A note from Alliance board chair Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D.Valerie Conn is stepping down from her position as president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance. After nearly six years at the Alliance and more than a year as its president, Valerie wants now to pursue other ways to contribute to science, higher education, and society.The Science…
The Brown Science Foundation today announced physicists David Hsieh of Caltech and William Irvine of the University of Chicago as recipients of the inaugural Brown Investigator Award. The award, which recognizes curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics, supports the investigators’ research with $2 million over five years to their respective universities. Hsieh and Irvine…