Sentences with phrase «says grant reviews»
She says grant reviews need to be person - based rather than project - based, and universities need to employ researchers as researchers rather than as temporary helpers.
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In its review of the contract, Educators 4 Excellence, an advocacy group of teachers that often was aligned with the Bloomberg administration's goals, gave the contract a barely passing grade and said it «overlooked several critical issues,» such as class sizes and a tenure - granting process that the group believes ought to be more closely linked to teacher performance.
«Many of those funds are now given out in a way where we do not have the review we would normally have with an agency or a grant,» he said.
He said he would provide, subject to independent review, training and skills support to the car industry, help with regional grants such as nurturing the local supply chain and help in research and innovation.
Witnesses for the prosecution repeatedly testified that it was Silver who had the final say on how money from the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) was spent, and that other agencies reviewed those grants only to make sure the paperwork was in order.
«As with other disbursements from the HCRA - Assembly Pool, DOH did not review the merits of the grant but simple processed the grant - related paperwork, including the grant contract and vouchers seeking payment against the grant,» the criminal complaint said.
The second stage will be reviewed in 2009 and if it is not completed by 2010 the privileges granted today will be immediately revoked, Mr Alexander said.
In a statement, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David said the governor has appointed Bart Schwartz, former chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District, to conduct an «immediate full review» of the Buffalo Billion program, including all grants — part, current or future.
HARLEM — The city's Franchise Concession Review Committee has authorized SPORTIME to enter into negotiations with the Randall's Island Sports Foundation to expand the number of courts on the island — but a local politician says the tennis center shouldn't be granted additional space unless neighbors of all income levels are guaranteed access to it.
He said he would review «all grants and approvals» of contracts and operations of the Buffalo Billion and other high - tech development programs across the state.
At a Town Board meeting Wednesday, Councilwoman Jennifer Metzger said legal reviews have been conducted on the ability of property owners to change their minds about granting access.
Mr. Silver's lawyer asked him if it would be safe to say that 20 state officials were involved in reviewing these grants, and he said yes.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who said his office is still reviewing the order, said Wednesday that $ 165 million in federal aid was immediately at risk: $ 156 million in Urban Area Security Initiative grants, $ 6 million in criminal alien assistance grants and $ 3 million in general assistance grants from the Justice Department.
Elia also says schools may be granted one - year waivers to delay new teacher evaluations championed by Governor Cuomo and passed during the state budget, if they can demonstrate that they are working with their teachers unions towards designing new reviews.
At a meeting in September, the chairman of the location board, Kevin Law, said that Atlantic City's decline was one of many factors the state considered as it reviewed the bidders» applications, and that deciding whether or not to grant a license in Orange County — close to New York City — was the «biggest challenge» the state faced in the decision - making process.
Elia also said schools may be granted one year waivers to delay new teacher evaluations championed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and passed during the state budget, if they can demonstrate that they are working with their teachers unions towards designing new reviews.
In an April 29 statement announcing his impending hire, Schwartz said that given the investigation and the administration's desire to keep the Buffalo Billion program running, «they have asked me to commence an immediate review of all grants and approvals — past, current and future — in certain programs and operations, including the Buffalo Billion / Nano Economic Development Program.»
Elia also says schools may be granted waivers to delay new teacher evaluations for another year, if they demonstrate that they are working with their teachers unions towards designing new reviews.
The aide said that the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York is the primary grant administrator and must conduct a full review of each project and grant recipient.
Schwartz said he will review all grants made under the Buffalo Billion project and other SUNY Poly developments.
The AGIES panel's «perception was flavored by its public - health perspective on scientific arguments», says Grant McFadden, a poxvirus researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a member of the scientific review panel.
Yet, industry grants are perceived as «not peer - reviewed and not as prestigious» as public funding, Campbell says, so they may not be given as much weight in the tenure process.
The number of grants that will be reviewed face - to - face will be increased «by a factor of 10,» Beaudet said, adding that he believes the hybrid system will «improve the quality of peer review.»
«A young scientist will never learn more about writing a grant than by reviewing a grant,» she says.
He also attacked the peer review process the NSF used to award grants, saying it was too secretive and «incestuous,» which was leading to funding irrelevant projects.
He also allowed me to review the panel reviews» of the grant proposals he helped write, says Lower.
«It's a bit nerve - wracking, not because there are no special grants for it, but because there's no special expertise on the review panels,» says Leonard Maler, a professor in the department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Individual institutes could decide to fund more grants, but that will depend on how proposals fare in peer review, NIH officials say.
In his comment, Andriukaitis said that the commission granted the 18 - month extension in order to have the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) complete its review of glyphosate.
Philip Page, an organic chemist at the University of East Anglia, says he will no longer volunteer to peer - review grant proposals for the EPSRC.
Asking for peer review scores, however, could have an upside, she says: «looking at the scores can only help Congress» understand why the grants were funded.
People reviewing grants may be looking at this from a completely different moral perspective and how much that has influenced people's perception about whether this should be funded, we don't know,» said Professor Stephen Minger of King's College London.
The peer review system requires that the project address «an important problem,» but some of the grants «do not seem to meet this standard,» the letter says.
Well, Niederhuber said, in the 2009 fiscal year, NCI will fund grants that hit the 16th percentile in reviews, a big improvement over the current 12th percentile.
Beaudet also indicated CIHR is postponing the deadline on a forthcoming grant competition until after the working group meets, and Philpott said the results of the meeting will be expected to inform the findings of a recently launched Advisory Panel for the Review of Federal Support for Fundamental Science.
In the meantime, a spokesman for the National Institutes of Health says that no study has yet been funded and the institute's policy is «not to comment on whether such a grant was submitted or is under review.»
«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.
«In fact,» LeDoux says with a smile, «my first grant on this topic in the early 1980s was turned down,» because scientists reviewing his application believed it was impossible to scientifically study emotions.
«Under Al's leadership, CPRIT recruited the best review committees in the world while implementing a conflict - free system that is the cornerstone of our cancer research grant award process,» the statement says.
Applications will be reviewed by subject matter experts at NIH and other health agencies to see if «they show a reasonable potential to meet the statutory goals,» says NIH's Jo Anne Goodnight, who oversees NIH's small - business research grants.
While Curriki was granted seven days to provide additional documentation following their review in July, they never did, CLRN officials said.
If the board is to approve more incubator grants in July, the rules for reviewing and funding them should be «revised,» the letter says.
NIH now requires a recipient of a grant in excess of $ 500,000 in any year to develop a data sharing plan that is reviewed by the study section that assesses the grant proposal, Liu said.
«ROPAs are a poor substitute for properly peer - reviewed grant applications,» says Clarke.
One way, Tilghman said, would be for NIH to shift funding from R01 research grants, which currently support the majority of graduate students in biomedical sciences, to NIH training grants, which are peer - reviewed by NIH for their training - related virtues.
A statement by the group's board of directors says the ongoing review of some 60 grants «is having a destructive effect on NSF and on the merit review process that is designed to fund the best research and to remove those decisions from the political process.»
This also means that many new grants that have been reviewed and received a high score are not receiving funding yet, Collins said.
NIH issued guidelines last summer to govern work on the cells, but this spring the Bush Administration halted the process that was to review the first grant applications, saying it wanted to evaluate the issue (ScienceNOW, 9 April).