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: L.A. Theatre Works
    amount: $500,000
    city: Venice, CA
    year: 2014

    To record four new science-themed Sloan plays for public radio broadcast and online streaming, to develop new digital products based on previous play recordings and to maximize visibility and access to all science plays for the public, for libraries and for schools

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Theater
    • Investigator Susan Loewenberg

    This grant provides renewed support to L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) for its ongoing efforts to record and disseminate high-quality science plays nationally and internationally.  The LATW features leading actors reading well-produced versions of new and established science-themed plays, including many originally commissioned and produced through the Foundation’s Theater program. Sixteen Foundation-supported plays have been broadcast on public radio and streamed online, with supplementary educational material provided, and then have been disseminated widely to schools and libraries. The current grant will support the recording and dissemination of an additional four Sloan-supported plays.  Each will be broadcast nationally on public radio and streamed online along with previous titles. Individual titles will also be licensed via the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), reaching an estimated 2.5 million people during the grant period.  Additional grant funds will support the expansion of LATW’s mobile app to further engage younger listeners.

    To record four new science-themed Sloan plays for public radio broadcast and online streaming, to develop new digital products based on previous play recordings and to maximize visibility and access to all science plays for the public, for libraries and for schools

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $92,319
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2014

    To provide partial support for a convocation and dissemination activities on the evidence, models, and implications of replacing standard laboratory courses with discovery-based research courses in the STEM undergraduate curriculum

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Jay Labov

    To provide partial support for a convocation and dissemination activities on the evidence, models, and implications of replacing standard laboratory courses with discovery-based research courses in the STEM undergraduate curriculum

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $45,000
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2014

    To support the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development in the organization of a conference titled "The Financialization of Energy and Environmental Markets"

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Frank Wolak

    To support the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development in the organization of a conference titled "The Financialization of Energy and Environmental Markets"

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $60,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2014

    To provide final support for the International Nuclear Leadership Education Program (INLEP) to train private and public sector executives from emerging nuclear countries and to become financially self-sustaining over the next year

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Richard Lester

    To provide final support for the International Nuclear Leadership Education Program (INLEP) to train private and public sector executives from emerging nuclear countries and to become financially self-sustaining over the next year

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $10,500
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2014

    To support the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center to provide stipends to junior faculty and post-doctoral fellows to attend the 2014 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) Conference in Washington, DC

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator James Sweeney

    To support the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center to provide stipends to junior faculty and post-doctoral fellows to attend the 2014 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) Conference in Washington, DC

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To continue support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series to inform public debate about critical energy issues

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jason Bordoff

    To continue support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series to inform public debate about critical energy issues

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  • grantee: Social Science Research Council
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To develop plans for a MPHD Alumni Mentoring Network and pilot a limited number of activities and professional development opportunities for graduates of the Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) Program with an initial focus on those who have positions in higher education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Mary McDonnell

    To develop plans for a MPHD Alumni Mentoring Network and pilot a limited number of activities and professional development opportunities for graduates of the Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) Program with an initial focus on those who have positions in higher education

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  • grantee: Texas A&M University
    amount: $10,000
    city: College Station, TX
    year: 2014

    To plan workshops on implementing, evaluating, and disseminating techniques for active and inquiry-based mathematics learning in higher education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Ronald Douglas

    To plan workshops on implementing, evaluating, and disseminating techniques for active and inquiry-based mathematics learning in higher education

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  • grantee: University of Texas, Austin
    amount: $75,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2014

    To advance use of existing scientific collections for Deep Carbon Observatory projects and curation of samples

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Beverly DeJarnett

    To advance use of existing scientific collections for Deep Carbon Observatory projects and curation of samples

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $93,150
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2014

    To study productivity in higher education through the analysis of institutions and markets

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Caroline Hoxby

    To study productivity in higher education through the analysis of institutions and markets

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