Sentences with phrase «fund my research interests»

Ironically, the company has since spun out and is no longer under my control, so I am back to applying for grants again to fund my research interests!

Not exact matches

This money can serve a variety of purposes, such as research funding (approximately half of the 2016 payments) and ownership and investment interests.

Interested researchers should consider the awards as seed funding for long projects, and Microsoft said research teams should not expect the company to continue funding the projects as they mature.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

While it's always interesting to know about the top runners, renewable energy companies in various growth stages will become more important as government funding for research and development related to energy efficient, emissions reduction and carbon capture decreases.

Interested local research institutions will be able to apply for funding by submitting a business case paired with a local city or authority as to why driverless cars are a viable transport solution in their area.

@ Andrew / Hariseldon — short nominal bond funds will recover quite quickly from a rise in interest rates but the research I've read says they do badly in unexpected inflation scenarios.

This finding has important implications not just for the home bias literature, but also more broadly for the growing research and policy interest on Internet - based crowd funding, especially as a new channel for entrepreneurial financing.

For those investors interested in rigorous research now, I offer my roadmap to the best and worst stocks and funds in the market by sector for 1Q12.

In this systematic review, the researchers investigate whether the disclosure of potential financial conflicts of interest (for example, research funding by a beverage company) has influenced the results of systematic reviews undertaken to examine the association between the consumption of highly lucrative sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) and weight gain or obesity.

Her general research interests lie at the intersection of international and domestic politics and political economy with a particular focus on International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes, labour markets, macro-economic reform, and ideological and electoral preferences.

It is insult added to injury when an official succeeds in defending themselves and then has the state reimburse their campaign fund, which can then be used for anything they want,» said Blair Horner, director of New York State Public Interest Research Group.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Cuomo's fund - raising practice was «clever,» but does not seem to run afoul of any regulation.

One major area of interest was the administration's plan to inject $ 1 billion in state funds into Buffalo - area factories, research facilities and other projects, known together as the Buffalo Billion.

Advocacy organizations such as Citizens Union and New York Public Interest Research Group have recommended that contributions bundled by lobbyists should not be eligible for matching funds.

But, while matching funds are an important feature of the City's system, any reform being considered in Albany that hopes to replicate the City's success should include lower contribution limits and an overhaul of administration and enforcement, writes Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

His biggest donor was the Rent Stabilization Association's PAC and Neighborhood Preservation Political Action Fund, which shelled out $ 82,000 for him, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Dratel noted that outside law firm income is legal in New York, funding things such as cancer research is not a crime, and legislating on issues campaign donors are interested in — a small step removed from what Silver allegedly did — is standard operating procedure.

One of the issues was funding, said New York Public Interest Research Group executive director Blair Horner.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said any funding should be distributed based on district population — not political juice.

But the government has argued that Mr. Silver said that he wanted cases «right after» Dr. Taub said that he was interested in getting research money; and that Mr. Silver «dangled the possibility of state funding» immediately after Dr. Taub began sending cases to Weitz & Luxenberg.

The Assembly Democratic Majority's budget restores funding for the program, said Blair Horner, New York Public Interest Research Group's legislative director.

The Research Fund is a means of highlighting several domestic R&D programs, underlining the President's interest in them.

This document, which has been drawn from the presentations and discussions at the workshop, has been written for anyone involved with or interested in interdisciplinary research and education, including funders, administrators, researchers, faculty, and students.

University scientists staff their labs with graduate students and postdocs recruited «with funding and the implicit assurance of interesting research careers,» she writes.

But, they wrote, «Plain and simple, Americans do not want financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) to influence federally funded research.»

Then, seeing his biochemical engineering and food - safety research experience as a natural fit for his growing interest in diet food research, he entered the field with funding from the food industry.

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

Universities are particularly sensitive to university space, resources and / or faculty being involved in outside activities during their working hours, and also for potential conflicts of interest, in which your university research could be biased by receiving outside funding from an inappropriate source, as when a drug company has a vested interest in the outcome of your independent research.

My colleague explained to me that the National Institutes of Health was no longer funding classical neuroanatomy studies, so he was pleased to be able to apply some of the money paid to him for the hair - growth experiments to fund his neuroanatomy research, his major interest.

If their research interests include a health connection, faculty members in mathematical biology have more potential funding sources than other applied mathematicians, the key source being the Canadian Institutes of Health Researchresearch interests include a health connection, faculty members in mathematical biology have more potential funding sources than other applied mathematicians, the key source being the Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchResearch (CIHR).

When it comes time for tenure, promotion, and salary increases, noncorporate funding is typically given much more weight, «it's a springboard of core funding that allows you then to do good research that's of interest to companies,» explains Prichard, «without it, you're not able to keep up with the high quality of research.»

«Candidly, shareholders are not interested in funding research, which tends to be costly, very long - term and very risky,» said retired aerospace executive Norman Augustine during the AAAS conference call.

If you already know of a research lab that you would be interested in joining but need to obtain your own funding, check out «fellowships and funding resources» under the «Incoming» sections.

Select Problems Wisely: Zigmond says that successful scientists realize it is critical, when planning research, to choose research areas by the level of interest in the field and by what kind of work can be funded.

Below we list some courses and funding opportunities for scientists interested in entering climate change research.

The interests of academic science are represented by various well - funded and experienced lobbying operations supported by research universities, medical schools, professional and scientific societies, and others.

If approved by Congress, each institute would receive $ 25 million a year to fund research of interest to the public and companies.

It's all too easy to submit a proposal that goes over what budget would ever be funded, and so you need to pare down the scope of the project at an early stage in a way that keeps the research both interesting and competitive.

«There is little doubt that the intense interest in [venoplasty for MS] played a role in the decisions by the National MS Society and the Canadian MS Society to fund further research,» Miller says.

When she inquired recently about grant opportunities at one large agency that funds educational research, she was told, «We are interested in reading but not the brain.»

To combine his interest in research with a wider interest in science, Peter Cotgreave took on the directorship of Save British Science, a campaigning organisation that presses the governments in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast for better funding for science, stronger science education in schools, and policies that allow the general public to have greater access to the benefits of scientific and technological research.

«We in the science community should do more to satisfy the public interest in quantifying the impact of federally - funded medical research,» said Cruea.

The goal, Staffin says, is not just to fund «interesting basic research, but [projects that are] ready to step on the gas» and realize advancements in knowledge.

Barbara Beltz, a biology professor at Wellesley College who has hosted three postdocs on her research grants over the past several years, says that at least one Wellesley science department (neuroscience) has funding and a plan in the works to hire postdocs who have an interest in teaching at a liberal arts college.

«You don't know when something is going to turn out to be interesting,» so ordinary research funding doesn't cover it.

The analysis by Kearns and her colleagues of the industry's own documents, in contrast, suggests that the industry knew of animal research suggesting this link and halted funding to protect its commercial interests half a century ago.

Boeing, which funded some of his research, is interested in using the energy generated from airplane passengers as they sit, get up and adjust in their seats to power some of the plane's functions such as overhead lights in cabins.

And until media attention surged recently, there had been little interest or research funding available to study Zika virus.