Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Grantees in the News

• Audio from NPR: More Employers Make Room for Work-Life Balance
• Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?
• NYU Courant Professor Wins NSF's Waterman Award
• Former Sloan Fellow receives NSF's Highest Honor
• 2010 Sloan Public Service Awards Go to Six Outstanding Civil Servants
• AUDIO: NPR interviews Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook
• Theater Mania - Lenin's Embalmers Review
• Should Employers Drop Retirement Ages?
• College Degress Without Going to Class
• For Many, Taking A Day Off Is Not An Option
• The Flu Season That Fizzled
• NY Times: Facts Behind 'Lenin's Embalmers'
• Students Uncover Mislabeled Foods Through DNA Testing
• Swine flu wanes, but experts say pandemic strain could reemerge
• The Academic-Motherhood Handicap
• When Getting the Job Is the Easy Part
• Variety: Obselidia
• A Big Picture Look At The Small Scale
• Book review: 'The Poisoner's Handbook,' by Deborah Blum
• Marine Census Grows Near Completion
• Down Economy Drives Online Learning: Enrollments Up 17%
• Skills for Success
• L.A. Theatre Works Airs THE GREAT TENNESSEE MONKEY TRIAL
• Feds Not Ready to Say H1N1 is Over
• San Diego State and BIOCOM Institute Receive $5M from Dept. of Labor for PSM Initiative
• He Breaks for Band Recitals
• 2010 Sloan Research Fellowships
• How Manhattan's nicest murderers met their match
• Guess How Many Organisms You'll Find in a Cubic Foot of Soil or Sea
• Quasar Pair Captured in Galaxy Collision
• World Premiere of Lenin's Embalmers Plays the Ensemble Studio Theater March 3 - 28.
• 'Obselidia' wins Sundance's Sloan Prize
• Oceans: The Fish Story That Is Sweeping France
• Researchers Find New Way To Study How Enzymes Repair DNA Damage
• State of the Union: Don't Lose Family Amidst the Headlines
• Study: Online Education Continues Its Meteoric Growth
• Suddenly Flush with Doses, U.S. Pushes Flu Vaccination
• A Look at the Ph.D. Problem
• Seniors Struggle to Rebound from Unemployment
• Welcome to the Wonderful World of Wikipedia
• Book on Demand: Tiny Press Makes Self-Published Books Accessible
• Variety: In Search of Memory
• Google, Copyright, and Our Future
• Welcome to Unretirement
• How Organisms Can Tolerate Mutations, Yet Adapt to Environmental Change
• Business and Sciences Unite in New Master's Program
• Study: Men Benefit Economically from Marriage, Too
• Neuroengineers Silence Brain Cells With Multiple Colors of Light
• Xerox to Produce and Market Espresso Book Machines
• Insta-book Maker Signs Agreement with Xerox
• Getting to Know Microbes
• Microbe Understudies Await Their Turn in the Limelight
• Higher US Debt Means Slower Growth, History Suggests
• Dog Genes Code Dachshund's Stumpy Legs, Shar-Pei's Wrinkly Skin
• Why Do People Give Up Engineering?
• A More Family-Friendly Ivory Tower
• Bensonhurst Teach is Tops
• U.S. Reaction to Swine Flu: Apt and Lucky
• With DNA Testing, Students Learn What's What In Their Neighborhood
• Experts Say Lots Learned From H1N1 Pandemic
• Engaging Older Workers with Flexible Work Options
• Companies Benefit From Focus on Workers' Life Stage, Not Age
• A Gradual Exit: Phased Retirement Done Right
• NYT: Making Flex Time a Win-Win
• Sloan Grantee Jessica Green Awarded TED Fellowship
• California Targets Veterans and Active Military for PSM Degree
• Top Ten Work Life Culture Stories of 2009
• The High Costs of Copenhagen
• Problems of Jobs, Wages Isn't Easily Solved
• U.S. Lags in Family-Friendly Workplace Policies
• Sloan Grantee Wins 2009 Emmy Award for Unemployment Reporting
• Part of the Daily American Diet, 34 Gigabytes a Day
• Paul Solman Wins Business Emmy for Unemployment Reporting
• DNA Barcodes Net Menu Imposters
• Investing in Education Will Put Us On The Path To Recovery
• Barcode of Life Exhibit Opens at Lowe Gallery in Atlanta
• Professor Analyzes Work Force
• Companies Push for Flexible Schedules to Boost Women Attorneys
• Talent Needs Shouldn't Overlook Older Workers
• Stanford Researcher Investigates "Motherhood Penalty" in the Workplace
• Leeds Scientist Calls for World Forest Observatory
• Second Wave of Swine Flu May Have Peaked
• Math, Science & Engineering: A Better Career These Days?
