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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Summary of 2022 Awards
In 2022, RCSA and 11 partner philanthropies awarded more than $9 million to early career scientists in the United States and…
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7 Team Projects Funded in 3rd Year of Scialog: Negative Emissions Science
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and ClimateWorks Foundation have made awards to seven cross-disciplinary teams of…
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17 Researchers from U.S., Canada Awarded Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition Funding
Six collaborative teams of early career researchers have won funding from Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Canadian Institute for Advanced…
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RCSA, USDA Fund 7 New Team Projects in 2nd Year of Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats
Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have made awards to seven multidisciplinary teams of early career…
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The Science of Scialog: How Conference Design Sparks Collaborations
Well-designed interactions can help scientists form the collaborations that have become increasingly important in today’s research environment, according to a new…
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8 Teams Win Awards in 2nd Year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Heising-Simons Foundation, The Kavli Foundation and NASA are announcing awards totaling $1,045,000 to eight multidisciplinary…
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Undergrads from Hawaiʻi Help Map Galaxy Through Scialog Team’s Collaboration
Eight students from Hawaiʻi have participated in the first two years of a summer astronomical research program for undergraduates that began…
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4 Teams Receive 2022 Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Awards
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has awarded Cottrell Scholar Collaborative Awards to four new collaborative projects that emerged from discussions at…
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Ten Team Projects Awarded Funding in Second Year of Scialog: Advancing BioImaging
Top row: Shiva Abbaszadeh, Heather Whitney, Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Abdoulaye Ndao, Joshua Brake, Kevin Cash, Mark Sellmyer. 2nd row: Arnab Mukherjee, Kathryn…
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5 Cottrell Scholars Win 2022 SEED Awards for Chemistry Research
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has chosen five winners of its competitive Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Awards…
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Fellows Selected for Newest Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition
Nearly 50 early career researchers have been selected as Fellows for the first meeting of a new, three-year initiative to advance…
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28th Cottrell Scholar Conference Stresses Innovation, Attention to Diversity
More than 100 Cottrell Scholars met face to face to welcome a new class of teacher-scholars July 6-8, 2022, at the…
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2nd Edition of ‘Teach Better’ Extends Coverage to Online, Inclusive Teaching
Cottrell Scholars who authored Teach Better, Save Time, and Have More Fun: A Guide to Teaching and Mentoring in Science in…
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RCSA Launches Robert Holland Jr. Award
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has launched a new award to recognize and welcome outstanding senior scientists with diverse perspectives and…
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7 Projects Funded in 2nd Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease
Seven cross-disciplinary teams working to advance understanding of the gut-brain axis will receive awards totaling $825,000 in the second year of…
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2021 Annual Report: The Power of Collaboration
For 110 years, RCSA has catalyzed transformative research by supporting innovative, cross-disciplinary collaboration among promising early career scientists. We take that…
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RCSA Welcomes 2022 Fulbright-Cottrell Scholar Diego Andrada
The German-American Fulbright Commission has awarded its 2022 Fulbright-Cottrell Award for excellence in research and teaching to Diego Andrada, a chemist at…
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CUR’s 1st Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Awardee is Cottrell Scholar, Scialog Fellow
Cottrell Scholar 2018 and Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell Fellow Lou Charkoudian, chemistry, Haverford College, has been selected as the…
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COVID-19 Initiative in 2020 Catalyzed Impactful Research
RCSA’s quick support of COVID-19 research at the start of the pandemic in 2020 helped catalyze several projects with remarkable results.
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Time and Space for Conversation Catalyzed Scialog Fellows’ Collaboration
They didn’t write a Scialog proposal together, but two Fellows began a conversation at the Scialog: Molecules Come to Life meeting…
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Cottrell Postbac Awards Support Research Year for New Graduates
Nine Cottrell Scholars have received Cottrell Postbac Awards of $50,000 each in the first year of a new initiative to provide…
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Cottrell Scholars Bring Ideas, People Together to Create Change in STEM Classrooms
A Cottrell Scholars Collaborative project is expanding connections between Cottrell Scholars and FLAMENet, a national network of science faculty, psychologists and…
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Scialog Awardee Receives ARPA-E Grant for Clean Energy Research
Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage awardee Yan Yao, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, has received an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy…
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RCSA Announces 2022 Cottrell STAR and IMPACT Awards
The STAR (Science Teaching And Research) Award recognizes outstanding research and educational accomplishments, while the IMPACT Award recognizes the work of…