scholarly journals Report to DOE and Exelon Corporation: Matching Grant Program for the Nuclear Engineering Program at University of Wisconsin, Madison

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Corradini
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Engineering ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Matching Grant

Playing Fields and Rare Plants: A Winning Combination

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Susan E. Keith ◽  
Bonnie B. Amos
Keyword(s):  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Rare Plants ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Private Landowners ◽  
Endangered Plant ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Matching Grant ◽  
Playing Fields ◽  
To Receive

With declining availability of funds for recreational-related construction, communities are searching for innovative ways to receive funding. To have a better chance of receiving funding for the construction of a sports complex and to create a sanctuary for the federally endangered plant, the Texas poppy-mallow (TPM), a partnership was formed among city, county, state, and federal agencies, and private landowners. As a result, Mitchell County was awarded $441,000 from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Outdoor Recreation Matching Grant Program and Partners for Fish and Wildlife to build a 20-acre sports and recreation complex. Funds were awarded, in large part, because Mitchell County created a sanctuary for the TPM. This partnership also represents the first endeavor to restore the TPM.

Being Educated in a New Nuclear Engineering Program: A Graduate Student Perspective

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector Medina
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
Nuclear Engineering ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Virginia Commonwealth University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Phd Program

Due to the advent of a dramatic increase in the demand for nuclear professionals, a number of universities are either strengthening their existing nuclear engineering programs or starting them for the first time. Following this trend, Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Virginia, in 2009 began to offer a program in Nuclear Engineering within the Department of Mechanical Engineering. As a student within the PhD program, the author presents his perspective — as well as observations from some undergraduate students — of being educated in a new Nuclear Engineering program. From his perspective, the author presents some mechanisms that have made this new program evolve. Additionally, herein are included some ideas applied by the author in order to carry out successful research — while overcoming the limitations of a new program: spontaneous and embedded innovation, networking, and creativity. It is hoped that the present paper will provide positive feedback to faculty members and motivate students, in any new educational program, particularly, in this renaissance of education, in the nuclear engineering field.

scholarly journals Using Matching Grants to Facilitate Corporate-University Research Linkages: A Preliminary Examination of Outcomes from One Initiative

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Stephen Bell
Keyword(s):  
University Research ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Matching Grant ◽  
Finance Theory ◽  
Matching Grants

In the 1980’s the issue of corporate-university linkages has received markedly increased attention from governments, corporations, and universities. From government’s perspective, the drive to enhance corporate-university linkages is derived from the belief that these linkages will contribute to economic competitiveness. One method that has been used by government to encourage this interaction is through the provision of matching grants. Using public finance theory as the conceptual basis, the paper examines the preliminary outcomes of one government’s matching grant initiative. Through a compilation of data on university research revenues on corporate contract research and a questionnaire to companies that placed the research contracts in universities, the paper shows that matching grants, in the manner provided by the BILD program, may not be an effective mechanism to promote corporate-university research linkages. The paper concludes with some suggestions for further research and discusses the conceptual and methodological hurdles that can be encountered when attempting to asses the outcomes of a matching grant program, particularly as applied to corporate-university linkages.

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