Sentences with phrase «on grant opportunities»

Please visit the Southeast Diesel Collaborative's website for more information on these grant opportunities and clean diesel strategies.

Check out our new Grants and Funding page to find details on grant opportunities and tips for writing your own grant requests.

She noted the planning department also assisted with grant applications and that the district already has missed out on some grant opportunities this year.

Not exact matches

Levy is a proponent of Wharton professor — and Influencers member — Adam Grant's theory on «givers,» those who seek out opportunities to help people they respect and appreciate.

While the Stop had started out raising money through conventional means such as grants, foundations and direct - mail campaigns, and continues to rely on these methods for the bulk of its funding, it saw opportunity in the wealthier constituency that lived near the Green Barn.

Duke University places an emphasis on research, providing students with numerous avenues to pursue projects through research grants, travel opportunities, and apprenticeships with distinguished professors — and more than half of its undergraduates take advantage.

They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

Lay on your death bed with a to do list a mile long and smile at the infinite opportunity granted to you.

Now, I have to write a waiver statement to plea my case to their officials on why the Air Force should grant me this opportunity.

Benefits of membership include qualification for a CIM grant for study overseas, reduced fees for non-free IBSA events, information on relevant industry events and conferences, and an opportunity to build a great network of like - minded young professionals.

This year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.

Chase also grants Ink Plus cardmembers the opportunity to earn 25 % extra by redeeming points for travel on the Ultimate Rewards website, which multiplies your rewards by 1.25 x.

As part of their commitment to jobs and opportunity, Google and Walmart Inc. announced today a $ 5 million grant investment to three organizations — including the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (MIT IDE)-- that are offering solutions in reskilling the American workforce and matching skills to roles.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

CanTech International was granted the opportunity of visiting the Indie Beer Can Festival on 13 May 2016.

Open to amateur pie makers, professionals and commercial pie manufacturers from throughout the country and Canada, judges grant awards based on appearance, taste, consistency, crust, and the overall product, offering opportunities for companies to get their pie in the limelight — and substantially increase their sales and market share in that category.

There didn't appear to be a shooting opportunity on for Willian, but he found Lee Grant's bottom corner with a low - drilled effort.

The holidays are a wonderful time to reflect on all we have to be thankful for, but it also provides an opportunity to remember the struggle of those who lack what many of us take for granted.

Friends of Meigs member Steven Whitney said Wednesday that the Park District is passing up an opportunity to sell the land on which Meigs sits to the city under a Federation Aviation Administration airport improvement grant program.

We are always on the lookout for funding opportunities to share with our readers and this week two wonderful school breakfast grants came across our desks.

I was recently contacted by Action for Healthy Kids regarding its School Grants for Healthy Kids opportunities * for the 2014 - 2015 school year and am sharing the information in case you want to pass it on to your child's school.

Some of our most popular blog topics are on funding and grant opportunities — and for good reason!

Mothers and fathers are given equal opportunity before the law, with neither having a better chance of being granted physical custody based on gender alone.

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It seems to me that these claims, reducible to «the internet (or this internet tool) is a singular and powerful causal force that will affect change, and that change will be for the better,» are often driven by the posturing of publicity - seeking pundits and people looking for grants or business opportunities (see the first part of this story on the U.S. State Department)-- and the professional pessimists who live to challenge them.

Part of the objectives of the Foundation was to sponsor students by way of scholarships, grants and organizing capacity building seminars, workshops and other related activities and opportunities to students and young people, as well as collaborating with other stakeholders such as government agencies, NGOs, foreign bodies to raise awareness on the state of education in Nigeria and intervening with solutions.

Then on Sunday, he pledged not to grant a long - term extension of mayoral control «without first ensuring that all students have opportunities,» the punctuating sentence of a statement in support of charter schools and against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's charter policies.

