Word: granted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Roger W. Brockett, Harvard's Wang professor of electrical engineering and computer science, says many grant proposals often get "lost in the machinations of Congress...
Still, administrators say connections may not hurt, but they do not guarantee funding. Although some professors bring better reputations than others into the federal grant competition process, Martin says scholars are "still judged on the basis of their qualifications...
...process of allocating $30,000 when student groups are asking for a combined $210,000 may give some people the impression that the committee members get their thrills by gleefully slashing grant requests. But in actuality, we on the Finance Committee take more pride not in the amount we cut, but in the amount we give...
Officially, the NIH has had a policy since 1986 of requiring grant applicants to at least "consider" including women in their research. But that policy has been limply enforced. In September NIH acting director Dr. William Raub set up a special office to explore the problem...
With $10,000 in grant money from the Altman Foundation, used mostly for props, salaries and administrative overhead, Christensen and the Big Apple Circus designed a five-week pilot program. As he tuned in to the needs of his new audience, Christensen made changes in his timing and toned down his circus-arena makeup and gestures to suit the bedside. Perhaps the most daunting hurdle was earning the respect and support of the medical staff. "They had to accept that we were there as part of their world," he says...