To support a symposium for researchers, policymakers, and financial experts that will highlight interactions between behavioral economics and macroeconomics

To support a mathematical workshop on the Geometry of Redistricting

To support the Third Annual Conference on Big Data at the Harvard Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications

To support research for and writing of The Alchemy of Us: How Matter and Humans Transformed One Another (MIT Press 2018), a book about how human engineering and the invention of 8 key material devices changed our lives

To implement technology upgrades to the Cultural Performance Center at Harlem’s Riverbank State Park

To support a meeting on offline data transfer networks

To support the third in a series of Sackler Colloquia on the Science of Science Communication, to be held November 16 and 17, 2017

To commission a play about Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his breakthrough discovery on the importance of antiseptic practices in medicine, to be written by playwright Stephen Brown and potentially produced by the National Theatre

To identify principles for conducting retrospective review of energy and environmental regulations

To provide final support to the Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development