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.
Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Glen de Vries, co-founder and president of Medidata, has donated $10 million to endow the chair of the dean of CMU's Mellon College of Science (MCS). The gift…
An in-depth profile of Jim Simons, who with Marilyn Simons is one of the heavyweights in science philanthropy through their foundation, the Simons Foundation.
A Science Philanthropy Success StoryTaking to the Stars: the Sloan Foundation's 25-year Partnership with the Sloan Digital Sky SurveyDownload the Sloan SDSS philanthropy story pdf for web …
Jeffrey and Susan Brotman and Pam and Dan Baty have made a $50 million gift to create an institute for precision medicine at the University of Washington. Read the university's…
Dear Science Philanthropy Alliance community,I started the year with concern about the state of funding for discovery science research. U.S. government funding for discovery science has been declining steadily since…
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…
Forbes and The Mercury News report on the red carpet event announcing the Breakthrough Prizes for 2017, totalling $22 million.From The Mercury News:The awards, conceived by theoretical physics dropout and entrepreneur…
The Science Philanthropy Alliance announced that The Rockefeller Foundation has joined as an associate member.For more than 100 years, The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission has been to promote the well-being of humanity…
In this story from The Scientist, Bob Grant writes about private funders who are supporting big projects and rewriting the playbook on fueling scientific research.The story quotes Marc Kastner, president of…
