Sentences with phrase «early grant funding»

As earlier grant funding ended, Mass Audubon joined forces with Audubon Vermont and Audubon Connecticut and took on administrative and oversight responsibilities.

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Early into his tenure, Trump signed an executive order that sought to block municipalities that failed to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities from receiving federal grant funding.

She has become a staunch advocate for raising awareness about brain aneurysms and increasing funding for research, establishing «The Sharon Epperson Chair of Research» through the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to provide grants for research on early detection.

«We'll have additional webinars, offered widely, after grants funds have been distributed but based on feedback we get during the early phase as folks go through the implementation process.»

Earlier this year, the board had requested that the park district seek grants that would fund half of the $ 300,000 water slide plan.

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Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D - 3rd District, introduced the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act (DIAPER) Act, a bill that would amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to allow funding for diapers and diaper supplies.

Klein said it's «too early» to say for certain whether de Blasio's pre-K plan is «right» compared to the one the governor is proposing, which calls for using $ 1.5 billion over five yreas to fund pre-K statewide ($ 100 million total in the first year, $ 25 million of which is renewing the existing competitive pre-K grants).

Tuesday's event was hosted by the Long Island Pre-K Initiative, a grant - funded project administered by Nassau BOCES that seeks to share information about research, policy and best practices for early learning.

The «A Better Me: Fit, Healthy and Happy» program is funded through a $ 2500 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office on Women's Health and was awarded to the Oneida County Health Department earlier this year.

This multi-year grant funded project has seen 16 libraries operating using RFID through 2011 with approximately 10 additional libraries scheduled for conversion in 2012, including the Central Library early in 2012.

The Park Foundation, an Ithaca - based philanthropic fund, has also continued to fund state - based anti-fracking efforts despite the ban, including a $ 125,000 grant to New Yorkers Against Fracking earlier this year.

Earlier this year, Albany launched a $ 1 million grant program to provide funds to help people purchase vacant homes to renovate them into affordable housing.

The training is an opportunity for emergency first responders to understand the unique aspects of airport accident scenes and offers a chance for the first responders to become familiar with the Airport's new rescue vehicle acquired earlier this year through Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and New York State grant funding.

More than $ 1.5 million in county funds plus hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants have been spent trying to tackle the drug crisis since early last year, in addition to related Medicaid spending and other criminal justice programs.

Last year Council Majority Leader Tom Hoffay (D - Ward 2) criticized Fuentes for developing a plan to distribute over $ 100,000 in entitlement funds left over from earlier grants without placing it before the council.

Cuomo proposed $ 25 million for competitive grant programs, which includes $ 20 million to establish a fund to supplement high - performing teachers» salaries and $ 5 million to expand early college high schools throughout the state.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration has announced an earlier - than - usual timeframe for its regional economic development grants, paving the way for funding awards to be announced before Election Day.

Since lead dust and paint chips inhaled and eaten by children often come from raising and closing old windows, the county is also earmarking $ 436,838 in leftover funds from earlier years of the lead prevention and remediation program to give out low - interest loans or grants for window replacements, based on a sliding income scale, over the next five years.

In early February, the National Science Foundation announced new standards for its research grants, under which grantees could have their funds suspended or revoked if their institution finds that a grantee has committed harassment.

This work was supported by grant numbers R01AR069502 and R21AI126896 to Miller and 1DP2OD008752 to Maverakis, by the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, and an early career award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high school.

GM's earlier attempt faltered To improve air quality and cut down pollution from the nation's existing fleet of 11 million diesel engines, U.S. EPA announced $ 20 million in grant funding yesterday to support clean diesel projects and another $ 9 billion through direct state allocations.

BMRC provides seed funding in the form of 3 - year project grants for promising early - career investigators to kick - start their research careers, as well as more extensive program grants for established investigators to continue or expand on their existing research.

This leap of faith paid off with some interesting early results, and six months later a grant proposal submitted to the BBSRC was funded for 3 years.

Some biomedical lobbyists are already worried about Toomey, who opposed funding specific NIH grants while serving in the House of Representatives earlier this decade.

The companies plan to start work with the seaweed in early 2010 and work on the early stages of the project over the next two years while funded by the ARPA - E grant.

