Over all the endowment made 78 grants, up from 64 in 2011, totaling $3.55 million, down from $4 million last year.
In 2008, 119 industrial Ph.D. scholarships were granted, up from 50 in 2002, the first year of the program.
It includes the European Research Council, which will receive about 17% of the program's budget for its elite research grants—up from 15% in the current program.
Each team has received a grant (up to $10,000) from the Lemelson-MIT Program to take their inventions from concept to finished product.
But the number of Egyptians seeking asylum has jumped since the revolution; in 2011, 1,028 Egyptians were given asylum — 4.1 percent of all of those granted asylum — up from 531 in 2010, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics.
Days earlier, his defence minister had been in Washington, where he asked the United States for $500m in aid (on top of $290m granted this year, up from about $100m in 1998).
The overall $443 million boost will allow NIH to fund 9849 new and competing grants (not counting Recovery grants), up 7 grants from 2009.
In return, Spain has been granted up to €100 billion from the EU to recapitalise the nationalised banks (though it insists only €40 billion is needed).
A working paper from two senior Stanford University academics examined more than 3,000 projects applying for or already granted up to $10bn of credits from the UN's CDM funds over the next four years, and concluded that the majority should not be considered for assistance.
In reading, 45percentt of students at schools in their second year of the grant were proficient, up from 40percenttwo years earlierer; and 41percentt were proficient in math, up from 33percenttwo years earlierer.
