Sentences with phrase «major national awards»

This program has received major national awards and recognitions for its program quality including UCEA's 2013 award as an Exemplary Leadership Preparation Program (one of two programs nationally to receive this designation) and the 2012 Urban Impact Award from the Council of Great City Schools.

Please note this is not a comprehensive list: only international and major national awards are included.

Just five years later, Glaetzer made history when his Glaetzer - Dixon Mon Pere Shiraz won a major national award — the first time judges had handed the coveted trophy to a shiraz made south of the Bass Strait.

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He has been honored with the National Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign after becoming the first CEO of a major company to come out as openly gay.

TSS stories have been republished widely and won major national journalism awards.

The AEG owned and operated arena continues to distinguish itself as the host of major, high - profile events of national and international distinction including the 2004 & 2011 NBA All - Star Games, 2002 NHL All - Star Game, 2000 Democratic National Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY Awardnational and international distinction including the 2004 & 2011 NBA All - Star Games, 2002 NHL All - Star Game, 2000 Democratic National Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY AwardNational Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY Awards shows.

Founded in 2007 by Major Dan Rooney, an F - 16 fighter pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard who served three tours of duty in Iraq, Folds of Honor is proud to have awarded more than 13,000 scholarships in all 50 states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, including more than 2,800 in 2016 alone.

At major competitions such as nationals, points are awarded to each boat in three 2,000 - meter races: the varsity eight (the boat with the eight strongest oars and the top coxswain), the second eight and, finally, the four, a smaller craft with only four rowers in which the cox must lie supine in the bow.

A major league player, who shall remain anonymous to spare him tremendous embarrassment, commenting on the chances of Washington, D.C., being awarded an expansion franchise in the National League: «The league can't give Washington a team.

At the end of his first year in the majors, after tying a National League rookie record with seven shutouts, Koosman missed winning the Rookie of the Year Award by one vote.

Sabato is also the author of 25 books and countless essays on politics, has served on many national and state commissions and is the recipient of more than two dozen major scholarships, grants and academic awards.

The referendum will seek $ 115 Million in funding for three school construction projects, major renovations and repairs, continuation of CCSD's National award - winning technology program, replacement of aging school buses, land acquisition with a focus on a solution for Cherokee High School overcrowding and, «the No. 1 priority»: continued retirement of bond debt from the last 15 years of construction projects.

Find out more about the energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.

Northwell Health President & CEO Michael J. Dowling said, «The $ 30 million award announced today will permit Northwell Health to continue to grow the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research as one of the major national and international centers focused on bioelectronic medicine, which combines implanted computer technology with next - generation analytics to use the body's own neural pathways to fight and cure disease.

The book earned quite a bit of praise from the Times and made this one - time English major pine for a classroom led by a professor who has previously been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Jewish Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialnational defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialnational science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialNational Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialNational Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialnational defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

The tremendous prestige and power, plus the major money, that Asian governments award professors who raise the national profile by scoring marquee publications create incentives to enhance results.

Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced two major awards to establish Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2).

Over the years, Dr. Kronenberg has received many major awards, including a prestigious Merit Award for scientific achievement from the National Institutes of Health, the Distinguished Service Award by the American Association of Immunologists.

UC San Diego School of Medicine is awarded a major five - year $ 420,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the mechanism of DNA synthesis in animal cells.

Included in the Charter class are eight Nobel Laureates, two Fellows of the Royal Society, 12 presidents of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 50 members of the National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), 11 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, three recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, four recipients of the National Medal of Science, and 29 AAAS Fellows, among other major awards and distinctions.

In 2006 the National Science Foundation awarded Major Research Infrastructure (MRI) funding to UNAVCO and IRIS / PASSCAL to design and build power and communication systems for autonomous polar station operation.

Over the years, Dr. Kronenberg has received many major awards, most recently a prestigious Merit Award for scientific achievement from the National Institutes of Health.

January 3, 2000 Two major grants to clarify, coordinate research on children's mental health The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded two grants, totaling more than $ 4 million, to the University of Chicago and the National Opinion Research Center to obtain data that can resolve differences among the several competing systems of diagnostic classification used to describe children's mental health problems.

Their discovery of the LDL receptor as the major molecule regulating cholesterol metabolism and its genetic disruption in the human disease familial hypercholesterolemia have been recognized by their receipt of numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1985), the Albert D. Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research (1985), and the U.S. National Medal of Science (1988).

