Sentences with phrase «grant projects focused»
The work for both were significantly informed by the work of the Wallace Foundation, including two Michigan based Wallace Foundation grant projects focused on school level leadership development.
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The granted projects focus on several human diseases including leukemia and Alzheimer's disease as well as the study of biodiversity of organisms as diverse as barnacles, mycorrhiza and rabbits.
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They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»
While there were more than a dozen grants under review, aldermen, before they decided to let an unnamed auditor do it, focused on the Kinderland II project, completed last April.
Cuomo's office touted the grant and other water quality efforts, including the launch of the Finger Lakes Water Hub that provides staff to study algal bloom and focus on Owasco Lake watershed projects and other watersheds in the region.
With another grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Roseman and her colleagues are leading work on a new curriculum project that builds on the THSB project to focus on energy concepts in high school biology.
This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?
(Under Beaudet's reforms, CIHR's former array of grant programs was obliterated in favor of a regime that awarded Foundation scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years to established researchers to conduct open - ended research, or Project scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.)
This is why Athena was set up, to include both research — my job — and an active side that focuses on university - based projects such as the development grants.
Increased specialization of scientific research, pressure to pursue mainstream topics, and the difficulty of obtaining grant money for the most audacious projects encourage scientists to focus on the incremental.
Under the reforms, CIHR essentially obliterated its array of existing grant programs, replacing them with a regime that essentially awards two types of grants: «Foundation scheme» grants that provided $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years for work on more open - ended research (with duration and size pegged to how «established» a researcher was); and «Project scheme» grants of $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.
Roger Herbert, the Forestry Authority official in charge of grants and licences, says the focus on public access is only the first of a series of woodland projects.
He expects that in addition to setting aside new money for the project, NICHD may give extra weight to high - quality grant applications focusing on the placenta.
Research Grants enable scientists from different countries to collaborate on focused innovative projects that are expected to open new fields of investigation.
These controversial reforms replaced the previous grant programs with a system that awards two kinds of grants: large «Foundation» grants of up to $ 1.16 million annually to support open - ended work of individual researchers, and smaller «Project» grants of up to $ 581,000 annually to fund more focused research projects.
That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.
Hedrick, whose laboratory will focus on the role of cholesterol and LDL in reprogramming specific subsets of immune cells as part of the Program Project Research grant, has assembled a high - powered, multi-institutional team, including investigators from UC San Diego and the University of Virginia.
Funding provided by the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) supports several types of pilot projects (1) highly innovative pilot projects focusing on proof - of - concept or translational research; (2) preliminary collaborative investigations that lead to multi-investigator grant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from discoGrant (CCSG) supports several types of pilot projects (1) highly innovative pilot projects focusing on proof - of - concept or translational research; (2) preliminary collaborative investigations that lead to multi-investigator grant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from discogrant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from discovery.
Since February 2014, the Brave Life Project's charitable arm has awarded $ 100,000 to 100 girls, and the third grant wave, titled «Change Your World», [was opened] on August 15th that focuses on funding charitable dreams.
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.
The first phase of the project (the phase covered by this grant) proposes a large - scale data collection effort in a handful of urban centers and will focus on two goals.
Resnick's non-profit, sprout & co., in collaboration with the city of Somerville, Massachusetts, won a $ 10 million cash grant from XQ Super School Project, an organization focused on transforming high school education, whose board of directors is led by Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Steve Jobs.
The Fund, which focuses on supporting disadvantaged pupils, will offer approximately five grants of up to # 150,000 for projects working over two academic years.
Two projects are funded under the grant from the Einhorn Foundation: Project 1: The Taxonomy Project: «Non-Cognitive» Skills for Learning and Life Success The Taxonomy Project will focus on three tasks: Task 1: Describe and integrate existing frameworks in the broad non-cognitive domain; including key terms / skills arising from multiple research disciplines and diverse approaches to measuring and defining skills.
The Foundation focuses its grant making on inquiry - based projects designed by individual teachers, and small teams of teachers, for use in their own classrooms.
