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Grant: Stephen E. Olson
To support a book on the discovery, manufacture, and use of plutonium in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to be published by W.W. Norton in the spring of 2020
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Grant: University of California, Berkeley
To study private sector research and data sharing practices
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Grant: Ithaka Harbors Inc
To partially support the second Bowen Colloquium
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Grant: Fairfield University
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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Grant: Lydia Denworth
To support the research and writing of Friendship: A Natural History, to be published by W.W. Norton in 2019
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Grant: Middlebury College
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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Grant: WNET
To support a three-part television series broadcast and accompanying outreach on the engineering and technology of LaGuardia Airport, with a focus on the current new terminal project
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Grant: Catticus Corporation
To produce Look Who’s Driving, a one-hour documentary about autonomous vehicle technology, to air on PBS’s NOVA
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Grant: The Manufacturing Institute
To study upskilling strategies among manufacturers for aging workforce and explore best practices on how these companies have been able to successfully extend the working years of this group
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Grant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To support the growth of twelve new science festival initiatives in communities across the country with small resource bases with a special new emphasis on diversity
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Grant: Arizona State University
To integrate engineering principles and thought into the Masters of Public
Policy/Masters of Public Administration programs to enhance the effectiveness of
public and nonprofit managers
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Grant: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
To continue support for predoctoral research and training fellowships in energy economics
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Grant: IEEE Foundation, Inc.
To support enhanced animation and graphics for a feature documentary about Claude Shannon, the father of information theory
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Grant: York University
To develop analytical platforms for the detection of reactive nitrogen indoors
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Grant: Stanford University
To study the behavioral welfare effects of online media consumption
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Grant: Urban Institute
To assess and better understand the labor supply, economic and health impacts of Paid Family Leave policies on older working adults who provide care to elderly family members
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Grant: The Graduate Center Foundation, Inc.
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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Grant: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc.
To support production and outreach for The Gene: An Intimate History, a three-hour documentary, based on Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book, to air nationally on PBS primetime
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Grant: The Pennsylvania State University
To strengthen the microfoundations of macroeconomics by building and calibrating behavioral models of order-book activity in financial markets
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Grant: University of California, Office of the President
To support a workshop exploring institutional workflows to enable access, preservation, and sharing of sensitive data