The Brown Science Foundation today announced seven recipients of the annual Brown Investigator Award. The award recognizes curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics and supports investigators’ research with up…
Sue Merrilees is a senior advisor at the Science Philanthropy Alliance. This is the third post in a series documenting Ross Brown's philanthropic journey. (Read Part I and Part II.)
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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…
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,…
Sue Merrilees is a senior advisor at the Science Philanthropy Alliance. This is the second post in an ongoing blog series. Read Part I and Part III.When we left…
Sue Merrilees is a senior advisor at the Science Philanthropy Alliance. This is the first post in an ongoing blog series. Read "Journey of a Philanthropist, Part II".In May…
In this video, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares how a fundamental physics discovery facilitated his Nobel Prize-winning work in chemistry and discusses the impact of curiosity-driven research.
Five leading universities will receive $12.5 million from the Beckman Foundation for state-of-the-art Cryo-EM instrumentation. In support of the foundation’s mission of supporting research breakthroughs in chemistry and the life sciences, the…
Congratulations to this year's Nobel Prize winners for their breakthrough work in discovery science!A Japan Times story about this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded to Japanese microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi, shows…