Sentences with phrase «land grants program»

In 1862 the U.S. government created a land grant program for the creation of new universities.

* Clarification (8/23/11): The land grant program referred to was created in 1862.

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For example, the land - grant universities that were established to promote agriculture quickly left farmers behind, and even as they advanced research programs in the service of science and technology they contributed to the demise of farming as a way of life.

Today, federal, state and local governments, land - grant universities and other organizations nationwide are pursuing organic agriculture research and education programs.

STARS (Southeast Top Agricultural Recruits Scholarship) is the Southeast Produce Council's scholarship program available to outstanding students who are agriculture majors in Southeast - based land grant universities.

Friends of Meigs member Steven Whitney said Wednesday that the Park District is passing up an opportunity to sell the land on which Meigs sits to the city under a Federation Aviation Administration airport improvement grant program.

The Central Massachusetts gem has been the focus of a sustained effort involving the local Common Ground Land Trust, the Greater Worcester Land Trust, and Mass Audubon, as well as the town of Spencer and several state agencies and grant programs.

Gov. Pat Quinn announced May 11 the Buffalo Grove Park District was among 45 park and recreation agencies receiving a portion of $ 15 million in grants from the Illinois Open Space Lands Acquisition Development program.

The grant, issued through the state's Conservation 2000 program, enabled the district to acquire the land along Butterfield Creek and adjacent to Spirit Trail Park for $ 216,000 from CorLands, a Chicago - based environmental group.

The funding includes $ 9.7 million from the Open Space Land Acquisition and Development program and $ 685,000 in federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants.

The grant program began about 25 years ago when the National Park Service began setting aside money from off - shore oil leases and formed the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources» open space and land acquisition and development program will be used to develop a neighborhood park in the new Hidden Glen subdivision, an 83 - unit residential development.

The grant comes from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources» Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program.

The state has identified the Butterworth property as «Critical Natural Landscape» and its Division of Conservation Services is committing $ 85,000 in Conservation Program Grant funding to the land preservation initiative

The grants, funded through the state's Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program and the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund program, were announced by Gov. George Ryan at the Illinois Association of Park Districts» annual meeting in Peoria.

Board members plugged the amount into their long - range plan to ensure the Park District meets a July 1 deadline for a matching grant under the state's Open Spaces and Land Acquisition and Development program.

The projects were among 57 in Illinois to receive funding through the grants, which cover up to half of the costs of land acquisition and parkland development programs.

Once the funds are secured, the Park District plans to apply for a slice of the state Open Land Trust, a $ 160 million program that gives local taxing bodies grants to buy land for conservation and recreatLand Trust, a $ 160 million program that gives local taxing bodies grants to buy land for conservation and recreatland for conservation and recreation.

Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announced Wednesday the county is accepting applications for two public / private grant programs to support projects that improve and protect land and water resources.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Fingeprograms that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the FingePrograms · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

«Unlike other programs that we've learned from like Empire Zones where the state actually reimbursed localities for property tax and where there were upfront grants paid and where we were making refundable payments to companies, this program is basically on tax - free land, so there's no property tax issue.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

William Crowley, director of clinical research for Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, observes that, although NIH's many programs to support training in clinical and translational research have been «spectacular,» the academy is now filled with well - trained translational researchers, all trying to land independent research grants just as the NIH pay line is plummeting.

Seeds from new or newfound varieties can be sent to the Turfgrass Federation for inclusion in the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program, which distributes hundreds of cultivars a year to land - grant universities in the United States and Canada.

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Professor David Largaespada is the leader of the Genetic Mechanisms of Cancer Program in the University of Minnesota Cancer Center and holds the Margaret Harvey Schering Land Grant Chair in Cancer Genetics.

The two breeders will be sharing the message to legislative members and staff how the land - grant university system provides the Texas A&M AgriLife program the unique ability to:

In particular, they do not include grants or contracts that are earmarked for specific services institutions provide, such as commissioned research projects, agricultural service from land grant institutions, or sponsored training programs.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

This partnership between two land - grant institutions thousand of miles apart can serve as a model for others striving to integrate technology in their teacher education programs.

