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Public Understanding

Sloan-Supported Documentary “Coded Bias” Available Via Virtual Cinema

The feature-length film by Shalini Kantayya looks at the bias encoded in automated decision-making and machine-learning algorithms.
Public Understanding of Science

Sloan/NYU-Winning Film “Radium Girls” in Theaters and Virtual Cinema

Based on the true story of young women in the 1920s who were poisoned while painting luminous watches at the U.S. Radium Factory.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Making science more equitable, starting with 101

Sloan grantee Tim McKay is leading a collaboration to make intro STEM courses work for everyone
Chemistry of Indoor Environments

How Much Are You Polluting Your Office Air Just By Existing?

Purdue researchers look at the pollutants we bring into the office everyday
Energy & Environment

Impact of Climate Risk on the Energy System

A Council on Foreign Relations report examines the financial, security, and technology impacts of a changing climate
Statement

A Statement by President Adam Falk

Sloan Research Fellowships

UCLA astrophysicist and Sloan Research Fellow Andrea Ghez wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

UCLA professor honored for her discovery, with Reinhard Genzel, of a supermassive object at the center of the Milky Way
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Expanding opportunities, access, support key parts of graduate partnership

Sloan partners with Purdue to help Native Americans pursue advanced degrees in STEM
Announcement

The Foundation Responds to an Evolving Crisis

Technology

Everything you need to plan your own hackathon

Free hackathon planning kit has best practices, timelines, advice, and more

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 eight fields and have become one of the most prestigious and sought after awards available to young scholars.

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