Sentences with phrase «several national agencies»

Several national agencies for social welfare were founded at Cooper Union, and a number of U.S. presidents have spoken in its historic Great Hall.

Several national agencies and organizations — including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists — have endorsed expedited partner therapy.

Farajidavar secured priceless advice about grant funding practices from his PI, who had served on review panels for several national agencies.

Furthermore, whereas French research groups traditionally have received national public funding mostly through their own research agency or university and through specific calls from French ministries, several national agencies have been set up to fund more research projects on a nationwide competitive basis, such as the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) or the Institut National du Cancer.

Not exact matches

Senate confirmation is not required for the White House national security post, and Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will inherit a staff of several hundred specialists from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies.

This event was in part inspired by another one - day event he helped organize last year, when several high - profile speakers who were supposed to talk at the RSA conference pulled out after the explosive revelation that the National Security Agency had reportedly paid the company RSA $ 10 million to put a backdoor into one of its popular security products.

Several researchers, including an official of the National Tax Agency, have discussed income taxation on virtual currency and not one of them opposes the taxation.

In 2003, editor John Buckeridge commissioned several advertising agencies to create posters to re-sell the Church, an initiative which was widely featured on national press and TV.

The Dallas - based public relations agency has added multiple new national clients to its blue - chip roster over the past several months, and is consequently beefing up its professional team to ensure that it maintains the level of outstanding service its clients have come to expect.

He has 20 years of national ad agency experience, with several Cannes Lions, Effies and Clios to his name, for brands ranging from industry leaders like Coca Cola, Southwest Airlines and Stonyfield Farm, to successful next generation companies like renewable energy start - up Southwest Windpower and social enterprise Better World Books.

Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.

This meant several agencies working together to deliver a national strategy at a local level.

Dr. Issahaku is an International Development Economist with several years of experience in economic policy management and development, having worked with reputable international and local institutions including the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist; the African Development Bank as a Principal Governance Expert; the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa as a Development Management Officer; the Canadian International Development Agency as a Socio - Economic Advisor and Project Coordinator; and the National Development Planning Commission, Ghana as a Senior Planning Analyst.

The Trump administration is considering drastically slashing several national security agency budgets to fund the president's long - promised border wall, according to a leaked budget draft.

Sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration and several local agencies, National Prescription Drug Take - Back Day collects thousands of pounds of drugs and disposes of them properly.

«As I have said on several occasions, the National Orientation Agency will be in the forefront of the campaign, because it is in line with its mandate to positively change attitudes, values and behaviours.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said the federal government was willing to do everything necessary to rehabilitate the several thousands of people affected by...

With the Environmental Protection Agency convening a National Bedbug Summit Tuesday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and several council members called on federal officials to put money into initiatives to fight the minuscule, resilient creatures.

Sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration and supported by several local agencies, National Prescription Drug Take - Back Day collects thousands of pounds of drugs and disposes of them properly.

Renamed the National Institute for Research on Safety and Quality (NIRSQ), the new institute would receive a 12.5 percent reduction from its 2017 spending from all sources as a separate agency, with several programs eliminated.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

The Louis Stokes Missouri Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), which includes each of the publicly funded baccalaureate - degree - offering institutions in the state and several state governmental agencies, was recently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to begin a second 5 - year project.

That worldview is reflected in a $ 51 billion spending bill approved by the House on 4 June to fund NSF, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and several other federal agencies.

A coalition of federal agencies and universities have been chipping away at the issue for several years, and a 2012 National Academies report on the health of research universities also recommended changes in federal oversight.

It would receive $ 8.7 million to extend its review of antibacterial drugs and oversight of antibiotics in livestock as part of the Combating Antibiotic - Resistant Bacteria (CARB) initiative, a national strategy that has prompted Congress to nearly double overall spending on antibiotic resistance across several agencies, to $ 774 million in 2016.

And I got a lot of funding from several sources, the key ones being the Department of Defense's research arm, Darpa [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency], and the National Science Foundation.

The winner of the May runoff will go up against Representative John Culberson (R — TX), the influential chairman of a panel that sets spending levels for NASA, the National Science Foundation, and several other science agencies.

The amendment was one of just a few passed yesterday evening as the House science committee deliberated over the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, a controversial bill that would reauthorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) and several other science agencies.

• Also on ScienceInsider, Jeffrey Mervis writes about a memo from National Science Foundation (NSF) acting Director Cora Marrett that «outlines a series of steps that the $ 7 - billion - a-year agency will be taking to get back to business over the next several weeks.»

The Alaska National Guard was one of several agencies fighting fires in Alaska this summer.

In a surprisingly blunt report released on 13 November, a high - wattage international committee, led by former U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni, proposes a massive overhaul of French life sciences research that would create a single, strong funding agency and likely spell the death of several existing institutes.

The National Association of Science Writers sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week to comment on an unusual and restrictive press office episode that affected science reporters at several environmental news organizations.

In May, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the National Microbiome Initiative, a collaboration between several federal agencies, universities, and private foundations.

His research activities have been financed by several agencies that include the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the European Research Council (ERC).

He has served as referee for several government and private grant agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the American Federation for Aging Research.

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the U.S. Ethiopia mission, seed relief complemented international and national food aid, helping farm families to quickly grow crops after several seasons of erratic or failed rains in Ethiopia and the catastrophic 2015 - 16 El Niño droughts.

Ad hoc reviewer for several grant agencies including: Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Medical Research Council of UK, Funding for Scientific Research of Belgium, National Research Agency of France, National Cancer Institute of France, the Broad Foundation for Scientific and Medical Research of USA, Health Research Board of Ireland, Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italian Ministry of Health, Italian National Institute of Health, Italian - German University, Italian National Research Council, Al Neelain University of the Islamic Republic of Sudan, Cancéropôle Grand Ouest of the French government, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space State of the State of Israel, Cancer Research Wales, Kuwait University.

He has consulted for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Nuclear Security Administration and other U.S. government organizations, including several U.S. National Laboratories and numerous international agencies.

He has given several lectures in international conferences as invited speaker and his research projects received funding from national and international funding agencies.

Dr. Gan has served as a referee for several government and private grant agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer's Association, and the California Department of Health Services.

She published more than 180 peer review papers, is funded by several granting agencies, including the Michael J Fox Foundation, and sits on several national and international review panels.

Antibodies to a high - risk type of human papillomavirus (HPV16) could help detect oropharyngeal (1) cancer several years before the clinical onset of the disease, reveals a new study from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in cooperation with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI) in an article published online today by the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) is formed from parts of several different government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Fortunately, several agencies, including the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) and the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), can provide product verification and product testing.

This documentary follows several meetings filmmaker Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald had with a mysterious informant accusing the NSA (National Security Agency) of illegal invasions of privacy.

However, there is consensus among three key federally funded agencies (What Works Clearinghouse, National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, and Florida Center for Reading Research), as well as several peer - reviewed journal articles that review research on education products, that Accelerated Reader has met high standards of scientific rigor with positive effects and no contrary evidence.

The State Educational Technology Directors Association, a national organization that promotes leadership in technology to support lifelong learning, and several state education agencies have provided Apple with the K - 12 content.

At the invitation of China's National Center for School Curriculum and Textbook Development, several U.S. education leaders and I participated in the China Teacher Leaders Forum and a series of other meetings with Chinese agency heads, educators and teacher educators, and business and philanthropic representatives.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

The federal government, which is administered by several agencies that include the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the U.S. National Park Service, the Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and in some cases the Utah State Department of State Parks, owns approximately 64 percent of the state of Utah The Bureau of Land Management manages approximately 36 percent of the land, making it the largest single landowner in the state.