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Ford Foundation Building Listed As One Of The 100 Most Important Buildings of the 20th Century

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10/11/2017

Ford Foundation Building Listed As One Of The 100 Most Important ... buildings, died before she could whittle down her list.) In November, Rizzoli is publishing a book about the most ... alone has six (the...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Blue Meridian Partners Profiled in New York Times

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10/16/2017

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation ’s Blue Meridian Partners Profiled in New York Times Stanley Druckenmiller, the hedge fund ... a philanthropic fund created by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation ,...

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Simons Foundation's Quanta Magazine Celebrates Five Years of Public Service Science Journalism

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07/17/2018

Simons Foundation 's Quanta Magazine Celebrates Five Years of Public Service Science Journalism In an uncertain time in the media business, Quanta Magazine ... as an editorially independent...

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Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses - New Report by The Century Foundation

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09/12/2019

... Control of Your Online Courses - New Report by The Century Foundation As public and nonprofit colleges have sought to ... at times, comprehensive control over the services offered in the contracting college’s...

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Ian Magee Joins F. B. Heron Foundation as Vice President, Finance and Operations

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01/01/2013

The F. B. Heron Foundation has announced the appointment of Ian Magee as its ... the university as its Director of Financial Strategy in 2009. Prior to that appointment, he held positions of ... the University of...

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Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School

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11/06/2015

Open Society Foundation -funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way ... biases, belief systems, and norms. African-American girls in school encounter race and gender biases, which lead them ... of white girls, and more...

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International Genome Research Partnership Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation)

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02/03/2016

... Uncovers Bed Bug Resistance to Pesticides (Sloan Foundation ) The very thought of them makes a person ... – and scratch. Those bloodsucking bed bugs are endemic in every major city, and they’re very hard to get...

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Gould Foundation’s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income Students

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02/12/2016

Gould Foundation ’s Tyre is Author of In -Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income ... and An Introduction to Diophantine Equations. . . Gould Foundation ’s Tyre is Author of...

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Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight Life-Saving Innovations

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04/13/2017

Gates Foundation Releases New Virtual Reality Game to Highlight ... The game appears alongside a post entitled “ Hidden in Plain Sight ” on Gates’ personal blog, Gates Notes. ... philanthropists are bad at...

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Century Foundation President's Commentary Explains Why Teachers Deserve a Break on Student Debt

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10/03/2017

Century Foundation President's Commentary Explains Why Teachers Deserve a Break on Student Debt In October 2007, as experts began warning about rising ... for addressing our student debt crisis... Century...

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Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees

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10/23/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives ... nation’s education system has become an SAT rat race in which youth are judged on where they fall on the bell ... meet college test-...

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While Announcing Main Branch Renovations, NYPL Notes Mid-Manhattan Library to Be Renamed for Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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11/16/2017

... Mid-Manhattan Library to Be Renamed for Stavros Niarchos Foundation At a Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday ... a new permanent but rotating exhibition of NYPL treasures in the library’s Gottesman Hall.....

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Research Funded By The Russell Sage Foundation Shows Why Paid Family Leave Laws Could Hurt SNF Census

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01/11/2018

Research Funded By The Russell Sage Foundation Shows Why Paid Family Leave Laws Could Hurt SNF ... could have an unintended negative consequence: a decline in census . The implementation of generous paid family...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ ... and autism. “These findings suggest that neural circuits in FXS may be fundamentally intact but improperly tuned, ... memory or recollecting...

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Report Funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Shows Many Aging NYC Parks Have Infrastructure Problems

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06/26/2018

Report Funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Shows Many Aging NYC Parks Have Infrastructure ... playgrounds, and other recreational facilities. They vary in shape and size—as well as intended uses—but these .....

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Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players

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08/09/2018

Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Shows No Early Dementia in 21 Past NHL, NFL Players In a new study, researchers found ... onset dementia... Study Funded by The Ralph C. Wilson...

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Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next Generation of Farmers for Climate Change

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09/10/2018

Zegar Family Foundation Funded Research Shows Urgent Need To Prepare Next ... the fastest growing food sector. New research shows that in order for this next generation of farmers to thrive, there ... sustainable...

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Research Funded by Zegar Family Foundation Finds New Genetic Interdependence Between Mothers and Their Offspring

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10/03/2018

Research Funded by Zegar Family Foundation Finds New Genetic Interdependence Between Mothers ... development help explain patterns of animal development in nature and across the evolutionary tree. Its findings...

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Simons and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fund Study That Reveals How the Brain Overcomes Its Own Limitations

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10/24/2018

... Imagine trying to write your name so that it can be read in a mirror. Your brain has all of the visual information you ... that it’s not familiar with: using what it sees in the mirror to accurately guide your...

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