Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Grantees in the News

• Is This The Future Bookstore?
• Researchers Survey Mid-Atlantic Ridge Looking for New Forms of Marine Life
• The Evidence on Online Education
• New Report Calls for Broad Ethics of Emerging Technologies
• Off the Beaten Path
• How can the world's fisheries be sustainable?
• Experts See Bad, But Not Disastrous, Flu Season Ahead
• "Minds on the Edge" debuts at WHYY
• Pandemic Reality Check
• San Francisco park watchdog site goes nationwide
• More dads are stepping up with family-building contributions
• The work life legacy of the Families and Work Institute
• How the recession is reshaping the American Family
• NY Times: Science, The Extravaganza
• Can the U.S. lead the way on dual-use education?
• Ex-NYU student wins award to make film on Kashmir lake pollution
• Hard times affect older and younger workers differently
• Podcast: When it comes to flexiblity, maybe size doesn't matter
• WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years
• Is This a Pandemic? Define 'Pandemic'
• Openness and Biosecurity: Can They Co-exist?
• As Jobs Cut, Will Swine Flu, Traditional Flu Swamp Vaccination Efforts?
• Steppenwolf Theatre: World Premiere of "FAKE"
• Professional Master's in Science is 21st Century MBA
• Computer Graphics Researchers Simulate the Sounds of Water and Other Liquids
• Interview with John M. Barry, author of THE GREAT INFLUENZA
• NYU Filmmaker Receives $100,000 Grant
• Massive Online 'Macroscopic Observatory" of Earth's Biodiversity to be Created
• New Parkscan Web site Allows Portland Park Visitors to Make Service Requests Online
• Synthetic Biology on the Rise
• As Flu Retreats, Scientists Brace for its Return
• World Science Festival Sets Line-up
• Future Protection of the Oceans Could Lie in the Past
• Virtual Observatory to Monitor Life on Planet
• Online Database Maps World's Known Species
• Discover Magazine: Next Week's World Science Festival
• Pandemics: Avoiding the Mistakes of 1918
• How Women are Redefining Work and Success
• Census of Marine Life Brings Hope of Revival to the Seas
• Delicate Life in the Ocean Hit by Advent of Bottom Trawling
• Workplace Flexibility Tries to Achieve ADA-Like Consensus
• The ROI of Flextime
• Council of Graduate Schools Starts Study of Master's Degree Completion
• Rethinking the Tenure Clock
• NewsHour with Jim Lehrer launches new financial literacy Web site, MAKING SEN$E
• Report Urges U.S. Government to Boost Workplace Flexibility
• A Master's Degree With A Business Spin Gains Popularity
• New Generation Tosses Out Old Gender Rules
• Milky Way May Be Teeming With Black Holes
• First Lady Calls for More Family Friendly Policies
• Viral Threat Emerged When World Was Ready
• In Swine Flu, Key Moments and Decisions Yet To Come
• WHO Working On A Severity Scale To Accompany Pandemic Alert Phases
• Go Online to Tell Portland What You Think About Parks
• Cosmic Dwarfs Not Ruled By The Dark Side
• The Mother Load
• Wall Street Journal: In a Time of Plague
• New York Times: The Father of the Bomb
• What Foretells a Pandemic?
• Staying Home Not Easy for Sick Workers
• Work/Life Issues are a Family Affair
• Where Will Swine Flu Go Next?
• Containing Flu Not Feasible, Specialists Say
• Former Sloan Research Fellow Wins Top Economics Honor
• Bioethicists Enter the Dual-Use Debate
• Science Films To Get Sloan Grants
• Blackwell unveils UK's first instore Espresso Book Machine
• The Espresso has landed
• How Providing Eldercare Affects Your Job Security
• NY Times: Sleep Dealer Movie Review
• Sharing the Burden
• Will March To Create New Life Be Civilization's Final Frontier
• LA Times Video Review: Sleep Dealer
• Industry Studies Association Established at University of Pittsburgh
• Think Age is Enough to Predict Worker Needs? Think Again.
• Biotechnology Boom Raises Security Fears
• New York Times Review: END DAYS
• Theater Mania: END DAYS Review
• Variety Theater Review: END DAYS
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Receives Award for Role in Founding National Postdoctoral Association
• Former Sloan Research Fellow To Be Named Undersecretary of Science at D.O.E.
