Sentences with phrase «of the best funded universities»

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This is what this online course from the University of Maryland covers, as professor Michael R. Pratt explains what you need to do in the early stages of your business to prepare for funding, where to source funding, how to pitch investors and venture capitalists, as well as how to close funding.

That puts China well ahead of the U.S. in launching CRISPR trials; the first one in America, which will be conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and is being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker, isn't set to begin until early 2017.

Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Researchers funded by the American Heart Association and the University of Colorado School of Medicine say they've uncovered an association between increased coffee consumption and better heart health.

Investors include leading university endowments, financial institutions, funds of funds and family offices, as well as a substantial capital investment from Shore's partners.

Students are the members of the «club» that is the university and if the University funds their club then the University gets control over their membershiuniversity and if the University funds their club then the University gets control over their membershiUniversity funds their club then the University gets control over their membershiUniversity gets control over their membership as well.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

George Peabody College was a normal school in Nashville that would very likely come into a million dollars with the dissolution of the Peabody Trust, and Kirkland was working energetically to persuade its trustees to move their college across Nashville next to Vanderbilt, thereby making a well - funded school of education available to the university at no cost to itself.

The Lilly Foundation funded a gathering of a cross-section of theological teachers and administrators from seminaries, university divinity schools and colleges — Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical, well - known schools and those in the outback — to explore the subject.

The good of university endowments extends far beyond their merely instrumental value in performing «public service,» such as funding scholarships and research.

We also partner with other research organisations to ensure the best capability is brought to bear on a problem, such as leading a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project involving institutions around the world to develop self - reproducing hybrid crops for African farmers or working with the University of Queensland and Queensland State Government researchers to solve challenges faced by the Northern Australian beef industry.

The Commission also supports and funds university level research to help improve the overall health and cultivation of potatoes, as well as to identify agricultural best practices.

Ten awards were made available by generous funding from BNY Mellon, with applicants being asked to demonstrate their commitment to representing the University at the highest level as well as how a grant of # 500 would help them to fulfil their sporting objectives in 2014/15.

We want to ensure that every worker of the university performs his or her role diligently; lecturers teach well, administrator administering well and using the university's resources efficiently because the university does not have enough fund to steal on.

Richer institutions in the Russell group of elite universities can afford to pay out annual bursaries of # 1,791 to students, but less well - funded universities are forced to drop their offers to around # 680.

The next phase of the TSA implementation will be to extend the transfer of GoG's bank accounts with commercial banks to cover donor funds of MDAs as well as the bank accounts of subvented agencies such as Universities and other institutions.

The funding includes a $ 25 million loan from the State University of New York system as well as a $ 38.5 million grant from Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency that helped to fund much of SUNY Poly's expansion over the years.

Speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of a sensitization programme on the use of oil revenue at the Tamale Technical University, Miss Abubakari advised government to limit their expenditure to a few targeted projects in order to ensure better monitoring and utilization of the oil funds.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

«For many in The Bronx, and in fact across the country, the «America's College Promise» and the «American Technical Training Fund» proposals would be of great assistance for future college students saving money, especially as the cost of higher education continues to skyrocket — both at public institutions as well as private colleges and universities.

«A recent YouGov poll revealed that, as well as opposing any increase in fees, the majority of people in Britain back a university funding system that is at no cost to the student or their family.

According to a 2008 poll of U.S. residents conducted by Research!America, 94 % of Americans think universities and companies should work together to find new treatments, and 81 % think it's a good idea for pharmaceutical companies to fund research conducted in universities.

At first blush, the new fund resembles a proposal last fall from Canada's 15 research - intensive universities for a pot of money to «improve partnerships with industry to create research industry clusters, attract and retain the best talent from around the world, stimulate the rate of ground - breaking discoveries, and enhance our international competitiveness.»

At the same time, the RSC preference for defense spending might bode well for the defense science and technology enterprise, which among other things is a major funder of university research.

The interests of academic science are represented by various well - funded and experienced lobbying operations supported by research universities, medical schools, professional and scientific societies, and others.

