Sentences with phrase «awarded a grant last»

The Humane Society of Marlboro County was awarded a grant last year from the #ASPCA for $ 25,000 for improvements at the Marlboro County Shelter to improve cleaning time and help lower the spread of disease.

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Last year, MIT awarded the group a $ 10,000 Lemelson - MIT InvenTeam Grant to put towards solving a real - world problem with engineering.

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If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.

The current number of shares remaining available for grant under the 2003 Plan is expected to last until approximately the end of 2014, based on the recent historical rate of award grants under the 2003 Plan noted under «Specific Benefits» below, and taking into account the 2:1 premium share counting rule, discussed below, for certain equity awards.

In fact, last school year Liberty awarded the most student state grant aid in Virginia.

Last month, the Rodale Institute was awarded a $ 15,000 Northeast Sustainable Agriculture and Research Partnership Grant to begin Bat Research for Organic Insect Pest Management.

WILMINGTON, Del., May 17, 2013 — DuPont celebrated the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program last night, granting top honors to U.K. - based design firm pi global for AidPod, which delivers life - saving medicine to remote sub-Saharan villages.

Last month, the United States Conference of Mayors and the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America announced the six grant recipients of the 2017 2017 Childhood Obesity Prevention Awards Program.

Sacramento, CA, July 9, 2007 - The efforts of California winegrape growers and vintners to build on their environmental successes gained a major boost late last month, when the United States Department of Agriculture awarded a $ 607,500 Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

Last month, as part of the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthier America's ongoing partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors, six cities were awarded grants to fight childhood obesity in their community.

Last year, this organization awarded us a grant to improve our poultry operation, and they came this weekend to see what we did with the money we were given.

The village was awarded a $ 1.8 million grant last year from the Illinois Department of Transportation that is being used to pay for regrading the area and reducing the slopes of the pond.

Last month we were thrilled to announce that Gadsden Elementary School District in Arizona has been awarded a $ 126,000 grant from Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom!

We first met Renee Frederick in June of last year when we announced that she had won the 2013 Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant.

Last week, an additional million - dollar grant was awarded to Mass Audubon, in partnership with the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Program.

New York has received $ 27.4 million Early Innovator Grant Award last Feburary in order to develop the IT infrastructure for the exchange and stands to gain more money if the exchange is enacted.

The Empire Center last year posted a searchable SeeThroughNY.net database of 5,000 grants awarded at the discretion of individual governors and lawmakers under these programs, totaling close to $ 3 billion.

In the last two years, four other Community Development Block Grant projects have been awarded within Niagara County:

The letter, which could win the Sir Humphrey Appleby award for lack of clarity, explains that the government is not paying councils the last instalment of the school standards grant before it is abolished at the end of the financial year and the money merged into school's mainstream funding.

Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in favor of natural gas development in New York state and awarded a $ 6 million grant from his philanthropic organization to the Environmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gas operations.

More than $ 31.5 million in grants have been awarded to North Country internet service providers in the latest round of broadband grants announced by the state last week.

In a statement, HCR spokeswoman Stephanie Davis noted the agency «has granted 180 awards over the last five years through its annual competitive funding application for tax credits and low interest loans, and these projects were given the same consideration as all the others.

Ceretto has come under fire after The Buffalo News revealed Ceretto staff emails that showed political considerations were part of the decision - making process for grants Ceretto awarded in his district last year.

Rockland County was awarded $ 5.8 million in state grants for economic development, nearly double the amount received last year.

Several Lower East Side organizations were awarded significant grants by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer last week.

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that Southold Town has been awarded a $ 30,000 grant to cover the costs of damages caused by Hurricane Sandy at Cutchogue's Downs Farm / Fort Corchaug Preserve.

That's on top of a $ 25 million grant awarded last April by the state's Dormitory Authority.

Since taking office last year, Stefanik sponsored the Flexible Pell Grant for 21st Century Students Act, which allows students to draw Pell Grants «at an accelerated pace for additional courses within a given award year,» according to the news release.

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

Under the system announced last month, known as the Modular Research Grant Application and Award Initiative, applicants seeking grants of more than $ 250,000 will follow the existing procedure.

Noudoost joined MSU's Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience last summer from Stanford University and has already been awarded a $ 225,000 Whitehall Foundation grant for neuroscience.

The top 10 % of NIH grant winners (by total award) received about 37 % of NIH funding in 2015 — up from the 32 % the top group got in 1985, but down a bit from a peak of 40 % of total funding in 2010, according to an analysis published last week by researchers at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

The ASF is scarcely a blip on the big screen of autism - research spending: in this, its second full year of operations, it is awarding $ 220,000 in grants to young researchers; last year, it spent $ 180,000.

Last week, the Merrill Lynch Forum announced the second round of winners of their Innovation Grants Competition, awarding almost a quarter - million dollars in 2 years to young scientists and engineers who could successfully explain the commercial applications of their dissertation research.

An example is the Collaborative Grants Program which NSERC created in Canada last year, against strong opposition from the awards committees, to fund interdisciplinary teams of researchers.

Last, but certainly not least, Lodowski wrote and won a K99 / R00 award, a grant that bridges the transition to a faculty position and, he says, «makes you a more attractive applicant.»

And last week, the recently created Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations awarded its first grant for development of a Lassa fever vaccine to Themis Bioscience, a biotech in Vienna.

The grants comprise the second round of funding awarded in the GEF's current four - year budget, which is worth $ 4.34 billion in total and will last until 2014.

Texas research institutions, in the meantime, have worried that the delay in awarding $ 71.8 million in grants approved last year to draw 25 researchers from outside the state would derail the recruitments.

The 3 - year, $ 931,000 grant was one of 21 projects awarded last fall as part of an ongoing NSF program on the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems.

At that center, Johnson said grant awards in the last fiscal year 2014 were up 13 percent over the previous year, to a record $ 73 million.

As of the last annual reporting period, NISER had collaborated on more than 60 grant proposals, of which 15 had been awarded totaling $ 1.5 million.

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) has awarded two rounds of grants since the Charlotte Lozier Institute last analyzed the Fund's pattern of grant making for stem cell research, in the fall of 2013.

The amount is part of $ 2.5 million in grants awarded by Kessler Foundation last year to organizations across the U.S. to support initiatives that create and expand job training and employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Kurtis has been awarded numerous grants, including two last year totaling $ 4.8 million from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In 2007, the last year for which figures are available, 19 percent of the grants awarded to individual scientists were made as exceptions, or given outside of rankings by scientific reviewers, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office provided to The New York Times.

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