Sentences with phrase «major national grants»
There is a lot of politics involved in getting major national grants.
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The nitrate work print of the film — which was never shown in public — was given by Cinemazero to one of Italy's major film archives, the Cineteca del Friuli in nearby Gemona, before being transferred to the George Eastman House in order to be preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
The National Institute of Mental Health has the major research and training - grant program in the country.
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.
«Granted that a major component of the oversight function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.
The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.
The development of the technology was funded by two grants from the National Institutes of Health that support pioneering and potentially transformative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research.
The work was supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) grant and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA Astrobiology Program, under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution.
According to a widely disseminated statistic from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ph.D. biomedical researchers are, on average, 38 years old when they get a permanent faculty post and 42 when they get their first major research grant.
Although it did get some small education grants from the National Science Foundation, major government research agencies generally wouldn't touch the place.
In a major policy shift that is reverberating across the biomedical research community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, says it plans to cap the number of grants an investigator can hold in order to free up funding for early - career scientists and those struggling to keep their labs afloat.
The report urges Spain to raise the government's «contribution to science and innovation» — currently at 0.61 % — «to 0.7 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) and argues for the creation of a national funding agency that gives out merit - based grants, more autonomy for the universities, and a major overhaul of Spain's national research centers.
Funded through a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, the new highly sensitive, laser - based instrument provides scientists with a method to more accurately measure global human exposure to mercury.
Monell's major source of funding comes from competitive government research grants, primarily through the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders at the National Institutes of Health, which provides support for both research and training.
Major grants from the National Science Foundation will spur breakthroughs in quantum engineering and artificial intelligence
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.
«Our faculty members have been very successful in obtaining support from the National Science Foundation, including major research equipment grants and grants for cooperative training and instructional projects such as projects for training graduate students in biological and cultural evolution together with the WSU Department of Anthropology, and for training undergraduates in mathematical biology together with the Department of Mathematics.»
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.
The Broad Institute and its collaborating institutions have received two major grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) that will support the use of genome sequencing and analysis to identify the genes and genetic variation that underlie both rare and common diseases.
«This work represents a major advance because it provides a framework for studying lincRNAs, a poorly understood, but abundant class of molecules,» says Michael Bender, who oversees RNA processing and function grants at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the work.
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).
Gates is a major supporter of the Hope Street Group, a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program, which is opposed by many teachers and union leaders.
Washington — A Congressional subcommittee, which has concluded that the National Institute of Education committed «several apparent violations» of federal regulations in handling recent bidding for a major grant, has asked for a major probe of the nie's management of past bidding.
As a result of a 6 - year curriculum reform and dissemination grants from the Federal Department of Education and 4 - year grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, he and his colleagues have designed an institution - wide Music - in - Education Concentration for students of all majors and created a Research Center at New England Conservatory.
DeVos takes press questions at events only occasionally, has yet to grant a formal interview with a major national education reporter, and heads a department that only intermittently provides answers in a timely manner.
Of more interest than the political connections between Malloy and the AFT leadership is the fact that Benham and the Meriden Federation of Teachers are the recipients of a major grant from the American Federation of Teacher's national «Innovation Fund.»
According to National Review, «Lawmakers have tied $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top grants to the adoption of standards similar to those found in a significant number of states, and they've made the adoption of Common Core a major factor in securing a No Child Left Behind waiver.»
If Gates doesn't want to launch a major campaign for the creation of a national digital library endowment in the admirable spirit of his Giving Pledge, he ideally will still offer enthusiastic approval of the idea, so that librarians and others can proceed without fear of his grant - givers punishing anyone.
Based on our participation in numerous national coalitions focused on animal / shelter overpopulation issues; our work in shelter medicine, shelter research and as a major animal welfare grant maker; and our 100 + years as a direct service provider in New York City as well as our more recent direct participation in intensive, collaborative efforts with more than 10 ASPCA partner communities across the United States, the ASPCA has determined that a number of indicators should be tracked to understand progress in decreasing the number of animals at risk.
In her role as Development Director at Surfrider's national office, Kim launched new fundraising strategies including employee giving, major donor initiatives, loyalty programs, foundation grants as well as maintaining and growing the organizations membership base.
MAJOR GIFT COMPLETES CHALLENGE GRANT FOR PRESIDIO TRAILS Realizing the Vision of the Presidio as a Beautiful National Park For All
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Receives Major Grant to Support New Tunnel Top Parkland and Expanded Youth Campus at the Presidio A gift of $ 25 million from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr..
The exhibition is supported by major grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
He has won major awards and grants throughout his career: prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.
The lithograph is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's retrospective of the artist's career, «Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables,» a comprehensive overview that includes most of his major paintings, including «American Gothic,» the work that rocketed him to national prominence in 1930.
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $ 80 million in grants as part of the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018.
Wendy Red Star: The Maniacs (We're Not The Best, But We're Better Than The Rest) Supported by a $ 20,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the University Art Gallery (UAG) presented Wendy Red Star: The Maniacs (We're Not The Best, But We're Better Than The Rest) as its major exhibition for Spring, 2018.
But with the recent enormous growth in art prices, the capping of tax relief available through AiL at # 40 million a year (a sum that incorporates tax relief granted through the recently created Cultural Gifts Scheme for lifetime giving) greatly limits its usefulness in developing all national collections and stemming the flow of major artworks out of this country.
Aurora was invited into the prestigious Warhol Initiative program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, and is regularly awarded major grants from Brown Foundation, Houston Endowment, National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, among many others.
The Working Artist Project is an award program that was developed by The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and funded with a major grant from The Charles Loridans Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
It is supported by generous grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the patrons, benefactors, and donors to CAMH's Major Exhibition Fund.
His photography is also represented in numerous permanent collections and has twice received major artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The following year, the Georgia Museum of Art mounted Alice Neel: The Woman and Her Work, and in 1976 — the same year as the major traveling exhibition Women Artists 1550 - 1950, which included a work by Neel — she was granted membership to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
2016 A major award from Wellcome Trust for a new work in 2018 2013 Le Jeu de Paume production award for the Toulouse Festival, France 2012 Sharjah Artist's Production Award 2010 Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists 2010 Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts for a residency in Tasmania 2009 Winner of Film London & Channel 4's Jarman Award (cash prize and a broadcast commission for Channel 4's, 3 Minute Wonder strand) 2009 Arts Council Individual Artist Award 2007 Wingate Scholarship at British Academy / British School at Rome 2007 British Council Award for new work 2006 AHRC Research Leave Award 2006 Arts Council National Touring Award 2005 British Council Award 2005 Arts Council Individual Artist Award 2004 Triangle International Artists Workshop, Mauritius 2003 Arts Council and Triangle Trust funded residency in Paraguay 1999 Arte Viva, residency and exhibition, Senigallia, Italy 1998 Beach Life, Public Art Project, supported by Islington Council 1997 - 2001 Residency with Acme Studios, The Old Fire Station, London 1997 Residency at The Irish Museum of Modern Art 1995 First Base Studio Award (One year studio residency at ACAVA) 1995 Ray Finnis Award (Slade) 1993 Slade Prize (Pankerd Jones Memorial Prize)
He is a grant recipient from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his artworks are found in the collections of many major cultural institutions.
Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 1969, 1969.5.1 -.34 © Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend is made possible by major grants from The Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Irving Schneider and Family.
The exhibition has also garnered major support and merit through the reception of prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Ewald is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (the «Genius Grant»), a Fulbright Fellowship and major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Kentucky Arts Commission.
The exhibition is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art is supported by generous grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the patrons, benefactors, and donors to CAMH's Major Exhibition Fund.