«So, in essence one branch of the federal government is funding unemployed ITers to «retrain» for something well beneath their qualifications, while another federal agency is approving work permits for foreign students [for jobs] that unemployed Americans could easily do,» writes the man to whom I owe my knowledge of this piquant contrast, computer science professor Norman Matloff of the University of California, Davis.

Floyd Wormley Jr., a microbiologist at the University of Texas, San Antonio, serves as a standing member on NIH's AIDS - associated Opportunistic Infections and Cancer study section, which reviews grant proposals on that topic, scores them, and forwards the best ones to the appropriate NIH institutes for the final funding decision.

The Emmy Noether Programme provides funding for researchers with 2 - 4 years of postdoc experience to lead an independent research group, and thus to better qualify for a university teaching career.

Vanderbilt University postdoc Lindsey Morris, who has participated in some of the university's NIH - funded Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) career - development programs, knows first - hand the importance of such training, which she did not receive in graduaUniversity postdoc Lindsey Morris, who has participated in some of the university's NIH - funded Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) career - development programs, knows first - hand the importance of such training, which she did not receive in graduauniversity's NIH - funded Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) career - development programs, knows first - hand the importance of such training, which she did not receive in graduate school.

Congress in 1980 passed a law called the Bayh — Dole Act, designed to speed commercialization of publicly funded research by making it easier for universities to patent and license their research as well as partner with for - profit companies.

«I agree that competition is good, and that peer - review is one means of assuring that we are selecting high quality projects,» he said, adding that at least some of DHS - funded research projects — including proposals funded through the agency's Centers of Excellence at universities — were indeed selected using peer - review.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

Funded partly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute, the analysis was conducted with the assistance of the University of Washington's highly respected Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which seeks to identify the world's major health problems so society can best allocate medical resources and funding.

Top - ranked programs attract more funding as well as high - quality faculty and students, while «low rankings can shrink or even kill off a program,» notes Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Graham, author of a well - regarded 1997 book on the history of U.S. research universities.

The funding for both programs includes a salary at an Austrian university of the scientist's choice, as well as extra funds for travel and materials.

Although national funding organizations are involved in developing curricula and establishing «best practices,» I think you'll find that most organizations — even these funding organizations — consider this to be the responsibility of the university.

Britain's new science minister, David Willetts of the Conservative Party, today made good a manifesto pledge today when he announced that the coalition government would delay for 1 year the implementation of the controversial Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system of assessing university departments for the distribution of funding.

Ravi Vijayvargia was appointed as an assistant professor in the biochemistry department at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Gujarat, India, in August 2013 following a rather long, well - resourced postdoctoral stint in well - funded U.S. laboratories.

During the study, which was funded by the University's Innovation Partnership project, the academic team selected the best method to work with the data collected by Avacta and prepared the online diagnostic system over a period of six months.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

NRC Handelsblad reports that Stapel received $ 2.2 million in grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, but that university funds may be part of the inquiry as well.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

Although the polytechnics that did well in the recent assessment of research activities received a boost in research funding, most remain at a disadvantage to established universities.

Committees are charged with making sure poorly conceived science does not get funded — and they do a good job of that, says Steven McKnight, a biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and a National Academies member.

Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.

Our hope is to find more objects like this, possibly even more distant ones, to better understand this population of extreme dusty galaxies and especially their relation to the bulk population of galaxies at this epoch,» said Joaquin Vieira, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Campaign and member of the SPT team whose study of SPT - discovered galaxies is funded through NSF's Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants program.

The 50 researchers also call on the federal government to provide better funding for crop breeding efforts at public universities, and for universities to develop new ways of steering revenues from popular crop varieties back into research.

In the editorial, Shi Yigong, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Rao Yi, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Peking University in Beijing, singled out for criticism the funding mechanism for mega science projects in China, alleging that to procure grants, «it's an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favorite experts.»

NIBIB - funded researchers at the University of Washington have pioneered an approach to image functional activity in the brains of individual fetuses, allowing a better look at how functional networks within the brain develop.

«My objections are that it sets up a two - tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well - funded labs and groups,» Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.