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Microbiology of the Built Environment
To grow a new multidisciplinary field of scientific inquiry focused on understanding the microbial ecology of the built environments where people work, live, and play.
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Chemistry of Indoor Environments
To grow a new field of scientific inquiry focused on understanding the fundamental chemistry taking place in indoor environments and how that chemistry is shaped by building attributes and human occupancy.
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Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
To continually monitor the landscape of emerging technology with the aim of identifying emerging new sectors, tools, and methods of working that we believe have potential, but which may not yet receive funding from mainstream/other sources.
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YouTube & TikTok
To advance public understanding and engagement with science by supporting innovative content creators on YouTube, as well as TikTok and other major long and short-form video platforms
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Information about Careers in Science and Technology
This program, launched in 1996 and completed in 2006, aimed to make available detailed, accurate information about the nature of scientific and technical careers.
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Theater
Encourage leading playwrights to explore scientific or technological themes and write plays featuring scientists, mathematicians, and engineers as characters; support theaters that commission, develop, and produce plays with dramatically engaging high-quality science content.
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Small-Scale Fundamental Physics
To discover new fundamental physics
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Television
Develop television projects that tell stories, both historical and contemporary, about science and technology, and that portray the lives of the men and women engaged in scientific and technological pursuits.
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New Media
Advance public understanding and engagement with science through the support of innovative projects that use a range of media to reach a broad, cross-cultural audience.
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Making Municipal Governments More Responsive to their Citizens
This Foundation program, begun 2005 and ended in 2010, aimed to improve municipal governance by leveraging advances in digital technologies to help increase communication between city governments and the residents they serve.
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Deep Carbon Observatory
To transform radically our understanding of the quantities, movements, distribution, and properties of deep Earth carbon and its roles in the origin and limits of life, the creation of hydrocarbons, and the global carbon cycle.
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Matter-to-Life
To sharpen our scientific understanding of the physical principles and mechanisms that distinguish living systems from inanimate matter, and to explore the conditions under which physical principles and mechanisms guide the complexification of matter towards life.
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Better Software for Science
To develop practices, norms and institutions that can better promote the development and adoption of discovery-enhancing software.
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Biosecurity
Begun in 2000 and ended in 2010, the Foundation’s Biosecurity program is credited with laying the foundation for and establishing a sustainable approach to the nascent field of biosecurity.
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Books
To support authors in the research and writing of a wide range of books aimed at public understanding of science and technology.
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey
To accelerate discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics through the support of an all-sky spectroscopic observation program that uses telescopes in both hemispheres to comprehensively map the night sky, examine the history and structure of the universe, and probe the physics of black holes.
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Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families
Launched in 1996 and completed in 2012, this program sought to enhance scholarly, business, and public understanding of the challenges facing today’s working families and to identify how the workplace can be restructured to meet the needs of both workers and employers.
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Public Understanding of Science & Technology
This long-standing multifaceted program aims to give people a keener appreciation for the increasingly scientific and technological world in which we live and to convey some of the challenges and rewards of the scientific and technological enterprise.The program's primary aim is to build bridges between the two cultures of science and the humanities and to develop a common language so that they can better understand and speak to one another--and ultimately to grasp that they belong to…
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Higher Education
To create diverse, equitable, and inclusive pathways to and through STEM graduate education and the professoriate.
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Sloan Research Fellowships
Sloan Research Fellowships support fundamental research conducted by early-career scientists.