Through this project, the feds are promoting open resources both in classroom practice and by awarding grants for research projects focused on the development of open resources.
The district also partners with the local university — e.g., through joint projects such as an entrepreneur - focus program and math and science grants.
The Instructional Designer (ID) will work with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning on the Digital Learning Initiative, a grant - funded project focused on online learning.
The grant for the Institute falls in the Art Works category — the NEA's largest funding category supporting projects that focus on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and / or the strengthening of communities through the arts.
From the beginning of the project, the NETS - T framed the work of all collaborators and continued to be the grounding focus throughout the grant, with standards embedded in every aspect of professional development provided by the project for university faculty members and in - service teachers.
Throughout 2018 - 2019, our federal efforts in this project will focus on FAFSA simplification, a more efficient Federal Work - Study program, and protecting the Pell Grant.
Focused on systemically transforming teaching and learning for English learner students, the Leading with Learning project recently provided professional learning and support to hundreds of teachers, principals, and instructional coaches through a federal Investing in Innovation grant, reaching over 3,300 English learners.
A Project Manager on two Jacob K. Javits federal research grants, she is focused on supporting underrepresented students in gifted and talented programs.
The classroom grants are offered to educators to supplement the costs of student - focused projects or activities.
«The Teacher Impact Grants will provide teacher leaders across the nation opportunities to develop, expand, and evaluate innovative and ambitious projects focused on making their schools and classrooms more effective communities of learning,» said Deborah S. Delisle, ASCD Executive Director and CEO.
The focus of the group is on practical learning from our grant - funded projects, identifying «what next?»
Few grants or projects, however, have focused on helping physical education teacher education programs and K - 12 physical education programs in preparing technology - proficient physical educators.
This grant enabled the National Writing Project to provide intensive, sustained in - service professional development to high - need elementary schools focused on CCSS - ELA implementation in third, fourth, and fifth grades.
My gravitation toward grant seeking began as a way to solve a challenge that may be familiar to other English language acquisition teachers: ELLs at higher levels of proficiency don't need to be pulled from their general education classrooms into specialized programs; they need their general education classrooms to incorporate project - based learning that focuses on authentic, relevant, content - related activities.
Another focus of the National Writing Project grant is to provide at least 30 hours of professional development in writing instruction throughout the school year for teachers serving high - need students in 100 schools and districts across the country.
When we got the grant, a lot of people who had applied for the digital grant were already up and running as businesses, focusing on their one project.
«This two - person exhibition focuses on the work of Meghan Grubb ’05 and Zsofia Schweger» 12, recipients of the 2015 — 16 Alice C. Cole ’42 Studio Project Grant.
Grants will likely be in the $ 5,000 to $ 50,000 range, with a focus on organizations that support artist projects.
TC also received funding from the Warhol Foundation to start a project - based granting program, The Grit Fund, specifically aimed at the cultural groups and projects that typically fall through the funding cracks because they don't have nonprofit status, including the My Skate Night performance group, Hyrsteria art magazine, and a podcast series at BmoreArt focused on the contributions of senior artists.
Negar Azimi, whose project The Shahbanou and the Iranian Avant - Garde won a 2012 Arts Writers grant in the book category, is senior editor of Bidoun, an award - winning publishing, curatorial, and educational initiative with a focus on the Middle East.
She has received numerous grants and awards, including a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award and a 2014 Society for Photographic Education Future Focus Project Support Grant.
The project is one of nine groundbreaking climate change initiatives selected and funded by the NRCS's 2011 Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) program, and is focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation for one of the least protected and most imperiled ecosystems in the world.
Seed grants were awarded to 15 startup initiatives including projects focused on advancing labor rights for cotton pickers in Pakistan, promoting equal treatment for women soccer players in Brazil, developing an open - source, online civic participation platform, and more.
The project focused on three free resources: OnlineTNJustice, LIFT and aLEGALz and was made possible by a generous grant from the Chattanooga law firm of Gearhiser Peters Elliott & Cannon.
A $ 50m venture fund backed by Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang has officially launched a grant program focused on funding open - source blockchain projects.