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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Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats Concludes with Awards to 6 Teams
Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have made awards to six multidisciplinary teams of early career scientists to launch…
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Flexible Response: Supporting Science through the Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic began, RCSA actively listened to the needs and concerns of our community of scientists, and swiftly developed…
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Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories
More than 50 early career researchers have been selected as Fellows for the first meeting of a three-year initiative to accelerate…
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RCSA, Sloan Foundation Plan New Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials
The initiative aims to spark advances in the mining, design, manufacture, and disposal of materials that will be needed to achieve a…
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Scialog Collaborators Receive Funding to Continue Marine CO2 Removal Research
A Scialog: Negative Emissions Science team whose 2021 collaborative project for a novel membrane to pair direct ocean capture of CO2…
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4 Projects Receive 2023 Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Awards
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has made Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Awards of $25,000 each to four new collaborative projects that emerged…
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RCSA’s 1977 Gift Provides Decades of Support for Women Scientists
Rachel Brown Two students working under the direction of Cottrell Scholars received scholarships in the 2022-2023 academic year from Mount Holyoke…
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In Memoriam: 2015 Cottrell Scholar Jeffery Byers
Research Corporation for Science Advancement mourns the loss of 2015 Cottrell Scholar Jeffery Byers, chemistry, Boston College, who died on August…
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Nine Teams Granted Awards in 3rd Year of Scialog: Advancing BioImaging
Top row: Eszter Boros, Shiva Abbaszadeh, Shwetadwip Chowdhury, Heather M. Whitney, Dylan McCreedy, Fanny Chapelin. 2nd row: Seunghyun (Seu) Sim, Ruixuan…
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Cottrell Scholars Win 2023 SEED Awards for Research in Physics, Astronomy
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has chosen four accomplished researchers to receive its Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery)…
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2023 Cottrell Scholar Conference Focuses on Cultural Change
New Cottrell Scholars and Holland Award recipients received trophies at the 2023 Cottrell Scholar Conference. More than 130 members of…
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2022 Annual Report: Flexible Response
While Research Corporation for Science Advancement is always looking for ways to improve the work of the foundation, the COVID-19 pandemic…
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8 Teams Win Funding in Final Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease
Top row: Abhishek Shrivastava, Kai Zhang, Will Ludington, Karthik Shekhar, Mei Shen. 2nd row: Heather Bean, Yanjiao Zhou, Chun-Jun Guo, Annie…
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Small Strategies for Big Impact on Belonging, Resilience, Success
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has published a new book, Inclusivity in Introductory STEM Courses: A Guide to Improving Student (and…
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8 Teams Win Awards in Final Year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe
Top row: Morgan Cable, Nagissa Mahmoudi, Jennifer Bergner, Christopher Glein, Renyu Hu, Marc Neveu. 2nd row: Malena Rice, Leslie Rogers, Peter…
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RCSA Welcomes Deven Estes, 2023 Fulbright-Cottrell Scholar
The German-American Fulbright Commission has awarded its 2023 Fulbright-Cottrell Award for excellence in research and teaching to Deven Estes, a chemistry…
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New Scialog in 2024: Early Science with the LSST
(NOTE: The first meeting in this series has been rescheduled for November 14-17, 2024, to more closely coincide with the first…
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Cottrell Postbac Awards to Help Strengthen Research Programs
Seven Cottrell Scholars have received Cottrell Postbac Awards of $50,000 each in the second year of a post-pandemic initiative to strengthen…
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Eileen Spain to Join RCSA, Launch New DEI Program
Eileen M. Spain, a 1995 Cottrell Scholar and Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry at Occidental College, will join Research Corporation…
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2023 STAR, IMPACT Awards Honor 3 Cottrell Scholars
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has named three exemplary Cottrell Scholars as recipients of its 2023 STAR and IMPACT Awards. CS…
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Scialog Aims to Spur Next Revolution in Lab Automation
Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation are co-sponsoring a new Scialog initiative to accelerate innovation…
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RCSA’s 1st Holland Awards Celebrate 6 Distinguished Scholars
Six senior scientists with impressive records of scholarship, leadership, and impact will receive RCSA’s inaugural Robert Holland Jr. Award for Research…
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RCSA Welcomes 2023 Class of Cottrell Scholars
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 26 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and…
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In Memoriam: Brian Andreen, Former RCSA Vice President
RCSA mourns the loss of Brian Andreen, who died in Tucson on January 19, 2023. Although Andreen ended his decades-long career…