Sentences with phrase «funnel research money»

Cantwell said the rankings appear to be influencing policymakers to funnel research money to a small number of universities and, within those universities, to programs in the fields of science and technology.

But under the Obama administration, the Agriculture Department funneled research money into finding ways of cutting down the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from cows.

Not exact matches

Western Australian businesses have funnelled more money into research and development as the need to remain competitive increases.

Since many or most PhD students are funded off of grants from the government and tuition is one of the few «overhead» items Universities can charge to these grants, making tuition taxable removes a costless mechanism for Universities to funnel money that could go to more research into administrative overhead.

M.A.P.S. plans to spin off sales to a for - profit benefit corporation, which would then funnel the money back into clinical research on the use of MDMA with other disorders.

The government alleges Silver funneled money from that fund for grants to an asbestos cancer research doctor, in return for referrals to the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver had long served as of counsel.

Silver, who represented Manhattan's Lower East Side, was convicted in December for aiding an asbestos doctor with grants to research mesothelioma and two developers with legislation in return for their help in funneling $ 4 million in law firm referral fees to him, as well as for money laundering.

The 24 - page indictment largely reiterates the claims Mr. Bharara made last month: that Mr. Silver used his powerful position to steer wealthy developers with business before the state toward the law firm Goldberg and Iryami, and to funnel state money into a cancer research center that encouraged clients to retain the personal injury firm Weitz and Luxemburg — while the speaker received some $ 6 million in referral fees from both entities.

Instead, city money was funneled to John Jay College of Criminal Justice through an agreement with the CUNY Research Foundation.

The doctor at the center of the Silver scandal «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as the former speaker was funneling him state money for research, the court papers claim.

Mr. Silver, a personal injury lawyer by trade, also allegedly funneled state money to a doctor's research center in exchange for asbestos suit referrals.

However, under pressure from activists after openDemocracy revealed how Brexit campaigners were funnelling dark money through Northern Ireland to fund «Take Back Control» adverts, the Democratic Unionist Party was forced last night to reveal its major donor to be a group calling itself the Constitutional Research Council.

Taub, who got nearly $ 500,000 in state money for his research funneled to him from Silver, didn't like that the firm failed to give any of the millions it made off cancer cases to mesothelioma research.

Prosecutors alleged that the legislator had «funneled half a million dollars of taxpayer money and other official benefits» to the doctor for his cancer research, and that Dr. Taub in turn steered patients with asbestos - related legal claims to the law firm, which shared its fees with Mr. Silver.

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as Silver was funneling him state money for research, new court papers claim.

The pharmaceutical industry funnels money to prominent scientists who are doing research that affects its products — and nobody can stop it

Federal research agencies now funnel most of their money for graduate students through grants to faculty members.

In the statement, Obiang appears to suggest that laureates will have to funnel the award money back into their research.

Some of the money from the fee would be funneled into support for research and development of carbon reduction technology and alternative energy.

Many of the cuts result from Congress's decision to forgo earmarks, in which lawmakers can funnel money toward research projects federal agencies may or may not have on their wish lists.

And changing ownership requirements could open law firms up to alternative sources of capital that could funnel money into research and development spending.

Perhaps less significantly, given the number of other «non-core» promises the Government has abandoned, the funnelling of co-payment dollars to medical research also undermines the Prime Minister's pre-election commitment to direct money from «the back office to frontline services».