Tag - Million

First Nations Receives $5 Million from Bezos Earth Fund to Advance Indigenous Ecological Stewardship

First Nations Receives $5 Million from Bezos Earth Fund to Advance Indigenous Ecological Stewardship

First Nations Receives $5 Million from Bezos Earth Fund to Advance Indigenous Ecological Stewardship LONGMONT, Colo. (December 6, 2021) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) announced today it has received a $5 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to help tribes and Native-led nonprofit organizations conduct and operationalize climate change plans...

A Million Minutes of Oral Arguments | Free Law Project

Michael Lissner July 25, 2017 Today, we’re celebrating another milestone. We now have more than a million minutes of oral argument audio in CourtListener.com’s oral argument archive. All of this audio is available in our search engine, APIs, podcasts, and our website. A million minutes of oral argument audio is a lot, so it helps to contextualize it. This...

NASA’s Optical Comms Demo Transmits Data Over 140 Million Miles

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering data to Earth. Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records. While the asteroid-bound spacecraft doesn’t rely on...

First Nations Awards Over $2.4 Million in Funding to Address Climate Change and Promote Environmental Justice

First Nations Awards Over $2.4 Million in Funding to Address Climate Change and Promote Environmental Justice

LONGMONT, Colorado (January 18, 2023) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) has announced the 25 Native community partners to receive support to conduct and operationalize climate change plans, amplify the power of traditional ecological knowledge, and expand green jobs workforce development. Selected Native-led nonprofit organizations and Tribal...

Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives $35 Million from BARDA with Potential of up to $214 Million for Ebola Sudan and Marburg Vaccines

The Sabin Vaccine Institute today announced that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded Sabin a multi-year contract with funding potential for up to $214 million to advance the development and production of single-dose vaccine candidates for Ebola Sudan and Marburg virus diseases. There are currently no licensed vaccines...