Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Jim Harrison
Fund for the City of New York
American Economic Association
Netflix
Yuri Beletsky, courtesy of the Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science.
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Higher Education

In Defense of Academic Freedom

Read Sloan President Adam Falk's Address to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society
New York City

Seven outstanding civil servants awarded this year's "Nobel Prize for New York City public servants"

Higher Education

Don’t let the Court disrupt science

Read our editorial in Science exploring the Supreme Court ruling on the use of race in university admissions
John Bates Clark Medal

Congratulations to Sloan Research Fellow (Class of 2019) Gabriel Zucman!

Winner of the 2023 John Bates Clark Medal for contributions to the field of public economics
Public Understanding

Sloan Science in Cinema Prize at SFFILM Awarded to “Don’t Look Up”

The film, directed and written by Adam McKay, is about two astronomers who go on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Sloan Research Fellowships

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Sloan Research Fellowship!

Our annual fellowships support the pathbreaking work of remarkable early career scientists and scholars across seven fields.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has entered Chile's Atacama Desert

A new collection of telescopes will observe the Milky Way and nearby galaxies from the clear night skies above Las Campanas Observatory.
Impact

This biologist is analyzing evolution in the age of the Anthropocene

Shane Campbell-Staton is exploring the ways animals are responding to human behavior

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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