Sentences with phrase «new grant competition»

The NRC report inspired another of the initiatives: a new grant competition at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for investigators lacking enough preliminary data for a full - fledged NIH proposal.

The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education last week named the winners in new grant competitions.

Not exact matches

The pitch competition took place March 6, 2018 at Google's New York Campus, where Emma Yang of Timeless took home the grand prize $ 50,000 cash grant.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

Now in its second year, the 43 North competition will see ideas from around the globe submitted in hopes that they will be among 11 chosen companies to share in the $ 5 million in prize money granted as part of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative for Western New York.

ALBANY — A state Supreme Court judge has granted the rejected winner in the Aqueduct racino competition a restraining order that halts the new round of bidding in the long - delayed process.

Last year New York seemed like a loser in the competition for federal rail funds — being granted only $ 151 million of the $ 4 billion it applied for while California received over $ 2 billion.

The reaction from the organization representing New York's cities and villages was mixed: grateful for additional funding from Albany, but not sure that a competition for a single jumbo grant is the best way to distribute the money.

Economic development officials in Lake Placid and the surrounding region earlier this year put forth a proposal to study a new Olympic bid as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative, a plus - sized version of the annual statewide competition for grants and other forms of aid.

Rutherford said the report, which will cost WLDC $ 40,000, is the kind of investment New York officials want to see when cities apply for any kind of state grants and competitions.

Under the new budget proposal, furthermore, competition for new and continuing research grants will stiffen slightly and early - career scientists» prospects of establishing themselves as independent researchers will not improve.

The deferred list includes a new, $ 1.08 billion competition by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation for research infrastructure grants to begin 3 years down the road, as well as modest funding toward buying a 15 % to 20 % stake in the colossal Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built in a dormant Hawaii volcano by 2024.

Worries about the new virtual peer - review system crystallized earlier this year, after CIHR conducted its first Project grant competition.

In June, the Polish government announced a new grant for young scientists who earned high scores in an international funding competition; Dobrzyn is one of only 10 scientists who qualify.

But today's competition for limited grant money encourages overly safe research, aimed more at producing positive results to bolster future proposals than at breaking new ground.

The foundation has grants from companies, government agencies, and other foundations to develop eight new prizes, including competitions involving health care, tuberculosis, and alternative aviation fuels.

Nakamura, known as a low - key, steady - handed administrator, will likely face new stresses as his center is called upon to separate wheat from chaff in a time of intense competition for limited grant dollars.

PRF offers separate competitions for scientists at Ph.D. - granting institutions and undergraduate institutions, starter grants for new faculty members, and small colloquium grants intended to fund travel for foreign presenters.

Given the requirements of the NSF grant process and today's tight funding, it is possible that lab chiefs desperate for an edge in the grants competition could turn postdoc services into a new arena in which to try to outshine rivals.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

Perhaps bloggers from different stages in their careers will be trailed to show what they do or even put them into a competition to gain a grant / sign with a big agency / work on big projects etc. «Fashion blogging» is essentially real people working in a new area of an industry which transfers well to the reality TV market.

Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!

Despite loud complaints from the establishment, the grant competition's all - important Section D was founded on new evaluations that used measures of student performance.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

The Obama administration's Race to the Top grant competition, launched a month after the study's release, embraced its ideas, and states passed new laws that would make them a reality.

They then got a big boost with President Obama's Race to the Top grant competition starting in 2010 that all but required adoption, leading to New Jersey joining the list.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

is a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition that supports educators and school leaders who are ready to design and launch new, whole - school learning models to better personalize learning for students.

The funding will enable them to run state - level grant competitions to support approximately 400 new and expanded public charter schools, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Coming Soon: Race to the Top Round Three Winners Seven states (Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) that just missed winning grants in Race to the Top's second round are now competing for much smaller awards in the $ 200 million Race to the Top Round Three (RTTT3) competition.

(District of Columbia) Much of the nation is engaged in some new form of teacher evaluation, encouraged by billions of dollars in grant money from the Race to the Top competition or by the promise of a waiver from key mandates imposed under the No Child left Behind Act.

Already a two - time loser in the federal Race to the Top competition, California education officials learned Wednesday that they've been given two new chances to win a share of the reform grant money.

But the New York City system applied for the 2012 grant, which allows districts to differentiate pay for teachers who take on new responsibilities, and Ms. Feinberg, the district spokeswoman, said officials believe their proposal would pass muster with the Education Department's 2012 rules for the competitiNew York City system applied for the 2012 grant, which allows districts to differentiate pay for teachers who take on new responsibilities, and Ms. Feinberg, the district spokeswoman, said officials believe their proposal would pass muster with the Education Department's 2012 rules for the competitinew responsibilities, and Ms. Feinberg, the district spokeswoman, said officials believe their proposal would pass muster with the Education Department's 2012 rules for the competition.

