Sentences with phrase «new national competition»

A new national competition to judge high school students» research projects on epidemiology — the branch of medical science that investigates the spread and control of diseases — took place in Washington last week.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is announcing a new national competition for the appointment of outstanding physician - scientists as HHMI investigators.

Not exact matches

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.

Meanwhile, Toronto's Porter Airlines wants to boost competition even more by adding a slew of new jets and destinations in 2016, expanding from a regional player to a national one.

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy lays out a world where great - power competition, rather than counterterrorism, will drive the department's decision - making and force structure.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

Sunbelt Shows, Inc., in business since 1990 and producers of the National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show and the Scovie Awards Competition, has a new division, Sunbelt Editions, which will publish my new books and also books by other authors.

It was during this time that he won the title of Best Seafood Chef of Alaska, affording him entrance into the US National Seafood Competition, which took place in New Orleans, LA.

A young student has taken the top honours in a national packaging design competition after creating a new packaging concept for the booming street food sector.

1978 — Charlie Papazian and Charlie Matzen form the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) in Boulder, Colo., with the publication of the first issue of Zymurgy magazine, announcing the new organization, publicizing the federal legalization of homebrewing and calling for entries in the first AHA National Homebrew Competition.

The first time competitions will add new heat to old flames including the much loved Official Great Aussie Pie Competition and for its second year, the Sausage Roll Competition, plus the National Pizza Championship, Culinary Challenge, and the ever exciting Bake Skills.

The broad ranging speech covered the ACCC's new role regarding the repeal of the carbon tax, general competition issues, emerging product safety matters, regulation of the National Broadband Network (NBN) as well as the Harper Review of Australia's competition laws and privatisation.

Supermarket Coles» new standard for free - range eggs looks set to run foul of the national consumer watchdog with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission declaring that eggs produced at intensive farms do not deserve the label «free range».

The rules and regulations for UEFA's new national team competition, the UEFA Nations League — which starts in September 2018 — have been confirmed.

Van Praag, a former president of Ajax Amsterdam, has wide experience in both club and national association spheres as well as in business — all of which could be important qualities in a year in which UEFA must drive a new three - year commercial and competitions agreement with clubs, sponsors and broadcasters.

Under the offer to Infantino the Club World Cup would be played every four years by the top 24 club level teams, starting in 2021 while a new national team competition would take place every two years.

The result is emerging new forms of politics between national and sub-national entities, as they seek to map out best effective strategies to pursue greater «success» in this competition for recognition and position.

Mike Feinstein felt that the competition between the two national Green Party organizations was holding back energy and focus, so he traveled east to meet with Howie Hawkins during a meeting of the Green Party of New York State in New Paltz, NY, in December 1999.

The New York City AIDS Memorial launched an international design competition in November 2011, chaired by Michael Arad, the designer of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

«Indeed this would be the last license issued in New York State, it may excite national competition by interested parties that submit even better applications than the first round,» he wrote in the letter.

Members of the media are invited to participate in an Open House Tour of the New York State Pavilion from 1:30 — 2:00 PM, where Borough President Katz, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and People for the Pavilion will be available to talk about the Pavilion's influence, its importance to the Queens» community and the international design competition currently underway until July 1.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

Feet «n» Tricks International Limited, organizer of the just concluded Nigeria National Freestyle Championship, in conjunction with its major sponsor, GAC Motors, Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) and VFD Group, have fulfilled their pledge as a brand new saloon car was handed to the 1st Prize Winner in the male category of the competition, McCarthy Obanor

Washington (March 9, 2016)-- The National Trust for Historic Preservation and People for the Pavilion are today announcing an international ideas competition to solicit imaginative and creative input for how the New York State Pavilion in Queens, NY can once again become a focal point of community life in New York City.

The «Only in Queens» Summer Festival will also offer a wide range of activities for people of all ages, including: • Guided tours of the New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow, the Queens Library Mobile Unit, the Queens Theatre and the Queens Museum; • Family - friendly fun including cultural performances, face painting, inflatable bounce houses, a Delta Air Lines Scavenger Hunt, activities run by the United States Tennis Association, and an appearance by Mr. Met; • Food and craft vendors offering a variety of international cuisine and merchandise for sale; • Exhibits of memorabilia from the original 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs, classic cars and a boat from the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival; • Virtual reality demonstrations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public reuse.

