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Female reviewers add NIH awards to women.(NEWSWATCH)
After giving its nine Director's Pioneer Awards to only men in its first year, this year the National Institutes of Health awarded six of its thirteen awards to women. The awards are designed to support bold new approaches to solving major questions in biomedicine, bringing $500,000 annually plus overhead for five years.
Last year the NIH faced criticism when all nine awards went to white men; 60 of 64 members of its review board were male. This year reviewers were 28 women and 38 men.
The NIH made a deliberate effort to assemble a diverse group of scientists to review this year's entries. After explicitly asking for applications from female and minority scientists, the NIH reported a 5% increase in female ...
- Search Made Relevant - TM - -- Finally With Launch of Hotrate.com.
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 13, 1999 700+ words
...com was conceived," Frank Martens insists. "After 2 years of research on how to achieve more relevance, we pioneered...people make the best decisions possible." Editors & Reviewers add Human Intelligence Hotrate.com employs a vast army of editors...
- N2H2 Demonstrates International Channel Strategy With Announcement Of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 27, 2001 700+ words
...established a database review location in Tokyo, where Japanese reviewers add web content to N2H2's database of over 300,000 Japanese...represented 52% of the Internet's 256 million users last year, but will make up 68% of the online population by late 2003...
- CornerPost Software Announces Updates to Chaperon for ISA, Its Intelligent...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 25, 2003 700+ words
...URLs to CornerPost for human review. If reviewers add a site to Chaperon's filter list, the...is $2,500 or $3,500 for the first year for school and business customers, respectively, and $1,500 or $1,800 per year thereafter for the annual filter subscription...
- Kaplan Lumber, with presence in Wright City and St. Peters, to cease operations
- Newspaper article from: Missouri Lawyers Media Sarah Wienke; Mike Trask December 7, 2009 700+ words
...business for more than 80 years.The slump in homebuilding...doors at the first of this year. "We've been where...so at this time of the year," said Karen Girondo...property tax revenues next year. Also, besides the jobs...he said. In recent years Kaplan has been in the...
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- Newspaper article from: Missouri Lawyers Media Mike Trask December 7, 2009 700+ words
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- University of Missouri-Kansas City dentistry school still not...
- Newspaper article from: Missouri Lawyers Media Alyson E Raletz December 7, 2009 700+ words
...time professor who settled a lawsuit over wheelchair access at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry 11 years ago is suing the institution again for allegedly not living up to settlement terms. Brian Williams, a graduate of the school...
- St. Louis attorneys launch fundraising effort for charities
- Newspaper article from: Missouri Lawyers Media Allison Retka December 7, 2009 700+ words
...that the slumped economy already has dried up donations for many charities. Spurred by a Simon Law Firm fundraising effort last year, which raised $11,000 for four St. Louis charities, Project XOXO selected 10 charities for donations, including a shelter...
- Feeding frenzy: Fine dining establishments are shut out of the New Orleans...
- Newspaper article from: New Orleans CityBusiness Richard A Webster December 7, 2009 700+ words
...We're sorry. We plan on watching the Super Bowl,'" Operations Manager Steve Woodruff said. "We only close two days a year and that's for the two holy days: Christmas and Mardi Gras. So for us to close for another occasion is a big deal." Not...
