News
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RCSA Grants Management System in Transition
RCSA is moving to a new grants management system. These instructions will be updated as work progresses.
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Webinars Offer Pointers for Cottrell Scholar Applicants
Research Corporation for Science Advancement is offering two webinars to help potential applicants prepare for the upcoming July 1, 2022, deadline…
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Negative Emissions Science Collaboration Aims to Reduce Cement’s Carbon Footprint
Barely a year after a Scialog award helped catalyze their collaboration, one Negative Emissions Science team has spawned a startup company…
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CUR’s New Chemistry Mentor Award to Honor RCSA’s Ronco
The Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award, established by a gift from RCSA, will recognize tenure-track faculty members within ten years of…
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RCSA Welcomes 2022 Class of Cottrell Scholars
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named a diverse group of 24 early career…
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International Partnership to Launch New Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition
The initiative will bring together a cross-disciplinary group including neuroscientists, chemists, physicists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists and psychologists to devise new ways…
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Summary of 2021 Awards
In 2021, more than $10.8 million was awarded to early career scientists in the United States and Canada through RCSA’s two…
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Over $1.2M Awarded to 8 Scialog: Negative Emissions Science Teams
Eight cross-disciplinary teams working to advance fundamental science in the removal of greenhouse gases from Earth’s atmosphere and oceans will receive…
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Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell Final Round of Awards Tops $1.3M
Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announce awards of $1,320,000 to nine interdisciplinary teams in…
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10 Teams Win Funding for Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats Projects
Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have awarded a total of $1.25 million to 10 multidisciplinary…
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Innovation that is Making an Impact, Making Careers
A student working on a precision photometry project that got its start at Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics in 2015 has won…
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A SEED Grows in an Unexpected Direction
Cottrell Scholar 2006 Hai Lin, chemistry, University of Colorado Denver, has won a nearly $460,000 grant from the National Institutes of…
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Scialog Collaboration Continues with DOE Award
A Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage team whose 2019 award sparked a successful collaboration to advance fundamental understanding of the electrochemical interface…
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Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats Initiative Off to Great Start
Research Corporation for Science Advancement launched its newest Scialog initiative, Mitigating Zoonotic Threats, with a virtual meeting September 30-October 1, 2021.…
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8 Projects Win Funding in 1st Year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Heising-Simons Foundation, NASA, and The Kavli Foundation are announcing awards totaling $1,100,000 to eight multidisciplinary…
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3 Teams Receive 2021 Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Awards
The 2021 Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Awards will support efforts to make higher education more inclusive and equitable.
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RCSA, NSF Support 14 Postdocs in 2nd Year of Cottrell Fellowships
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has awarded nearly $1 million to 14 Cottrell Scholars to support postdoctoral fellows whose immediate job opportunities…
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Cottrell Scholars Advance Effort to Enhance Programming Courses
Several Cottrell Scholars who participated in an RCSA-sponsored project to use Python to enhance science education have contributed to a new…
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Over $1M Awarded in 1st Year of Scialog: Advancing BioImaging
The three-year initiative, supported by Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, aims to accelerate the…
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Five Physics & Astronomy Researchers Win 2021 SEED Awards
SEED Awards offer Cottrell Scholars the opportunity to start creative new research or educational activities.
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1st Meeting of Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats to be Virtual
The first meeting of the three-year Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats initiative, sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement and U.S. Department of Agriculture,…
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2021 Cottrell Scholar Conference the Largest Yet
More than 150 participants logging in from around the globe made the virtual 2021 conference on July 7-9, 2021, the largest…
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Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats
The three-year initiative, sponsored by RCSA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will address the global threat to human health from animal-borne infectious diseases.
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RCSA Welcomes 2021 Fulbright-Cottrell Scholars
The award began in 2016 and is based on Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s Cottrell Scholar Award.
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Six Projects Win Funding in 1st year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease
The initiative brought together more than 50 scientists from a variety of disciplines to propose cutting-edge research to help transform our…