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Grant: Michael Lemonick
To support the writing of the book "Mirror Earth," a popular account of the search for Earthlike planets beyond the Sun and the technology enabling the search
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Grant: Tribeca Film Institute
To develop new science and technology feature films for production and to showcase S&T films and hold panels at the Tribeca Film Festival
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Grant: Hamptons International Film Festival
To commission and spotlight science and technology films and develop science and technology screenplays into production
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Grant: Maura R. O'Connor
To support a book on the science and ethics of conservation biology with a focus on extinction and de-extinction
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Grant: Robert Kanigel
To research and write a biography of Jane Jacobs
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Grant: Appropriation
To provide small grants for promising new books on science and technology
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Grant: New York Hall of Science
As a planning grant to develop an interactive electronic book using cases from the Innocence Project to educate the public about the science of DNA and the use of DNA evidence in the criminal justice system
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Grant: Brooklyn Academy of Music
To support BAM’s special 150th anniversary exhibition on the Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Expedition with enhanced scientific context
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Grant: WGBH Educational Foundation
To develop a screenplay about physicist Lise Meitner for a financing package leading to a theatrical feature film and/or a television broadcast
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Grant: Library Foundation of Los Angeles
As support for the scientific component of a month-long multimedia library program on the contemporary relevance of Moby Dick
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Grant: Sloan Projects LLC
Co-production of a feature film and television broadcast about screen siren and unheralded inventor Hedy Lamarr (Program Related Investment)
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Grant: University of Southern California
For screenwriting and production of science and technology films by top film students
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Grant: Science Festival Foundation
To support program development and production of the World Science Festival for two years
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Grant: Museum of Mathematics
To equip science festivals with portable, interactive, and hands-on mathematical activities
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Grant: New York University
For screenwriting and production of science and technology films by top film students
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Grant: Science Festival Foundation
To develop an educational outreach initiative for the World Science Festival
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Grant: L.A. Theatre Works
To record four new Sloan-commissioned or supported science plays for broadcast on public radio and distributed to schools, libraries, online retail partners and regional theatres, and for development of "Relativity" apps, eBooks, and website material
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Grant: PBS Foundation
As support for the pilot of a six-part, fact-based historical drama about how the Civil War drove innovations in medical science to air on PBS and Video on Demand along with a major educational outreach campaign
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Grant: National Public Radio, Inc.
To support an innovative, on-air, and online multimedia reporter at the Science Desk for two years before NPR covers this new, full-time position
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Grant: WNET
To produce ten hour-long episodes on "Brain Science and Society" co-hosted by Charlie Rose and Eric Kandel, to be broadcast on PBS and Bloomberg and made available online