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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Sustaining the Changes You Make: 21st-annual Cottrell Scholar Conference
The 21st-annual Cottrell Scholar Conference drew more than 70 representatives from research universities (R1) as well as primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI)…
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Improve undergraduate STEM education now, urge Cottrell Scholars and AAU in Nature article
Universities can no longer blame K-12 teachers for undergraduates’ poor STEM performance, authors of Nature article argue
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$731K Awarded to Early Career Scientists to Examine the Intersection of Biology and Physical Science
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Research Corporation for Science Advancement select Scialog awardees
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Developing 3D Sensors To Measure Forces in and around Living Tissue
Scialog: Molecules Come to Life: Nanoprobes for Living Tissue
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Researchers Team Up to Determine If Specialized Cells Can Switch Roles
Scialog: Molecules Come to Life: Cell Specialization
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‘Personalizing’ Gut Microbial Communities to Achieve Innovative Medical Treatments
Scialog: Molecules Come to Life: Microbial Communities
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It’s Alive! Researchers Attempt to Build Artificial Tissue that Moves
Scialog: Molecules Come to Life – Artificial Tissue
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Eugene Flood, Jr., Joins RCSA Board of Directors
Eugene Flood Jr., an expert in investment management, joins RCSA Board of Directors
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Scialog 2015: Molecules Come to Life
Scialog 2015 Molecules Come to Life: Physicists, biologists and chemists come together to develop innovative ideas for research
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Three TREE Awards Announced
Three outstanding Cottrell Scholars have been named the first recipients of RCSA’s new TREE Award (Transformational Research and Excellence in Education)…
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George Shields Wins ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
George Shields, of Bucknell University, has won the ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution. Shields received his first research award from…
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Cottrell Scholar Program to become more inclusive
The 21-year-old Cottrell Scholar Award program is undergoing a round of modernization.
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RCSA Directors Approve 48 Research Awards
The RCSA Board of Directors has approved a total of $2,445,000 in awards for 48 innovative research projects proposed by early…
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Cottrell Scholars Author ‘Teach Better’ Book
Teach Better, Save Time, and Have More Fun: A Guide to Teaching and mentoring in Science
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Four Teams Win 2014 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards
Four ad hoc teams formed during the most recent Scialog conference, held this past October near Tucson, Ariz., have each won…
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In Hot Pursuit of Cost-Effective Solar Power
The path to widespread use of solar energy remains complex, and the lay public still finds it difficult to perceive how…
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Feig Aids Detroit STEM
Cottrell Scholar Andrew Feig, Wayne State University, had a big hand in designing much of the educational agenda that convinced the…
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The Role of Water and Gold in Catalytic Oxidation
One of Chemistry’s longstanding mysteries is solved. And RCSA awards helped pave the way.
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The Man Who Lived a Thousand Lives
There is a subtle kind of fame that comes to scientists whose names have been decapitalized, and appear in print as…
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AURA Awarded Support by the National Science Foundation to Begin Constructing LSST
Former Research Corporation President John P. Schaefer, RCSA played a key role in the origination of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope…
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Planning, projects, discussions fill 20th-annual CS Conference
The 20th-annual Cottrell Scholar Conference, “Leading Change: Engaging Your Students, Colleagues and the Public to Transform STEM Education,” held in mid-July…