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It is this sort of mutual understanding that will serve afterschool programs well as they seek to partner with their state's land grant universities.

Supporters of the NDEA pointed to federal legislative precedents, such as the Morrill Act in 1862, which granted land to the states that they could then sell to finance the establishment of colleges, and the Smith - Hughes Act in 1917, which funded vocational agricultural education programs.

W. Gary Martin, a leader in the mathematics education community, and Howard Gobstein, an executive vice president at the American Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities (APLU), are working to catalyze a NIC focused on the redesign of secondary mathematics teacher preparation programs (Martin & Gobstein, 2015).

Many other programs are cut back, including the Federal Impact Aid for children who are on federal land or Indian reservations and the School Improvement Grants which go to local school boards or LEAs for improvements.

Earth Watch • Omix - ADA has launched the Rugged Ridge Trail Access Program, which will provide grants to nonprofit organizations as a way of keeping recreational trails open on public land and advancing and protecting the off - road hobby.

Future Muir Woods / Franks Valley Road improvements associated with the Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) grant and concrete bridge replacement

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

Sambunaris has participated in the Ucross Foundation Residency Program in Wyoming (2010), as well as the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Wendover Residence Program in Nevada (2004), and has been awarded a Lannan Foundation Fellowship (2002) and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2000).

Highlights of Broad MSU exhibitions in 2014 include: Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China — an exhibition featuring the response of over 20 contemporary Chinese artists to the country's rapid development and cultural transformation; Land Grant: The Flatbread Society, a commissioned site - specific work and series of public programs to explore food production, distribution, and farming methods; and the continuation of Broad MSU's Global Focus exhibition series — an initiative showcasing international emerging and mid-career artists.

This project was supported by the Center for Land Use Interpretation artists - in - residence program and a grant from the Experimental Television Center.

Programming at Project Row Houses is generously supported by Mark Bradford; The Brown Foundation; Bruner Foundation Inc.; Chevron; The Nathan Cummings Foundation; William Stamps Farish Fund; Agnes Gund; William J. Hill Land & Cattle Co.; Houston Endowment Inc.; Joan Hohlt & Roger Wich Foundation; Kensinger Donnelly; Jeanne and Michael Klein; The Kresge Foundation; The Lewis Family Foundation; Marc Melcher; John P. McGovern Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; National Performance Network's Visual Artists Network; Nightingale Code Foundation; Betty Pecore and Howard Hilliard; Picnic; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; South Texas Charitable Foundation; Texas Capital Bank; Texas Commission on the Arts; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and a grant from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance for the generous support of their programs.

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Today, federal, state and local governments, land - grant universities and other organizations nationwide are pursuing organic agriculture research and education programs.

Aligned with its mission as a land grant university serving the needs of the state, WVU established mining education, research, and extension programs nearly a century ago.

See also the Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements database, Indigenous Studies Program, University of Melbourne: http://www.atns.net.au/agreement.asp?EntityID=3126 For examples of specific legislative land grants see: Aboriginal Land (Manatunga Land) Act 1992 (Victoria); and Aboriginal Lands Act 1991 (Victorland grants see: Aboriginal Land (Manatunga Land) Act 1992 (Victoria); and Aboriginal Lands Act 1991 (VictorLand (Manatunga Land) Act 1992 (Victoria); and Aboriginal Lands Act 1991 (VictorLand) Act 1992 (Victoria); and Aboriginal Lands Act 1991 (Victoria).

This delivery system links university - based prevention researchers with two established program delivery systems within a state — the Cooperative Extension System at the Land Grant University and the public school system.

In particular, there has been controversy concerning the BIA's administration of trust funds collected for the use of tribal allotment lands, as well as the general problems arising from imposed grant - driven programs that do not adequately reflect the priorities of Indigenous communities nor contribute to long term capacity building.

In part to help combat abuse, many advocates want to direct 1.5 percent of the state's $ 14 billion Land Grant Permanent Fund toward early childhood education, including expanding home visiting programs.

The poll asked: «Do you support or oppose spending more money from New Mexico's Land Grant Permanent Fund each year to provide additional funds for early childhood programs?»