Sentences with phrase «funded summer research»

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Guthrie figures he would have had to cut research funds for faculty, summer salaries for junior faculty, and other expenses.
The funding will enable Dutchess County's Office of Probation and Community Corrections to integrate researched - based family strengthening and summer components into the GREAT program through a collaboration with the Catherine Street Community Center in the City of Poughkeepsie.
Syracuse University's Student Association is sponsoring for the second consecutive year an undergraduate summer research program that will allow 25 students to receive $ 1,000 in research funding.
That summer, President George W. Bush had approved federal funding for human ES - cell research, but only for a small number of cell lines that had already been created.
Initially, he centered his research program at the Hospital for Special Surgery, where he had a corporate grant that funded materials, a part - time technician, and a summer stipend for a Yeshiva student.
As a director of a summer program, I often send letters to university administrators on behalf of students requesting funding to present their summer research.
The summer after my freshman year in college, I thought I would have to decline a great research opportunity because the position was funded by the National Science Foundation, which — like all federal agencies — has restrictions on funding noncitizens.
This summer, the European Commission announced a $ 7 billion (US$ 9.6 billion) investment in science, its largest funding package ever for research.
Last summer, a federal court banned taxpayer - funded research on human embryonic stem cells.
Two or three more centres in the U.K. are expected to be funded by these research councils by summer 2006.
In the summer of 1990, Chris, Chuck, and I went to work lining up the topics: professional standards, lab safety, animal and human research, research funding, and scientific careers.
Fortunately, the research community is already undertaking activities, including the Synthetic Biology 2.0 meeting in May and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - funded study to be completed this summer, aimed at ensuring safety and instilling confidence.
Jordan Matsudaira, a management and policy professor at Cornell University, has helped resurrect an old research tool and has employed it to look at the usefulness of summer school and the effect of funding from Title I, a federal program targeted at schools with a certain percentage of low - income students.
As expected, the plaintiffs in a law suit claiming that federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is illegal have appealed a ruling that dealt them a defeat earlier this summer.
«The trends in Africa of hot summers getting hotter and rainy seasons drying out are linked with factors that include increasing greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere,» said Ming Cai, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the research.
This summer, LeBourgeois launched a five - year, $ 2.5 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health, in which her research team goes into the homes of volunteer families, exposes children to varying intensities of light and collects saliva samples to measure changes in melatonin levels and the timing of the biological clock.
Kiani and Williams both received undergraduate research funding from Brown to work on the project during the summer of 2014.
► «Hoping to a fill a void left by the closure last summer of Russia's only private research funder, scientists here are gearing up to launch a new foundation,» Vladimir Pokrovsky reported from Moscow in a Monday ScienceInsider.
July 11, 2017 R&D Funding in the New Administration and Congress Matt Hourihan, AAAS for the APLU Council on Research Summer Meeting
During last summer's funding debate, appropriators in turn rejected the breadth of these proposed cuts, though the House and Senate still disagreed on certain areas including climate research.
Lamberth, who ordered a temporary ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cells research last August that an appeals court later overturned, is expected to issue a final ruling on the matter as soon as this summer.
The research funding marks a retreat from levels in a bill approved last summer by appropriators in the House, and holds to the figure in an earlier Senate bill.
First established in 2003, the Research Education Office at the Child & Family Research Institute organizes education and networking events for trainees, coordinators and the public, including the annual Mini Med School series; administers trainee funding competitions; and manages the institute's summer student research program for undergraduate and medical sResearch Education Office at the Child & Family Research Institute organizes education and networking events for trainees, coordinators and the public, including the annual Mini Med School series; administers trainee funding competitions; and manages the institute's summer student research program for undergraduate and medical sResearch Institute organizes education and networking events for trainees, coordinators and the public, including the annual Mini Med School series; administers trainee funding competitions; and manages the institute's summer student research program for undergraduate and medical sresearch program for undergraduate and medical students.
February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.
Students from 13 countries attended the Summer School, made possible by the collaboration of three EU - funded stem cell research projects — EuroSyStem, OptiStem and NeuroStemCell.
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) fund promising undergraduate students so they can conduct research in plant biology during the early part of their college Research Fellowships (SURF) fund promising undergraduate students so they can conduct research in plant biology during the early part of their college research in plant biology during the early part of their college careers.
