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Foundation for Child Development Sponsors Study that Finds Children Learning English Require Better Support for Academic Success

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03/01/2017

Despite their potential, many English learners (ELs) -- who account for more than 9 percent of K-12 enrollment in the U.S. -- lag behind their English-speaking monolingual peers in educational achievement.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights

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04/19/2017

... support of its efforts to advance human rights through science and medicine. To be disbursed over four years, the ...

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New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech

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05/05/2017

The New York Stem Cell Foundation's $22 million, 40,000-square-foot headquarters on West 54th Street, which opened last month, represents founder and CEO Susan L. Solomon's grand effort to turn the Far West Side into the city's newest biotech hub.

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Simons-Funded Research Finds Brain Differences Between People with Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia, Autism

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05/25/2017

A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and those at risk for autism, and the findings could help explain the biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

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09/05/2017

... community and beyond about the politicization of science policy in the Trump administration. Among the ...

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New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change

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09/12/2017

When it comes to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change, keeping excess carbon out of the atmosphere is the prime target for improving the health of our planet. One of the best ways to do that is thought to be locking more of that carbon...

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

... grass-roots organizations. Instead, it has made science the cornerstone of its international development ...

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Toshiba America Foundation Awards High School Students Grant to Support Yeast Experiment

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02/16/2018

... High School Students Grant to Support Yeast Experiment A science experiment by Stamford High School students is ...

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Study Supported by Doris Duke Foundation Reveals Mumps Resurgence Due to Waning Vaccine Protection in Adults

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03/23/2018

... Protection in Adults In the study, which was published in Science Translational Medicine, the researchers pooled and ...

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Johnson & Johnson Partners with Other Global Leaders to Expand HIV Treatment

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07/26/2018

Johnson & Johnson, the Elton John AIDS Foundation along with the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Unitaid, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and...

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Simons Foundation Announces Launch of the Center for Computational Mathematics

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10/02/2018

... computational mathematics play a critical role in modern science and engineering, with new opportunities for discovery ... among the other units while creating original science itself. I was convinced, and...

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Four Early Career Researchers Selected for 2019 William T. Grant Scholars Program

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05/15/2019

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 William T. Grant Scholars awards.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces 2021 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/17/2021

... have gone on to become towering figures in the history of science . Renowned physicists Richard Feynman and Murray ... in mathematics, 69 have received the National Medal of Science , and 20 have won the John...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2021 Scholars

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07/26/2021

... Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the National Medal of Science , the Wolf Prize in Medicine, the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science , and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences...

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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces the 2022 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/15/2022

... past Fellows have gone on to become towering figures in science . Renowned physicists Richard Feynman and Murray ... in mathematics, 69 have received the National Medal of Science , and 22 have won the John...

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