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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A Message from RCSA’s New President
It is with a sense of honor and appreciation that I introduce myself as the new President of the Research Corporation…
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Reflections on RCSA: Leveraging Capabilities, Connections
During his eight years at the foundation, Dan Linzer said RCSA has made incremental but impactful changes.
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2nd RCSA Fellows Conference Creates Community, Supports Aspirations
Thirteen new RCSA Fellows joined experienced faculty members, program advisers, and a growing community of peers making the postdoc-to-faculty transition at…
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2024 Annual Report: Community at Our Core
Beyond providing catalytic funding for research, three other aspects of RCSA’s work stand out: community building, a holistic approach to the…
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Fellows Chosen for Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information
Sixty early career researchers from a cross-section of academic disciplines have been selected as Fellows to participate in a new RCSA…
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Seven Teams Win Scialog Awards for Automating Chemical Laboratories
Collaborative projects pair advances in automation and AI to key questions in fundamental research
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Six Teams Funded in 1st Year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems
Six cross-disciplinary teams of researchers from the United States and Canada have won funding in the first year of Scialog: Neurobiology…
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Cottrell Scholar Applicants! Attend Virtual Office Hours
Research Corporation for Science Advancement will offer two virtual Cottrell Scholar Office Hours sessions to help potential applicants prepare for the upcoming…
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RCSA Fellows Initiative Selects 2025 Cohort
RCSA has selected 13 outstanding postdoctoral scholars to participate in the second year of its RCSA Fellows Initiative, which aims to increase faculty…
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2025 STAR, IMPACT Awards Honor 4 Cottrell Scholars
RCSA has named four members of the Cottrell Scholar community as recipients of its 2025 STAR and IMPACT Awards. CS 2010…
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Senior Scientists Receive RCSA’s 2025 Holland Awards
Three senior scientists with exemplary records in research, leadership, and mentoring will join the Cottrell Scholar community as recipients of Research Corporation for Science…
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Summary of 2024 Awards
In 2024, Research Corporation for Science Advancement and its funding partners awarded more than $7.8 million to early career scientists in…
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8 Teams Win Awards in 1st Year of Scialog: Early Science with the LSST
Research Corporation for Science Advancement will make 21 separate awards of $60,000 in direct costs each to support the research of 20…
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Eric Isaacs Named Next RCSA President
Eric D. Isaacs, president of the Carnegie Institute for Science from 2018 to 2024, has been selected as the next president…
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RCSA Welcomes 2025 Class of Cottrell Scholars
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America’s first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 16 early career scholars in chemistry, physics,…
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Virtual vs. In-Person Conferences? Scialog Data Provide Insight
Even after the return to in-person conferences, RCSA continued to record Scialog discussions in an effort to understand how participants interact…
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Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition Ends with Awards to 6 Teams
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and the Walder Foundation have made awards to six multidisciplinary teams…
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7 Teams Funded in 1st Year of Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Kavli Foundation have made awards to seven cross-disciplinary teams…
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Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems Fellows Selected
More than 40 early career researchers have been selected as Fellows for the first meeting of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems,…
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National Search Begins for RCSA’s Next President
Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s President & CEO Daniel Linzer has announced his intention to retire from his role in 2025,…
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Cottrell Scholars Receive Awards for 3 Collaborative Projects
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has made 2024 Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Awards of $25,000 each to three new projects that emerged…
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RCSA Welcomes 2024 Fulbright-Cottrell Scholars
Roman Kogler and Eva von Domaros have received the German-American Fulbright Commission’s 2024 Fulbright-Cottrell Award for excellence in research and teaching.
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Cottrell Scholars Create Thriving Coding Community
A Cottrell Scholars Collaborative project to help integrate Python coding into STEM courses has helped coalesce a robust, interdisciplinary network extending…
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11 Chemistry Researchers Win 2024 Cottrell SEED Awards
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has chosen 11 accomplished researchers to receive its Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery)…