To study causes and consequences of occupational exit by scientists and engineers

To organize interdisciplinary studies of the scientific research enterprise, including how inputs produce the outputs

To build a new user interface and database for the Small World Initiative (SWI) and train graduate students to teach with the big data sets gathered through SWI course-sourcing on antibiotics produced by newly isolated soil bacteria

To provide emergency funding for up to 35 continuing Sloan Scholars at the University of Puerto Rico at the Mayaguez and Rio Piedras campuses to enable progress toward their doctoral degrees following Hurricane Maria

To conduct a workshop and publish a special journal issue on catastrophic perturbations to Earth’s deep carbon

To support the pilot convening of the William G. Bowen Colloquium

To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

To support two annual conferences organized by the Toulouse School of Economics Centre on Energy and Climate Change

To continue to train highly qualified Ph.D. graduate students from across North America in energy and environmental economics topics and techniques through an advanced summer training program

To organize a study group and roundtable series of meetings to better understand how the United States energy system will evolve in the coming decades, with a focus on exploring the impact of advanced digital technologies and related geopolitical implications