Sentences with phrase «awarded a grant out»

It was a huge honor for us to be awarded a grant out of the 90 - something applications they received!

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Roberto Torres, co-owner of the Black and Denim Apparel Company, discusses their successfully funded Kickstarter Campaign, how they found out about, and were awarded, several business grants, were featured in Entrepreneur magazine, and got their products in the Oscar, Grammy, and BET awards swag bags.

«A game like Sworcery would flat out not exist without OMDC grants,» he says, referencing the award - winning 2011 game.

This number is calculated using the share counting rules described in Sections 5 (a) and 5 (b) of the 2014 Plan and includes the number of shares available for new award grants under the 2014 Plan out of the 385 million shares authorized by shareholders upon adoption of the 2014 Plan; the number of shares available for new award grants under the 2003 Employee Stock Plan (the «2003 Plan») on the date that shareholders approved the 2014 Plan; the number of shares subject to outstanding stock options under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015; and two times the number of shares subject to outstanding RSUs under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015 (all adjusted for the 7 - for - 1 stock split).

The Committee may grant dividend equivalents to any Participant based on the dividends declared on shares of Common Stock that are subject to any Incentive Award during the period between the date the Incentive Award is granted and the date the Incentive Award is exercised, vests, pays out, or expires.

Gorman missed out on performance stock units granted as part of his 2009 pay after the firm missed the targets attached to those awards in the three years ended in 2012.

Researchers at UC Riverside have been awarded a $ 5 million grant to spend the next three years figuring out, once and for all, whether or not there is any life...

The 2015 William Wilberforce Award: Professor Robert P. George Washington, D.C. June 11 The Chuck Colson Center grants its annual award to recognize a current hero living out his or her Christian faith with bold and thoughtful action, this year given to Professor Robert P. GeAward: Professor Robert P. George Washington, D.C. June 11 The Chuck Colson Center grants its annual award to recognize a current hero living out his or her Christian faith with bold and thoughtful action, this year given to Professor Robert P. Geaward to recognize a current hero living out his or her Christian faith with bold and thoughtful action, this year given to Professor Robert P. George.

«In addition, the Grant Burge Wines 20 Year Old Tawny has been awarded 22 trophies, including four, best fortified wine, at the prestigious Decanter World Wine Awards while the famous Filsell Old Vine Shiraz took out the Winestate World's Best Shiraz in 2013.

So, how did Stephanie Roche find out she was one of the 10 nominees for Fifa's Puskas Award, the gong granted to the player deemed to have scored t -LRB-...)

But Cuomo says those grants are awarded through a «competitive process based on need,» while pork is doled out at individual legislators» discretion.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — October is Lead Poisoning Prevention Month, and today Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Congressman Brian Higgins (NY - 26), Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein, community lead - abatement partners, and concerned citizens to call attention both to a $ 3 million federal grant awarded to Erie County to identify & eliminate lead hazards in 180 local homes and to the «Wipe Out Lead» educational billboard campaign, which is now underway and features a number that concerned citizens can text to access lead resources.

This project took a tremendous leap forward when Erie County was awarded $ 2 million in funds by the State Attorney General's Office out of more than $ 12.4 million in grant funding set aside for land banks.

They are led by Cuomo appointees and dole out grants at an annual awards ceremony where Cuomo receives a hero's welcome.

AAAS's Project 2061 has been awarded a $ 1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop new tools for finding out how students build their knowledge of energy concepts over time and for helping teachers diagnose their students» learning difficulties.

However, says Sherry, if they claimed that the agency was flipping a coin to award grants or doling out funds to the friends of NIH officials, then they'd have a case.

She suggested that the directorate follow the example of other science agencies like the National Science Foundation in giving out grants, and «that funds be awarded on a competitive basis based on scientific peer review except in cases when that is clearly not feasible.»

They were recently awarded a grant to carry out this study at four shelters across the U.S. Instead of a one - day baseline, they'll be collecting a two - day sample.

The OSR post-award office (Harris Building Suite 1100, 3300 Whitehaven Rd.) is responsible for award receipt, agreement negotiation and sponsored research spending account setup, as well as management and close - out of grant, cooperative agreement and contract awards, including sub-awards, independent contractor agreements and clinical trial agreements.