Below is a list of the local MDI Biological Laboratory 2017 undergraduate summer fellows, along with the funding sources for their fellowships, the names and affiliations of their scientist mentors and the titles of their research projects.
Below is a list of the MDI Biological Laboratory 2017 undergraduate summer fellows, along with the funding sources for their fellowships, the names and affiliations of their scientist mentors and the titles of their research projects.
Ten summer fellows, including six who come from or are studying in Maine, were funded through the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.
This summer, he plans to lead a 1,000 - mile bike ride that will raise funds for future climate research at UCLA.
Arguing before a three - judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Beth Brinkmann (pictured), an attorney for the US Department of Justice, said that a lower court's reading of the law, which led to a temporary shutdown of funding for the research last summer, «is fundamentally flawed and should be reversed.»
Later that year, Julia received the Carleton Summer Science Fellowship, a grant funding two summers of research in any college discipline.
Established in June of 2016 with a generous gift of $ 50,000 from Marilyn Fogel and Christopher Swarth, the Marilyn Fogel Endowed Fund for Internships will provide support for «very young budding scientists» who wish to «spend a summer getting their feet wet in research for the very first time.»
The administration and the House Appropriations Committee also proposed elimination or severe cuts, respectively, to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.45 Currently funded with more than $ 1 billion, this program provides enrichment opportunities in safe environments to more than 1.6 million students per year, 46 70 percent of whom are students of color.47 Much of this funding supports after - school programs, but 21st CCLC also funds before - school and summer programs.48 Research indicates that participation in 21st CCLC is linked to better attitudes toward school, higher rates of school attendance, fewer suspensions, and better performance in school, among other outcomes.49 In addition, many of these programs provide students with snacks or meals.50
Grants may be used for high - quality professional development experiences such as summer institutes or action research; or grants to groups to fund collegial study, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for new faculty or staff.
They cried foul last summer when House Republicans proposed taking $ 1.3 billion from the Pell surplus to pay for a rise to federal research funding.
The effort — announced by the new School Finance Research Collaborative — will build on a report released last summer that concluded Michigan's system of funding schools is becoming increasingly unequal and the state needs to spend more to educate students who are low - income or speak little or no English.
The E. M. Kauffman funded Philliber Research Associates evaluation of the CDF Freedom Schools program in Kansas City conducted between 2005 - 2007 indicates children who attend CDF Freedom Schools programs score significantly higher on standardized reading achievement tests than children who attend other summer enrichment programs; African American middle schools boys made the greatest gains of all.
For the second consecutive summer, HomeAgain (one of several microchip companies) offered to donate $ 1 for each cat chipped from June through August to the nonprofit Winn Feline Foundation (they fund cat health research).
The Fund for Discovery currently supports 7 - 8 summer research internship positions per year.
Over the years, the Fund for Discovery has supported over 130 DVM students in our summer research internship program.
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) funded two pieces of research on electric shock collars which were published last summer and show that electric shock collars can cause long term negative behavioural and physiological changes in dogs, even when used by professional trainers following an industry set standard of training.
The program, funded by the Foundation, supports first - or second - year veterinary students conducting research projects during their summer break.
The $ 5,000 grant is provided to fund mentored summer research projects at...
Each summer, up to 30 first - and second - year veterinary students have the opportunity to participate in funded research.
This research, which was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Swiss National Science Foundation, is the first time that summer heat and its dependence on the rate of greenhouse gas emissions have been studied in a climate model simulation.
CONNECTED aims to capitalize on the existing cooperation, and further strengthen the research and research training activities by longterm support for joint biennial summer schools with back - to - back workshops, PhD and Master students exchange visits between Norway and China with supervisors from both countries, and development of joint proposals to national and international funding agencies.
But back in the summer of 2009 — stop the presses — Kert Davies himself gave us the same «breaking news» about Dr Soon's funding at the Huffington Post (by default, HuffPo shows Davies current «Director, Climate Investigations Center» title, but rest assured that the Internet Archive for his 2009 article shows his then - current «Research Director for Greenpeace US» title):
These services include free clinic visits, support group sessions, summer activities for kids, assisting with medical equipment (such as wheelchairs, leg braces, communication devices) repairs, and funding innovative research.
(A base salary does not include stipends for summer research grants, coaching moot court teams, teaching other courses, or teaching in summer school; a base salary does not include conference travel or other professional development funds.)
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