To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time American Experience documentary films: Mr. Polaroid and The War on Smog

To strengthen graduate pathways in the geosciences by providing professional development opportunities and peer mentoring for students and mentor training for faculty

To support projects submitted to Higher Education Forward, in response to an RFP on effective communication related to equity, academic freedom, and democratic values in higher education, to be managed by Amalgamated Foundation and processed by JustFund.

To host a conference that will highlight learnings from the SEISMIC and SELC projects and facilitate discussions on the need for and strategies toward STEM departmental reform

To study the rollout of automated lab technology in an academic setting

To study comparatively how humans and large language models assess the validity of claims

To launch the Sloan-MIT Technology Briefings program with two in-person seminars and online learning modules to educate Congressional staffers on AI and technology

To support the participation of early-career fellows at the 2024 Conference on Global Coal Transitions and a pre-conference workshop

To support Dr. Marc Porosoff in undertaking a collaborative research project to develop a method for producing sustainable aviation fuel from biogas capture, resulting from the 2023 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

To support Dr. Rebecca Ciez in undertaking a collaborative research project to assess the feasibility of using plastic waste to produce sorption materials for direct air capture, resulting from the 2023 Scialog conference on negative emissions science