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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation that funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics.
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Economists at J-PAL North America are turning data into decisions
Economists at J-PAL North America are turning data into decisions
“What really drives us is making sure the results from our studies are useful and used to inform policy.”
Faye Saulsbury
Oct 21, 2024
The FAST and the Curious: what it takes to bring up the next stars in astronomy
The FAST and the Curious: what it takes to bring up the next stars in astronomy
This initiative brings historically under-represented minority groups into the field of astronomy
Faye Saulsbury
Oct 10, 2024
If these walls could talk: lessons from a boom decade in indoor chemistry
If these walls could talk: lessons from a boom decade in indoor chemistry
A growing community of scientists is learning to hear the chemical stories our indoor spaces have to tell.
Faye Saulsbury
Sep 19, 2024
Can this trio of researchers create a lifelike system from microscopic magnets?
Can this trio of researchers create a lifelike system from microscopic magnets?
They want to know how a universe that started with only physics can end up with biology. Why not try to create the process themselves?
Faye Saulsbury
Sep 5, 2024
Dr Semmelweis: bringing dissident voices from science to the stage
Dr Semmelweis: bringing dissident voices from science to the stage
“If we tell science stories that are only about success, then we are lying about the reality of science, and the reality of life.”
Faye Saulsbury
Aug 12, 2024
Meeting of the Minds: this small conference devoted to innovation is leading to big results
Meeting of the Minds: this small conference devoted to innovation is leading to big results
Two early-career scientists, Jenny Yang and Neil Dasgupta, have both scaled Scialog ideas into federally-funded research.
Faye Saulsbury
Jul 29, 2024
Education, Equity and Elk: indigenous knowledge is at the heart of this wildlife research
Education, Equity and Elk: indigenous knowledge is at the heart of this wildlife research
Daniel Bird’s story demonstrates the power of opening science to all…
Faye Saulsbury
Jun 27, 2024
A new side of Charles Darwin, revealed in letters
A new side of Charles Darwin, revealed in letters
After more than 40 years of gathering, deciphering, and researching over 15,000 handwritten letters, the Darwin Correspondence Project is…
Faye Saulsbury
Apr 9, 2024
Celebrating Innovators in Open Source Hardware
Celebrating Innovators in Open Source Hardware
Alicia Gibb Seidle is spearheading efforts to recognize academic pioneers who are leveraging the power of open source in scientific…
Faye Saulsbury
Nov 1, 2023
Introducing New York City’s next generation of farmer-scientists
Introducing New York City’s next generation of farmer-scientists
New York Sun Works teaches K-12 students across the five boroughs the science of sustainability through the wonders of urban farming.
Chris Richardson
Oct 10, 2023
Meet the courageous Ukrainians fortifying science at risk
Meet the courageous Ukrainians fortifying science at risk
A media collective called Science at Risk is spearheading efforts to support scientists affected by the war — and reboot Ukrainian science.
Chris Richardson
Jun 23, 2023
This biologist is analyzing evolution in the age of the Anthropocene
This biologist is analyzing evolution in the age of the Anthropocene
Shane Campbell-Staton is exploring the ways animals are responding to human behavior
Chris Richardson
May 25, 2023
Meet the brains behind the world’s first fully remote global censorship observatory
Meet the brains behind the world’s first fully remote global censorship observatory
Roya Ensafi is a computer scientist working to protect billions of users from internet censorship and surveillance.
Chris Richardson
Apr 25, 2023
Lishin Yu’s plague doc brings a lost history to the big screen
Lishin Yu’s plague doc brings a lost history to the big screen
“Plague at the Golden Gate” explores a long-forgotten epidemic of bubonic plague in San Francisco.
Chris Richardson
Feb 27, 2023
The nation’s largest gathering of Ph.D. scholars of color
The nation’s largest gathering of Ph.D. scholars of color
The Institute on Teaching and Mentoring convened in Atlanta, Georgia to discuss essential strategies for surviving graduate study.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Feb 21, 2023
New York City’s ‘Nobel Prize of Public Service’
New York City’s ‘Nobel Prize of Public Service’
For almost 50 years, one organization has been honoring the unheralded heroes of the nation’s largest city.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Feb 8, 2023
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