In 2006, Lund was awarded an impressive eight out of a total of 20 Linnaeus grants.

The grant will be awarded as a 100 % deduction of sequencing reagent and running costs for the part of the project carried out at NGI.

The grants in programs 1A and 2 will be awarded as a 50 % deduction of sequencing reagent costs for projects carried out at NGI.

The Adrienne Shelly Foundation provides a $ 5,000 grant to be awarded annually by the Sundance Institute to a filmmaker coming out of the Feature Film Program's June Directors Lab.

Who: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Brendan Gleeson and Imelda Staunton What: Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the Year award.

Awards Speculation: Because Spike Jonze doesn't have Charlie Kaufman on hand to grant him an automatic audience with The Academy ™, I'm going to rule out «Best Picture.»

Jeff Wells, high on Anne Hathaway's work in «Love and Other Drugs,» recently wrote a piece bemoaning the lack of awards consideration usually granted to romantic comedy performances: «[There is a] belief,» he complains, «that to qualify for an acting award you have to solemnly suffer and pour your heart out in a somewhat doleful -LSB-...]

I highly recommend reaching out to every institution that awards grants.

Schools that have experience filling out grant applications or other applications similar to those required for the Blue Ribbon award apparently know how to spin mediocre test scores so that they don't diminish a school's chances for an award.

The risk with these competitions when carried out by the Office of the Secretary is that they become politicized, that they are judged by review panels without methodological competence, and that they are overseen, once awarded, by career staff in program offices that do not have the background to monitor what is, at root, a program evaluation grant.

The state also awarded grants on a supercompetitive basis: Out of about 80 applicants, eight received money.

This added support will allow the department to award new out - of - cycle grants in the future.

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.

We know from the legislation that districts with high chronic absence, out - of - school suspension, and dropout rates will be given priority when grants are awarded.

In 2016, nine urban school districts and their out - of - school time partners were awarded grants to help the partners collaborate on creating a plan to support the development of children's social and emotional skills by improving adult practices and climate during the school day and afterschool.

«We have already published a range of examples about how schools are managing workload in our teaching blog and have awarded grant funding to 11 groups of schools to carry out collaborative research projects into efficient and effective approaches which reduce workload related to marking, planning and resources and data management.»

The Department of Education has invited states and schools who were awarded a School Improvement Grant (SIG) to take some extra time to figure out the most crucial component: teacher evaluation.

«I was so excited when I heard our school had received the grant award — when I told the rest of the staff, they burst out in applause.

Fund for Teachers (FFT) awards grants for self - designed summer professional development for teachers to help them grow in and out of the classroom.

This May, the New York Life Foundation will make 26 awards to out - of - school time programs serving disadvantaged youth through their Aim High grant program.

YouthTruth joins seven other nonprofit organizations — out of 200 total applicants — as the recipients of the «Practice of Feedback Loops» grant, awarded to organizations that collect and produce relevant information from important stakeholders to enable better philanthropic efforts from foundations.

The Foundation's primary function appears to be to give out «mini-technology grants» to students and teachers and provide teacher recognition awards to Colorado public school teachers.

The state Department of Education has a couple of weeks to decide the nine districts it will award a total of $ 1.1 million in grants for trying out various models, starting in the fall.

The $ 200 grant was presented to Megan Anderson of 21st Century Charter School at the coalition's Time Out for Reading awards reception.

Likewise, many parent groups award mini grants for teacher needs and projects, but teachers sometimes find the application process to be out of proportion to the size of the award.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today awarded a $ 40 million grant to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to eliminate delays in and out of Harrisburg on Amtrak's Keystone Corridor.

In awarding a grant under the section, the Secretary shall give priority to grant recipients that demonstrate an ability to contribute a significant non-Federal share to the cost of carrying out the project for which the grant is received.

Association of American University Presses backs U.K. collective licensing program; Grant program to make out - of - print humanities titles available as free e-books; Ferlinghetti, Katzenberger win PubWest's 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award

Awarded a major grant to conduct an exhaustive study of the deteriorating environment of the Arctic by the Pew Charitable Trusts (the first time Pew has given such a grant to a journalist), Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Marla Cone traveled across the Arctic, from Greenland to the Aleutian Islands, to find out why the Arctic is toxic.

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