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Here's how philanthropy can sustain DEI: Lorelle Espinosa is in Inside Philanthropy today: insidephilanthropy.com/home/from-fati…

#Congratulations to YSM's Tristan Geiller, who was among 4 Yale University faculty members to win 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships from Sloan Foundation. The award recognizes outstanding early-career #scientists and #scholars: brnw.ch/21wRyQh


The OSPO-RADAR Project aims to build a sustainable ecosystem for #OpenSource software in research. A Sloan Foundation grant is enabling this effort to improve research code management. softwareheritage.org/2025/04/02/osp… #openscience

By stripping cells down to their chemical fundamentals, Jack Szostak Szostak Lab hopes to reveal how life’s earliest forms emerged. Read our latest impact feature here: impact.sloan.org/dont-call-him-…

Applications are now open for the Sloan Science and Technology Project Pitch, supported by Sloan Foundation, which gives four creators the chance to pitch their film or episodic content featuring science/technology themes at #TIFF50. Apply by June 10: tiff.net/industry-sloan…


In March, campus leaders in open source and open scholarship were recognized at the UW–Madison Open Awards sponsored by the Data Science Institute, Open Source Program Office and UW-Madison Libraries, with support from the Sloan Foundation. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/04/08/ina…


Christopher Snyder's research shows how commercial incentives can speed up innovation. A nearly $1M Sloan Foundation grant will expand his Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) work at Dartmouth, recruiting researchers to study funding approaches that best solve global challenges. bit.ly/4jmooZi

We are delighted to receive a grant from Sloan Foundation to support our work led by Chris Snyder DartmouthEcon on applying the tools of economic theory to questions of innovation funding including how we can dangle market incentives to attract and motivate innovators to tackle

#NEW: FPF has launched a major initiative to study the economic and policy implications of AgeTech. Read more about our two-year research project in partnership with Eller College of Management, with support from Sloan Foundation, here: fpf.org/press-releases…

🌌🎬 This weekend #FilmIndependent, in partnership with the Sloan Foundation, is holding the #SloanSummit25 to bring together over 100 award-winning filmmakers, scientists and scholars. Stay tuned for livestreamed events and learn more #ontheblog: filmindependent.org/blog/we-are-re…


#UNC chemist Sidney Wilkerson-Hill is using a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship to develop new pesticides to combat malaria-causing mosquitoes. The impact could be far-reaching — an estimated 247 million cases of malaria occurred globally in 2021. go.unc.edu/k3R7C

Very excited to join with Open Philanthropy on an all-out sprint to answer some of the thorniest practical questions in economics. First question: What return do we get when we invest in R&D?