Grants Database

The Foundation awards approximately 200 grants per year (excluding the Sloan Research Fellowships), totaling roughly $80 million dollars in annual commitments in support of research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. This database contains grants for currently operating programs going back to 2008. For grants from prior years and for now-completed programs, see the annual reports section of this website.

Grants Database

Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: North Carolina State University
    amount: $80,000
    city: Raleigh, NC
    year: 2016

    To support research and writing of a book, "Never Home Alone," that engages the general public in the history and science of the microbiology of the built environment

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Robert Dunn

    To support research and writing of a book, "Never Home Alone," that engages the general public in the history and science of the microbiology of the built environment

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  • grantee: Oren Harman
    amount: $50,000
    city: Tel Aviv, Israel
    year: 2016

    To support the writing of a book, Evolutions, that juxtaposes the most current scientific understanding of cosmology and the evolution with myths

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Oren Harman

    To support the writing of a book, Evolutions, that juxtaposes the most current scientific understanding of cosmology and the evolution with myths

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  • grantee: Adam Becker
    amount: $50,000
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2016

    To research and write a book on the history of the foundations of quantum physics, with a particular emphasis on the continued dominance of the troubled "Copenhagen interpretation"

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Adam Becker

    To research and write a book on the history of the foundations of quantum physics, with a particular emphasis on the continued dominance of the troubled "Copenhagen interpretation"

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  • grantee: Charles Graeber
    amount: $50,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2016

    To support the writing of a book, The Breakthrough, to enhance public understanding of the science behind recent advances in cancer immunotherapy

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Charles Graeber

    To support the writing of a book, The Breakthrough, to enhance public understanding of the science behind recent advances in cancer immunotherapy

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, College Park
    amount: $50,000
    city: College Park, MD
    year: 2016

    To support development and outreach activities of the SocArXiv preprint server

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Philip Cohen

    To support development and outreach activities of the SocArXiv preprint server

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  • grantee: University of Minnesota Foundation
    amount: $75,000
    city: Minneapolis, MN
    year: 2016

    To expand public awareness of the groundbreaking work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience, through an exhibition and book of his drawings

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Lyndel King

    To expand public awareness of the groundbreaking work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience, through an exhibition and book of his drawings

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  • grantee: Michigan State University
    amount: $120,000
    city: East Lansing, MI
    year: 2016

    To support Jean Pierre Nshimyimana in studying the role of the virome in the microbiological stability of the aquatic built environment

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Joan Rose

    To support Jean Pierre Nshimyimana in studying the role of the virome in the microbiological stability of the aquatic built environment

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  • grantee: Filmmakers Collaborative
    amount: $100,000
    city: Melrose, MA
    year: 2016

    To support the development of "FRONTIERS," a new television show that profiles scientists as explorers conducting research across the globe

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Jen Myronuk

    To support the development of "FRONTIERS," a new television show that profiles scientists as explorers conducting research across the globe

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  • grantee: University of Waterloo
    amount: $125,000
    city: Waterloo, ON, Canada
    year: 2016

    To launch an organization that will compile and encode mathematical knowledge to make it more searchable, computable, linkable, checkable, and usable

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Stephen Watt

    To launch an organization that will compile and encode mathematical knowledge to make it more searchable, computable, linkable, checkable, and usable

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  • grantee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    amount: $111,665
    city: Piscataway, NJ
    year: 2016

    To develop conceptual and empirical frameworks that advance the study of STEM labor markets

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Harold Salzman

    To develop conceptual and empirical frameworks that advance the study of STEM labor markets

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