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…
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…
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…
Scientists May Berenbaum, Nergis Mavalvala, Janet Rossant, and Venkatraman Ramakirshnan reflect on how breakthroughs in science have led to new industries and new knowledge, and enhanced human life.
Foundations are taking a wide variety of approaches to helping nonprofits cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus, ranging from expressing concern to starting rapid-response funds.The Gates Foundation has…
In this video, Nergis Mavalvala reflects on the moment her team first detected gravitational waves and how it broadened the scope of research for the field.Nergis Mavalvala is the Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the 2010 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant. Her work involves the detection…
The University of California San Diego recently hosted a day-long symposium celebrating the philanthropic funding of early-career faculty in their research endeavors. Foundations from across the country attended the event,…
Venkatraman Ramakirshnan is a Nobel Prize-winning structural biologist and the president of the Royal Society. His research focuses on the atomic structure of the ribosome. This research has led to subsequent studies that can help improve antibiotics. Recently, his work has involved using electron microscopy to visualize the actions of ribosomes in higher organisms, which…
Learn how David Packard, co-founder of the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, launched the Packard Fellowship program. Download the Packard Fellowship case study.Packard and his colleagues created a new type of…