Sentences with phrase «university research grant»

Professor Brenda Gunn has funding through the University Research Grant Program to conduct research to illuminate the legal and political barriers to implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the UN Declaration) in Canada and explore potential strategies to overcome those barriers.

1973 Receives Howard University research grant for study «Women Artists of the Caribbean and Afro - American Artists.»

The Modular Unit was endowed by a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant and a Zayed University research grant that supported the supplies needed for its construction.

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The next frontier As such, drones have quietly been making inroads in the Arctic for the past several years, mostly under clearances granted to research institutions like the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The latest round of national research grants has once again highlighted the University of Western Australia as the state's leading research institution, with Curtin University of Technology following close behind.

The two - year «solar soldier» project brings together 15 researchers from six universities, led by the University of Glasgow, and is funded by a $ 1 - million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Ministry of Defence.

This is in line with research Grant highlights by University of Cambridge professor Jochen Menges.

The incentive package includes the use of tax - free lab space at New York colleges and universities, as well as grants for companies that base exciting new research in the state.

Duke University places an emphasis on research, providing students with numerous avenues to pursue projects through research grants, travel opportunities, and apprenticeships with distinguished professors — and more than half of its undergraduates take advantage.

Those include investment income, gifts, research grants and, for public universities, state support.

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.

The university is proud of its top - three Australian ranking in its ability to secure research grants, but one challenge remains — to secure money that is untied, Professor Schreuder says.

Since many or most PhD students are funded off of grants from the government and tuition is one of the few «overhead» items Universities can charge to these grants, making tuition taxable removes a costless mechanism for Universities to funnel money that could go to more research into administrative overhead.

Prior to co-founding Myriota in 2015, Dr Grant was a Professor, and Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Research at the University of South Australia.

A research organization having its primary affiliation with an accredited degree - granting college or university that would be eligible for participation in this Addendum under point 1 above;

NASA has awarded a grant to the University of Akron for research into data analysis and other topics related to space exploration.

Grant Opportunities OSPRA (The U of I Office of Sponsored Programs & Research Administration) OSPRA interacts with faculty, department business staff, University administration, and external sponsor program officers and award negotiators to provide service and support to the University's missions of instruction, research, public service, and economic deveResearch Administration) OSPRA interacts with faculty, department business staff, University administration, and external sponsor program officers and award negotiators to provide service and support to the University's missions of instruction, research, public service, and economic deveresearch, public service, and economic development.

In addition to granting permission to universities to cultivate for research purposes, commercial hemp is allowed.

«The combined value of federal grants and contracts for research and related activities at Vanderbilt University, including the Medical Center, totaled $ 424 million in fiscal year 2009.»

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Much research in universities has long been supported by grants from industry and shaped to its needs.

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.

Such trends were reinforced by ever - increasing percentages of university budgets being drawn from government and business research grants, which moved the center of gravity away from the humanities.

In 1946 I had a grant to pursue further research and study in the University of Chicago, which was a center of ecological research.

I wish to mention especially the University of Dayton's Summer Research Institute, which provided me with a grant to begin this project; Rev. Matthew Kohmescher, S.M., my department chairman; and two personal friends.

Ulster University in Northern Ireland has been awarded funding of almost $ 400,000 as part of a larger $ 2.6 million research grant to develop new mixing process technologies for milk powder hydration, which aims to significantly enhance the economic competitiveness of the Irish dairy industry.

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

Jim worked for the University of Minnesota as Organic Outreach Coordinator and as Organic Research Grants Coordinator for Ceres Trust.

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.

Additionally, at Oregon State University, the Research and Service Grant funds connect the craft brewing community with world - class research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft Research and Service Grant funds connect the craft brewing community with world - class research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft research capabilities and enable Thomas H. Shellhammer, Ph.D., Nor» Wester professor of fermentation science, to work on industry - relevant scientific and technical issues that not only advance science but answer important and practical questions faced by craft brewers.

Felice N Jacka has received Grant / Research support from the Brain and Behaviour Research Institute, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Rotary Health, the Geelong Medical Research Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation, Eli Lilly, Meat and Livestock Australia, Woolworths Limited, and The University of Melbourne and has received speakers honoraria from Sanofi - Synthelabo, Janssen Cilag, Servier, Pfizer, Health Ed, Network Nutrition, Angelini Farmaceutica, Metagenics and Eli Lilly.

Prior to that, Polly provided comprehensive research and grants administration for a portfolio of externally funded projects, including a $ 3 million Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at The George Washington University.

Cincinnati Children's is one of the top two recipients of pediatric research grants from the National Institutes of Health, and a research and teaching affiliate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Central to US Attorney Preet Bharara's successful case against Silver was a bribery scheme in which the former speaker directed state grants to a Columbia University oncologist who specialized in mesothelioma research in exchange for the doctor directing his patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, netting Silver lucrative legal fees.

Review of academic research grants and strengthening of global university collaboration opportunities, ideally supported by government Tsar.

The vetoes include striking out spending for onion research at Cornell University, a grant to the Putnam County Fish and Game Association and a re-appropriation for the Lindenhurts Robotics Club.

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the Unitedresearch fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

The grant money was given to Dr. Robert Taub of Columbia University who was doing groundbreaking research on mesothelioma.

The patients came to Silver from Dr. Robert Taub, a then - Columbia University physician, who in turn received $ 500,000 in state research grants at Silver's direction in a quid pro quo scheme, according to the federal indictment.

David Comerford is a Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Stirling, working with Prof David Bell, on ESRC funded grants, studying issues around the economics of constitutional change in Scotland, before and after the independence referendum in September 2014.

McKinley and Aniello Rega were among dozens of mesothelioma patients sent to Silver by Columbia University cancer doctor Robert Taub in exchange for $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants, prosecutors say.

In testimony during Silver's corruption trial in lower Manhattan, prosecutors produced a document from January 2004, requesting a $ 250,000 grant for a mesothelioma research center out of Columbia University run by Dr. Robert Taub.

As part of the event at the House of Commons Terrace Pavilion, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP will reflect on how the social sciences have developed since the council was granted its Royal Charter in 1965, when it was known as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and what a difference the research has made to Research Council (SSRC), and what a difference the research has made to research has made to society.

Consent for the current GM trials being undertaken by Leeds University, the Sainsbury Laboratory and Rothamsted Research was granted in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 following evaluation by the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE).

Greek yogurt maker Chobani is giving Cornell University a $ 1.5 million grant to set up research and training program focused on dairy industry quality.

One of Rep. Chris Collins» first major legislative efforts took a big step forward, as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved his bill establishing a grant program that aims to fund innovations being created at the nation's universities, research institutes and laboratories.

Silver was also found guilty last week of steering $ 500,000 worth of state Department of Health grants to mesothelioma research being conducted by Dr. Robert Taub of Columbia University, who then steered patients toward the personal injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg.

The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

The prosecution alleges that Mr. Silver steered state grants to mesothelioma research to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in exchange for a doctor there, Dr. Robert Taub, referring patients to a law firm that sues on behalf of such patients, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Mr. Silver was of counsel and received lucrative payments for referring clients with asbestos cases.

Created the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program making the State University of New York an engine of economic development with world - class centers of research and innovation.