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Supported by JPB Foundation, Scientists Identify Neurons Devoted to Social Memory

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09/30/2016

... a new study from MIT neuroscientists. These cells, found in a region of the hippocampus known as the ventral CA1, ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal

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10/04/2016

... understanding and application of Jane Jacobs' principles. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Jacobs' birth .....

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United Hospital Fund Checklist Helps Patients Fight For Rights At The Hospital — And Avoid Readmission

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10/05/2016

... themselves. A useful checklist can be found at Next Step in Care, a program of the United Hospital Fund... United ...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on Trump Policy for Student Loan Forgiveness

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12/14/2016

... handing off the baton to a Republican administration in January, the U.S. Department of Education is racing to ... colleges. Since the closure of Corinthian Colleges in 2015, the department has received tens...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports GallopNYC Acquisition of Horse Stables in Queens

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01/09/2017

... Supports GallopNYC Acquisition of Horse Stables in Queens GallopNYC had acquired the horse stables near ... Queens, operated for many years as Lynne's Riding School, in Forest Hills, N.Y. The stable will...

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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Continues to Support Nurturing Young Artists

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01/20/2017

... of the company’s mission to introduce and develop arts in education with the community, the TYRO Acting Program is ...

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Supported by Doris Duke, Conservation Group Maps Land Protection Strategy in Three States

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03/13/2017

... Duke, Conservation Group Maps Land Protection Strategy in Three States A conservation group has created maps identifying key landscapes in the Pacific Northwest most likely to sustain native ... and is...

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Sloan Foundation Supports Study Mapping Space Dust in 3-D

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03/23/2017

Sloan Foundation Supports Study Mapping Space Dust in 3-D This undertaking was made possible by the combination ... Sloan Foundation Supports Study Mapping Space Dust in 3-D ...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Digitization Project for the American Numismatic Society’s Back List of Monographs

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04/17/2017

... 2010 will be made available for free online for anyone to use ... Mellon Foundation Supports Digitization Project for ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Survey Reveals Insight into the College Skills Gap

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05/01/2017

... recent college graduates are not using skills they learned in college at work, and 86 percent are learning new skills ...

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The Surdna Foundation Discusses Good Governance in New CEP Report

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05/02/2017

The Surdna Foundation Discusses Good Governance in New CEP Report CEP’s advisory services team and the ... impact... The Surdna Foundation Discusses Good Governance in New CEP Report ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities

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05/19/2017

... announced Thursday. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York awarded $980,000 to CCBC and $745,000 to Hopkins. ...

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Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics First Annual Meeting

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07/31/2017

Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics First Annual Meeting The Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics will hold its first Annual ... will...

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Opinion: Who Gets to Define Campus Rape?

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09/18/2017

... on how universities handle sexual misconduct complaints. In a strongly worded speech, Ms. DeVos made clear that she ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The JPB Foundation and Others Fund Brain Circuitry Research

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05/03/2018

Observational learning, offers a major evolutionary advantage, says Kay Tye, an MIT associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and a member of MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces More Than $8 Million in Grants to Strengthen the Clinical Research Pipeline

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08/19/2014

... Duke Charitable Foundation Announces More Than $8 Million in Grants to Strengthen the Clinical Research Pipeline The ... announced the recipients of more than $8 million in grants through the Clinical...

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Doris Duke and Simons Foundations Back Breakthrough Sickle Cell Research

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09/18/2015

... Sickle Cell Research The discovery, published in the journal Nature, creates a path for developing gene ... controls the molecular switch BCL11A. This switch, in turn, determines whether a red blood cell...

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The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

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06/05/2017

... Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds exceptional ... to conduct innovative research on the role of microbes in intestinal health, the prevention...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

... story of New Orleans' recovery: as smart investments in public infrastructure and housing have strengthened the city, new small businesses and jobs in health care, biosciences and technology have...

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