Sentences with phrase «national field effort»

It closes memo closes with a powerful summary of how this grassroots operation is different from any national field effort in the past:

Not exact matches

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

«And if there is no comparable development and celebration of the English story in which creative effort is made to weave new strands into the national narrative and national rituals then the field will be left empty for the xenophobic and the terminally nostalgic.»

Thanks to the effort from his left fielder, Jordan Zimmermann recorded the Washington Nationals» first ever no - hitter in team history Sunday...

To its credit, the National Republican Congressional Committee saw an opening in many of these seats and invested resources in about half of them in an effort to expand the playing field.

AAAS letter to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to resist any effort to undercut the National Science Foundation's ability to support research across all fields and concern on language in a pending innovation bill that seems to require awarding 8 percent of research funding outside the usual peer - review.

That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.

It also served as motivation for the the National Science Foundation (NSF) moving in 2013 to fund a multi-year effort to determine how to best advance the field of experimental cybersecurity.

Nearly all off the centers surveyed have also volunteered to participate in a U.S. Highly Infectious Disease Network to continue to advance this field through peer review and consensus efforts to further develop the national capacity for high - level isolation care.

Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.

Kriegstein's team recently received a 5 - year $ 5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative to expand this effort, and to make the resulting data available publicly to all in the field through an interactive data browser built in collaboration with colleagues at UC Santa Cruz.

To secure such enormous amount of money for construction of ALMA from the national budget, efforts were needed to reduce research budgets allocated to other science projects not limited to the field of astronomy.

The study is the result of one the first collaborations from the Microbiome Center, a joint effort by the University of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory to support scientists at all three institutions who are developing new applications and tools to understand and harness the capabilities of microbial systems across different fields.

On February 7, 2012, an initiative to move the field closer to achieving The National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA)» and Public Law 111 - 375 goals was announced in the area of announced genetic efforts to fight Alzheimer's disease (AD).

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

Sam Davidson, California field director of the national advocacy group Trout Unlimited, says of the school's efforts to protect trout habitat in California, «There is wide acknowledgment that without involvement in these efforts by young people, we will ultimately fail or fall short of the results needed to sustain our state's remarkable fish heritage.»

The Education Writers Association's National Awards for Education Reporting advance education journalism by recognizing the field's very best efforts.

In 2014, Reach Higher hosted a national convening at Harvard University that brought experts from the field together to discuss how to better support school counselors and college advising in their efforts to help every student reach their fullest potential.

Andrada has also facilitated trainings both locally and on a national level with the goal of supporting the efforts to professionalize the OST field.

One of the most exciting recent developments in efforts to improve nutrition and health in afterschool and summer programs is the promulgation of a set of Standards for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity3 by the Healthy Out - of - School Time (HOST) Coalition, a national coalition of leading organizations in the fields of out - of - school time and health and nutrition.

In doing so, he offers a vivid picture of the socioeconomic landscape of 1930s America (brutal), the relentlessly demanding effort required of an Olympic - level rower, the exquisite brainpower and materials that go into making a first - rate boat, and the wiles of a coach who somehow found a way to, first, beat archrival University of California, then conquer a national field of qualifiers, and finally, defeat the best rowing teams in the world.

«Through the efforts of our members across the country, National Veterinary Technician Week is a focal point for celebrating the professionalism and dedication of veterinary technicians and encouraging young people who love animals to consider this field among their career choices.»

In 2016 Mars Petcare and the Schultz Family Foundation, among others, helped fund an ambitious effort led by American Humane and leaders in the veteran, service dog, veterinary, hotel and transportation fields to create the first national training standards for service dogs.

Art institutions could take their cue from the National Football League (NFL) and adopt a policy similar to the Rooney Rule, an effort to level the playing field when it comes to executive hiring.

For an overview of green rebuilding efforts, read National Geographic News» in - the - field report: «Five Years After Katrina, Green Homes in Low - Income Neighborhoods Just Starting to Sprout.»

From my desk at NIOST, I'm starting the school year by working at the national, state, and local levels to support educators and administrators in their efforts to promote positive youth outcomes, especially in the expanding field of SEL.