms replaced the previous grant programs with a system that awards two kinds of grants: large «Foundation» grants of up to $ 1.16 million annually to support open - ended work of individual researchers, and smaller «Project» grants of up to $ 581,000 annually to fund more focused research projects.

This work was supported by the Max - Planck - Society, the German Research Council (DFG), the Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System (ECCPS), the University of Giessen - Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), the Cell and Gene Therapy Center (CGT) of the University of Frankfurt and the EY10540 grant to PAT.

Funding: This work was supported in part by the Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas «Systems Molecular Ethology» from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.

We seek two post-doctoral researchers to join the Space and Atmospheric Electricity Group (SPATE) in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading to work on projects funded by the University of Reading STFC «Solar System Science» Consolidated Grant.

A «Dream Team» of scientists tasked with working collaboratively to harness the immune system's power to conquer cancer has recently provided a report on progress the team has made in the two years since they received a $ 10 million grant jointly from the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C).

The new grant enables researchers to compare the ways in which veterans with SCI treated in the Spinal Cord Injury Model System and the Veterans Health Administration strive to work and overcome employment barriers.

Several conclusions now can be drawn: (1) research grants are used to pay for indirect expenses by all science faculty researching in a laboratory, (2) many scholarly investigations by faculty not needing to work in a research laboratory have their indirect expenses paid by some internal budget at the same institutions, (3) research grant awards for indirect expenses at some institutions exceed the amount given for direct expenses, and, (4) direct experience with paying for indirect expenses leads many Principal Investigators to have questions and suspicions that some type of hidden purpose or scam might be going on with the current system for using research grant funds to pay for indirect expenses.

Officials at the Center for Economics and Law Charter School, a finance immersion school for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student district.

The District of Columbia schools» work developing open resources was initially supported with a grant from the Obama administration's Race to the Top program seven years ago, and the school system has continued to devote its own money to sustaining and improving that academic content.

Seattle school district officials say they are working to resolve concerns raised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which recently halted the payment of grant money to the 45,000 - student system.

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.

In many areas, schools receive inadequate funding because of a historic grant system that does not work.

Results from the School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.»

After a degree in information systems, Grant Smith worked in Silicon Valley.

NEA members are working to make sure new teacher evaluation systems, a requirement for priority schools with School Improvement Grant funding, are workable, fair and effective.

The UFT said hardly any appeals are granted under this system, which is evidence that it does not work.

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Prior to joining the team at CRESST, Cat worked as Program Director for ELPA21 at the Council of Chief State School Officers, leading the development of the ELPA21 assessment system under an Enhanced Assessment Grant from the US Department of Education.

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.

In the application for the $ 100 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Hillsborough predicted they would fire at least 5 % of the districts tenured teachers for «poor performance,» and the grant work led her to develop, with collaboration from the teachers» union, an evaluation system that uses test scores for 40 % of teachers» ratings.

With a grant from the American Federation of Teachers Innovation Fund, the Meriden School District and American Federation of Teachers worked together to create a system in which teachers have increased collaboration time along with compensation for all additional hours worked as the district moved to extend the school day.40

Through her work in governmental affairs, she earned the title of Principal Investigator within the UC system and received over $ 20M in competitive grant awards.