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New President Selected to Lead the William T. Grant Foundation

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03/01/2013

... questions, with a deep commitment to doing first-class science in the public interest. He inherits a healthy ... was a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Science Education. In 2011, he led a...

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Sloan Foundation Partners With Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State to Boost STEM Mentoring Among Minorities

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08/05/2013

... Mentoring for minority graduate students in STEM ( science , technology, engineering and mathematics) ...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

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04/16/2014

... to explore both the theoretical underpinnings of computer science and its potential to shed light on a wide range of ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Calls for Articles on Women and the Economy

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05/29/2014

The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences invites paper submissions for its upcoming special issue on the changing roles and status of women and the effects on society and the economy. The special issue will consider both the...

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Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

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10/01/2014

... technology and innovation, in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said that private institutions ...

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White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments

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03/24/2015

... STEM commitments this week at the fifth annual White House Science Fair. The new private sector commitments are ...

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Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields

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03/27/2015

The main goal of the initiative is to increase the diversity of graduate education in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... and Informatics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a Research to Prevent ...

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New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier

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05/21/2015

... Parsons School of Design, Healthy Building Network, Green Science Policy Institute and Health Product Declaration ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Strives to Provide Free Psychiatric Evaluations to 10,000 NYC Kids

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08/21/2015

... is a brand-new initiative seeking to help advance the science of child and adolescent brain development. The ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Awarded to Those Who Dedicate Private Wealth to the Public Good

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08/25/2015

... the environment, cancer research, culture, the arts, science , citizenship, healthcare, and technology. The 2015 ...

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

Carnegie Corporation and the Russell Sage Foundation backed the study, which was released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Philanthropy Must Move Fast on Climate Change, Robertson and MacArthur Leaders Say in Chronicle

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12/02/2015

... of life in the United States and around the world, and the science tells us that far worse impacts are on the way. ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 33 Winners of Its Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellows

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04/19/2016

Each of the 2016 winners of the so-called "brainy awards" will receive up to $200,000 to fund one or two years of scholarly research in areas including education, law, technology, business and public policy.

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With Help from Helmsley, Caltech Researchers May Have Discovered a Cause of Crohn’s Disease

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05/09/2016

... were published online in the May 5 edition of the journal Science ... With Help from Helmsley, Caltech Researchers May ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

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06/28/2016

Non-citizen Latino immigrants may not be able to vote, but they could still help decide the outcome of the upcoming presidential election.

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2016 Scholars

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06/30/2016

... Scholars, recognizing seven young leaders in biomedical science whose research holds great promise for revealing new ...

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Study Finds Genetics, Early Term Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity

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09/02/2016

The data was derived from 2,644 families among 12 research sites across the United States.

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Carnegie-Funded Commission Finds Most People Want A College Degree, But That Goal Remains A Challenge

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09/22/2016

Almost 90 percent of high school graduates spend some time in college, but only 40 percent of those students complete a bachelor's degree in four years and 60 percent in six, according to a new report about undergraduate education.

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