Grants Database

160 Grants

Grantee

Amount

City

Year

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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grantee: University of Texas, Austin

amount: $57,500

city: Austin, TX

year: 2018
To support Power Trip: The Story of Energy by Michael Webber, to be published by Basic Books in 2019
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Michael Webber
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To support Power Trip: The Story of Energy by Michael Webber, to be published by Basic Books in 2019
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grantee: John M. Johnson Jr.

amount: $38,517

city: Ojai, CA

year: 2017
To support a book about the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky and the search for dark matter
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator John Johnson
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To support a book about the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky and the search for dark matter
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grantee: Montana State University, Bozeman

amount: $48,417

city: Bozeman, MT

year: 2017
To support a book on the evolutionary and ecological science underlying agriculture, Eternal Harvest: An Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, to be published by University of Chicago Press
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Catherine Zabinski
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To support a book on the evolutionary and ecological science underlying agriculture, Eternal Harvest: An Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, to be published by University of Chicago Press
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grantee: Susan Hand Shetterly

amount: $22,500

city: Surry, ME

year: 2017
To support a book on seaweeds and their interactions with humans and their habitats, to be published by Algonquin Press
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Susan Shetterly
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To support a book on seaweeds and their interactions with humans and their habitats, to be published by Algonquin Press
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grantee: Maura R. O'Connor

amount: $32,100

city: Brooklyn, NY

year: 2017
To support Wayfinding: The Mystery and Science of Human Navigation in the Age of GPS, a nonfiction trade book on human navigation to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2018
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Maura O'Connor
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To support Wayfinding: The Mystery and Science of Human Navigation in the Age of GPS, a nonfiction trade book on human navigation to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2018
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