Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program
Release Date:
04/11/2017
... and devised theater works. To that end, NEFA will use the grant to make several elements of the program ...
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Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights
Release Date:
04/19/2017
The survey deadline is Friday May 5 th . It's a quick turnaround, but the survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete, and there is language provided to make it easier.
Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution
Release Date:
05/12/2017
The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
With Support from Carnegie, New Science Standards Deliver Students from Textbooks to ‘Real-World' Applications
Release Date:
05/19/2017
... and how the world works." Without a doubt, students will use science in their everyday lives during their school years .....
With Support from Pershing Square and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, New Research Finds that Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool
Release Date:
06/08/2017
... policy tools – so there is a big opportunity to use nudging more widely in government in conjunction with ...
Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities
Release Date:
06/09/2017
The foundations weigh in on the challenges and strategies in reaching a diverse audiences and using art to build positive, relevant, and inspiring forces in the daily lives of diverse communities.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View
Release Date:
07/06/2017
Study uses computer vision algorithm to study Google Street View images for signs of urban change.
Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies
Release Date:
07/06/2017
Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies "Wayne Tracker" cannot be forced to testify under oath. He does not exist. But the man who used the "Tracker" alias, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, can be...
Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper
Release Date:
07/11/2017
Brooklyn-based atelier Flavor Paper works with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which gives it access to much of Warhol’s work.
Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures
Release Date:
07/27/2017
... that the Folger convenes. “Before Farm to Table will use the pervasiveness of food in everyday life as a window ...
Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint
Release Date:
08/08/2017
After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with...
He Played the Long Game: David Rockefeller's Philanthropy and Legacy
Release Date:
08/22/2017
... once told Heintz, adding: “It’s important we use our heads but also follow our hearts. . . He Played the ...
Bedford-Union Armory Redevelopment Should Not Have Condos, Says Borough President
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... project. His input is a necessary step in the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which developers BFC Partners ...
In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration
Release Date:
09/07/2017
In his seven months in office, President Trump has proved to be the commander in chief of mixed messages. But even for him, the nighttime tweet on Tuesday was a head-turner.
Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... It’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure through which a zoning change becomes ...
In New Memoir, Eva Moskowitz Offers a Look Behind The Curtain At Success Academy — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... not just a hardened political operative planning to use her charter empire as a springboard back into public ...
Long Delays Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials
Release Date:
09/19/2017
The process, long and byzantine as it is, is the easiest path to holding an officer accountable for many victims of police misconduct.
Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness
Release Date:
09/25/2017
It’s worth wondering what else seeps into public space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order.
After School Stabbing, Parents Ask: Where Were Metal Detectors?
Release Date:
09/28/2017
When word came that two students had been stabbed inside a Bronx high school on Wednesday, the parents of several students in the elementary school housed in the same building voiced anger at a lack of metal detectors there and demanded action from...
The Fatal Stabbing In A Bronx Classroom Was Horrific — But Also Extremely Rare
Release Date:
09/28/2017
... comes amid continuing debate over school safety and the use of metal detectors in schools — but also as serious ...