Sentences with phrase «raising funds for studies»

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The study was conducted among 90 female venture capitalists and founders who've raised funding for their startups.

Perth - based Sheffield Resources has tapped investors for a $ 17.1 million capital raising to fund completion of a bankable feasibility study on its $ 271 million Thunderbird mineral sands project near Derby.

Perth - based explorer Galaxy Resources has successfully raised $ 1 million through a book build to sophisticated investors, with funds to be applied to a definitive feasibility study for its Mt Cattlin lithium - tantalum project at Ravensthorpe.

Cards Against Humanity's intellectual expansion «Science Pack» has raised over $ 578,000 for The Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based women interested in studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).

Another startup is Prozo.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling study material, which raised its pre-Series A round of funding from a London - based venture capital firm and two affluent individuals.

Prozo.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling study material, has raised its pre-Series A round of funding from a London - based venture capital firm and two affluent individuals, a person familiar with the development told TechCircle.

Finance majors prepare for this career by studying topics about «planning, raising funds, making wise investments and controlling costs,» according to the College Board.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

I successfully raised 9 million dollars for one major research university to fund underrepresented minorities to study graduate level science.

In the devolved parliaments the Chancellor promised new tax raising and borrowing powers for infrastructure to the Welsh government, a new Enterprise Zone for Colerain in Northern Ireland and in Scotland the government is offering to extend the feasibility study on possible improvements to the A1 north of Newcastle further north into Scotland (if the Scottish government will match fund the costs of this study.

Miner is still waiting for a copy of SU's feasibility study and for answers to the questions she has raised about how the arena would be funded, who would own it and how it would affect the near east side of the city, Carroll said following the meeting.

The study's findings raise many questions about which activities in the basin were leading to the high emissions rates, said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

This study was funded by Pelotonia, a grassroots cycling event based in Columbus, Ohio, which has raised more than $ 106 million for cancer research at Ohio State.

So far, however, only $ 300 million plus funds for the completion of a detailed design study have been raised, he says.

The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $ 1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.

Scientists raising funds for the world's first imaging study of the brain on LSD raised more than $ 65,000 earlier this year, more than twice their goal.

You're right for checking funding source and stuff like that always raises questions but as far as I can see it was a well - designed and well - executed study.

There are several studies that show positive results for these programs, even though 21st Century Learning Centers programs that the federal government funds haven't raised student achievement.

Again, the studies discussed above do not offer much explanation, but two theories come to mind: perhaps universities look to exploit their pricing power in the market leading them to raise tuition whether appropriations rise or fall; or maybe when faced with a reduction in state funding, universities cut spending instead of raising tuition dollar for dollar.

The team's unique approach to reorg - WeOrg: The Freedom to Choose, and using games to raise funds for disaster relief Communicate Hope case study have won awards.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

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Last year, as the school was studying South America, students raised funds for Free Kicks and the Galapagos Islands Trust.

The ADUC Board of Directors raises funds for assistance dog placements, for grants to support industry research and development efforts and specific provider program development projects, and for scholarships for individuals attending the Bergin University of Canine Studies.

Animal charities also include organizations that fund health studies and those that raise and train dogs for work as helpers to handicapped owners.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health are interested in the potential health value of having pets: NIH first raised the human / pet connection nearly 30 years ago, recommending that scientists take pets into account when conducting health research, and the agency has funded a number of studies into the impact of pet ownership.

*... To refresh the raison d'être of the EPA & UN...... To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern...... To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues...... To give enviro - groups a powerful fund - raising and consciousness - raising tool...... and allow them access to the levers of national and international power...... To give activist & green parties a vote - getting wedge issue...... and a case - study justification for their habitual «hammer» (increased regulation and taxation)...... To provide at - a-loss «engagé / enragé» types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise...... To transfer wealth from the West to the South...... To fund alternative energy developers and researchers...

That the researcher responsible for the study is clearly not a «climate change denier» makes the IPCC's credibility gap all the more significant, and it raises new questions regarding the fundamental credibility of any claim coming from an organization which has relied on shaky science to back its demand for the power to take $ 76 trillion from the economies of the industrialized world and «redistribute» those funds for «green technologies» in the third world.

While completing her Bachelor of Arts at the University of British Columbia, she served on the Family Studies Student Council, where she represented the Family Studies student body at meetings with faculty and led efforts to collaborate with Social Work students to fund raise for the University.