Sentences with phrase «funding at academic institutions»

Sequestration also axed hundreds of government - funded research grants, one of the fundamental sources of science funding at academic institutions.

Not exact matches

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

EFA is currently looking at ways of allocating place funding in the academic year 2016 to 2017 and encouraging institutions to focus on recording accurate data on high needs students in 2014 to 2015.

Nearly $ 1 million will fund new training and educational programs at Mohawk Valley's academic institutions to boost the capacity and skills of the regional workforce.

NIH examines indicators such as the track record of graduates in academic medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number of funded trainee positions at that institution.

Next up: «We're trying to pull together a meeting of high - level university administrators to talk about the financial implications for academic medical centers and universities if there are changes in the way in which the NIH funds research at those institutions,» Tilghman says.

The role of patenting at academic institutions has grown in significance since the passage of the Bayh - Dole Act in 1980, which transferred intellectual property revenue based on federally funded research discoveries from government to universities.

In addition, hiring postdocs at academic institutions in the United States is solely the responsibility of individual PIs, who need experiments to be done and papers to be written so that they can continue to get funding for their labs.

The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on research.

NIAID supports research at external academic and research institutions through funding opportunities including grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.

The Applicant will be a researcher with between 3 - 15 years» experience beyond the award of their PhD or equivalent qualification, who at the time of application will be either in a permanent, full - time academic position (either within the institution at which they wish to base their CDA - funded research or another elsewhere in Ireland or overseas), or employed on a temporary (fixed - term) contract.

NCI funded several large centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at academic institutions across the country.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

But investment in education has declined — tight state budgets created by balanced - budget requirements and conservative opposition to funding those «liberal academics» have turned many state universities into semi-publc institutions at best.

Environmental groups and other private institutions rarely fund peer - reviewed climate research, Schmidt said, so while they might pay academics to speak at events or to review a report, that's «chump change» compared with the size of government grants.

from the article: «the politically charged rhetoric has contaminated academic climate research and the institutions that support climate research, so that individuals and institutions have become advocates; scientists with a perspective that is not consistent with the consensus are at best marginalized (difficult to obtain funding and get papers published by «gatekeeping» journal editors) or at worst ostracized by labels of «denier» or «heretic.

-- the politically charged rhetoric has contaminated academic climate research and the institutions that support climate research, so that individuals and institutions have become advocates; scientists with a perspective that is not consistent with the consensus are at best marginalized (difficult to obtain funding and get papers published by «gatekeeping» journal editors) or at worst ostracized by labels of «denier» or «heretic.»