The Ross M. Brown Family 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…
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…
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…
There are as many ways to do science philanthropy as there are science philanthropists. At a recent Science Philanthropy Alliance event, cohosted with UC Berkeley and the Heising-Simons Foundation, a…
Tate Williams writes about the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's support of quantum materials basic scientific research through its EPiQS initiative....how do you gauge if a program is successful, when…
Physics Today talks to Cyndi Atherton, director of the science program at the Heising-Simons Foundation, about her career path and her work at the foundation.
American innovator Ray Dolby's estate gave $100 million to help build Cambridge University's new Cavendish laboratory. The gift is "the largest philanthropic donation ever made to UK science,” according to…
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.