• NPR: Herring School for Safer Sex
• New Sensor Lets Scientists Study Large Fish Groups
• Wild Herring Prove Fast Organizers
• Online Universities Grow Enrollment
• Faculty Attitude Can Dictate the Sucess of Failure of an Online Program
• SCIENCE: PSM Programs Merit Wider Support (Subscription Req.)
• New Workplace Equalizer: Ambition
• Breaking Away from Tradition: E-education Expands Opportunities for Raising Achievement
• Synthetic biology: The Next Biotech Revolution is Brewing
• Sloan Public Service Award Winner Talks to the New York Times About His 15 Years of Service
• Riding Out the Recession in a Virtual Classroom
• 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Science-In-Film Awards
• Throwing Out the Rules of Work
• Creative Sick Leave Policies Go Well
• More Students Opt for Cyberspace Classroom
• Report: Online Learning a "Lifeline" in Rural Areas
• Sleep Dealer: At the Border Between Politics and Thrills
• Promo Codes: What More Online Shoppers Expect
• VIDEO: ABC News interviews Program Director Jesse Ausubel about the Census of Marine Life
• Yes, Layoffs Cost More than Regular Turnover and Save Less than the Flexible Alternatives
• NYT: Seven City Employees Honored for Service
• Designing Baby Neanderthals
• Professional Science Master's Programs to Receive $15M Under Stimulus Bill
• Creighton University Offers New PSM Degree in Bioscience Management
• Ensemble Studio's END DAYS Makes Off Broadway Premiere
• Dancing Black Hole Twins Spotted
• Online College Classes More Than a Craze
• In Science and Technology, Efforts to Lure Women Back
• Colors of Quasars Reveal Dusty Universe
• Split Verdict on Women Partners
• Adam: Not Your Average Love Story
• Confidence in Food Safety Plunges in Wake of Peanut Butter Contamination
• Elderly Emerge as a New Class of Worker - and the Jobless
• Former Sloan Research Fellow to be honored as "Best of the Best" in life science
• Smaller Planes are Taking On a Bigger Share of the Skies
• Taking the Wheel as Toyota Skids
• This Time, Old Hands Are Keeping Their Jobs
• Survey Samples Life Scientists' Views on "Dual Use" Research and Bioterrorism
• The Next 9/11: Center Convenes Experts to Discuss the Emerging Threats to New York and America
• Biggest By Default: Toyota May Be Number One But It Still Faces Challenges
• Forbes: Flextime in a Down Economy
• Flexibility Can Offer Alternatives to Downsizing
• Til Children Do Us Part
• California State University Initiates Systemwide PSM Program
• New Release of Google Earth Features Data from the Census of Marine Life
• Read the Real Time Cruise Diary of the RSS James Clark Ross as it Explores the Southern Ocean
• Library of Congress Scans 25,000 Books - Moving from Book Shelf to Cyberspace
• Flexible Work Arrangements Ride US Economic Tides
• Fewer Graduate Students Plan to Enter Academia
• VIDEO: Watch ABC News' local coverage of the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project of the CoML
• Sundance: Adam wins Alfred P. Sloan Prize
• Nature: Scripting Scientists' Lives
• Berger Receives French Legion of Honor Medal
• Disabled, Ill Kids Pose Workplace Challenges
• The Policy Potential of a Mom-In-Chief
• Report Shows U.S. Only Half Ready For Flu Pandemic
• In "Geek Chic" and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women in Science
• Employers Avoid Axing the Oldies but Goodies
• Ausubel Addresses Ocean Scientists on Observing Marine Life
• Library of Congress Makes Mark in Nationwide Digitization Endeavor
• Robotics Pioneer Brooks Called to Jury Duty - at Sundance Film Festival
• Financial Times: When Managers Say Suit Yourself
• Kennedy Seen as Model for Re-Entry Women
• A New Frontier of Online Learning in Minnesota
• AP: Wikipedia Meets $6 Million Fundraising Goal
• Obama Forms Task Force to Assist Middle-Class Families
• The Vanishing 9-to-5 Job
• Older Workers are Disconnected Dots in the Dotcom Age
• Employers Help New Parents Transition Back to Work
• Creating the "Knowledge Commons"
• Online Classes Attract More Students
• Are You Ready for Retirement?