«It is still early days but the study, which was funded through an NIHR Clinical Lecturer grant and a College of Emergency Medicine Research Grant, could potentially make a huge difference to large numbers of patigrant and a College of Emergency Medicine Research Grant, could potentially make a huge difference to large numbers of patiGrant, could potentially make a huge difference to large numbers of patients.

Using the U.S. citizen and permanent resident sample, we explored the impact of NIH pre - and postdoctoral fellowships (F), NIH pre - or postdoctoral traineeships (T), and NIH career development awards (K), which are largely awarded to early career investigators as grant funding for research.

Benedict Chivers, a PhD student funded by the Leverhulme grant at the University of Lincoln, said: «Our findings suggest that the sound generators in grigs represent an early evolutionary stage in the bush - cricket lineage.

So in recent years, at every point in the early life cycle of NIH funding, physician - scientists have been more likely than Ph.D. scientists to leave the NIH grant - applicant pool.

Women are quite visible early in the federal funding pipeline, holding about half of all training grants.

Unlike the earlier House proposal, the bill does not contain language opposed by research groups that would have required NIH to support a specific number of new grants at a minimum funding level.

Compared with white American researchers, black American researchers are a third less likely to have an early - career National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funded, according to an NIH - commissioned study published August 18 in Science.

For new grant applications at NIH, in 2006 only about 1 in 6 (16.7 %) were funded compared to 27.1 % 5 years earlier.

A controversial National Institutes of Health plan to cap funding for larger laboratories is aimed at steering more grants to early - and midcareer researchers.

Just 5 years earlier, nearly one - third (32.1 %) of NIH grant applications were funded.

Rather, crowdfunding can be a complementary source «that can fill gaps or expands access» to funding for researchers — such as early career scientists or those working in meagerly funded fields — who «traditionally wouldn't have had those grant opportunities.»

(In fact, Carter observes, even applicants whose Pathway grants don't end up getting funded can benefit from having the opportunity to establish relationships with NIH staff early in their careers.)

In a major policy shift that is reverberating across the biomedical research community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, says it plans to cap the number of grants an investigator can hold in order to free up funding for early - career scientists and those struggling to keep their labs afloat.

Early in this fiscal year, NIH gave many investigators only 90 % of their full approved grant amount because the agency didn't yet have a final budget; some of the reserved funds will be released later in the year.

Increase funding for two types of grants aimed at giving young investigators independent labs quickly: «kangaroo» (K99 / R00) grants that combine postdoctoral support with a research grant; and Early Independence Awards, which allow newly minted Ph.D. s to skip the postdoc and start their own lab.

One of the key issues in an uproar over grantmaking that has roiled Texas's $ 3 billion cancer research fund receded yesterday when the agency's board approved $ 39 million in research grants that it had set aside earlier this year.

A NIH National Cooperative Drug Discovery / Development grant funded the early basic science and discovery of this investigational drug and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation and Harrington Discovery Institute helped support some of the key toxicity studies that FDA required, Conn said.

AAS International Travel Grant funds are targeted for (in priority order) early - career scientists, scientists from smaller institutions or from underserved populations, and scientists whose participation at the meeting is important for US visibility.

The current funding environment has raised serious concerns about the long - term viability of the biomedical research enterprise, as securing NIH grants has become increasingly difficult for scientists early in their careers.

The space agency announced the mission — to be funded by a $ 200 million grant to the MIT - led team — in early April.

The Safadi Program gift will fund research pilot grants to propel early - stage translational research aimed at enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration in the neurosciences; launch an annual lecture series to bring world leaders in the neurosciences to Chicago to foster the dissemination of related research; and support recruitments of neurology and neurosurgery faculty contributing to the translational mission.

He was instrumental in securing the USDA Competitive Grants Program that brought funding and scientific rigor to plant biology, recognized early on the value of recombinant DNA technology to agricultural sciences, and provided leadership and vision during the initial international meetings on plant molecular biology.

This recommendation was rooted in an earlier observation by Williams et al, 19 based on both priority scores and funding rates, that clinical grant applications do not fare as well in the review process when evaluated by study sections reviewing relatively few clinical applications.