To form a foundation for a national quality improvement campaign, American industry and government jointly established and support the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Created by public law in 1987, the Award promotes an understanding of quality excellence, greater awareness of quality as a crucial competitive element, and the sharing of information and successful strategies through con...

Submitted by drupal on Thu, 10/23/2014 13:51 Firm: Applied Research, LLC [2] Award Solicitation: NASA SBIR 2014 Phase I Solicitation [3] Award ID: SBIR_14_P1_144710 Award Topic: Algorithms and Tools for Science Data Processing, Discovery and Analysis, in State-of-the-Art Data Environments [4] Award Dollars: 124 999.00 Award Lead Center: Goddard Space Flight Center [5] Proposal Number: S5.03-929...

The Ackermann Award is presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL. The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year. The award consists of a diploma, an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, the publication of the abstract of the thesis and the citation in the CSL proceedings, and travel support to attend the conference. The first Ackermann Awar...

Submitted by drupal on Fri, 03/04/2016 16:48 Firm: Microelectronics Research Development Corporation [2] Award Solicitation: NASA SBIR Select 2014 Phase II Solicitation [3] Award ID: SBIR_14_P2_S_144053 Award Topic: Radiation Hardened Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Platforms [4] Award Dollars: 1 499 950.00 Award Lead Center: Goddard Space Flight Center [5] Proposal Number: S20.0...

1 Illinois State Geological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 2 Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 3 Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois, USA. * Corresponding author: c...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary disciplines, but outcomes associated with these awards have not been evaluated to date. NIH's Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet) is one of the few initiatives that has used this award mechanism...

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