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John A. Hartford Foundation’s Berman to be Honored, Give Commencement Address at Quinnipiac U.

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05/20/2016

... an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Quinnipiac University at the school's Commencement ceremony on Sunday, ... address to the undergraduate School of Nursing on the university 's Hamden,...

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Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President

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03/08/2017

... Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware. Since 2011, she has also served as ... Mellon Mays PhDs who are not only helping to diversify university faculty in the United...

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Simons Foundation Sponsors "The Eternal Sky," A Short Film about Building the Simons Observatory

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03/09/2017

By looking for signs of cosmic inflation, the Simons Observatory will answer questions about the origin of the universe. First in a series.

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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

... identity. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Washington and is published in the journal ... life," notes Anne A. Fast, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington and the...

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Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

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11/02/2017

... even though Ms. Bioh has a master’s degree from Columbia University and spent a year on Broadway in “The Curious ... and then studied English and theater at Ohio State University . (She told her parents she was...

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Supported by The Mayday Fund, Scientists Take a Big Step Toward Building a Better Opioid

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01/09/2018

... a Better Opioid For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and ... development of new pain medications. A release from the university notes that the research,...

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Supported By The Taft Foundation, Rising Tide U Launches New Online Program, The Autism Advantage

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01/31/2018

... to help loved ones with autism build a future, along with University of Miami-Nova Southeastern University Center for Autism & Related Disabilities (UM-NSU ...

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars

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03/07/2018

... The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing ...

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NYU’s Prison Education Program Receives $1 Million Grant from Mellon Foundation

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03/28/2018

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How the Rockefeller Auction is Leaving an Inspirational Legacy

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05/08/2018

... on Foreign Relations The David Rockefeller Fund Harvard University Museum of Modern Art Rockefeller Brothers Fund Rockefeller University American Farmland Trust Maine Coast Heritage Fund ...

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Mellon Foundation Grant Helps Capture History, 280 Characters at a Time

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03/31/2019

... after the shooting, Bergis Jules, then an archivist at the University of California, Riverside, and Edward Summers, lead ... Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland,...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 32 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships

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04/23/2019

... Corporation of New York and president emeritus of Brown University . “Over the past five years, we at Carnegie have ...

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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

... York City and a professor of computer science at Princeton University . Darnell is the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology at Rockefeller University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes...

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Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President

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07/16/2019

... Minnesota. Fowler earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins ... School of Public Health, and a law degree from the University of Minnesota. She is...

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Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

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08/02/2019

... Wencewicz, assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. “In the long term, we really need ... Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo... Next...

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Open Society Foundations Announce New Director of Foreign Policy Advocacy

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09/04/2019

... more effective. Margon received an MS from Georgetown University ’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and a BA from Wesleyan University . “I’m thrilled to be joining Open Society ...

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Kimberly Walker Appointed as First Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Arabella Advisors

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03/11/2020

... and is currently completing a Ph.D. program at Antioch University focused on leadership and change. “I’m so ... in Organization Development from Bowling Green State University . Her current Ph.D. research...

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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Announces Ian Philp as New Program Officer for the Environment

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06/09/2021

... Commerciales in Montreal, an LL.B and B.C.L from McGill University , and a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from McMaster University . He will start with the Trust on July 6th. ...

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