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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently...

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

Warren Buffett has donated roughly $2.9 billion more Berkshire Hathaway Inc stock to five foundations, as part of the billionaire's plan to give away almost his entire fortune.

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Rausch and Long Island Community Foundations Partner to Expand Tourism in Riverhead

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07/15/2016

Their focus is on expanding tourism — which includes drawing visitors from New York City and promoting Riverhead as a place people plan their vacations around — and emphasizing the town’s arts and culture services.

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

“If America is to be America, we have to engage in a larger conversation than just the criminal justice system,” notes Walker.

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Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments

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07/15/2016

The grant maker's plans includes helping finance efforts to develop renewable-energy technogies, deliver clean electricity to rural India, and create insurance products for extreme-weather events in Africa.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Novo Foundation and Goren Group Announce Winner of Women's Building International Design Competition

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07/14/2016

The winner will lead the conversion of the former Bayview Correctional Facility in New York into a hub for the girls’ and women’s rights movement.

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Rubin Foundation Announces Participants in 2016 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Social Practice

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07/14/2016

IAP: Social Practice is a year-long professional development program for immigrant and 1st-generation artists working in all forms of socially engaged art.