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.

BOSTON — On Saturday at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, the National Science Foundation announced the creation of a new competition, the Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge.

Livermore official Bruce Goodwin said that the design his team submitted had a solid «test pedigree» as it was based on a previously tested weapon that was never deployed; Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which was the loser in the competition between the two schemes, chose to use a design that hadn't been tested.

«These new breathing techniques could represent a breakthrough for athletes seeking help with breathing during training and competition,» said J. Tod Olin, MD, senior author of the study, developer of the novel breathing techniques and Associate Professor of medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, CO..

And in early March, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California won the initial competition to design the nation's first new nuclear warhead in 20 years.

Nearly 93 percent of National Football League (NFL) athletes who sustained traumatic injuries to the midfoot returned to competition less than 15 months after injury and with no statistically significant decrease in performance, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Economical value: the robust national pharmaceutical industry, the strong pharmaceutical sales, and the growing competition for new leads and new markets.

The hearing amounted to a bipartisan «competition for throwing bouquets,» noted Senator Ron Wyden (D - OR), who joined his colleagues in heaping praise on the job that Majumdar has done since Chu plucked him 2 years ago from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to head the department's new blue - sky research shop.

EPA, together with the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services, today announced a nationwide competition to develop new, highly portable sensors that can measure air quality while monitoring a person's physiological response to air pollution.

After a 3 - year international competition, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) revealed on 2 October a new cryptographic standard that will safeguard everything from digital bank records to online communications.

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.

As the final competitions took place at the Olympics in South Korea, a battle of the brains was taking place at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) on Feb. 23 and 24 where two local teams won the New Jersey Regional Science Bowl and the chance to compete in the national contest in Washington D.C.

A U-M team will try to find out, with prize money from a national competition that will help them create an online platform that will let anyone suggest - and contribute to - ideas for new medical studies.

The Leon Charney Diplomacy Program at Florida Atlantic University received the Distinguished Delegation Award at the National Model United Nations competition in New York City.

As part of the initiative, LEGO ® City & National Geographic Kids will launch an exciting new competition to win a National Geographic Family Expedition to the jungles of Costa Rica in Central America!

Unique is dismayed by the publicity and pressure, but after a pep talk from Kurt and Mercedes, performs and wins the MVP award at Nationals competition, though Vocal Adrenaline comes in second to New Directions.Chris Colfer (Kurt Hummel) had originally auditioned to play Artie Abrams.The sixth and final season's main cast was reduced to nine: Colfer, Criss, Lynch, Mc Hale, Michele, Morrison and Overstreet continued from the previous season, Riley returned to the main cast, and Dot - Marie Jones as football coach Shannon Beiste was promoted to it.

She began competing in beauty contests as a teenager, and won the Junior Miss Georgia pageant, which took her to the national competition in New York City.

As expected, new problems arise on campus when two rival fraternities learn of his street - style dance moves, which they both desperately want in order to win a national step show competition.

Paul G. Pastorek, Louisiana's superintendent of education, says the way the state hammers out rules for its new «career diploma» will help determine whether it lands up to $ 200 million in the national competition for federal Race to the Top money.

This week, Shell is launching a brand new national, curriculum linked schools competition - The Bright Ideas Challenge - which aims to inspire future scientists and engineers - to understand the role their STEM learning can play in shaping a more positive future for everyone.

The Bright Ideas Challenge is a new national, curriculum linked schools competition, which will challenge young people age 11 - 14 to assume the role of...

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In the finals of a yearlong competition held here June 11, eight national teams of students from kindergarten through 12th grade won prizes for new technologies that might be used 20 years from now.

The Make Your World Bigger competition and digital resources really encouraged our pupils to keep learning and trying new things during the school holidays - and we're delighted and proud that Lauren was chosen as the national winner.»