Sentences with phrase «larger grant awards»

Poor students should be eligible for larger grant awards to make it easier for them to complete college.

Of the $ 14 million awarded, the Downtown Central Library received the third largest grant award of any individual library in the entire state.

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TAMPA — A local consulting firm has been awarded the largest contract U.S. Special Operations Command has granted to a woman - owned business.The company, Wittenberg Weiner Consulting LLC, received a five - year, $ 200 million contract to provide manageme...

Religion News Service: Campus atheists score big funding from Wisconsin university An organization of student nonbelievers is likely to receive $ 69,000 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the largest grant from an institute of higher learning ever awarded to a nontheistic, student - led organization.

Ulster University in Northern Ireland has been awarded funding of almost $ 400,000 as part of a larger $ 2.6 million research grant to develop new mixing process technologies for milk powder hydration, which aims to significantly enhance the economic competitiveness of the Irish dairy industry.

Today, the global premium spirits company is run by the fifth generation of his family and distils some of the world's leading brands of Scotch whisky, including the world's most awarded single malt Glenfiddich ®, The Balvenie ® range of handcrafted single malts and the world's third largest blended Scotch, Grant's ®, as well as other iconic spirits brands such as Hendrick's ® Gin, Sailor Jerry ®, Tullamore D.E.W. ® Irish Whiskey, Monkey Shoulder ® triple malt whisky and Drambuie ®.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

Padavan awarded a $ 250,000 grant for the Padavan - Prellar baseball fields for a new refreshment stand, larger bathrooms and office space, records show.

The largest of such grants was awarded to Rockland County Legal Aid for their Landlord Tenant Advocacy and Security Deposit Program, which received $ 36,000 in funding.

Cuomo awarded Buffalo $ 1 billion dollars in economic development grants in his State of the State, the only upstate city to receive such a large sum.

It tied for the largest award in this third round of grants with $ 2 million.

Grants ranged from $ 52,500 to $ 350,000, and were awarded to municipalities as large as New York City, with a population of 8.5 million and an estimated 9,692 vacant properties, and the Town of Hempstead, with a population of 760,000 and an estimated 1,286 vacant properties; and as small as the Town of Ticonderoga, with a population of 5,042 and an estimated 104 vacant properties.

This awarding of contracts may mark the largest single project ever granted the M / WBE business program in New York State, an organization that supports the economic and entrepreneurial development of women and minorities.

But the award of the Buffalo grant was rejected by DiNapoli's office in part because the project's main contractor was the brother and business associate of Louis Ciminelli, one of eight men facing federal corruption charges in a larger upstate bid - rigging scandal.

In this respect the NIAMS R03 awards resemble the old NIH - wide R29 (FIRST) awards, which were discontinued 5 years ago; FIRST awards, however, were larger, granting up to $ 350,000 over a 5 - year span, with a maximum of $ 100,000 in any year.

Granted jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), the biggest private institution supporting science in Poland, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific association, the award recognizes the best examples of cooperation between individual scientists from the two nations.

In 2000, its first year, the program awarded eight grants, and Kress says that in 2001, the HRSA «hope [s] to fund additional centers [to cover] larger parts of the country.»

And women are awarded only 18 % of all P30s, which are large center grants won by scientists with an average age of 60.

The Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) are large grants (from about $ 4 million to $ 23 million a year) for training programs, regulatory staff, and other support for bench - to - bedside research at academic medical centers.

Alving told ScienceInsider that she's leaving now because she has completed her «major goals,» including establishing the Clinical and Translational Science Awards — large support grants set up 5 years ago to support bench - to - bedside research at major academic medical centers.

Earlier this month, the institute received a SG$ 10 million boost — the largest research grant ever to be awarded for public biomedical research in Singapore — from the country?s Biomedical Research Council (BMRC).

The early findings are so promising that the researchers have been awarded a grant from the Australian Research Council, in partnership with Villa Maria Catholic Homes, to follow up on the study with a large randomized control trial.

At the same time, this year Rusnano was reproached by the Chamber for spending a large proportion of its budget on its own infrastructure before awarding grants to any nanotech R&D projects.

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.

The grant, one of the largest ever awarded to the university, will allow researchers to advance the scientific understanding of naturally occurring methane... Read more →

«How the McNeills have structured their gift — providing both endowed and expendable funds — allows the cancer center to dramatically improve our ability to award young scientists larger grants in the future.

In December 2011, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine brought together researchers from the collaborating organizations under a single roof in a new world - class facility, funded in large part through a $ 43 million major facilities grant award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).

The award program is one of several University «seed grants» that help investigators develop preliminary data and proof of concept for promising projects, in hopes of leveraging larger awards from federal agencies or foundations to carry the projects to fruition.

La Jolla, CA — The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has been awarded a $ 6.6 million grant — the largest single award in the latest competition — by...

3/9/2007 Prostate Cancer Foundation Awards $ 100K to UCSD Researcher The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), the world's largest philanthropic source of support for prostate cancer research, has granted Michael G. Rosenfeld, M.D., an internationally known and respected molecular biologist, a $ 100,000 award as part of th... More...

More than $ 3.5 million has been awarded since the launch of this grant program in 2009, making SFFS and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation the largest granting body for independent narrative films in the United States.

The grant is the largest yet received by the nonprofit group, rounded in 1989, and the largest ever awarded by Philip Morris to a single education organization, officials said.

Through a $ 12 million Validation - level Innovation (i3) grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education in 2014, the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) has conducted a large - scale implementation of the Executive Development Program (EDP) across three states: California, Florida and Mississippi.

In recognition of their success, both have recently been awarded large federal grants and Aspire received a $ 1 million gift from Oprah Winfrey.

Nonetheless, the 21 districts applying were one of the largest totals of any state, all vying to be among the 15 to 20 to be awarded the multimillion dollar grants nationwide.

Some parent groups prefer to focus on larger items for grants and thus award every teacher a small grant for classroom supplies.

The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE), in partnership with the California Department of Education (CDE), Butte County Office of Education (COE) and SWIFT Education Center, was awarded a large grant to implement and enhance Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) statewide.

The award — leading to the creation of the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development and Accountability and Reform, also known as the CEEDAR Center — is the College's largest grant ever.

The nearly $ 15 million that will come over the next three years is the largest competitive grant awarded in Wake's history.

Its $ 22 million grant award was the largest in KU history at that time.

The $ 22 million grant — the largest in KU history — was awarded to fund development and evaluation of a new generation of alternate assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities — the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System (DLM).

The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) was awarded a large grant to implement and enhance Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) statewide to support students» academic, behavioral and social success.

Grants are awarded for up to 60 months to LEAs that apply on behalf of large public high schools.

The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the implementation of SLCs and activities to improve student academic achievement in large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students.

In 2010, Romulus Middle School was awarded one of Michigan's largest School Improvement Grants (SIG), $ 5.3 million over three years.

These installations are supported in large part by a grant from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Ballantyne, 2003) and, more recently, through a Global Development Alliance award from USAID.

California received the largest grant amount of the 10 states awarded, which also is the largest award in the grant program's history.

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a jury award granted to a former Arkansas school superintendent who claimed he was fired because he is white was too large since it exceeded the salary he would have received if he kept his job.

The largest grant program, usually awarded to those who have not yet earned a bachelor's or professional degree.

Why we focused on Pell Grants: As the largest source of federal funds for college, Pell Grants are free money and a major part of most financial aid award packages — before work - study funds and student loans are tacked on.