Sentences with phrase «grant competition with»

The U.S. Department of Education announced the start of the $ 134 million 2014 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition with the release of the program's invitation for pre-applications for the i3 «Development» grants (up to $ 3,000,000 each).

The U.S. Department of Education announced the start of the $ 150 million 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition with the release of the program's invitation for pre-applications for the i3 «Development» grant category and the notice of final priorities for the i3 program overall.

Not exact matches

That last point is something I'm very familiar with, as the St. Louis area (where I call home) has become home to three fast - growing startup competitions: placeholderArch Grants, the Ameren Accelerator Demo Day, and the St. Charles County Demo Day.

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.

After a year here, I can say, with confidence that it is totally worth applying to the Arch Grants Global Startup Competition and considering relocating your company to St Louis, Missouri.

Culmination of the program is a competition to create a digitally - oriented solution to a company - specific business challenge with the winner receiving a grant and additional advanced education and consultation.

Granted, there's no law prohibiting the use of such meat - bearing critters, but most competition cooks stick with beef.

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.

The scholarship applications have updated and are now in four categories; high school students, college students, professional chefs (for help with continuing education), and culinary team grants (for competing culinary teams participating in ACF regional conference competitions or ACF national convention).

Jese has been scouted on a number of occasions by our club, and has a respectable goal tally of 13 La Liga goals despite only being granted under 2000 match minutes, due to the strong amount of competition for places with the Bernabeu club.

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.

With such hot competition Liverpool can't take anything for granted, but Klopp's excellent record for bringing through youngsters should count in his favour if it comes down to Tielemans making the call between clubs.

Also, the have been in this sort of situation (playing two legs against top European competition), granted, with underwhelming results most of the time but still.

Porto led and looked odds - on to put the two - times winners out of the competition with 10 minutes remaining but Josh Grant's equaliser four minutes from time took the semi-final contest to penalties and Jamie Cumming, our goalkeeper, proved the hero in the shootout as he saved three spot - kicks to send us into Monday's final against Barcelona.

But whether or not they'd be good enough to nail down a place in competition with other players, whether Grant Holt can keep an England place against people like Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck, Jermain Defoe and Andy Carroll, that's the question.

With the competition so fierce though, Tottenham most certainly can not take anything for granted and Pochettino is expected to strengthen his squad during the January transfer window in order to give his side a better chance of a top four finish.

Again, the burden of playing the competition on Thursday nights and having to compete in the league on Sundays has proven to be difficult to cope with, this has led to suggestions from some fans that Wenger should take the competition for granted and focus on winning the Premier League.

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.

Pleased with the permission granted late Tuesday by the Crystal Lake Park District to hold Gay Games rowing competition on the city's lake this summer, organizers turned their attention to approval still needed from two municipalities.

According to Nweke, our bank is a bank with strong affiliation to youths, evident in the Bank's scholarship and grants schemes through the UBA Foundation National Essay Competition amongst other educational initiatives.

Up to $ 720 million in state tax credits and grants, to be awarded through a fifth competition among 10 Regional Economic Development Councils with a focus on key industries

By contrast, the competition to attract entrepreneurs to the region with grants of up to $ 500,000 per company anticipates getting only $ 25 million over five years.

With NIH, NSF, and other civilian agencies already losing ground to inflation and on notice that the coming years will bring significant budget cuts, competition for grant money is likely to increase, perhaps sharply.

It will use online review to cull roughly 60 % of grants from consideration, with the surviving 40 % of proposals subject to face - to - face peer review to determine actual competition winners.

With 200 to 500 applicants for every job, competition is comparable to what it is for good faculty science jobs — which isn't surprising considering the tax - free pay, 30 days of annual leave, expenses to travel home, and for dependent children extra pay and educational grants all the way through university.

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.

Good ideas and valid protocols were rewarded with grant money, despite the high level of competition.

And as federal and state funding continues to hang in the balance, along with ever - increasing competition for grant dollars, this makes looking for alternative funding sources a priority.

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.

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.

-- From the amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (b) for Indian tribes, the Secretary shall make grants to Indian tribes that comply with the requirement under subsection (d) on the basis of a competition conducted pursuant to specific criteria, as the Secretary shall establish by regulation, for the selection of Indian tribes to receive such amount.

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!

Perhaps bloggers from different stages in their careers will be trailed to show what they do or even put them into a competition to gain a grant / sign with a big agency / work on big projects etc. «Fashion blogging» is essentially real people working in a new area of an industry which transfers well to the reality TV market.

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!

Warwick Thornton (Australia) The sort of quiet, taken - for - granted movie that tends to disappear in the frenzy of an international festival competition (not this time, though — it returns from Venice with the Special Jury Prize in hand), Sweet Country is Thornton's follow - up to 2009's Camera d'Or - winner Samson and Delilah.

An advanced instructional program in the workings of the U.S. government that is class infused with competition, We the People was established by the Center for Civic Education in 1987; a grant from the U.S. Congress has funded it each year.

Parents armed with $ 500 grants would go directly into the education marketplace, encouraging the same dynamics of choice and competition that have made American universities the envy of the world.

No grant competitions, no long, complicated applications, no review teams with complex scoring rubrics.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

* The prize winner will be asked to provide their email address so that contact can be made to arrange prize delivery, and their name and county be published in the next issue of the magazine * By entering the competition, you grant the Administrator permission to add your details to the mailing list, share your email address and any other personally identifiable information with the other competition Entities for the purpose of administration and prize fulfillment, including use in a publicly available Winners list.

It would put the parents of approximately 30 million children directly into the education marketplace, each of them armed with a $ 500 grant, thereby encouraging choice and competition.

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.

The 2017 - 18 Section 99k - Cybersecurity Competition Event Grant is made available to public school districts that provide pupils in grades 6 - 12 with expanded opportunities to improve computer science skills by participating in cybersecurity competitive events hosted by Mertit Network, Incorporated, known as Michigan High School Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as Cyberpatriot.

They then got a big boost with President Obama's Race to the Top grant competition starting in 2010 that all but required adoption, leading to New Jersey joining the list.

In 2013, in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges, CityBridge launched Breakthrough Schools: D.C., a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition for educators and school leaders to completely redesign and launch schools for the next generation.

But other Democrats joined with Republicans to pass Colorado's law, the most comprehensive of a dozen similar bills passed around the nation this year, in part to increase states» chances in a $ 4 billion federal grant competition.

As a part of its application for the $ 400 million Race to the Top federal grant that North Carolina received, the state promised to align its standards with the Common Core, which gave it an edge in competition.

Etcetera: For the past two years, Dropout Nation has argued that President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan should structure future Race to the Top grant competitions to include reform - minded traditional districts, along with charter school operators, and even community groups.

It also gave states that adopted the standards an edge in the Race to the Top grant competition and steered $ 360 million to the creation of assessments that align with the standards.