Sentences with phrase «grants competition awards»

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The Middle East Financial Health Competition, an initiative of MetLife Foundation and Village Capital, has awarded three MENA - based fintech startups grants worth a total of US$ 50,000 for their solutio...

It is another brand in the William Grant & Sons portfolio that has been recognized for quality, having earned a gold best - in - class award at the International Wine & Spirits Competition.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

The governor says schools that achieve their agreements early, by September, will get credit toward a competition for $ 250 million dollars in grants that Cuomo intends to award, as part of his school aid budget.

Up to $ 720 million in state tax credits and grants, to be awarded through a fifth competition among 10 Regional Economic Development Councils with a focus on key industries

At the same time, competition has intensified: Since 1996, the number of grant applicants to the NIH has more than doubled, leading to a fall in the proportion of grants awarded, from 27 percent in 1996 to 19 percent in 2005.

Last week, the Merrill Lynch Forum announced the second round of winners of their Innovation Grants Competition, awarding almost a quarter - million dollars in 2 years to young scientists and engineers who could successfully explain the commercial applications of their dissertation research.

CIHR said it would mitigate the bias against younger researchers by allocating them 15 % of available Foundation grants, yet they received just 4 % of the money awarded in the competition, adds Michael Hendricks, co-founder of the Association of Canadian Early Career Health Researchers and assistant professor of biology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Because the competition for the K99 / R00 awards is so stiff, Anthony Carter, a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at NIGMS in Bethesda, Maryland, has been encouraging some prospective applicants who are eligible for other training grants, such as K08s, to go after those awards instead.

The 2019 HFSP Research Grant competition (application in March 2018 for awards to be announced in March 2019) is now closed.

HHMI held two MIG Initiative competitions, awarding $ 26 million in grants to 25 graduate institutions.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

La Jolla, CA — The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has been awarded a $ 6.6 million grant — the largest single award in the latest competition — by...

The award, selected in a competition, is granted to an international team of young scientists for a one - week long workshop.

Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!

Band of Misfits (PG for action, mild epithets and crude humor) Animated kiddie adventure about a competition among three buccaneer swashbucklers (Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek) to capture the coveted Pirate of the Year Award by wreaking the most havoc on the high seas.

The first - year grant awards ranged from $ 2.5 million to $ 3.9 million, and competition for them was brisk.

Teacher and principal evaluation systems were just one component of those plans, and nearly 90 percent of a plan's score in the grant competition was awarded for elements other than evaluation and compensation systems.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan picked 18 states and the District of Columbia to advance to the final round of the Race to the Top competition, where 10 to 15 grants totaling $ 3.4 billion will be awarded in September to applicants he believes have the boldest, most sustainable plans for education improvements.

The risk with these competitions when carried out by the Office of the Secretary is that they become politicized, that they are judged by review panels without methodological competence, and that they are overseen, once awarded, by career staff in program offices that do not have the background to monitor what is, at root, a program evaluation grant.

The grant requests, totaling approximately $ 330 million, are part of the Race to the Top competition and will be awarded to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) in the amounts of approximately $ 170 and $ 160 million respectively.

The article examines how the 16 U.S. school districts awarded federal grants through the Race to the Top (RTT) competition are applying the funds to personalized learning initiatives.

Indiana didn't apply for a state - level award, but the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township in Indianapolis received a $ 28.5 million grant in the district - level competition.

$ 19.4 M Federal SEED Grant Will Grow Ranks of Accomplished, Board - Certified Teachers Teaching and Leading in High - Need Schools ARLINGTON, Va. — October 6, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been awarded a $ 19.4 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competiGrant Will Grow Ranks of Accomplished, Board - Certified Teachers Teaching and Leading in High - Need Schools ARLINGTON, Va. — October 6, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been awarded a $ 19.4 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competigrant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competigrant competition.

ARLINGTON, Va. — October 6, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been awarded a $ 19.4 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competition.

These awards mark the third round of CityBridge Education's Breakthrough Schools: D.C. school design challenge, a grant competition that challenges schools across D.C. to fundamentally rethink school.

Like SIG, the set - aside may be used to conduct a grant competition and permits an award for up to four years, which may include a planning year.

Though the last RTTT grants were awarded to states in late 2011, on August 6, 2013, the Department of Education announced the Race to the Top - District (RTTT - D) competition.

The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) awards SIG grants via a competition for qualifying schools that demonstrate the greatest need and longest commitment to substantially raise student achievement.

The scope of this year's competition is notably smaller than i3's first round, which awarded $ 650 million to 49 districts and nonprofits, but the department is still able to fund about half the number of awards as the previous year because so many applicants are receiving the smaller $ 3 million development grants slated for promising but unstudied activities.

Coming Soon: Race to the Top Round Three Winners Seven states (Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) that just missed winning grants in Race to the Top's second round are now competing for much smaller awards in the $ 200 million Race to the Top Round Three (RTTT3) competition.

