Sentences with phrase «other award programs because»

Not exact matches

Because the competition for the K99 / R00 awards is so stiff, Anthony Carter, a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at NIGMS in Bethesda, Maryland, has been encouraging some prospective applicants who are eligible for other training grants, such as K08s, to go after those awards instead.

The Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.

For EQM - Zero flyers like ourselves Alliances and partners are important because award seats at the low level on any one partner airline are usually able to be booked by any other partner's program.

This is unfortunate because only the cheapest awards on a given route are made available to partners — either other airlines releasing award space to Delta customers or awards that Delta might let you book with another program.

And because British Airways Avios partners with Alaska Airlines and is a distance - based award program, you can book one of these non-stop flights from almost any West Coast gateway for just 12,500 points one - way vs. 40,000 miles through some other programs.

@Gary Leff also did to the math but he inexplicably chose not to emphasize the salient points made at the two links I just provided (may be because it went against his usual narrative since he too found SPG [r.i.p] awards — one of his and other travel bloggers» preferred programs — to be prohibitively expensive).

Our favorite mileage programs are AA and United because they allow you to book one way awards and are a great complement to each other because they are part of 2 of the biggest airline alliances.

There are also cases where it's easier to redeem miles in other programs because of a more favorable award chart or greater award availability.