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Highlights 2023: stories from our grantee community!

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“If you can build it, you can understand it.” Can these researchers create a lifelike system from microscopic magnets?

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This small conference devoted to innovation is leading to big results: two early-career scientists have scaled their ideas into federally-funded research

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Lessons from a boom decade in indoor chemistry; Sloan Foundation program in the Chemistry of Indoor Environments is now complete

Sloan Research Fellowships

2020 Sloan Research Fellow, Joseph Parker, awarded MacArthur Fellowship for contributions to evolutionary biology

About the Foundation

We fund research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics


Founded in 1934 by industrialist Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the Foundation is a not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports high quality, impartial scientific research; fosters a robust, diverse scientific workforce; strengthens public understanding and engagement with science; and promotes the health of the institutions of scientific endeavor. 

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Programs

Our grantmaking is divided thematically across several broad subject areas related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics.

Sloan Research Fellowships

These two-year fellowships honor outstanding early-career researchers in seven fields and have become one of the most prestigious and sought after awards available to young scholars.

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