• GM Plan Doesn't Go Far Enough
• Villanova Completes Participation in the PALINET Mass Digitization Collaborative
• Galaxy "Missing Link" Uncovered
• A Picture of the Cosmos
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's 3-D Guide to the Final Frontier
• Strangulation of Spiral Galaxies: "Missing Link" Discovered
• Working Dad: New First Dad Looks Like He'll Be A Good Ally
• Solow on PBS: Worsening Economic Crisis Stops Short of Depression
• Fight for Family Leave Protections
• Lange Updates Body on Faculty Diversity at Duke
• Off Ramp to On Ramp - It Can Be A Hard Journey
• Venter Institute Researchers Streamline Efficient Construction of Synthetic Genomes - Future Biofuel Applications
• The Myth of Older Worker Disengagement
• Myths and Realities of Cyber Monday
• Report: U.S. Electrical Supply Vulnerable During Pandemics
• NY Times: The Life of an Antarctic Archipelago
• Google vs. The Libraries
• Former Sloan Research Fellow to head Obama's Council of Economic Advisors
• Marketplace Public Radio: Logging on to College
• For Many, Economy Shelves College Plans
• Finding Balance: Why Workplace Flexibility? Why now?
• With Students Flocking Online, Will Faculty Follow?
• College Students Flocking to Online Classes
• As Economy Wavers, Online Enrollements Climb
• Study: Online enrollment jumps 13%
• Universities See Double-Digit Increase in Online Enrollment, Study Finds
• Boston Launches Flu Shot Tracking
• Scientific Accuracy, Geek Chic, and Ethical Dilemmas: the 2008 Sloan Film Summit
• Season 5 of WNYC's Radio Lab premieres Friday, November 14th
• Are We Safer Since 9/11?
• Virtual Telescopes Tweaked
• Aliens of the deep: The weird and wonderfully wobbly animals discovered by 'sea census'
• Octopuses had Antarctic ancestor: marine census
• I Do Know How She Does It
• Wikimedia Foundation Launches Annual Campaign to Support Wikipedia
• Students go online for classes
• A Beautiful Math
• Tribeca Awards 5 Film Grants
• Tags unlock young salmon secrets
• Making a Case for Diversity in STEM Fields
• PALINET's Mass Digitization Collaborative Underway
• Tribeca institute takes scientific approach
• The Espresso Machine Debuts
• Scientists Achieve First Tracking of Small Salmon from Headwaters in Rockies through Pacific to Alaska
• Where are the Minority Ph.D.s? In Tampa, Actually.
• They Made America: An Interview with Harold Evans
• Putting Family First is Hard Work
• Working Longer as Jobs Contract
• And Interview with E.O. Wilson, Father of the Encyclopedia of Life
• Synthetic biology inches towards the mainstream
• Free Our Libraries, Cry University Presidents
• NYT: Retirees Filling the Front Lines in Market Fears
• Print On Demand Goes Local
• Americans Clueless About Plans to Create New Life
• WIRED: A Simple Plan to ID Every Species on Earth
• DNA barcoding key to saving forests
• The Magic Theatre Presents 'The K of D- An Urban Legend'
• Economy, desire to work keep many in their jobs
• Beyond the 9 to 5 routine: Tips on how to create a flexible workplace
• A peek at deepwater Life
• Shreveport Times: Tech now part of Consortium
• Sloan Award Sparks to Flash: 'Genius' to receive prize at Hamptons Festival
• AP: Hundreds of creatures found on Australian reefs
• BusinessWeek: Instant Books from the Library
• FBI to Request Review of Its Anthrax Investigation
• 16 organizations recognized for workplace flexibility
• Challenging Conventional Wisdom on STEM Supply
• Health Matters: It's never too early to plan for disaster
• MSNBC: Online degrees gaining more respect
• Researches working to make skies safer for flying
• SITA joins MIT Airline Industry Consortium
• NYT: Fish Tale has DNA Hook: Students find bad labels
• Nearly 1000 college classes available online in Miss.
• Lawyer Evaluations Have Hidden Biases, ABA book says
• Milky Way's Halo Loaded with Star Streams
• Sloan Press Release