Sentences with phrase «student research grants»

We were even able to benefit from student research grants that could be used to execute projects to help improve our schools.

AWARDS * Computational Chemistry * Undergraduate Student / faculty Research Grant * Associated Students Research Grant

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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.

Top congressional priorities include aid to disadvantaged schools, Pell Grants for low - income college students, medical research, Amtrak subsidies, and water and sewer projects.

Since many or most PhD students are funded off of grants from the government and tuition is one of the few «overhead» items Universities can charge to these grants, making tuition taxable removes a costless mechanism for Universities to funnel money that could go to more research into administrative overhead.

Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Association.

Liz Leadbetter Kirkhaven's manager said: «We are delighted that our social work students at Kirkhaven are using their initiative and research to raise funds to enable our service users to sample some life experiences that a lot of us take for granted.»

Three research scholarships of $ 2,400 each and other student grants have been awarded.

Your sponsorship dollars go to establish and maintain scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate athletic training students, Insure research grants for future scientific developments in athletic training, Supports educational meetings for the continuing education of currently certified & licensed athletic trainers in Indiana.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

Graduate student Aaron Stevens, research assistant Wes Edrington, undergraduate researcher Yunhua Zhao and graduate student Aroshan Jayansinge also contributed to the research, which was funded by National Institute of Health grants R21AR068933 and 5T32CA119925 and National Science Foundation grant REU 1560035.

To gain more control over the number of trainees and improve the quality of their training experience, they propose increasing the proportion of graduate students supported by training grants instead of professors» research grants.

The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.

Industry grants and fellowships «are probably fine as long as the student has the opportunity to choose his or her dissertation [topic] and conduct the research independently of the company and publish their results,» Campbell says.

The money that Duarte took could have funded 60,000 doctoral grants, nearly the number of all graduate grants Conacyt currently gives, said Edith Marcial Juárez, a doctoral student at the research center Cinvestav.

Rockey says that shifting the 60,000 graduate students and postdocs now on research grants to training grants «would not be practical or feasible, at least in the short term.»

Presenting findings from research conducted through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Herrmann Abell and DeBoer point in their chapter to steady but modest improvement in students» understanding of energy from middle to high school, but they also note that «even after years of instruction, many students have a very limited and unsophisticated understanding of the formal conventions for thinking and talking about energy.»

Despite an obligation to be exclusively engaged in research and university lecturing for 40 hours a week, most grant - holders (PhD students and postdocs) are not represented on the elected body of their centres.

The AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Awards provide these grants annually to four graduate - level students participating in research endeavors as part of their engineering / science graduate studies.

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

Like virtually all British universities, running costs are covered by government grants and minimal tuition fees paid by students, whereas research is supported by the government - funded research councils, foundations, and industrial contracts.

Thats not all hell be doing; for the first time in his life hell have to teach graduate students and write proposals for research grants.

Join an Association of Early - Career Scientists Federación de Jóvenes Investigadores (FJI) The aim of FJI is to improve the working and social conditions of research grant - holders in Spain — PhD students, postdocs, research technicians, and university teachers doing a thesis.

This is to become a reality for all Research Council PhD students and postdocs on Research Council grants, with all HEIs receiving extra funding from this academic year to provide this additional training.

Universia Students from all disciplines will find on the Spanish portal of Universia information on the educational system in Spain and in Europe, on Spanish universities and courses, university research centres and departments, international study programmes, as well as announcements for jobs and grants.

The fundamental unity of science training and science scholarship does not relieve research scientists — their labs teeming with graduate students and postdocs supported by stipends paid from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations, of the responsibility to take training the next generation of scientists very, very seriously.

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.

The study was funded by an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures graduate student scholarship, Queen Elizabeth II scholarship, and a research grant from the Jurassic Foundation.

Now, with a $ 2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, AAAS's Project 2061 and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) are embarking on a project to develop chemistry and biochemistry materials for middle school students and teachers, based on the latest research in learning.

The Advocate Grant Program seeks to open the door to scientific research for these students, many of whom are unaware of or unable to take advantage of science fair competitions.

Initially, he centered his research program at the Hospital for Special Surgery, where he had a corporate grant that funded materials, a part - time technician, and a summer stipend for a Yeshiva student.

I started working as a research chemist at the company that had granted me the student bursary, as this was part of the contract agreement.

DDEP grants support doctoral research overseas and proposals for these awards, submitted officially by the doctoral student's faculty advisor, can be sent in to NSF at any time.

Steverink won a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development to develop and implement successful aging interventions as a follow - up to the longitudinal aging study she contributed to as a Ph.D. student.

► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotstudents in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrotStudents supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.

Federal research agencies now funnel most of their money for graduate students through grants to faculty members.

For decades, the educational needs of students and postdocs have taken a back seat to universities» need for cheap, skilled workers to perform grant research.

The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources funds training grants for veterinary students.

In each case, an expert group calls for, among other things, supporting more postdocs and graduate students on training grants and fellowships instead of on professors» research grants, employing more staff scientists in permanent posts and fewer temporary trainees to do scientific work, providing higher pay and better working conditions for postdocs, and publishing information on the career outcomes of departments» and labs» graduate students and postdocs.

Virginia Tech's Bevlee Watford and Manuel Pérez - Quiñones have been successful in recruiting Hispanic students into the CS department and will partner with Auburn's CSSE department in a joint research grant.

A lot of basic research is also supported by the University Grants Commission, which has a role in the administration of 324 universities and 16,000 colleges, which graduate some 9.2 million students every year.

Data for the UI study came from responses to the Student Experience in the Research University survey (SERU) administered in 2014 to undergraduates at 11 four - year, doctorate - granting public universities in the U.S..

That makes them cheaper than graduate students, for whom tuition must be paid from research grants.

Currently, the agency's National Research Service Award (NRSA) training program gives grants to universities to help roughly 7000 graduate students a year pursue multidisciplinary studies.

The C$ 400 million (about # 200 million) handed out by the agency helps to pay for laboratory equipment and materials, grants for assistants (mostly graduate students), conference travel and other research expenses.

The goal of these research grants is to get the work done, so they can, in general, be used to support foreign scientists, including foreign students and postdocs.

«During the 2015 — 16 school year, more than 15,450 students and over 2100 scholars from the six countries targeted in this ban studied and conducted research at U.S. universities,» said Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities in Washington, D.C., in a statement.

For example, at the 10 - year - old University of North Carolina Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health, initiated through a grant from GlaxoSmithKline, the company's researchers serve as guest lecturers, advise graduate students, and receive training themselves in new research methods.

To bolster the research workforce, the government is promising larger grants for trainee science teachers and doctoral students as well as improved salaries for science teachers and postdocs.