Sentences with phrase «dollar grants at»

When amateurs on a blog know more about science than the guys on multi-million dollar grants at U.S. academic institutions informing global energy and environment policy, you know that the time has come to drain the swamp...

Laura served as the Director of an $ 8.5 million dollar grant at Mississippi State University (ACHIEVE Mississippi).

Not exact matches

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

The two hit it off, and soon after they teamed up at MIT's Media Lab, armed with a near - million - dollar National Science Foundation grant, to prototype a sort of emotional hearing aid for autistic people — essentially a wearable camera that scanned people's facial expressions to interpret social cues, in real time, for the person wearing the device.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

It isn't impossible to craft a scenario where the ACC decides it might be able to add a basketball - only team to the ranks — that keeps you at 14 football teams but brings you to an even 16 in basketball (granted, an even number of teams is not a grave necessity in basketball, where you can live with or without a division structure)-- and if the conference were to determine that a basketball - only member makes sense (and from a dollars - and - sense perspective, it may not — we often make the mistake of overestimating basketball's importance in the realignment equation), I've got a pretty good idea where it might begin its search.

My wish was granted at Brimfield, for a mere couple of dollars.

Since its founding in 1964, SNF has raised millions of dollars to provide a wide variety of scholarships, grants, research, training opportunities and technical assistance to school nutrition professionals at every level.

The Park District also will raise parking fees at Grant Park North and South by a dollar.

The grant would allow the district to make the improvements at 57 cents on the dollar, putting the district at a crossroads on what to do, according to a memo by Scholten.

GlobalFoundries, which has racked up Empire Zone tax benefits estimated at up to $ 586 million (in addition to a $ 665 million cash grant from the state and other perks) built a multibillion - dollar chip fab in Saratoga County that now employs more than 3,000 people.

Hours later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hit back at Chicago, saying the Trump administration «will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety.»

At the time the multi-million dollar project, which also added a new restaurant, received a $ 1 million Restore NY state grant and money from the Oswego County Industrial Development Agency.

At one law firm specializing in personal injury and asbestos removal, Weitz & Luxenberg, Silver collected millions of dollars in so - called referral fees for lining up state grants for a doctor's research, according to prosecutors.

The Open Space Institute is applying for a million dollars in grants from three state sources — Empire State development, Market NY and the Environmental Protection Fund — to build a single - story, 6000 - square - foot, $ 3.642 - million visitor center at the main visitor entrance to the Minnewaska State Park.

Fundraising in the form of small - dollar donations is critical for candidates planning to participate in the state's Citizens» Election Program, which offers millions in taxpayer - funded election grants to gubernatorial candidates who raise at least $ 250,000 in qualified contributions.

Speaking at a public lecture titled, «The State of the Ghanaian Economy — A Foundation of Concrete or Straw», chaired by Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, Dr. Bawumia revealed that, the total cost of infrastructure from loans, grants and taxes from 2009 to date, is around 7 billion dollars, whereas government has borrowed in excess of 39 billion dollars.

$ 68,000 dollars from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program will allow Cortland firefighters to obtain equipment to properly clean and store turnout gear at the fire station, and they'll have an area to properly clean masks.

Supporters of city employee and mayoral candidate Steve Noble say politics are behind allegations that he mishandled grant applications, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside funding at risk.

Prosecutors said Seabrook funnelled hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funds to friends and family, including more than $ 300,000 to nonprofit groups owned by his mistress at the time, Gloria Jones - Grant, a woman prosecutors called «incompetent,» according to reports.

That bothers Arne Ljungqvist, the world agency's health, medical, and research committee chairman, who doles out several million dollars in grant money every year to research groups looking at gene doping and its detection.

«When we look at grant programs... the key is not the amount of the grant to begin with, but what we are getting for the taxpayer dollars,» he said, adding that he has supported research into particular diseases.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

When the population geneticist at the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO) in Irapuato, Mexico, submitted his proposal in November 2015, the exchange rate was 16 pesos to the dollar, and his grant would have been worth $ 812,500.

«The dollar amount associated with these grants is substantial,» said Timothy A. Kohler, professor of anthropology at WSU and coauthor of the NSF grant proposal.

8/3/2007 Multi-Million Dollar Autism Center of Excellence Established at UC San Diego NIMH grant will fund groundbreaking research on the causes, early identification and treatment of autism One of six Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) in the country has been established at the University of California, San Diego by the National In... More...