The charter grants are available to states on a competitive basis and then, in turn, are awarded to qualified charter school developers also in competition with one another.

As a result of over eight TIGER competition rounds, DOT awarded 421 grants, including 33 planning grants, to projects in all 50 states, the District of Columbia (DC), Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and some tribal communities.

Find details about every creative writing competition — including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more — that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the pastawards for novels, grants for translators, and more — that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the pastgrants for translators, and more — that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the pastGrants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the pastAwards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year.

For Immediate Release LAS VEGAS SHELTER WINS $ 100,000 GRANT IN NATIONAL COMPETITION The Animal Foundation wins Grand Prize award in 2013 ASPCA Rachael Ray $ 100K Challenge, Announces October Promotion to Celebrate Las Vegas, NV — September 30, 2013 — The... Continued

Artist Assistance Grant (est. by Robert Rauschenberg)- Evolving Artists Competition, Honorable Mention Award, Beverly Arts Center - Professional Development Grant, Illinois Arts Council

You hereby grant the World Photography Organisation a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence in each Entry throughout the world for three years in all media for any use connected to the promotion of You the author and the SWPA event and / or competition, including, but not limited to: entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by the World Photography Organisation, and its Event Partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the event only, for a maximum of three years after the awards ceremony date in April 2018.

Awards include the first honorable mention at the XXII Media Arts Biennale in Chile, the first prize at the UFO McDonald's Painting Competition, the first prize in the Britney Spears Dance Challenge 2016, a Jerome Foundation for Emerging Filmmakers Grant, and a Hammersley Grant.

She is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Artist Trust, and was recently awarded second prize in the William and Dorothy Yeck Young Painters Competition in Oxford, OH.

She is a recipient of the National Museum of Contemporary Art's National Korean Art Competition Award and a Pratt Institute Art Grant.

Winners of the Folly / Function competition are awarded a production grant and access to the Park's outdoor studio to realize their project.

J.B. Blunk: Curriculum Vitae Chronology 1926 Born August 28, Kansas City, MO 1946 Moved to California 1949 B.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1949 — 1950 Drafted, Korean War 1952 — 1954 Lived and worked in Japan as potter's apprentice 1954 — 1955 Artist in Residence at Palos Verdes College 1955 Moved to Northern California 1957 — 1962 Built house in Inverness, California 1962 Began working with wood 1969 — 1970 Travel to Mexico and Peru 1971 Apprenticeship Grant from Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 1979 Cultural Exchange Travel Grant to Indonesia, U.S.I.C.A. 1983 Travel to Japan 1986 California State Art in Public Places Program competition award for sculpture 1999 Lectured at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1990 Art Consultant to Land Studio Landscape Architects and MW Steele Group 2002 Died June 15, Inverness, CA

Oil painting on wood panel Sam Perry is a Painter and Digital Artist working in South Florida since the early 1980's BA of Fine Arts in Painting from Ringling College of Art and Design Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Florida Atlantic University Awards and Grants: Hector Ubertalli Award, Palm Beach County Cultural Affairs, 2002 Cultural Consortium Grant, Cultural Affairs, 1988 Award of Merit, C.A.A, Third Annual Exhibition and Competition, Art and Cutural Center of Hollywood, FL 1984 Bemis Gold Award, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach 1984 Best of Show, Norton Gallery of Art Annual Members Competition and Exhibition, West Palm Beach FL 1983

Tiravanija's work has been recognized with numerous awards and grants including a Gordon Matta Clark Foundation Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award (1993), National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship (1994), the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan, the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2003), [17] and the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2004).

In awards news: this year's BP Portrait Award has announced its shortlist, with artists Miriam Escofet, Felicia Forte, Ania Hobson and Zhu Tongyao in the running — the winner will be announced in June; LA's Mike Kelley Foundation has named recipients for its 2018 Artist Project Grants — the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Fulcrum Arts, Hammer Museum, JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directors.

She is the recipient of several grants and prizes including the Clarence John Laughlin award, NYFA and 2nd prize winner in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize competition 2016.

Cea has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship (U.S.A.), the RISD Bridge Research Grant, the National Council for the Arts Grant (Chile), the RISD President Scholarship (U.S.A), and the first prize of the Matilde Perez's «Art and Digital Technologies» Competition.

Young Architects Program competition, Nominated By John Hejduk, 2000 MATTHEW W. DEL GAUDIO MEMORIAL AWARD Excellence in Total Design, granted by the New York Society of Architects, 1991.

AWARDS 2007 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award 2001 Posey Foundation Grant 1998 Posey Foundation Grant 1992 Boston Museum School • Boit Competition Award, 1992 PUBLICATIONS:

Among Donovan's other awards and distinctions are the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Willard L. Metcalf Award (2004); National Academy Museum, Helen Foster Barnett Prize (2004); Women's Caucus for Art, Presidential Award (2004); New York Foundation for the Arts grant recipient (2003); Pollock - Krasner Foundation grant recipient (2003); Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition (2001); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient (1999).