Announcing the 2017 Sloan Research Fellows
Release Date:
02/21/2017
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as the recipients of the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships.
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02/17/2017
Researchers in the Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH) at Penn State found that sleep quality and quantity at night is affected by that day's stressors, and sleep hours and quality affect daily stressors the next day.
Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project
Release Date:
01/12/2017
The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation has announced a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the World Wide Web.
New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards
Release Date:
12/07/2016
The Fund for the City of New York announced the seven recipients of the eighth annual Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Scientists Probing Underground Depths Of Earth’s Carbon Cycle
Release Date:
11/10/2016
Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular level under extreme conditions is critical to understanding the Earth’s deep carbon cycle–a process that ultimately influences global climate change.
Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated
Release Date:
09/26/2016
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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS
Release Date:
09/23/2016
What can microbes from space tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from microbe samples collected from the International Space Station (ISS).
Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations
Release Date:
09/09/2016
Results challenge standard model of how animals and humans cool off.
Sloan Foundation to Honor Recipients of Teaching Champion Awards
Release Date:
09/08/2016
Three recipients of the 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Teaching Champion Award– K-12 teachers in the New York metropolitan area who have successfully integrated economics and financial literacy education into everyday learning in their classrooms–...
Sloan Foundation Contributes to Study on 'Superbugs'
Release Date:
09/07/2016
The overuse of antibiotics in both humans and livestock has largely been blamed for the rise in drug resistance.
Supported by Sloan, Rita Allen, New Understanding of Thirst Emerges from Brain Study
Release Date:
08/05/2016
The results stand in stark contrast to current views of thirst regulation, which hold that the brain signals for drinking to stop when it detects liquid-induced changes in blood concentration or volume.
With Support from Sloan, Research Points to Mechanisms on Why 'Green' Helps in Urban Life
Release Date:
08/02/2016
A pilot study opens a window on a biological mechanism for health benefits of urban greenery and on the methodology to expand research efforts.
Sloan Foundation Funds New App and TV Series Focusing on Science
Release Date:
07/27/2016
Faith Salie (NPR and CBS Sunday Morning) and neuroscientist Dr. Heather Berlin are co-hosts for the first 26 episodes.
Sloan Public Service Awards Honor Seven NYC Employees
Release Date:
06/03/2016
Employees recognized from NYPD, MTA, NYC Health & Hospitals, Environmental Protection, Human Resources Administration and Department for the Aging.
Sloan Foundation Supports Science on Screen Film Series
Release Date:
04/28/2016
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IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
03/11/2016
Indiana University has joined a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university...
Sloan-Supported Study Shows Whales Dine With Their Own Kind
Release Date:
03/03/2016
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, and NOAA, have found that as multiple species of whales feast on herring, they tend to stick with their own kind.
Sloan Foundation Announces 2016 Research Fellowships
Release Date:
02/25/2016
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the selection of 126 scientists and researchers as recipients of this year's Sloan Research Fellowships.
International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)
Release Date:
02/03/2016
A massive international research partnership has sequenced the entire genome of the common bed bug, uncovering several traits that also could reveal why they’re so resistant to pesticides.
'Embrace of the Serpent' Wins Sloan Foundation Prize at Sundance for Portrayal of Science
Release Date:
01/29/2016
The Colombian film "Embrace of the Serpent," already up for the Academy Award in the Foreign-Language Film category, won The Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.