Sentences with phrase «number of grant proposals»

In recent years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows.

EPSRC receives the largest number of grant proposals among the U.K. research councils, and that number has grown dramatically in recent years, according to David Reid, head of communications at the council.

«In recent years, [NSF] has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows,» but «one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten [submission] spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines,» Eric Hand reported last Friday.

Not exact matches

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

A number of proposals for the granting of Palestinian citizenship or residential permits to Jewish settlers in return for the removal of Israeli military installations from the West Bank have been fielded by such individuals [47] as Arafat, [48] Ibrahim Sarsur [49] and Ahmed Qurei.

The budget proposal redirects formula and reimbursement aid into competitive grants in a number of areas and encourages community solutions rather than State mandates.

Mark - Viverito, on the other hand, has been one of the most outspoken supporters of a proposal to grant municipal identification cards to immigrants in New York City, which would allow them to access a number of city services, regardless of their immigration status.

The number of new competitive NIH research grants would also remain essentially steady under the budget proposal, with the proposal success rate stationary at about 27 %.

For scientists in academe, universities» expectations about the number of grants they should win increased, as did the number of proposals submitted to NIH.

Also look for competitive requests for proposals (RFPs), a mechanism a small but growing number of companies use to provide grants to academic researchers.

► On Thursday, ScienceInsider reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abandoned its long - time policy of limiting the number of resubmissions of the same grant proposal.

Unlike the earlier House proposal, the bill does not contain language opposed by research groups that would have required NIH to support a specific number of new grants at a minimum funding level.

As one scientist — one of a growing number of soft - money principal investigators working in the United States — wrote to me in a e-mail recently, «NIH is bombarded by grant - proposals not to advance the cause of science but to keep families housed and fed.»

While there are a number of conservative resources that profile organizations and individuals on the Left (such as David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org, Heartland Institute's LeftExposed.org, Berman and Company's ActivistFacts.org and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's UndueInfluence.com) CDC will build upon and complement their efforts adding value through its more comprehensive coverage, superior search engine optimization, and wiki - style format,» (Capital Research Center, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/2016).

More astronomers are applying to the NSF for support; between 1990 and 1999, the number of proposals received increased by about 50 percent, and the number of grants awarded declined by 30 percent (NRC, 2000, Figure 5.4).

You can start by sharing the reasoning behind everyday, small decisions, like why tutoring groups have been created in a specific way, how you've established budget numbers, or why you've written a grant proposal for iPads instead of laptops.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

While American moms won't soon enjoy the year of paid leave that a number of other wealthy nations offer, President Obama's budget proposal did include a $ 50 million State Paid Leave Fund, which would provide competitive planning grants to states to design and implement new paid family - leave insurance programs.

Grant awards reflect each proposal's budget, the number of teachers and students who will benefit from the funding, and the incentives educators may receive.

Superintendent Christina Kishimoto — whose employment in this capacity with the Hartford Public Schools is over at the end of this school year and who has had her request to no longer be evaluated by the Board of Education granted — has angered a number of parents at the Clark School in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter school.

Having seen a number of research grant proposals I can assure you that the prospects are hyped and problems are diminished.

However, there have been a number of proposals to add new states, either by subdividing existing states or by granting statehood to the territories of Northern Territory and / or the Australian Capital Territory.