Word: pews
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Those 16 schools will compete as a group against seven other such consortiums to try to capture some part of an $8 million grant sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trust, an educational foundation...
Seventy-five schools that traditionally produce the most scientists were eligible to form clusters and vie for the $8 million fund, called the Pew Science Program in Undergraduate Education, said Joan Girgus, director of the program. Schools within each cluster will use the funds to invigorate their science curriculums, she said...
...Pew grant, which is being offered this year for the first time, is an effort to close this widening...
Although some consortiums will not receive any funding from the foundation, Pew will disperse the money to more than one group of schools, Girgus said...
...went with my daughter to church, a sweet little Methodist church in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Except to mark an occasional death I have not been much of a churchgoer lately, but on this Sabbath my girl Whitney was to sing solo, and I felt drawn to a front pew, aisle. I am happy to report she did herself and her old man proud, and I carried the memory of her lovely performance with me to the city (she stayed on to see to her schooling) as well as something the preacher said. At one point in his sermon...