The President also used the event to announce a new $ 35 million grant competition to train STEM graduates for careers as teachers, as well an expansion of STEM AmeriCorps.

New York, NY — January 5, 2015 — Literacy Design Collaborative's $ 12 million grant application has been selected for funding under the U.S. Department of Education's $ 129 million Investing in Innovation (i3) 2014 competition, which focuses on innovative approaches to improving student achievement and scaling effective strategies nationwide.

In particular, the federal Race to the Top (RTT) grant competition encouraged states to adopt new teacher evaluation policies.

The new processor grants the interface improved responsiveness to input and smoother onscreen animations, but the motorized display that rises out of the dashboard is starting to look a bit small and low - res compared with some of its competition — particularly next to the Tesla Model S» 17 - inch beast of a screen.

Tournament Tickets (10 for $ 4.49, 20 for $ 7.49, 50 for $ 15.99, 200 for $ 50.99)-- The brand new UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer Tournament System ushers in a points - based competition that has three reward tiers which grant you special in - game weapons or items based on how well you've played.

Park is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant; Grand Prize winner of the 19th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition; The Helen Foster Barnett Prize, National Academy Museum, New York; Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture residency, Skowhegan, Maine; Cité Internationale des Arts studio residency, Paris, France, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts & Literary Arts Residency, Bellagio, Italy.

She was chosen as a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013, her work was included in the competition exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery from March 2013 through February 2014, and she was the recipient of the 2012 Women in Photography — LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant and a 2014 CCNY Work Space Residency for her documentary portrait series, Paterson, depicting residents of Paterson, New Jersey during the years following the economic crisCompetition 2013, her work was included in the competition exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery from March 2013 through February 2014, and she was the recipient of the 2012 Women in Photography — LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant and a 2014 CCNY Work Space Residency for her documentary portrait series, Paterson, depicting residents of Paterson, New Jersey during the years following the economic criscompetition exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery from March 2013 through February 2014, and she was the recipient of the 2012 Women in Photography — LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant and a 2014 CCNY Work Space Residency for her documentary portrait series, Paterson, depicting residents of Paterson, New Jersey during the years following the economic crisis in 2008.

Tiravanija's work has been recognized with numerous awards and grants including a Gordon Matta Clark Foundation Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award (1993), National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship (1994), the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan, the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2003), [17] and the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2004).

In awards news: this year's BP Portrait Award has announced its shortlist, with artists Miriam Escofet, Felicia Forte, Ania Hobson and Zhu Tongyao in the running — the winner will be announced in June; LA's Mike Kelley Foundation has named recipients for its 2018 Artist Project Grants — the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Fulcrum Arts, Hammer Museum, JOAN, LA Freewaves, LAXART, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Latin American Art, Self Help Graphics & Art and the Underground Museum will receive a total of USD$ 400,000 in support; ArtCenter / South Florida have announced a new USD$ 500,000 visual art awards called the Ellies, with first recipients anounced in October; and the official selection for the 71st Cannes film festival, which runs 8 — 19 May, is here, with Jean - Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Jia Zhangke in competition — only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directors.

To encourage artists showing in the 2014 competition to think bigger and bolder, ArtPrize is offering new Artist Seed Grants to offset the cost of especially ambitious and challenging entries.

Young Architects Program competition, Nominated By John Hejduk, 2000 MATTHEW W. DEL GAUDIO MEMORIAL AWARD Excellence in Total Design, granted by the New York Society of Architects, 1991.

Among Donovan's other awards and distinctions are the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Willard L. Metcalf Award (2004); National Academy Museum, Helen Foster Barnett Prize (2004); Women's Caucus for Art, Presidential Award (2004); New York Foundation for the Arts grant recipient (2003); Pollock - Krasner Foundation grant recipient (2003); Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition (2001); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient (1999).

DoSomething.org and Keyspan are hosting a sustainability competition for New York and Boston high schoolers with the winners winning a $ 1,000 grant to further their projects.

-LSB-...] by granting DEI and maintaining in its favour quasi-monopolistic lignite exploration rights which ensure that it has privileged access to the most attractive fuel in Greece for the purposes of generating electricity, the Hellenic Republic thereby created inequality of opportunity between economic operators on the wholesale electricity market and thus distorted competition, maintaining or reinforcing DEI's dominant position and excluding or hindering any new entrants, despite the liberalisation of the wholesale electricity market.

The Bureau argues that the VAA has refused to grant access to new - entrant firms for the supply of galley - handling services, and that by tying galley handling to a land lease for kitchen facilities, the VAA is having a negative effect on competition.