Sentences with phrase «as land grant»

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.

The beach is named after José Francisco Ortega, who retired from the Spanish Army in 1795 with the rank of captain and received the Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio as a land grant.

The rest of the field, except for Liu, who had left to meet another commitment, followed suit — dismissing the question because of the questioner's name (given as Land Grant) and, likely, because it was getting late.

This recognises the continuing connection Indigenous peoples have to specific areas of land post-contact, as the land granted is recognised to be culturally important and includes former reserve lands, missions, cemeteries or historic sites.

Not exact matches

Granted, «Fire and Fury» is juicy as a summer peach, filled with gossipy takedowns of pretty much every boldface name in Trump Land.

May he grant peace to the entire Middle East, beginning with the Holy Land, as well as in Iraq and Yemen.

How come 200 years ago, I, as a white male land owner, had a right to vote — a right apparently granted by your god.

The emperors and their nobles encouraged education by grants of land and money to mosques, to lodges which served as residences for religious training, and to individual saints and scholars.

However, Land said that before current immigrants are granted legal status, the U.S. must» [secure] the border first with measurable metrics that have been certified as met by the federal government in terms of stemming the flow of illegal immigration.»

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

As president of a university that drew to itself all of New York's land - grant income besides a founder's ample endowment, White's dislike for the church colleges, intensified by their resentment of Cornell's wealth, drew him to appreciate the animosity Henry Tappan had experienced at Michigan:

I'm sure there are costs required for code, and higher land costs here than Asia... but they build them as basic churches without the flashy attributes taken for granted stateside.

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.

This American ideal for education was institutionalized in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, encouraging the state schools oriented toward agricultural and technical education that developed as alternatives to the liberal arts colleges.

Shortly after the Land O» Lakes statement spoke defiance to outside authority, the State of New York, which had many of its citizens enrolled in independent colleges and universities that were almost all laboring under severe annual deficits, made institutional grants (known as «Bundy money») available to them.

The churches can offer the health plans they want, but when they have a business outside the church, such as a school, or hospital, they must go by the laws of the land and not be granted any special treatment because they are owned by a church.

Replying to Gandhi's assertion that «Palestine belongs to the Arabs» and the Jews have no right to settle there, Buber, while granting and upholding the claim of the Arabs, staunchly upholds the prior and also vital claim of the Jews, which goes back some 3,000 years and is based on what they experienced as a divine mission to hallow a particular land and build a good society there.

After taking a look at Lion Kona beans processing equipment and drying porch, the tour moved to farming land in Hawaii is leased from the school district, which was granted ownership of more than 365,000 acres of land in 1883 as part of a bequest from Princess Bernice Pauahi, the last royal descendant of the Kamehameha line.

After all, Ethiopia is known as the land of milk and honey (although for the record I should note that I've also heard the same title granted to both Israel and Ireland).

Prominent pioneers and owners of the vast Santo Thomas Spanish Land Grant, the Casads «treated Fabian as their own,» according to Singleton.

They were feeling the heat of Baylor breathing down their necks, and now they have some serious breathing room, as Land - Grant Holy Land notes:

Though the country's sports community is on the verge of massive changes as a result of last week's announcement by the International Olympic Committee that it would grant conditional recognition to South Africa for the 1992 Olympics, everywhere there are distinct reminders of what decades of isolation have done to that torn land.

Granted did nt see the game, maybe we wer awful, but I take the result as a draw as visitors in a very tough land

As Ohio State remained No. 4 for the third week in a row, Land - Grant Holy Land weighed in on what needs to happen for the Buckeyes to play for the national title.

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.

A commission that recommends burying the Children's Museum in a sacrosanct locale such as Grant Park won't blink at putting one more athletic field on Lincoln Park land that lacks the same special legal protections.

The Park District will receive $ 400,000 in matching funds from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources as part of an Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant.

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 Campaign Finance Board does have different, lower contribution limits for individuals who are categorized by them as doing business with the city — registered lobbyists, those applying for land use actions, grants or contracts — but neither Herrera nor his relatives who worked at MJM or Masonry were categorized as such.

Last Monday, in a new twist to the never ending drama on bauxite exploration in that part of the country, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu declared as invalid and of no effect, a mining lease granted Exton Cubic Ltd..

They had filed the suit asking that NIWA be declared as the body statutorily empowered to manage, control and regulate land interest within 100 meters of all declared Federal Waterways in Nigeria, and that the license on the right of way granted to them by NIWA is valid and subsisting.

Besides Cuomo's election as governor, what was new in 2011, when the development finally landed state funding despite the low scores, was that The Birches at Fishkill had secured a $ 1.4 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York.

Mr. Russell also said land purchases made through the CPF aren't the same as a yearly grant, calling the comparison a «terrible analogy» since the land purchases are a one - time real estate transaction.

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources John Peter Amewu on Monday, announced the revocation of the license granted Exton Cubic Limited for exploration at Nyinahin, declaring the license as invalid and of no effect.

«If you are granted bail in respect of one issue, and the need arises for further investigation in other criminal offences, the law of the land requires investigation and you are bound as a good citizen of the country to submit yourself to investigation.

The state grant being sought allows the cost of land acquisition — which was already paid to the former property owner — to be used as a matching portion of the grant, so long as it was purchased in the past three years.

Having to worry less has allowed Crone to concentrate on research funding: In addition to receiving one research grant during her first year as an assistant professor, she landed two during her second year.

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.

For at least 3 awards to consortia under this section, the Secretary shall give special consideration to applications in which 1 or more of the institutions under subsection (d)(1)(A) are 1890 Land Grant Institutions (as defined in section 2 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7061)-RRB-, Predominantly Black Institutions (as defined in section 318 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059e)-RRB-, Tribal Colleges or Universities (as defined in section 316 (b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059c (b)-RRB-, or Hispanic Serving Institutions (as defined in section 318 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059e)-RRB-.

I have been honored to serve as president of West Virginia University, the state's flagship, land - grant, research university, on two occasions almost 30 years apart.

Grant joined PNNL in 2010 as the inaugural Linus Pauling distinguished postdoctoral fellow and started investigating catalytically relevant processes using ion soft landing and highly sensitive mass spectrometry.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Reflecting its strong commitment to economic engagement, Washington State University is one of 16 public institutions nationally recently designated as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU).

Founded in 1871 as a land - grant institution, the University of Arkansas is the flagship of the University of Arkansas System.

In 1993 Phillips band, Grant - Lee Buffalo debuted their first album Fuzzy with huge success, they started to land major concerts and performing opportunities, They went on tour with such bands as Pearl Jam and REM.

The multihyphenate (who reportedly began authoring poetry and songs at the age of 14) moved with her mother to Southern California immediately after high school graduation to accommodate her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star and promptly landed both representation and a key role as a pop diva in the Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Music and Lyrics.

Hugh Grant could land a supporting actor award for his role as Meryl Streep's devoted husband in Florence Foster Jenkins.

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.

I'm from a land grant research university, but I also had leaders from a private for - profit institution, a historically black university, and a graduate - only institution as part of my small discussion group.

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.