{"id":52456,"date":"2015-11-12T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=52456"},"modified":"2015-11-12T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:16:56","slug":"amazon-launches-new-program-to-fund-university-research-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/11\/12\/amazon-launches-new-program-to-fund-university-research-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon launches new program to fund university research [Greene]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-title p-name entry-title\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/amazon\/amazon-launches-new-program-to-fund-university-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon launches new program to fund university research<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from seattletimes.com by Jay Greene; via the <a href=\"https:\/\/webcpm.com\/Home.aspx?s=CPMWeeklyUpdate\" target=\"_blank\">College Planning &amp; Management Weekly Update<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-title p-name entry-title\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amazon.com is getting into the university grant-making business, launching a new program Thursday to fund research into big, world-changing ideas at universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The program, Amazon Catalyst, will debut at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amazon hopes to fund research into ideas in complex and vexing areas such as climate change and immigration. And the company is keen to put money toward \u201cearly-stage ideas\u201d that might not otherwise get grant money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In announcing the program, Amazon isn\u2019t putting a limit on the amount it will dole out. But Adam Siegel, Amazon Catalyst\u2019s managing director, said the \u201cballpark\u201d range would run from \u201ctens of thousands of dollars\u201d to $100,000 per grant. He said Amazon hasn\u2019t set a limit on the number of projects it will fund or the duration of Catalyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon launches new program to fund university research &#8212; from seattletimes.com by Jay Greene; via the College Planning &amp; Management Weekly Update Excerpt: Amazon.com is getting into the university grant-making business, launching a new program Thursday to fund research into big, world-changing ideas at universities. The program, Amazon Catalyst, will debut at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,115,302,211,3,419,180,217,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-funding-grants","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-research","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52457,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456\/revisions\/52457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}