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: Signatures of Life in the Universe Initiative Begins
The three-year initiative seeks to catalyze transformative research that will bring us closer to answering basic questions about the possibility of extraterrestrial…
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RCSA Scientists Share Expertise Through Op-Ed Pieces
Cottrell Scholar 2013 Ognjen Š. Miljanić, Chemistry, University of Houston, is the latest Research Corporation for Science Advancement grantee to publish…
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Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Holds Inaugural Meeting
The three-year Scialog: Advancing BioImaging initiative aims to accelerate the development of the next generation of imaging technologies.
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Comic Aims to Inspire Kids’ Interest in Science
A group of Cottrell Scholars has produced a comic strip for elementary school students highlighting the life and research of scientists: “Galaxy Scouts: Space-Ventures with Stella and…
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2020 Annual Report: Crisis and Community
Amid the losses and disruption caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Research Corporation for Science Advancement brought people together in 2020, listened to their concerns, built partnerships, and…
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From Pandemic Hobby to Public Health Insight
Cottrell Scholar 2021 Leah Witus' pandemic hobby, making animated science videos for her kids, has resulted in an unexpected research project that…
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Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease Holds 1st Meeting
The three-year initiative seeks to create a networked, multidisciplinary community to design collaborative research projects that will advance fundamental understanding of…
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2017 FRED Award helped Skrabalak ‘dream big’
2017 Cottrell FRED (Frontiers in Research Excellence and Discovery) Award winner Sara Skrabalak says the award allows recipients to: “Dream big…
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2021 Cottrell IMPACT and STAR Awards Announced
The IMPACT Award recognizes the work of an outstanding Cottrell Scholar who has had a national impact in science through leadership…
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Webinars Offer Tips for Cottrell Scholar Proposals
Research Corporation for Science Advancement is offering two webinars to help potential applicants prepare for the upcoming July 1, 2021, deadline…
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Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Advancing BioImaging
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging will bring together a diverse group of scientists to address the challenges involved in enhancing high-resolution imaging of tissues to…
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RCSA Announces Second Round of Cottrell Fellowships
As the pandemic’s financial fallout continues, RCSA is offering a new Cottrell Fellowships proposal cycle in 2021.
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RCSA Names 2021 Class of Cottrell Scholars
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has named 25 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2021 Cottrell…
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Summary of 2020 Awards
During this time of change and challenge, support of basic science research is more important than ever. In 2020, RCSA made awards…
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Eight Projects Win Scialog: Negative Emissions Science Funding
Eight Scialog: Negative Emissions Science teams have received 2020 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards.
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1st FRED Awardee Sees Benefits to Science and Diversity
Carlos Meriles says his award has had a positive effect among the students he and his lab inspire at the minority-serving City College…
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Diversity Program Helps Postdocs Prepare for Interviews
The Cottrell Emerging Scholars Program aims to enhance diversity by preparing postdocs for faculty interviews.
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Solar Energy Conversion Fellows Publish Results from Scialog Collaboration
Eight years after brainstorming the idea for a collaborative project at the second Scialog: Solar Energy Conversion conference, Gordana Dukovic and…
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RCSA Connections, Conversations Spur Energy Storage Project
The project aims to design materials for new generations of batteries by capitalizing on advances in the mass collection, creation, analysis…
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Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell Initiative Continues with Virtual Meeting
The initiative aims to develop interdisciplinary projects that advance understanding of chemical machinery and reactions in the intact, living cell.
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Catalytic early funding opened doors of opportunity
2010 Cottrell Scholar and Scialog Fellow Rae Robertson-Anderson says her career is a great example of how early seed funding can create…
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Cottrell Scholars Share Tips, Tools for Student Engagement
Cottrell Scholars are looking past simply surviving the move to online instruction, as some virtual tools and techniques present longer-term opportunities for…
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Scialog: TDA Sparks Project that Garners NSF Grant
A year after three astronomers met at a Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics conference, the research project they envisioned won a nearly $300,000 grant…
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RCSA, USDA Partner to Launch New Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats
The three-year initiative will bring together early-career scientists from multiple disciplines to catalyze basic scientific advances in the detection and mitigation of emerging…