Sentences with phrase «year grant competition»

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Competition for the money is fierce but the federal government allocates $ 2B a year in grants for early stage ideas few investors will touch.

After a year here, I can say, with confidence that it is totally worth applying to the Arch Grants Global Startup Competition and considering relocating your company to St Louis, Missouri.

Last month, AbbVie reassured investors that Humira would be safe from competition for at least a few more years, granting rival Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) a non-exclusive license to sell a copycat version in the United States, but not before 2023.

Grant's 25 Year Old earned a gold at the International Wine & Spirits Competition.

Run by the fifth generation of the Grant family, the company has been named Distiller of the Year nine times in the past 12 years by the International Spirits Challenge and International Wine & Spirits Competition.

William Grant & Sons has been honored as «Distiller of the Year» by the prestigious International Wine & Spirit Competition and International Spirits Challenge ten times over the past 15 years.

The three - time All - Delta - League selection and leading scorer for the Grant Pacers last year landed awkwardly after going up for a layup during AAU competition over the summer and heard a pop.

Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed to begin a second round of competition for the grants early next year.

Now in its second year, the 43 North competition will see ideas from around the globe submitted in hopes that they will be among 11 chosen companies to share in the $ 5 million in prize money granted as part of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative for Western New York.

Last year New York seemed like a loser in the competition for federal rail funds — being granted only $ 151 million of the $ 4 billion it applied for while California received over $ 2 billion.

Economic development officials in Lake Placid and the surrounding region earlier this year put forth a proposal to study a new Olympic bid as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative, a plus - sized version of the annual statewide competition for grants and other forms of aid.

By contrast, the competition to attract entrepreneurs to the region with grants of up to $ 500,000 per company anticipates getting only $ 25 million over five years.

The deferred list includes a new, $ 1.08 billion competition by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation for research infrastructure grants to begin 3 years down the road, as well as modest funding toward buying a 15 % to 20 % stake in the colossal Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built in a dormant Hawaii volcano by 2024.

With NIH, NSF, and other civilian agencies already losing ground to inflation and on notice that the coming years will bring significant budget cuts, competition for grant money is likely to increase, perhaps sharply.

But then, about 2.5 years ago, she had breakfast with Kirschner at Harvard, and he mentioned his own concern about the increasingly fierce competition for grants and jobs arising from the rapidly growing numbers of scientists chasing a limited supply of funds.

Last week, the Merrill Lynch Forum announced the second round of winners of their Innovation Grants Competition, awarding almost a quarter - million dollars in 2 years to young scientists and engineers who could successfully explain the commercial applications of their dissertation research.

Worries about the new virtual peer - review system crystallized earlier this year, after CIHR conducted its first Project grant competition.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

Every year, more and more doctoral scientists are seeking to acquire research grants; the intense struggle to win federal funding for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grants!&ragrants; the intense struggle to win federal funding for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grantcompetition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research GrantCompetition for Research Grants!&raGrants!»).

Every year, more and more doctoral scientists compete to acquire research grants; the intense struggle to win federal support for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grants!&ragrants; the intense struggle to win federal support for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grantcompetition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research GrantCompetition for Research Grants!&raGrants!»).

Granted, over the last few years Match went out and bought most of their competition.

Band of Misfits (PG for action, mild epithets and crude humor) Animated kiddie adventure about a competition among three buccaneer swashbucklers (Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek) to capture the coveted Pirate of the Year Award by wreaking the most havoc on the high seas.

Partly because of the XQ project's upbeat, open approach, the competition was the first major education - grant program in recent years that didn't set off an immediate wave of public alarm from critics.

Grant Jones, Head of Performing Arts and PE at Perry Beeches III, says: «This fantastic competition involved the majority of our year 7 students writing about their dream holiday during extended literacy sessions.

An advanced instructional program in the workings of the U.S. government that is class infused with competition, We the People was established by the Center for Civic Education in 1987; a grant from the U.S. Congress has funded it each year.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

The first - year grant awards ranged from $ 2.5 million to $ 3.9 million, and competition for them was brisk.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

The competition, supported by Capita SIMS, is now in its sixth year and offers teachers across the country the chance to win a grant of up to # 15,000 for their innovative idea to raise the achievement of disadvantaged children in maths, English or science.

At the federal level, former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schools.12

Like SIG, the set - aside may be used to conduct a grant competition and permits an award for up to four years, which may include a planning year.

But other Democrats joined with Republicans to pass Colorado's law, the most comprehensive of a dozen similar bills passed around the nation this year, in part to increase states» chances in a $ 4 billion federal grant competition.

Etcetera: For the past two years, Dropout Nation has argued that President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan should structure future Race to the Top grant competitions to include reform - minded traditional districts, along with charter school operators, and even community groups.

Race to the Top District, or RTT - D, which supports innovation and improvements at the local level, and Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, or RTT - ELC, a grant competition to strengthen early learning, also grew out of ARRA's RTT initiative through congressional appropriations beginning in fiscal year 2011.

The scope of this year's competition is notably smaller than i3's first round, which awarded $ 650 million to 49 districts and nonprofits, but the department is still able to fund about half the number of awards as the previous year because so many applicants are receiving the smaller $ 3 million development grants slated for promising but unstudied activities.

The culminating activity for the year is an individualized science experiment that is granted eligibility in the school - wide science fair and competition.

2010: AppleTree Institute won a five - year, $ 5 million grant from the US Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund competition and raised $ 1.5 million in private matching funds to support the project, the further development and evaluation of AppleTree's groundbreaking Every Child Ready preschool instructional model.

Call For Peer Reviewers: Charter Schools Program Grant Competition The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, is seeking individuals to serve as peer reviewers for the Fiscal Year 2018 Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grant competitions.

The proposal, entitled Los Angeles» Bold Competition: Turning Around and Operating Its Low - Performing Schools, was rewarded this summer with a highly competitive $ 6 - million, three - year i3 grant.

The AAE Foundation's National Scholarships and Grants competition is held twice a year in the fall and spring and is not limited to AAE members.

Sarah has worked in education for ten years as a special education teacher and in a variety of teacher leader roles including: Special Education and Disproportionality Grant Coordinator, WASC coordinator, member of the California State Network of Educators reviewing formative assessment and professional development material for the Smarter Balanced Consortium's Digital Library, and Race to the Top Peer Reviewer for the 2013 District Grant Competition.

Finally, Race to the Top, last year's federal competition for $ 3.4 billion in grants to support education reform, emphasized improving the training and evaluation of principals as much as it did the training and evaluation of teachers.

Under a law passed last year that helped the state win $ 700 million in a federal grant competition, known as Race to the Top, each school district must find a way to evaluate teachers on a scale from «ineffective» to «highly effective,» with teachers facing potential firing if they are rated ineffective for two years in a row.

Granted, neither car is exactly as they left the factory years ago — both have been thoroughly massaged by German tuning firm Edo Competition.

DOT has also established a Pilot Program for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant recipients utilizing research authorities and authority under a General Provision in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act that enables such recipients to utilize local hiring preferences for purposes of evaluating the actual impacts on competition.

Find details about every creative writing competition — including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more — that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the pastgrants for translators, and more — that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the pastGrants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year.

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They're trailing behind Sony's PS4 in sales (granted, the slower, country - by - country rollout has contributed to that) and arguably didn't have as great a show last year as their primary competition, either.

Looks like years of fan rumors and wishes are soon to be granted, as Sony is getting into the smartphone industry with their sights set straight at iPhone competition.

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