Sentences with phrase «academies funded by»

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On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

In September, after a lengthy investigation by staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) blasted the service for using forfeiture funds to pay for perks and luxury items such as «high - end granite countertops and expensive custom artwork,» much of it installed, appropriately enough, at a new Asset Forfeiture Academy in Houston.

The agri - analytics startup, which was incubated at IIT - Kharagpur, received seed funds and acceleration from a-IDEA, managed by National Academy of Agricultural Research Management in Hyderabad.

Goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was the only significant arrival in a quiet summer, (discounting a little known youngster called Cesc Fabregas, initially bound for the academy) as Arsenal's funds were taken up by the new stadium.

This program is funded and administered by the Kansas Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatricians (KAAP).

It is also possible, however, depending on the range and type of services on offer, for such provision to be a centrally funded service commissioned by the local authority, normally under a service level agreement with the school or academy.

Some of the place funding is included in local authorities» initial DSG allocation and then deducted by EFA so that it can pay the funding direct, for example to academies.

To ensure the academy is funded on the correct basis, a form must be completed by the local authority notifying EFA of changes to the academy's 2016 to 2017 high needs places before the academy order is granted.

But more important is the question of trust and how that is compromised by the academy's acceptance of funding from the dairy industry.

Toby's research has been externally funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, Nuffield Foundation and the McDougall Trust.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

Our Academies Act takes the existing programme further by allowing any publicly - funded school to convert to academy status.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

A new model funding agreement for Academies has been released by the Department for Education (DfE) specifying that the teachers they employ do not need to hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.

Where Mr. de Blasio has opposed charter schools, Mr. Jeffries has firmly defended them; in April, he addressed a fund - raising gala for the Success Academy organization, a fast - growing charter network heavily backed by wealthy critics of the mayor.

This analysis is based on data provided by Stephen Bates (University of Birmingham), Mark Goodwin (University of Birmingham) and Steve McKay (University of Lincoln), as part of their Select Committee Data Archive Project, part - funded by the British Academy and the University of Birmingham's British Politics Research Group.

[81] In 2014, Gove's department acceded to the BHA's campaign by banning creationism from being taught as science in state - funded English schools, including Academies and Free Schools, as well as introducing a requirement that such schools must teach evolution.

The funds have already been invested in free summer academy programs that are underway by SASF in the Bronx.

COBBLE HILL — The well - funded and controversial Success Academy Cobble Hill violated Department of Education regulations by replacing potentially contaminated light fixtures without official permission, city officials confirmed.

Under the coalition government, half of secondary schools have become academies: schools that are more autonomous and funded directly by central government rather than through local authorities.

The study was funded by the Academy of Finland, and had the collaboration of researchers from the University of Tokyo, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, NASA - JPL and University of California.

The research was funded by the Academy of Finland.

Yet an extraordinary report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year claims it could do just that.

The Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group of Wageningen University & Research together with the Department of Geophysics and Meteorology of Bogor Agricultural University IPB, Indonesia, was investigating the link between drought and wildfires, as part of a joint Indonesian - Dutch project funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Funded by the British Academy, the British Institute at Ankara and the Australian Research Council, the research is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS).

The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will appear online on March 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to coincide with its presentation at a meeting of the 2018 Joint Congress of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO) in Orlando, Florida.

The study was a part of Miriam Nokia's post-doctoral research project (SA 137783) funded by the Academy of Finland and it was published on 23 April 2014 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

And yet: A report recently issued by the U.S. National Academies» Institute of Medicine (IOM) argues that, for scientists trained as part of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)- funded Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA program), it's time to deemphasize publishing and grant winning and focus on instilling leadership, team science, community engagement, and entrepreneurship skills.

The delay also jeopardizes the next decadal survey, a once - every -10-years strategic plan produced by the National Academies that assesses the research landscape and makes recommendations to federal agencies and Congress about developing and funding future generations of ground - and space - based telescopes.

Given the importance of hard data to reinforce the value of federal funding to NIH, the Academy is finalizing a follow - on analysis that looks at patent output through a number of additional metrics, such as by mechanism and study section.

A meeting run by the science and engineering academies of the UK, US and China that will take place in Washington DC next week aims to assess the prospects for synthetic biology, and the concerns about its potential, by bringing together natural scientists, social scientists, artists, regulators, science funders and critical NGOs.

The majority of the funding for the study was allocated by the Academy of Finland for development research.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, The Reader and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and funded by the British Academy, has found that shared reading (SR) can be a useful therapy for chronic pain sufferers.

As recommended by the National Academies, ARPA - E funding should be seen in the context of expanding overall energy R&D investment to a level that begins to meet the scale and complexity of the challenge.

The study, published recently in the online version of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out at the UAB, with collaboration from Radboud University Medical Center (the Netherlands), University of Colorado (USA) and Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and was funded principally by Fundació La Marató, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia.

I have just received a grant for this purpose from the Key Project Funding by the Academy of Finland.»

The new project is run by an alliance of 10 major research bodies, including the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Max Planck Society, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany's main funding agency.

In a study published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from Cornell University and the University of Jyväskylä, working with funding from the Academy of Finland, show that by applying an appropriate external force, a circular graphene membrane can be «played» like a drumset.

The report, by the National Academies» National Research Council, says that it is too early to pick a winning technology and focus funding on that approach.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

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.

The Wallenberg Academy Fellows program, announced yesterday by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in Stockholm, will give generous start - up funds and access to positions in Swedish universities to 125 grantees over the next 5 years.

The study, funded in part by a research grant from Autism Speaks appears online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Much of the research funds formerly disbursed by RAS — about $ 1.3 billion planned for 2014 to 2016 — will now be distributed competitively by the Russian Scientific Fund, a new agency that will operate independently of both the academy and FASO.

Through its graduate academy, Singapore plans to send abroad and fund some one thousand students to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at top foreign universities by 2015.

The study was supported by the National Institute for Health and Welfare, the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Work and Environment Fund.

The research was supported by the Academy of Finland, Tekes — the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, Nokia Foundation and European Commission.

The team's research is funded by the National Science Foundation and is featured in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

National Academies panel asks Congress to create a new forum that would be funded by private sector