In the case of Nebraska, while it's no journey to Mt. Doom or Battle Royale, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern)'s mission to get to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim his prize money of one million dollars in any way possible is very much a moving story that uses actors who don't necessarily jump off the screen but are perfect fits for the narrative at hand.

[xvii] Allowing students to use grant dollars from this program at one of the many private colleges in Massachusetts would likely mitigate that negative impact.

Paul Hill and Tom Loveless, both senior scholars at the Brookings Institution, recently acquired a million - dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assemble a panel of experts on school choice, with the goal of writing the definitive statement on what we know and what requires additional study.

The CLCs at Lawrence - Lawson and Meadowview are federally funded through grant dollars administered by the state Department of Public Instruction.

The Bronx Charter School for Better Learning 2 was awarded a $ 4000 Dollar General Literacy Foundation Grant aimed at supporting schools to improve literacy instruction.

Before her work at AF, Laina managed a multi-million dollar grants portfolio at Success Academy Charter Schools.

Despite its effectiveness, each school costs over a million dollars to operate each year, and at best, 65 % of funding can come from state and federal grants.

And it's not much when compared to the Kalamazoo Promise, unveiled in 2005, which was funded by anonymous donors and, as a «first - dollar» scholarship, pays for 100 percent of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in Michigan and can be added on top of Pell Grants.

There's clearly always a long, long way to go, but when you look at a billion dollars for early childhood education, when you look at 40 - plus states adopting higher standards, when you look at yesterday's high school graduation rates at record highs, the fact that we were able to put $ 40 billion behind Pell grants, 1.1 million additional students of color going to college than in 2008.

The State Treasurer's Office and Scholarshare have partnered to create a new grant program called Scholar Dollars, designed to help fund extracurricular and enrichment programs at school sites.

After which for two years, she served as the Project Manager for a Center for Disease Control multi-million dollar grant study of the Second Step Program in 28 middle schools for the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

The American Association of School Administrators recently released a survey of superintendents that showed that while most believe there is a role for competitive grants, most also worry about over-investment in those grants at the expense of more stable dollars that districts can depend upon to sustain reform efforts.

One key difference, however, is that the Barefoot - Hise proposal would order traditional school systems to share myriad funds currently not accessible to charters, including gifts, sales tax dollars and federal grants and reimbursements, at least one pool of which is used to offset the costs of school lunch programs, even though many charters do not participate in such programs.

«We've seen some pretty remarkable success in a first year of Denver Public Schools» effort here at Far Northeast Denver,» A + executive director Van Schoales said Wednesday as he stood in the lobby of High Tech Early College, one of the smaller schools opened with grant dollars awarded to remake long - struggling Montbello High School.

Rather, the LCFF defined how the state allocates K - 12 dollars by creating funding targets for a base grant per student to be provided to all California school districts, adjusted for the number of students at various grade levels.

Dr. Brownell has secured multiple grants (totaling over 42 million dollars) from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs and Institute of Education Sciences to support research and technical assistance aimed at improving teaching quality for students with disabilities.

Low - income students can access taxpayer dollars through federal Pell Grants to help pay for tuition at private institutions such as Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Texas Christian University (TCU).

In a first of its kind study, researcher Sonia Cabell (formerly at the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, now at Florida State University) received a 3.3 million dollar grant from the Institute of Education Sciences.

He proclaimed that parents should be able to walk their child to a school they choose to be at, adding that each state would develop its own formula for distributing the $ 20 billion block - grant money, but that the dollars must follow the student.

I don't really have a problem with vouchers; they're just another incarnation of government using taxpayer dollars to buy public goods or services from the private sector — from Pell grants to help pay tuition at private colleges, to county contracts with social services providers, to weapons and uniforms for the armed services.

The state planted the seeds for implementing this type of reform in 2009 by passing legislation to pad its application for federal Race to the Top grant dollars, said Michael Addonizio, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at Wayne State University, in Detroit.

Two new grants created in the 2011 budget exemplify the ways we can direct funding to encourage innovation and support successful programs and educators: the Excellence in Performance Grant for Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us tonight.

Each volume is priced at # 9.99 to $ 13.99, or whatever that translates to in dollars, pesos, or your own local currency, for over 300 pages of work by creators such as John Wagner, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Dave Gibbons, Mark Millar, Brian Bolland, and Carlos Ezquerra.

This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit rates, whch gets its material (papers, books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get academic reviewers to review the books and papers free of charge (well, paid for by universities or they do it in free time), depend on journal editors whose time is paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities, then sells the journals to the same universities, sometimes for subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.