Sentences with phrase «land grant»

In addition, public funds went to local private schools in the form of land grants and taxes from local residents.

For land grant colleges and universities to shift from a primary focus on the service of the state to a focus on service of the market was an easy transition.

Check the one at your state's land grant institution.

This efficiency is driven by productivity rooted in scientific progress, much of it generated in the public land grant system.

Click here for a map of the original land grants and the 83 families who received them.

I have never seen land grant universities compare the nutrition of different types of corn.

The two were awarded land grants due to their military service.

The two were awarded land grants due to their military service.

The city's name is a reference to Rancho Mission Viejo, a large Spanish land grant from which the community was founded.

The Galaxy's complex, in contrast, sits in the middle of the historic Rancho San Pedro, the very first Spanish land grant in California and home to the prominent Dominguez family.

A constitutional amendment adopted by the Legislature and approved by voters would be required to make the change in Land Grant Permanent Fund spending.

(Califorñios were 19th century families given land grants by Spain on which they built ranches and orchards.)

Governor Juan Alvarado made a Mexican land grant of the Island of Santa Cruz to his aide Captain Andrés Castillero in 1839.

The Interior Department would see the Abandoned Mine Land grants program eliminated, and the budget «streamlines operations» at the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management.

The FY 2018 budget would eliminate the $ 6.5 million Water Resources Research Act Program, ending USGS involvement and support for all grants to Water Resource Research Institutes (WRRI), located at land grant universities in each of the 50 states.

The decision affects all coastline in the Northern Territory that is part of Aboriginal land granted under the ALRA.

The rest of the field, except for Liu, who had left to meet another commitment, followed suit — dismissing the question because of the questioner's name (given as Land Grant) and, likely, because it was getting late.

1862 — The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Pass the Federal Land Grant Act

The U.S. Congress offered land grants to veterans as a way to pay for their military service.

The hotel was built on land granted by Governor Simon van der Stel between 1692 and 1701.

The King of Spain gave Fages permission to create land grants and the area was divided into five ranchos, one of which was Rancho Los Coyotes with a total of 48,806 acres.

STARS (Southeast Top Agricultural Recruits Scholarship) is the Southeast Produce Council's scholarship program available to outstanding students who are agriculture majors in Southeast - based land grant universities.

While the choice of Clovis is clearly a break from past administrations, the most important qualification may be a good understanding of agriculture and the workings of the federal land grant college system, where much of the publicly supported research is done, said Lee Van Wychen, science policy director for the Weed Science Society of America.

The good news is that opportunities to address these challenges exist through partnerships with land grant universities located in each state and territory of the United States.

In 1879, Iowa Agricultural College became the first land grant college to establish a school of veterinary medicine.

Uranium related community work include updates on an old mine that's in the news again: the L Bar uranium mine in the Moquino / Cebolleta land grant area, and new developments regarding Hydro Resources Inc.'s (HRI's) in situ uranium mining license for Crownpoint and Church Rock, New Mexico.

The College also enjoys unique advantages as a part of a leading land grant institution at NC State, and the close proximity of two world - class research universities — Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC - CH).

1 The Cooperative Extension System serves an outreach function for land grant universities in every state, disseminating scientific information to the community.

It was given a great boost by the Morrill Land Grant Act in 1862.

Since the early 1980's, the residents of the Village of Moquino, heirs to the historic Cebolleta Land Grant (CLG) have gazed towards the southeast portion of their backyard with concern.

Founded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's only land grant institution, offering 168 undergraduate degrees, 143 graduate degrees and serving over 28,000...

The sale had been delayed for more than a decade by recently settled litigation charging that a 17th - century land grant required that the entire area occupied by Anytown be devoted exclusively to goat propagation.

It is believed to be named after the Corporal's Guard once stationed there and was the site of Cromarty land grant.

In her book Professor Teachout discusses U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall's decision to enforce the Yazoo land grant which was passed by a bribed legislature.

Tarver is pictish, the little ones that were later welsh archers, but my ancestors sold their Scotticsh rights for southern virginia and the Carolinas; nice land grant.

«Aggie» is a generic mascot for agriculture - based land grant schools like UC Davis.

He has topped 100 yards in each of those 6 games, including a pair of 200 - yard efforts to help land Grant at the top of the Delta League standings.

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Niagara County landed a grant to help the Lackawanna and Niagara Falls districts bring healthier foods into communities that are considered food deserts.

A historically black land grant institution, UMES belongs to the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Mid-Atlantic PSM Alliance of eight institutions that have joined forces to explore possibilities for establishing programs.

The key to all this is universities» desperate desire to hire faculty members who can quickly begin landing the grants that justify the university's large investment — in facilities and in new hires» start - up packages.

Professor David Largaespada is the leader of the Genetic Mechanisms of Cancer Program in the University of Minnesota Cancer Center and holds the Margaret Harvey Schering Land Grant Chair in Cancer Genetics.

The town of Berlin had its start around the 1790s, part of the Burley Plantation, a 300 - acre (km 2) land grant dating back to 1677.

Through its extension educator network, Kansas State University, the oldest land grant university in the nation, has successfully built and sustained partnerships for rural afterschool.