We held bioethics training for current postdocs and encouraged them to attend a grant-funding seminar.
The RAE panelists, all British, considered such factors as publication quality, peer-reviewed external funding, seminar invitations, and journal editorship positions.
The unit is also backing a series of seminars to encourage women to apply for funding from Europe, and they offer grants of up to £1000 to women who would like to organise an E.U. funding seminar.
Unfortunately, the United States Judicial Conference, the governing body for all federal judges, has punted on the propriety of privately funded seminars, advising that judges assess their appropriateness "case by case".
With DoD funding, seminars with the participation of intellectuals from the United States and other countries discuss issues such as "Why Art Can Bring an End to Wars"; "Resolved: Culture, Not Weapons, Provides Hope for Avoiding Global Conflict".
He held lifelong interest in fostering international understanding between the U.S. and Asia, helping to fund academic seminars on Southeast Asia at Harvard, and establishing two undergraduate grants also at Harvard to help a new generation take over his lifelong goals for an enlightened American engagement in Asia.
The money funded research, seminar travel and a small office behind a coffee shop.
The organization did suffer some early growing pains, and the first real challenge came when it was time to find sponsors to fund the seminars, events, and computer equipment they needed to make their vision of the SBN a reality.
All members of fraternities and sororities must pay the $100 "Greek Membership Fee," a levy designed to fund leadership seminars and other educational events for Greeks.
In 1998, the California Council on Humanities funded the seminar The Black Queen: Primary Sources in California History to promote additional primary source research in California African-American history.
