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Simons Foundation Among Backers of $28 Million Autism Treatment Study

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07/29/2015

... Institutes of Health and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. The study is also supported by a Yale ...

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Ford and Luce Foundations Support Scholars Bringing Fresh Eyes to Well-worn Topics in SE Asia

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11/23/2015

... thinks he has landed on unexplored territory. Ham’s research project, Narratives Analysis on Hydropower Dam ...

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What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

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12/17/2015

James R. Knickman, President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), writes about price variation in the New York health care system.

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New York Health Foundation

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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

... in the program will take part in intensive summer research programs and cross-institutional conferences, while ... and California State University, Northridge — and five research institutions — New York...

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John A. Hartford Foundation's Fulmer to be Honored by New York Academy of Medicine

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08/25/2016

... policy, public health, clinical practice, biomedical research and any individual who has made significant ... to the health of the public through innovative research , practice, policy, or programs that address...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

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09/09/2016

... authoritative information on what has been learned from research , data, and practical experience about disciplinary ... from and were commissioned by the Discipline Disparities Research -to-Practice...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

... the nation's premier foundation devoted to social science research , will host their first annual Poverty Solutions .....

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Economic Security

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MAC AIDS Fund Supports Efforts to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women

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01/27/2017

... them sexual health options and also embarking on a path of research ,” says Linda Blout, president of Black Women’s ... and Drug Administration in 2012 to prevent HIV infection. Research conducted in Africa,...

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

... $5.2 million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation and the Chinese University of Hong Kong ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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JPB Foundation Supports Study of New Approach That Makes Cells Resistant to HIV

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04/19/2017

... Makes Cells Resistant to HIV Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a way to tether ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement

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05/19/2017

... found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey also found that African- Americans and ... less than whites with similar education and experience, research shows... Alfred P. Sloan...

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A New MIT-Led Simons Foundation Collaboration Aims to Understand Basic Principles and Laws of Microbial Ecosystems

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05/30/2017

... grown in pure cultures have been the basis of biological research for many decades — open a cell biology textbook ... or E. coli lab cultures. While this speaks to the power of research on individual species,...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

The researchers say pediatricians may want to counsel parents of high birthweight babies early on to prevent the onset of obesity and the health problems it eventually brings.

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

... particles that interact only weakly with matter. The research , performed at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and ...

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

A new study by researchers at Duke University, for example, found that “implicit weight bias” in children ages 9 to 11 was as common as “implicit racial bias” is among adults.

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Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... successes. “A consistent pattern has emerged from this research ,” wrote University of Michigan professor of ...

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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

... scrambling to win a competition for a new city-incubated research campus. During the run-up to the opening, officials ... entrepreneurs and business leaders in a setting to advance research and business start-...

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... a movement for social change. In this article, we build on research on social change,1 including our own research ,2 for which we studied hundreds of social change ...

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... for dinner”). They take advantage of taxpayer-funded research at state universities. Prison inmates raise cattle ... Philanthropy Project, The Greenfield Project will conduct research , do regulatory and legal...

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