Government And Private Grants Links

Research and Markets: Government Grants cannot Spearhead the Deployment of Smart Grid Alone

Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData 's new report "Government Grants cannot Spearhea

Anika Rahman: Komen For The Cure: Breasts, With a Side of Politics

What may explain such pervasive outrage that women feel toward Komen is that breasts have long been exempted from the political attacks.

Eric Cantor, Science, And The Central Planning Fallacy

Congressman Eric Cantor is encouraging people to submit "frivolous" grants from the National Science Foundation to his website so that they can become a target of budget cuts. Here is what he's encouraging his followers to look for - "In the 'Search Award For' field, try some keywords, such as: success, culture, media, games, social norm, lawyers, museum, leisure, stimulus, etc. to bring up ...

University of Pittsburgh receives $22 million from the Richard King Mellon Foundation

( University of Pittsburgh ) The Center for Energy in the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering has received a $22 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation -- one of the largest private foundation grants in Pitt's history. The gift will accelerate the research and education efforts of the center, which is dedicated to improving energy technology development and ...

Insight: Komen charity under microscope for funding, science

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity defines its mission as finding a cure for breast cancer. In recent years, however, it has cut by nearly half the proportion of fund-raising dollars it spends on grants to scientists working to understand the causes and develop effective new treatments for the disease. While the absolute dollar amount of those grants has steadily grown ...