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Supported By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Scientists Create New Therapeutic Gel That Shows Promise Against Cancerous Tumors

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02/22/2018

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable gel-like scaffold that can hold combination chemo-immunotherapeutic drugs and deliver them locally to tumors in a sequential manner.

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With Support From Tiffany & Co., Virtual Reality Project, "My Africa," To Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival

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03/12/2018

... at the Tribeca Film Festival Conservation International' s newest virtual reality project, "My Africa," has been ... where a community is reknitting the bonds that have long enabled people and...

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New Documentary Supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Highlights the Unseen Side of Silicon Valley

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03/14/2018

... the Unseen Side of Silicon Valley San Francisco Bay Area’ s Silicon Valley is a region that has spawned or nurtured not ... of innovation. The full scope and drama of the region’ s evolution will be revealed...

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Research Supported by The Helmsley Charitable Trust Grant Provides New Insight Into Neurological Disorders

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04/17/2018

... Disorders Many neurological disorders—Alzheimer’ s , schizophrenia, autism, even depression—have lagged ... and therapeutic purposes, these model systems are still a long way from representing the complexity of...

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With Support From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, MIT Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery

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08/15/2018

... for why the sticks refused to snap in two. Feynman’ s kitchen experiment remained unresolved until 2005, when ... to describe the forces at work when spaghetti — and any long , thin rod — is bent. They found...

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MetLife, Deutsche Bank, Surdna, Moody’s, Pershing Square and Others Supporting Launch of Microlender Kiva NYC

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12/11/2015

MetLife, Deutsche Bank, Surdna, Moody’ s , Pershing Square and Others Supporting Launch of ... borrowers and former President Bill Clinton. "The world needs two things more than anything else. It needs...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies

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02/15/2017

Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems ... somewhere in the middle... Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems ...

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid ... he accidentally spilled some of the material. . . Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid ...

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... to NewsHour online, with original stories from NewsHour’ s reporting team and partners at the Hechinger Report, ...

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Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Antimicrobial Paints Have a Blind Spot

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05/13/2019

... will mount a defense,” said Northwestern Engineering’ s Erica Hartmann, who led the study. “Bacillus is typically ...

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Ms. & New York Women’s Foundation Join Others in $100M Pledge to Support Economic Security of Women & Families

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11/13/2015

Ms and New York Women’ s Foundation Join Others in $100 Million Pledge to Support ... Families WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today The New York Women’ s Foundation (NYWF) joined 27 public U. S . women’...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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NYSHealth Funding Opportunity: Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities, Consumer Empowerment, and Veterans' Health

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02/06/2019

... doing smart, innovative work that is relevant to NYSHealth' s priority areas of Building Healthy Communities and ... in New York and nationally. Yet, because of a lack of resources , they are often unable...

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Stavros Niarchos & Leon Levy Foundations Supported Research Finds Common Cerebral White Matter Abnormalities in Children with Autistic Traits

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09/06/2017

... with Autistic Traits Structural abnormalities in the brain' s white matter match up consistently with the severity of ... specific, future diagnostic tests and treatments. "It' s important for...

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Action Plan Released to Conserve One of Africa’s Richest Sites for Biodiversity with Support from the Arcus Foundation

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02/14/2018

Action Plan Released to Conserve One of Africa’ s Richest Sites for Biodiversity with Support from the Arcus ... Africa: the Albertine Rift, home to mountain and Grauer’ s gorillas, golden monkeys, chimpanzees,...

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Mosquito 'spit glands' Hold Key to Curbing Malaria, Study Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Shows

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08/12/2019

... by a roadblock along the escape route in the insect’ s spit glands, a barrier that could potentially serve as a ... infection. “Our findings add substantial detail to the role of mosquito salivary glands as...

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Novo Foundation Partners With Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium to Support Growing Movement for Black Girls in the Southeastern U.S.

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10/16/2018

... Foundation Partners With Southern Black Girls & Women’ s Consortium to Support Growing Movement for Black Girls in the Southeastern U. S . The NoVo Foundation today announced a new partnership with ... for...

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University of New Haven Receives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Education for Incarcerated Students

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04/15/2021

... an innovative program that we believe will provide the resources and support for incarcerated students to succeed ... and humanities in the United States, The Mellon Foundation supports initiatives that...

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Tisch Illumination Fund Supports City Limits' Coverage of NYC Food Policy Issues

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03/03/2016

Tisch Illumination Fund Supports City Limits' Coverage of NYC Food Policy Issues ... NYC neighborhoods, and that was influential in the city’ s supermarket incentive program for underserved ... pieces, as...

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