The Science Philanthropy Alliance published a special edition newsletter in October highlighting the Nobel Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipients. Read the newsletter.
Elenoa Fuka
Science philanthropy is like a road trip. You pick a lane of scientific endeavor that you are passionate about—it could be climate change, energy storage, neuroscience, ocean science, or the like. This is a lane where there are big problems to solve, so you stick with that lane for the long haul through years, even…
Dr. Freeman Hrabowski's career as a champion for diversity in mathematics, engineering, and science began in one of the least likely places: a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. At age 12, Hrabowski joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to march with over a thousand children to stand against segregation, leading him to spend five nights…
Dr. Freeman Hrabowski's career as a champion for diversity in mathematics, engineering, and science began in one of the least likely places: a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. At age 12, Hrabowski joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to march with over a thousand children to stand against segregation, leading him to spend five nights…
The united states and many other nations are launching a life-threatening experiment. They are rapidly and perhaps prematurely easing restrictions on businesses and social activity—even as the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is still prevalent and much of the population remains susceptible to the disease it causes, COVID-19. The understandable desire to restore normal life quickly has…
“There has not been a large funding community around infectious diseases, except for the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, maybe because it hasn’t felt urgent,” said Valerie Conn, president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, an organization formed earlier this decade with a mission to give philanthropists the background they need to support the stately procession…
Dear m embers and f riends of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, Science has never been more important than it is right now during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the number of patients with COVID-19 increasing and the death toll mount ing , philanthropists are stepping up to help in new and inspiring ways. Since…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Palo Alto, California – May 5, 2020 – The Science Philanthropy Alliance (the Alliance) welcomes France A. Córdova, Ph.D., as senior science advisor.In March, Dr. Cordova concluded a six-year term as director of the National Science Foundation. At NSF, she oversaw a pivot in strategy to spotlight big ideas with potentially…
A group of Korean researchers has drawn a genome map for the first time by tracing how the virus related to COVID-19 evolves within an infected cell, the Institute for discovery science (IBS) said Friday.Several scientists in the world managed to sequence the SARS-CoV-2. However, the Korean research team has released a more comprehensive map…
In the weeks to come, we’re about to relearn that old truth: necessity is the mother of invention. Researchers will work around-the-clock because of the world’s need for a cure for COVID-19. But it’s worth keeping a corollary thought in all of our minds: necessity may be the mother of invention, but curiosity and imagination…