Identify, research, and circulate information on potential funding opportunities and assist with the development of grant applications and proposals.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher is joined by two local public officials who see in this moment the opportunity for a wholesale renewal of the housing and real estate landscape surrounding the old highway, which could lead to a city - wide regeneration.

JAMESTOWN - Area residents wanting to offer input on how the city should spend a $ 10 million economic development grant will have one final opportunity to do so later this week.

«If we are to use that authority arbitrarily or to withhold these certifications where we should be granting them, what then can happen... is there is an opportunity for the federal government to just take that process over from us and then we no longer have that authority,» Snyder said at a roundtable discussion on climate change Monday sponsored by the state Assembly.

In addition to building on the city's assets and opportunities, Douglas said, the grant will be helpful in «future economic and workforce development efforts, helping to provide current and future employers with the attractive and vital sort of downtown that will support their overall success here.»

Aside from pointers on how to navigate government loan and grant opportunities, the forum will also address legal assistance and insurance claims, Zuckerman said.

Many are good jobs in terms of income and opportunities to do research, but they are dependent on grant renewals.

And despite offering a wealth of compelling research opportunities — such as drug - resistant tuberculosis in the Baltics (see sidebar on p. 199), the primeval forests of Poland, and the archaeological treasures of Cyprus — the ability of the newcomers to win grants in the first call of the Sixth Framework was discouraging.

In the eyes of the FJI too many PhD students tend to pick a host research group based on a personal contact or a grant opportunity rather than the quality of the project or even their research interest.

It called on institutions to «broaden educational and training opportunities» to include» training in laboratory and project management, grant writing, and mentoring.»

Then, to cap it all, I piled on details of how I had already made contact with several group leaders I knew in other institutions, many of whom had recently made positive noises about grant pending opportunities.

The research is funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI Grant No. 1332349) and builds on the success of the initial funding, supplied by Lehigh's Faculty Innovation Grant (FIG) and Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant (CORE) programs.

For example, workshops offer you the opportunity to provide your attendees with a great deal of information on a given topic, like grant writing, resume writing, or interviewing skills.

What's more, I wanted to expand my opportunities on the job market and, not unimportantly, increase my chances of securing future project grants from Dutch and international funding agencies.

«Overall, this was a great opportunity to learn about this process as part of a graduate course before going out into the real world to review grants as PIs do on actual study sections,» she says.

The ESF is currently placing a greater focus on creating opportunities, such as workshop and conference participation grants, to promote the integration of young investigators into collaborative research networks.

With the help of FIC program officers responsible for overseeing projects in different geographic regions of the world, we are setting up a network to gather and disseminate information on job and grant opportunities in our home countries, and to communicate with former FIC fellows to facilitate the transition home of current and future FIC fellows.

Although efforts to provide real career opportunities for more scientists would create stronger incentives for Americans to seek science careers, the political momentum appears to be on the side of granting more H - 1B visas.

«On rare occasions, we will give an individual postdoc grant for a particularly innovative unsolicited proposal,» Cohen notes; still, he urges postdoc prospects to approach Swartz - funded institutions, not his foundation, for career opportunities.

«As the Baylor - Johns Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics enters year three of our four year grant, we have found new learning opportunities with each phenotype,» said Shalini Jhangiani, senior project manager in the Human Genome Sequencing Center and a co-author on the study.

The Space Science Laboratory (as part of the wider Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) at The University of Sheffield) was recently awarded the STFC grant «Dynamics of key radiation belt emissions» (April 2018 to March 2021) and the successful applicant would have the opportunity to contribute to this active research project (depending on the topic of PhD chosen).

See the Grants & Funding section of the website to stay informed about select funding opportunities and provide background information on the key public and private agencies supporting plant biology research and education.

Star parties feature science presentations along with an array of fun and interesting activities, such as WorldWide Telescope, hands - on activities related to light and color, visits to a portable planetarium, and night sky viewing opportunities provided via amateur telescopes and the Maryland Space Grant Observatory.