Sentences with phrase «grant competition at»

The NRC report inspired another of the initiatives: a new grant competition at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for investigators lacking enough preliminary data for a full - fledged NIH proposal.

Not exact matches

Jonathan Allen's company used its Arch Grant and subsequent relocation to gain a foothold and momentum in the ultra-competitive field of content marketing — and if you take the application seriously, prepare yourself, and come ready to engage with judges in a thoughtful way, you may be able to use a win at a startup competition to start building your own momentum.

The competition watchdog plans to grant a regulatory exemption to WA Chip & Pulp Co, which will allow the Japanese - owned woodchip exporter to continue its partnership with international grain trader Bunge at the Port of Bunbury.

Ex Machina and PHEE, both relied on savings, grants and winning startup competitions at first.

At the end of each semester, students compete in design competitions to win $ 15,000 grants to develop their projects.

Last month, AbbVie reassured investors that Humira would be safe from competition for at least a few more years, granting rival Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) a non-exclusive license to sell a copycat version in the United States, but not before 2023.

The pitch competition took place March 6, 2018 at Google's New York Campus, where Emma Yang of Timeless took home the grand prize $ 50,000 cash grant.

It is another brand in the William Grant & Sons portfolio that has been recognized for quality, having earned a gold best - in - class award at the International Wine & Spirits Competition.

Grant's 25 Year Old earned a gold at the International Wine & Spirits Competition.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted authorisation allowing a group of small business owner drivers to collectively bargain with Toll Transport Pty Ltd for the supply of air freight courier transport services at the Toll Priority Brisbane depot.

For those players who did play for their respective nations this summer at Euro 2016, but have since been knocked out of the competition, they have been granted an extended holiday period by Wenger, to ensure they have a well earned rest away from the pitch.

Winning the European competition should take priority at this stage in the campaign, with two more wins in the tournament granting them entry to next season's Champions League competition, as well as the European Super Cup.

Van Gaal's squad currently features 19 players aged 23 or under who he has signed, played, given competitive debuts to or otherwise sought to involve in United's first - team squad — including them in training, naming them on the bench or registering them for cup competitions, and granting them a shirt number — but which youngsters will stand the test of time and become his legacy on the pitch at Old Trafford for the next decade to come?

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

Senate Republicans are balking at Cuomo's plan to create a competition for upstate development grants, and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is warning that the $ 1.5 billion fund is being shifted among state agencies — giving the governor «great latitude in spending.»

But at NSF it projects both a drop in research grants and a rise in graduate fellowships, which together will eventually increase competition for postdoc jobs.

But then, about 2.5 years ago, she had breakfast with Kirschner at Harvard, and he mentioned his own concern about the increasingly fierce competition for grants and jobs arising from the rapidly growing numbers of scientists chasing a limited supply of funds.

At the same time, competition has intensified: Since 1996, the number of grant applicants to the NIH has more than doubled, leading to a fall in the proportion of grants awarded, from 27 percent in 1996 to 19 percent in 2005.

NIH's latest stimulus competition for Grand Opportunities (GO) grants has attracted more than 2400 letters of intent, NIH acting Director Raynard Kington said today at a hearing of a Senate spending panel.

CIHR said it would mitigate the bias against younger researchers by allocating them 15 % of available Foundation grants, yet they received just 4 % of the money awarded in the competition, adds Michael Hendricks, co-founder of the Association of Canadian Early Career Health Researchers and assistant professor of biology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

First, it makes the funding of any particular lab inherently unstable and dependent on winning repeated grants and renewals, which places individual careers at the mercy of annual competitions.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

But today's competition for limited grant money encourages overly safe research, aimed more at producing positive results to bolster future proposals than at breaking new ground.

Because the competition for the K99 / R00 awards is so stiff, Anthony Carter, a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at NIGMS in Bethesda, Maryland, has been encouraging some prospective applicants who are eligible for other training grants, such as K08s, to go after those awards instead.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

PRF offers separate competitions for scientists at Ph.D. - granting institutions and undergraduate institutions, starter grants for new faculty members, and small colloquium grants intended to fund travel for foreign presenters.

