Tag: Grants

  • Nation & World

    Ten physicians awarded grants to focus on patient safety

    Ten physicians from a cross-section of Harvard teaching hospitals have been awarded a total of $500,000 in grants by CRICO/RMF – the patient safety and medical malpractice insurance company owned by and serving the Harvard-affiliated medical community.

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  • Nation & World

    Ash Institute awards faculty grants

    The Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University has awarded $245,000 in grants for faculty research and retreat in 2007, director Gowher Rizvi recently announced. Each of the nine projects funded supports the goals of the institute by seeking to advance good government and to strengthen democratic institutions worldwide…

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  • Nation & World

    In brief

    Milton Fund accepting research proposals, Slide horn day at the stadium, Yale Law School’s Ackerman to deliver Holmes Lectures

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  • Nation & World

    HMS offers fellowships, grants

    Each year, numerous postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. These include the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface, the Damon…

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  • Nation & World

    HMS Dept. of Ophthalmology awarded RPB grant

    The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology was recently awarded a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) for $110,000 to help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard Fulbright Scholars named

    Nine Harvard College students who graduated this past June and 14 current and former graduate students of the University have been named U.S. Fulbright Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year.

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  • Nation & World

    HMS seeks grant, fellowship nominations

    Each year more than 50 postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. The private foundations that fund these grants permit a limited number of individuals to be nominated for these awards. (Individuals cannot apply for these directly, but must be nominated by the institution.) In order to choose…

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  • Nation & World

    MacArthur Foundation awards $3 million to Berkman Center, OpenNet Initiative

    The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $3 million to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and its partners to advance their collaborative study of state-sponsored Internet filtering worldwide through the OpenNet Initiative.

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    University Library receives grant

    The Harvard University Library (HUL) has received a grant of $600,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the development of a registry of authoritative information about digital formats. Detailed information about the format of digital resources is fundamental to their preservation. The two-year project will result in a new Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR),…

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