Research to Prevent Blindness- Backed Study Uncovers Major Cause of Vision Loss
Release Date:
09/29/2016
... of retinal disorders, including those for which there are no treatments, such as retinitis pigmentosa and advanced ...
Site Search
- resource provided by the Forum Network Knowledgebase.
Search Tip: Search with " " to find exact matches.
2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi’s Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease
Release Date:
10/05/2016
... and diabetes. Now drugs that can target the process are being tested in early-stage clinical trials in human ...
Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust
Release Date:
11/22/2016
The grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust extends the historic $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in 2013.
Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals
Release Date:
12/12/2016
... Prepare Principals Outcomes like those posted by SEM are the exact kind of results officials from the Wallace Foundation say they are hoping to reproduce nationwide through a $47 million ... will support...
January 11 Is Deadline to Submit a Letter of Inquiry for William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants
Release Date:
12/14/2016
... strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. The application process for all ... grants begins with a letter of inquiry. Letters of inquiry are generally received three times...
Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit
Release Date:
12/21/2016
... But our members work in increasingly interdisciplinary ways , and they let us know very quickly that they were ... and, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are happy to have launched a pilot of...
Milbank Memorial Fund Convenes Health Policy Leaders to Create A Bipartisan Agenda for New Administration
Release Date:
01/19/2017
... we receive. State leaders understand that as a society we are spending our health care dollars in the wrong ways for the wrong things — emphasizing treatment over ...
Giving Parents a Prominent Voice in Schools
Release Date:
03/08/2017
... helps parents navigate the system and ensures their voices are heard in major decisions. Giving Parents a Prominent ...
Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative
Release Date:
03/30/2017
... critical theory, a stream of philosophy that critiques the ways culture is formed and discussed. German Prof. Peter ...
Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island
Release Date:
06/20/2017
... Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island Four women are meeting one last time, putting together final details, ...
Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Swimming Foundation. More minority and low-income children are finding their way into the water. And in New York City, they are helped in part by a growing array of free lessons, such ...
To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... ensuring students receive quality meals in schools and are learning ways to make healthy, informed choices about the food they ...
One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... DACA, with a mixture of resignation and resolve. "In some ways there's a lot of uncertainty, but I have dealt with .....
Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Peconic Care, a proposed addiction treatment facility, promises to deal with the opioid crisis in a way that exists nowhere else in the country.
Reed: Dreamer Bill Could Be Part Of Broader Border Security Legislation
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Southern Tier Republican Rep. Tom Reed said he’s in favor of a permanent solution for former Deferred Action of Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients. He believes there is far-reaching support for legislation to help undocumented immigrants who came...
Middle-Class Incomes Rise, But Census Report Shows Worrying Disparities
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... a financial crisis and deep recession walloped workers in ways that were still felt years later. . . Middle-Class ...
Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders
Release Date:
09/19/2017
President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the refugee crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in...
New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... NYC Students Just days into the new school year, there are already problems with the food served to New York ... Marcia Kramer reported exclusively Tuesday, questions are now being raised about servings of kid...
Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself
Release Date:
09/25/2017
In his book ‘The Way to Design,” Steve Vassalo quotes John Arnold, who taught a course at Stanford in the early ‘60s called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’s advances was started by a question….Knowing what questions to ask and how to ask them...
How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... were spent on delayed trains or crowded platforms? These are questions for which, until now, there were no easy ...