This limits competition among members who may be applying for the same fellowships, grants, and jobs — a problem we struggled with, since two group members and a spouse were astronomers on the job market at the same time.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

Because competition for federal research grants has intensified with declining federal support, the average age at which an investigator receives his / her first grant from the National Institutes of Health has now risen to 41!

Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!

In 2013, five films made possible in part by the Filmmaker360 array of grants and services had their world premieres at the festival, all in competition.

Grant Jones, Head of Performing Arts and PE at Perry Beeches III, says: «This fantastic competition involved the majority of our year 7 students writing about their dream holiday during extended literacy sessions.

In October 2015, Arete (originally named Interstellar), a software program created by entrepreneur Tim Kelley, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop its NCAA tournament - style academic competition, which reached over 15,000 students at 600 schools in 2014.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

We take a closer look at this winner of the Harvard Education Innovation Contest, the MIT iGame Entrepreneurial Competition, and a National Science Foundation grant.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

The risk with these competitions when carried out by the Office of the Secretary is that they become politicized, that they are judged by review panels without methodological competence, and that they are overseen, once awarded, by career staff in program offices that do not have the background to monitor what is, at root, a program evaluation grant.

At the federal level, former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schools.12

School Improvement Grants, a signature program of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, have poured about $ 4.6 billion into roughly 1,500 schools, at a cost to the government greater than the entire Race to the Top competition.

Race to the Top District, or RTT - D, which supports innovation and improvements at the local level, and Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, or RTT - ELC, a grant competition to strengthen early learning, also grew out of ARRA's RTT initiative through congressional appropriations beginning in fiscal year 2011.

The Madison School District, where President Barack Obama announced his signature education reform program at Wright Middle School in 2009, won't apply for the latest round of the grant competition geared toward districts trying to close achievement gaps.

The bill funds federal education programs at $ 2.9 billion below President Obama's FY13 budget request and $ 1.8 billion above the FY12 education budget; it is a marked departure from the Senate's recently approved appropriations bill, which maintains the aforementioned grant competitions.

Sen. Jack Reed (D - R.I.) also took issue with Duncan's competitions, calling such initiatives «untested, large - scale competitive grant programs» employed «at the expense of some proven research - based programs.»

Smith convinced Basam Shakashiri, then director of the Education and Human Resources Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use the concept of systemic reform for a grants competition for states to take on building standards - based reform in K - 12 science.

Granted, the VW Jetta starts at $ 18,700 or so, within a few hundred bucks of the Civic and a thousand or so of the Ford Focus, and if this car was «entry level» some of the nitpicks could be forgiven; it's not, though — this is a $ 23k car with a lot of competition in that price range.

It grants monopolies aimed at limiting competition (patents and copyright), and then penalizes companies for using («abusing») them, in contravention of state antitrust law — so that there is a «tension» between these state laws.

This letter must be submitted and received NO LATER than the fifteenth (15th) day of December in the calendar year preceding their anticipated participation in either the Westminster Kennel Club Junior Handler Competition, the Junior Handler competition at the CSPCA National Specialty or the AKC / Eukanuba National ChampionCompetition, the Junior Handler competition at the CSPCA National Specialty or the AKC / Eukanuba National Championcompetition at the CSPCA National Specialty or the AKC / Eukanuba National Championship Grant.

Looks like years of fan rumors and wishes are soon to be granted, as Sony is getting into the smartphone industry with their sights set straight at iPhone competition.

This competition will grant one winner currently enrolled in a Canadian post-secondary institution the opportunity showcase their game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles this coming June as part of an all - expense paid trip.

Awards include the first honorable mention at the XXII Media Arts Biennale in Chile, the first prize at the UFO McDonald's Painting Competition, the first prize in the Britney Spears Dance Challenge 2016, a Jerome Foundation for Emerging Filmmakers Grant, and a Hammersley Grant.