Simons Foundation Announces Historic Gift to Stony Brook University Endowment
Release Date:
06/01/2023
The Simons Foundation’s contribution is the largest unrestricted endowment gift to a higher education institution in American history.
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01/25/2023
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Simons Foundation Announces First Pivot Fellowship Recipients
Release Date:
09/07/2022
The program will support the seven accomplished researchers as they apply their talent and expertise to a new field in mathematics or the natural sciences.
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Release Date:
05/11/2022
Stony Brook University has announced a major new initiative funded by the Simons Foundation and its sister foundation, Simons Foundation International
Simons Foundation Supports CUNY Graduate Center to Diversify Astrophysics Education
Release Date:
02/09/2022
The Simons Foundation grant will cover students’ tuition and will provide students with a stipend for living costs as well as health care benefits.
Simons Foundation Accepting Applications for its Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards
Release Date:
09/23/2021
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David Spergel Takes the Helm as President of the Simons Foundation
Release Date:
07/01/2021
Astrophysicist David Spergel began his tenure today as president of the Simons Foundation
Eero Simoncelli Leads New Center for Computational Neuroscience at The Simons Foundation
Release Date:
01/26/2021
Eero Simoncelli leads the new Center for Computational Neuroscience.
Autism at Work: How the Simons Foundation is Expanding Efforts of Inclusion in the Workplace
Release Date:
03/10/2020
One opportunity can change everything. The transition to adulthood, tumultuous for many, can be even more challenging for people on the autism spectrum.
Simons Foundation is Accepting Application for Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians
Release Date:
10/23/2019
The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites applications for Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians to stimulate collaboration in the field primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures.
Simons Foundation Gifts UC San Diego Funds to Operate Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Early Universe
Release Date:
07/09/2019
Astrophysicists are trying to zoom in on massive clusters of galaxies which are difficult to see.
Simons Foundation Invites Applications for Autism Research
Release Date:
06/06/2019
The foundation is inviting applications to its annual Bridge to Independence Award Program.
Research Funded by Simons Foundation Finds New Causes of Autism Found in 'Junk' DNA
Release Date:
05/27/2019
The neurodevelopmental condition can result from mutations in the noncoding regions of the human genome, new research demonstrates for the first time.
MIT Receives $8 Million From Simons Foundation for Quantum Research
Release Date:
06/04/2019
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a four-year, $8 million grant from the Simons Foundation in support of the Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter.
Euan Robertson Joins Simons Foundation As Chief Operating Officer
Release Date:
04/01/2019
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that in April Euan Robertson joined its leadership team as the foundation’s first chief operating officer (COO).
New Study Funded in Part by Simons Foundation Study Hopes to Predict Autism Behaviors
Release Date:
11/26/2018
Siegel, who is also a MBH vice president, is directing a three-year study on whether biosensors can alert of impending “challenging behaviors” in children and adolescents with autism.
Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Announce Inaugural Science Nonfiction Film Grants
Release Date:
11/16/2018
Five emerging filmmakers received grants and other critical support as part of a new program to elevate the voices of independent artists working at the intersection of science and nonfiction storytelling.
Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes
Release Date:
11/07/2018
Researchers have discovered that the bacteria in the water in a large exhibit at Georgia Aquarium are similar to those that exist naturally in the ocean.
Simons and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fund Study That Reveals How the Brain Overcomes Its Own Limitations
Release Date:
10/24/2018
MIT neuroscientists have now discovered how the brain tries to compensate for its poor performance in tasks that require this kind of complicated transformation.
Simons Foundation Announces Launch of the Center for Computational Mathematics
Release Date:
10/02/2018
The center, led by mathematician Leslie Greengard, will develop new mathematical approaches, algorithms and software to push the boundaries of scientific computing across many disciplines.