According to a 2001 study of grants issued by the National Endowment for the Arts, male choreographers receive far more financing and opportunities to present their work than their female counterparts.
In a continuing series, The Big Picture, articles published in The Times have examined, among other things, anti-obesity programs financed with grants issued by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and federal and local governments.
Its permanent settlement began in 1769 when Major John Durkee, a veteran of the French and Indian War, settled a band of Connecticut colonists in the Wyoming Valley under grants issued by the Susquehanna Company.
Apple, maker of the iPod and iPhone music and video players, said last year that it backdated 6,428 stock-option grants issued from 1997 to 2002, according to the order.
"A 25% cut actually means an even bigger cut in the number of new grants issued, because the research councils have less money with which to honour their existing multi-year grants," said Khan. "It could completely change the landscape of UK science".
As the 13th International AIDS Conference prepared to open here on Sunday, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a research consortium supported by government and private grants, issued a blueprint to provide simultaneous access to an AIDS vaccine in rich and poor countries.
In e-mails recently sent to CNCS grantees, the Romanian government announced that it would make cuts in the 2013 installment of multiannual research grants issued in 2011.
"The grants issued today are for the ability for the devices to operate under Part 15 rules in the 5 GHz band".
A second round of stem cell grants issued by Grove and the Fox Foundation in 2004 resulted in further dead ends, including an experiment in which some dopamine-producing cells developed tumors.
The number of grants issued in two NIH 'study sections' Microbial Physiology and Genetics, and Bacteriology and Mycology--has fallen from 1117 between 1996 and 2000 to 746 since then, a drop of 33%.
Our findings have implications for a number of important legal and policy disputes, including initiatives to improve patent quality and the strong presumption of validity the law grants issued patents—a presumption that makes patents more difficult to challenge in court.
