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.

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165 Grants

Grantee

Amount

City

Year

grantee: Brandy Schillace

amount: $36,000

city: Euclid, OH

year: 2018
To support the research and writing of Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher to be published by Simon and Shuster by 2021
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Brandy Schillace
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To support the research and writing of Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher to be published by Simon and Shuster by 2021
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grantee: The Graduate Center Foundation, Inc.

amount: $330,750

city: New York, NY

year: 2018
To pilot a new, annual scientific biography fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography that will result in three new major biographies of scientists and/or technologists
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Kai Bird
The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York (CUNY) is the only academic institution in the country devoted to promoting the practice of biography. Founded in 2007, its mission is “to foster excellence in biographical writing and to encourage the academy to understand biography as a scholarly and rigorous discipline.” This grant underwrites an annual fellowship at the Center to support an author writing a biography of a scientist, engineer, inventor, or mathematician. Fellows will receive a one-time award of $72,000 and be provided a graduate research assistant, dedicated office space, and access to both the Center’s fellow biographers and CUNY’s science faculty as advisors. Additional grant funds will support outreach to publicize the fellowship with relevant audiences.

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To pilot a new, annual scientific biography fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography that will result in three new major biographies of scientists and/or technologists
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grantee: University of Louisville Research Foundation

amount: $30,700

city: Louisville, KY

year: 2018
To support a book about Charles Willson Peale, creator of a natural history/art museum in Revolutionary-era America, and how the museum influenced the public’s perception of science and art
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Lee Dugatkin
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To support a book about Charles Willson Peale, creator of a natural history/art museum in Revolutionary-era America, and how the museum influenced the public’s perception of science and art
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grantee: Michelle Nijhuis

amount: $40,000

city: White Salmon, WA

year: 2018
To support the research, fact-checking, and promotion of a book about the species conservation movement to be published by W.W. Norton in 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Michelle Nijhuis
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To support the research, fact-checking, and promotion of a book about the species conservation movement to be published by W.W. Norton in 2020
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grantee: Rebecca Schwarzlose

amount: $39,400

city: Saint Louis, MO

year: 2018
To support the writing and illustrations for a book about brain maps to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Profile Books in Spring 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Rebecca Schwarzlose
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To support the writing and illustrations for a book about brain maps to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Profile Books in Spring 2020
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grantee: Fairfield University

amount: $50,000

city: Fairfield, CT

year: 2018
To support the research and writing of a book about the thalidomide scandal of the 1960s to be published by Random House in 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Jennifer Vanderbes
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To support the research and writing of a book about the thalidomide scandal of the 1960s to be published by Random House in 2020
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grantee: Middlebury College

amount: $45,522

city: Middlebury, VT

year: 2018
To support the research and writing of an updated version of the 1993 Sloan-supported book Nuclear Choices: A Citizen’s Guide to Nuclear Technology to be published by MIT Press
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Richard Wolfson
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To support the research and writing of an updated version of the 1993 Sloan-supported book Nuclear Choices: A Citizen’s Guide to Nuclear Technology to be published by MIT Press
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grantee: Lydia Denworth

amount: $19,000

city: Brooklyn, NY

year: 2018
To support the research and writing of Friendship: A Natural History, to be published by W.W. Norton in 2019
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Lydia Denworth
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To support the research and writing of Friendship: A Natural History, to be published by W.W. Norton in 2019
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grantee: Benjamin Ehrlich

amount: $50,000

city: Fort Lee, NJ

year: 2018
To support the research and writing of The Brain That Discovered Itself, about the father of neuroscience Santiago Ramon y Cajal, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Fall 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Benjamin Ehrlich
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To support the research and writing of The Brain That Discovered Itself, about the father of neuroscience Santiago Ramon y Cajal, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Fall 2020
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grantee: Jeffrey Hecht

amount: $33,000

city: Auburndale, MA

year: 2018
To support the research and writing of a book on the history of laser weapons, including recent innovations
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Jeff Hecht
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To support the research and writing of a book on the history of laser weapons, including recent innovations
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