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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

... removal of the primary tumors. The research, published in Science Translational Medicine, focused on two specific types ...

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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

... in “Silicon Valley: The Untold Story,” a new Discovery Science Channel’s three-part documentary series produced by ...

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Technology

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Makes Water Purification Breakthrough

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04/03/2018

... Led by Guihua Yu, associate professor of materials science and mechanical engineering at The University of Texas ...

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Ford Foundation President, Darren Walker to Receive 2018 Director’s Award

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07/30/2018

The 2018 award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner and ceremony Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden at Cooper Hewitt.

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Simons Foundation Announces Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves

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08/06/2018

... detected. Simultaneously, at the cutting edge of today’s science it has become possible to map a material atom-by-atom ...

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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

It’s nearly impossible to break a dry spaghetti noodle into only two pieces. A new MIT study shows how and why it can be done.

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Salesforce.org Announces $18 Million in Grants Towards Bay Area Education, Homelessness and Cleanliness at Dreamforce 2018

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09/25/2018

... middle school (grades 6-8) transformation, computer science expansion, wraparound support for newcomers, and ...

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Simons and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fund Study That Reveals How the Brain Overcomes Its Own Limitations

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10/24/2018

MIT neuroscientists have now discovered how the brain tries to compensate for its poor performance in tasks that require this kind of complicated transformation.

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Rockefeller Foundation Establishes Atlas AI - New Startup to Generate Actionable Intelligence on Global Development Challenges

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02/11/2019

... works at the intersection of development economics, crop science , remote sensing, and artificial intelligence to ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Research Funded by Leon Levy Foundation Finds Climate Change Is Leading to Unpredictable Ecosystem Disruption for Migratory Birds

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03/06/2019

... American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen- science program, scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Research Funded by Simons Foundation Finds New Causes of Autism Found in 'Junk' DNA

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05/27/2019

... Biology (CCB) in New York City and a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Darnell is the Robert and ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative

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07/08/2019

... W. Mellon Foundation. Modeling how humanistic and social science research is presented and disseminated online, the ...

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Simons Foundation Gifts UC San Diego Funds to Operate Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Early Universe

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07/09/2019

... technological power of the observatory and accomplish the science goals we are uniquely capable of.” UCSD has about ...

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Lukemia Drug Shows Promise for Treating a Childhood Brain Cancer, Research Supported by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award

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09/20/2019

A drug used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia appears to be more effective at stopping a type of medulloblastoma in mouse models than existing treatments for the deadly pediatric brain tumor, reports a multi-institutional team.

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Study Funded by Russell Sage Foundation Shows Pay, Flexibility, Advancement All Matter for Workers' Health and Safety

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09/26/2019

The analysis takes a comprehensive approach to show that the overall pattern of employment conditions is important for health, beyond any single measure of employment, such as wages or contract type.

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