Sentences with phrase «university grant each year»

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The next frontier As such, drones have quietly been making inroads in the Arctic for the past several years, mostly under clearances granted to research institutions like the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The two - year «solar soldier» project brings together 15 researchers from six universities, led by the University of Glasgow, and is funded by a $ 1 - million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Ministry of Defence.

Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.

It has recently been reported that the University of Alberta wants to «reopen two - year collective agreements» with faculty and staff «to help the university balance its budget...» This appears to be in direct response to Alberta's provincial government announcing in its March budget that there would be a «7 % cut to operating grants to universities,University of Alberta wants to «reopen two - year collective agreements» with faculty and staff «to help the university balance its budget...» This appears to be in direct response to Alberta's provincial government announcing in its March budget that there would be a «7 % cut to operating grants to universities,university balance its budget...» This appears to be in direct response to Alberta's provincial government announcing in its March budget that there would be a «7 % cut to operating grants to universities, -LSB-...]

Ontario's minister of training, colleges and universities, Brad Duguid, says the united provinces now accept the government's firm offer of $ 300 million a year for the job grant.

«The combined value of federal grants and contracts for research and related activities at Vanderbilt University, including the Medical Center, totaled $ 424 million in fiscal year 2009.»

For years I adopted, without bothering to think, the attitude common among secular, affluent, university - educated people who took the propriety of abortion for granted, even when it was illegal.

The Cambridge — Templeton Consortium A particular collaboration has been forged in recent years with the University of Cambridge, UK, with this consortium itself considering applications for grants within fields allied to those of the Templeton Foundation.

This year Amanda was granted both an Annual Fund and a Schwan's scholarship to help her offset the cost of her continuing education; she is currently pursuing her MBA at the University of Tampa.

This year three awards are being granted and ZERO TO THREE Board Member Andrew Meltzoff, along with his Co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington Pat Kuhl, have received the 2018 Whole Child «Community» Award.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

The funding includes a $ 25 million loan from the State University of New York system as well as a $ 38.5 million grant from Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency that helped to fund much of SUNY Poly's expansion over the years.

Born and raised in Lincoln Park, Pinion attended Colgate University on an athletic grant where he studied English and was a two - year varsity letterman in football.

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo has received a five - year, $ 2.35 million state grant to beef up its programs in Alzheimer's disease.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher talks with Etan Thomas, a social commentator, 11 - year NBA veteran and former Syracuse University basketball star.

When he visited Syracuse University in February, he held a brief press conference about the Reducing Educational Debt Act, a bill that would make the first two years of community college free, allow student loan borrowers to refinance at lower rates and increase the number of Pell Grants, which, unlike loans, do not have to be paid back.

In addition to paying to equip the new labs, the university gave the Dunns funding for at least a year's worth of supplies for their research — a luxury in Turkey, where researchers usually rely on grants for all of their funds, including start - up.

The AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project was awarded a two - year grant of $ 199,876 from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF, Award No: 1439549) as a part of a collaborative research grant with the University of Pennsylvania and the Smithsonian Institution.

For the majority of postdocs, however — those supported by professors» research grants and working in university laboratories — the postdoc years generally do not provide high - quality mentoring, movement toward scientific independence, adequate compensation and recognition, or guidance toward establishing a permanent career.

Earlier this year, the university distributed a memo to students warning that without an increase in grants from the provincial government, it will be forced to balance the budget with tuition increases of 6 % to 8 % and cut faculty budgets by 2 % to 3 % this year.

That same year, she received a training grant to spend part of her summer at the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

In 1972, when LeBlanc was a 29 - year - old assistant professor at Wichita State University, he received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study a series of ruins in El Morro Valley in western central New Mexico.

Extensive, successful, grant writing, on the other hand, was only one of the «very positive» aspects of Sujatha Srinivasan's 2 years as an employee postdoc at the University of Washington, Seattle.

A three - year investigation into a University of Connecticut biology laboratory has found its chief guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications.

In 2004, NWO created the Mosaic program to encourage minority students to pursue Ph.D. s. Just applying for Mosaic helps: «You learn how to write, defend, and present a grant proposal, and how to present yourself to a jury, and to be confident,» says Angela Sarabdjitsingh, a final - year neuroscience Ph.D. student at the University of Leiden who is Dutch with Surinamese - Hindu origins.

Instead, NIH and NSF recovery dollars will go overwhelmingly for 2 - year extramural research grants, mostly for proposals already submitted by people «established enough to already be in the [funding agency] pipeline,» says labor market economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in NUniversity of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in NUniversity, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in Nuniversity, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in NUniversity, Camden, in New Jersey.

Despite billing itself as the place «where discoveries begin,» NSF has for years failed to discover how many postdocs work in America's universities, many of them supported by NSF's own grants.

This year, for the first time, the Department of Defense (DOD) formally encouraged U.S. applicants to partner with researchers from the United Kingdom in seeking grants from the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.

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.

«This will cover an entire year's tuition, plus some book money,» notes William Velez, a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which has received one of the grants.

Over the past few weeks, it has chosen 77 of a projected 110 winners from some 280 community colleges, 4 - year schools, and graduate research universities that competed for this first round of institutional grants, which average $ 220,000.

For the first year of the child's life, she split her working time between home, where she wrote papers and grant applications, and the university's herbarium, where she restored historical plant specimens.

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..

On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.

«I actually have no mentors at all, no role models or faculty whom I talk to about my fears about grants or my work,» relates Brett Premack, who has been a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles, for 2 years.

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.

«Many scientists worry that grant reviewers will note the gap in productivity and go «Oh, this person took a year's break, they aren't really serious,»» says a biologist at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), who requested anonymity.

Correa, Shamberger and Boston University biologist Sarah Davies, UH - Clear Lake biologist Lory Santiago - Vazquez and Texas A&M oceanographer Jason Sylvan expect to receive a one - year Rapid Research Response grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work at the Flower Garden Banks.

Last year, the office presented pilot seminars on writing, grant funding, and management using faculty and other experts from the university.

Like other universities in the Netherlands, Leiden is facing a smaller annual budget after science minister Ronald Plasterk's decision last year to shift $ 100 million in research funding to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the main grant - giving institution in the country.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy came down 3 years after I started my first «real job» as an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU): Teach NIH trainees about responsible conduct in research if you want to keep or ever get a training grant.

«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 universities,» said Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities in Washington, D.C., in 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.

The grants range in size from a 2 - year, $ 301,000 award (won by Z. Renee Sung at the University of California, Berkeley) to a hefty 5 - year grant for $ 12.5 million (to a team led by Stanford University's Virginia Walbot).

With the continued support of her Cambridge fellowship and other grants, Perrett was able to spend a year studying Chinese full - time at the National University of Singapore; she was reasonably fluent before joining Zhou's group in September 2000.

For instance, ANR should invite more bottom - up projects and extend grants to 5 years, said materials scientist and honorary university professor Roger Fougères, who chaired some of the debates.

At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BIRCWH principal investigator Eugene Orringer says: «During the initial 2 years of this award, we have been able to recruit 11 truly exceptional young people to our faculty, all of whom are committed to the conduct of research in the area of women's health... and many of them have already been successful in competing for their own individual research grants.»

Corresponding author Matthew A. Broom, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University and SLUCare physician at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center, formed the Happy Mothers, Healthy Families program in 2013 with a three - year, $ 316,140 grant from the Maternal Child and Family Health Coalition (MCHFC).