His National Theatre productions include HAMLET, which won him the Evening Standard Best Actor award; Felix Humble in HUMBLE BOY (also West End); George in JUMPERS (also West End / Broadway); Benedict in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING; Andrew Undershaft in MAJOR BARBARA; Sir Harcourt Courtly in LONDON ASSURANCE; Stalin in COLABORATORS; Timon in TIMON OF ATHENS; and Lear in KING LEAR, directed by Sam Mendes.

Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Producers Guild, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Chicago, Boston and Dallas Film Critics; a Christopher Award; and theHollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Awards.

Two actress so far have won major awards: Saoirse Ronan, who won at the Gothams, and Streep, who just won the National Board of Review.

The last major critics group to announce their winners this awards season, the National Society of Film Critics have chosen David Fincher's The Social Network as their favorite movie of 2010, shocking absolutely no one.

At the moment, we've had three major awards bodies announce 2017 winners: the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics...

The Post, Steven Spielberg's timely journalism drama about the Washington Post picking up from The New York Times» posting of The Pentagon Papers, has won the first major prize of awards season, the National Board of Review's Best Film.

She has also won numerous research grants, including major awards from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

A separate program that carries a $ 20,000 school award exists for areas surrounding National Semiconductor's three major U.S. communities — Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Alameda Counties in California; the state of Maine; and Tarrant County, Texas.

Reasons for being honored include recognition by the leading scholarly organizations in their fields such as being elected into the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering or Medicine, or into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, receipt of prestigious fellowships such as those given by the MacArthur and Guggenheim Foundations, winning major research awards from top scholarly associations, and comparable achievements.

We also investigate two measures of research quality — one based on a measure of the relative importance of a scholar's research in the field, and the other a measure of national or international prominence as reflected by major awards.

The apparent suppression of the dropout rate occurred as Orlando's district, Orange County Public Schools, geared up to win a major national education award.

Teacher Laura Strait was awarded the Fishman Prize in 2014, a prestigious national honor that includes a $ 25,000 cash prize and an opportunity to participate in a 5 - week summer residency program focused on exploring major educational issues with other award winners.

Talent Development / Diplomas Now was one of 49 winners out of approximately 1,700 applicants and the only secondary turnaround group with national reach to win one of the major awards.

Davis Guggenheim's doc about poor kids and charter schools got 11 major film award nominations and won four, including the National Board of Review and Sundance Audience Prize.

It debuted at the 2015 Grand National Roadster Show and has won many major awards, including a Custom D'elegance and Most Fashionable Car at Concours on Rodeo in Beverly Hills, and a top three at the Carmel Mission Classic at the Pebble Beach weekend.

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The 2013 Honda Accord Coupe earned top safety awards from two major U.S. organizations, continuing the brand's clean slate for the 2013 model year.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

She is also a devoted fan of the celebrated British children's author Philip Pullman, and her book about the religious and ethical dimensions of his award - winning trilogy Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials (Jossey - Bass / Wiley) hit the bookshelves in the middle of a major, national controversy about the release of the trilogy's first movie installment.

I hate to filter my response to book based upon others» responses to a book, but after a National Book Award nomination, a Guggenheim, and the almost unseemly vocal adoration of seemingly every major reviewer, one comes to a book with certain expectations.

It won major Australian literary prizes including the 1996 National Fiction Award and was described by the Times Literary Supplement as «one of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.»

Becky Albertalli is the author of William C. Morris Award winner and National Book Award longlist title, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (now a major motion picture, Love, Simon), the sequel, Leah on the Offbeat; the acclaimed The Upside of Unrequited, and the upcoming What If It's Us (co-written with Adam Silvera).

Nominee 1992 - National Book Awards Nominee1992 - National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner - ALA Best Books for Young Adults Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.

It seems these furtive observations paid off: Feed, a National Book Award Finalist, was honored with the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among many other major awards, and dubbed «satire at its finest.»

Conversely, you can sell your book to a small press for an extremely modest advance and find yourself with a runaway best - seller or a National Book Award winner — with major trade publishers in a bidding war for your next book.

TMG represents over 1,000 bestselling and emerging authors in a range of genres of fiction and nonfiction, many of whom have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers Lists and have won major awards and prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the P.E.N. Faulkner Award, the P.E.N. Hemingway Award, The Booker Prize, and the L.A. Times Book Award, among others.