2025 Sloan Research Fellowship nominations are open! #Fellowships are two-year, $75k awards to early-career researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. Nominate yourself or share with your networks. We're excited to see your applications! Deadline: September 15, 2024. Find out more at: https://lnkd.in/d45M8_Vn
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a not-for-profit private grantmaking foundation based in New York City. It was founded in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr, then-president and CEO of General Motors. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's mission is to accelerate the advance of human knowledge through the support of original, high quality research in science, technology, and economics; to increase the quality and diversity of higher education in STEM fields, and to promote the public understanding of these topics.
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ICYMI! We're thrilled to announce that Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has been awarded a $150,000 grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to conduct a study of the research software ecosystem. This research will help us better understand the needs and dependencies within the research software ecosystem and identify opportunities to advance its sustainability. Read our blogpost to find out more about the research study and the collaborative approach IOI is taking https://lnkd.in/dBaSd6RD
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So excited to welcome participants to our Howard University Energy Justice Workshop & Policy Dialogue, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and co-sponsored by Resources for the Future, with support from Southern Methodist University & The Johns Hopkins University. Thanks, in particular, to Evan Michelson, Isabella Gee, and Jessica Klynsma at the Sloan Foundation and to Suzanne Russo at RFF. We are grateful to our amazing students, researchers, and colleagues Sydney Thornton (Howard), Rocio Rossi, TaLibra Ferguson & Niki Stelivan (SMU Dedman School of Law) for their organization and set up work. My brilliant co-chairs, Dr. Debanjana Das & Dr. Anna Broughel, and I are looking forward to a day filled with questions, conversations, and community on energy justice in the energy transition. See you tomorrow! #HowardEnergyJustice #energy cc: Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), SMU Lyle School of Engineering, Research at SMU
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Sometimes to improve a robot, you have to make it simpler. In this case, Broderick Riopelle started with the robot that we use to teach college students, the MBot, and made it simple enough for younger students to program by using the Scratch Foundation code blocks. Riopelle dreamed up the project with his high school teacher Serge Danielson-Francois, and worked with Kendra Pitts of the Center for Success Network in Pontiac to implement the program this past summer. Working over the summer, Riopelle and a team of interns including Tyler Simon of Georgia State University, Jacob Jack of Morehouse College, and Kori Kobylak of Berea College designed a custom Scratch extension for use with the MBot. Read about the project, possible with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: https://lnkd.in/ggZS9KXb Explore the MBot: https://lnkd.in/gxbHc9ZQ
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Congratulations to Will Maslovsky, our new CIO! He will lead the design and implementation of investment strategy for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's $2 billion endowment, so we can continue our mission funding research and education in science. Maslovsky succeeds Elizabeth Hewitt, who has served as CIO for ten years. We wish her all the best in her next steps! Full press release: https://lnkd.in/gncyQxy2
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Thanks to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for this nice article highlighting our #Scialog collaboration and the success of some of our Negative Emissions Science awardees!
Meeting of the Minds: this small conference devoted to innovation is leading to big results
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How did life evolve from matter? How would you go about finding an answer? Guided by the mantra "if you can build it, you can understand it," Cornell University physicists Itai Cohen and Paul McEuen, and Harvard University's Michael Brenner, are trying to recreate the process themselves, using a system of microscopic magnets. The idea, they say, is not as strange as it sounds... https://lnkd.in/dyKEmKh6
Can this trio of researchers create a lifelike system from microscopic magnets?
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ICYMI: We spoke to playwright Stephen Brown about his latest play, Dr Semmelweis. Co-written with and starring Sir Mark Rylance, the play takes dissident voices from science and illuminates them on stage. Read our interview here: https://lnkd.in/eSbe5Fkz
Dr Semmelweis: bringing dissident voices from science to the stage
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Thanks to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for this nice article highlighting our #Scialog collaboration and the success of some of our Negative Emissions Science awardees!
Meeting of the Minds: this small conference devoted to innovation is leading to big results
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DBA Candidate | Senior Advisor, BYD | Guest Lecturer, Wharton School & Columbia | Fellow, MIT, Stanford & LBS Global Sloans
How MIT Sloan Got Its Name: The Real Story Behind the Naming Did you happen to know? The MIT Sloan School of Management owes its name to the Sloan Programs (MIT Sloan Fellows MBA/MS, Stanford Sloan MSx and LBS Sloan MSc), not vice versa. Here’s how it happened: In the early 20th century, Alfred P. Sloan, the legendary leader of General Motors, faced a significant challenge: his engineers needed more managerial skills. To address this, Sloan collaborated with MIT’s Erwin H. Schell to create the 1st* university-based full-time executive education program in 1931, the Sloan Fellows Program. Sloan's vision continued. Recognizing the broader need for management education, he endowed MIT with $5.25 million through the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which led to the establishment of the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1952. So next time someone mentions the MIT Sloan School of Management, remember: it’s named after the groundbreaking Sloan Programs, of which the very first was created at MIT to turn GM engineers into top-tier managers. MiM programs are for graduate students to set sail for their careers, Full-time MBA programs are for junior management career transitions, and Executive MBA programs are mainly for accelerations to mid-level management posts. The Sloan programs have multiple purposes but are mainly for mid-to-senior leadership preparations. By Alfred P. Sloan’s design back in 1930, MIT Sloan programs aim to prepare mid-career engineering managers for senior positions. The Stanford Sloan MSx program is designed for experienced emerging leaders transitioning to mid-level roles, particularly in technology and entrepreneurship. The LBS Sloan program targets senior executives looking to accelerate into the senior management team, C-suite roles, and other top management positions such as Board of Directors, non-executive directors, and senior advisors. It selects students with senior executive experience and deep leadership connections from world-class organisations, globally industry-leading firms, or the heart of governments. * The world's first part-time Executive MBA was launched at the University of Chicago in 1943, while the full-time Sloan Fellows began teaching in 1931. #ManagementHistory #BusinessEducation #Leadership #Innovation #MIT #GM #SloanPrograms #MBA #EMBA #ExecutiveMBA #ExecutiveEducation #SloanFellows #ManagementEducation #LBS #Stanford #MIT Stanford University Stanford University Graduate School of Business London Business School