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  • 2.27.2026

    RCSA Grants Management System in Transition

    RCSA is moving to a new grants management system. These instructions will be updated as work progresses.

  • 2.11.2011

    Janelle Leger, a Cottrell College Science Awardee,  Receives a Prestigious NSF-CAREER Award

    Janelle Leger, an assistant professor of physics at Western Washington University, was awarded an NSF-CAREER award to develop a fundamental understanding…

  • 2.9.2011

    Converting Sunlight to Fuel

    Renowned solar energy researcher and Caltech Professor Nate Lewis, who chairs RCSA’s Scialog review panel, appears on the PBS NOVA documentary…

  • 1.11.2011

    The Leadership of Gabrielle Giffords

    For many of us in Tucson, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was a cherished friend long before Saturday’s stunning assassination attempt made her…

  • 1.10.2011

    Continuing the Dream

    Our prayers go out to those whose loved ones perished; words simply cannot express the shock of such a loss. At…

  • 1.7.2011

    Arizona Clean Energy

    Richard Wiener, RCSA program officer, and Richard Powell, University of Arizona vice president emeritus, recently appeared on the public TV news…

  • 12.20.2010

    Jairo Sinova has been elected a 2010 Fellow of the APS

    Cottrell Scholar Jairo Sinova, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has been elected a 2010 Fellow of the American Physical…

  • 12.20.2010

    Williams College student Chris Chudzicki is a winner of the 2010 APS Leroy Apker Award

    Williams College Professor Frederick Strauch’s student Chris Chudzicki is a winner of the 2010 APS Leroy Apker Award for outstanding achievement…

  • 12.9.2010

    Scientists Receive Additional Funding For Innovative Projects In Solar Energy Research

    Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) has presented Scialog® Collaborative Innovation Awards of $100,000 to each of three groups of scientists…

  • 12.3.2010

    RCSA Announces Fall 2010 Cottrell Scholar Awards

    Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America’s first foundation dedicated wholly to science, announced today the 11 recipients of its Fall 2010…

  • 12.3.2010

    Presidential Advisors Call for Energy Innovation Acceleration

    “A major acceleration is needed in the pace of energy technology innovation, invention, translation, adoption and diffusion,” says the President’s Council…

  • 12.1.2010

    Energy Chief Steven Chu Calls for More Innovation

    The United States is in danger of losing its global technological leadership to China and other rapidly advancing nations, warns U.S.…

  • Scialog: Present at the Creation
    11.15.2010

    Scialog: Present at the Creation

    Solar energy scientists and officials of Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), a foundation dedicated to science, pose in front of…

  • 10.6.2010

    CSA Helped Launch Career of a 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

    Congratulations to the latest 2010 winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It goes jointly to Americans Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi…

  • 9.10.2010

    RCSA to Hold a Week-long Science Dialog

    Scialog Will Take Place At Biosphere 2 In Oracle, AZ – With Public Access To Keynote Speeches Provided Through Live Streaming…

  • 9.9.2010

    “The Rats Say Yes” to inventor Robert R. Williams

    “The Rats Say Yes” was made for the 2010 National History Day, an annual nationwide competition in which students present projects…

  • 6.23.2010

    Learning From The Gulf Oil Spill Could Save Our Planet

    President Barack Obama received generally poor marks for his June 15th Oval Office speech on the oil spill in the Gulf…

  • 5.24.2010

    Will Politics Trump Economic Progress?

    In 2007, following roughly a year-and-a-half of bipartisan discussions, the U.S. Congress passed what is now known as the America COMPETES…

  • 5.20.2010

    Jay Labov, National Academy Expert, Looks at P-20 STEM Education in AZ

    Jay Labov has provided leadership in the development and implementation of the National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology,…

  • 5.11.2010

    Science Advisory Committee Member Dr. Susan Kauzlarich AAAS Fellow

    Susan Kauzlarich, professor of chemistry at the University of California – Davis, and RCSA Science Advisory Committee member, was nominated by…

  • 4.28.2010

    Undergraduate Research Is Important Source Of Breakthrough Research and Future Stem Ph.D.s

    Newswise — Undergraduate research contributes greatly to the pipeline of both breakthrough scientific discoveries and the next generation of Ph.D.s in…

  • 2.8.2010

    Who Will Win The Race For Jobs In Renewable Energy?

    When it comes to renewable energy innovation and equipment manufacturing, China is challenging the West, and the outcome will decide where…

  • Research Corporation for Science Advancement in High Society
    4.21.2009

    Research Corporation for Science Advancement in High Society

    The late 1930s were a halcyon time for Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). Having survived the Great Depression, the foundation…

  • 3.12.2009

    Changing Times in Science

    Members of the science community often disagree about the need for more scientists in the U.S. In surveys examining the efficacy…

  • 10.23.2008

    Research Corporation’s Williams-Waterman Fund

    The Williams-Waterman Fund’s attempt to alleviate suffering in Haiti had mixed results, at best.

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