• Introducing the Transparent Ocean
• Vaccine System Remains Antiquated
• Glass Looks to the Heavens, Again
• Former Sloan Research Fellow appointed head of DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Discovered in the Ocean Abyss: The Elephant-Eared Octopod
• L.A. Times: Philip Glass' 'Kepler' Has U.S. Premiere at BAM
• NY Times: Kepler at BAM
• A Surplus of Energy that Might Even Last
• Experts Say Radical Measures Won't Stop Swine Flu
• Townsend Harris H.S. Honors Award-Winning Teacher
• Four Bronx Teachers Honored for Making Science, Math Fun
• Mysteries of the Flu
• Unusual Massive White Dwarf Stars Have Oxygen Atmospheres
• Encyclopedia of Life Ranked 10th Best Educational Web Site by London Telegraph
• Patching America's Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences
• Agencies Promote Telework as Powerful Tool, Not a Panacea
• Economists Seek to Cure a Defect in Data that Overstates the Nation's Vigor
• DNA Barcodes Make Their Mark
• Great White Sharks at Times Enter San Francisco Bay
• Bronx Teacher Joins Top Ranks of Science Instructors
• Speed Limit to the Pace of Evolution, Biologists Say
• Arrogance, Ignorance Recurring in Economic History
• Recession Prompts States to Act
• How Corporate America Can Support Workers in a Recession
• Promoting Professional Science Master's Degrees
• Quantum Gas Microscope Created
• Seven Earn Awards For Teaching Math, Science in NYC
• Shortage of Vaccine Poses Political Test for Obama
• Might Companies, Not Colleges, Deserve the Blame for a Shortage of Engineers?
• Convenience Foods Not Such Big Time Savers
• Study: No Shortage of U.S. Engineers
• Minority Graduate Students Urged to Address Pipeline Issues
• Program Helps Students from Rural Alaska
• The Botany of Desire - A Plant's Eye View of Desire and Evolution
• Designer Molecule Glows When Detecting Tiny Amounts of Cyanide
• Consortium Pursues Online Learning for the Visually Impaired
• Workplace Health May Be Declining - What To Do
• Why So Few Doctoral-Student Parents?
• Neural Stopwatch Found in the Brain
• Book Pairs Science and Movies
• NY Times Book Review, The Nature of Technology: Rethinking What Leads the Way: Science, or New Technology?
• LA Times: "Smallpox -- The Death of a Disease," a Q and A with Dr. D.A. Henderson
• Science, the Extravaganza
• Congress Tackles Derivatives That Brought Down the House
• Can a Flexible Boss Improve Your Health?
• Swine-Flu Wave Poses Threat To Hospital ICUs, Studies Warn
• "Future Weather" Wins Film Independent Sloan Producers Grant
• Steppenwolf Theatre Presents FAKE
• Rogoff Slams Four Toxic Words, "This Time Is Different"
• Astronomers Creating 3D Map of the Universe
• Swine Flu Put Many Hospitalized Patients in the ICU
• Household Robots Do Not Protect Users' Security and Privacy, Researchers Say
• Science Prize (Not the Nobel)
• Hamptons Film Festival: Sundance East
• Policy Brief: The Impact of the Recession on Work and Family
• Boom, Bust, Repeat
• Carnegie Mellon Dramatic Writers Win Sloan Screenwriting Prize
• Hamptons International Film Festival and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Celebrate 10 Years
• Tourism Study Brings Together Archrivals
• New Kind of Search for Dark Energy: First Light for BOSS
• Debunking the Mommy Myth
• Most Stay-at-Home-Moms Start That Way, Study Finds
• Nanotechnology and Synthetic Biology: What does the American public think?
• Authors: US Economic Crisis Was Long Time In The Making
• American Public University system to receive Gomory Award for Excellence in Online Education
• Greenwood Honored for Role in Promoting Diversity in Science Education
• New Barcodes Emerge from MIT
• Hamptons International Film Festival: Bigger, Better, and Leaner
• Finding Work in Retirement
• Pittsburgh's heart of steel still beats amid transformed city
• Video: ABC News profiles NOVA's new web series "The Secret Lives of Scientists"
• Mayadas Honored for Pioneering Role in Online Education
• On Demand Books Turns Google's eBook Archive Back Into Paperbacks
• What's Hiding in Your Showerhead?
• The Mediocre Multitasker
• $1.25 Million Awarded to Implement, Expand Faculty Career Flexibility Initiatives
• Rare Cases of Restored Vision Reveal How the Brain Learns to See
• NPR's Kojo Nnamdi interviews David Rejeski on the perils and promise of Synthetic Biology
• Bathing, But Not Alone
• DNA "Barcode" to Help Nab Illegal Wildlife Traders
• First DNA Barcodes of Commonly Traded Bushmeat are Published
• Maryland's University College Takes Unique Path in Online Education
• Reward Older Workers With What They Really Want
• Creative Management Practices for Making Work Work
• Synthetic Biology Holds Promise, But Doubts Simmer
• Can Womenomics Ease The Stress of Work/Life Balance?
• Paternity Leave Benefits Help Employers Stand Out
• How Will Online Courses Weather the Economic Downturn?
• Scientist's Book Links Chemistry to Big Screen
• ADAM explores life with Asperger's
• Encyclopedia of Life Grows; Clues on Aging, Pests
• Biotechnology program earns national designation: Professional Science Master's
• Finding a Partner for your Ph.D.
• In Case of Emergency, Break Tradition - Teach Online
• Still Stuck on the Tarmac
• Global Trade System Raises Flu Virus's Threat
• Regis University Gets Grant to Improve MBA, Education Courses
• Standard Approved for DNA of Plants
• Bokode Barcodes Use Angular Dimension to Encode Information
• Video: Watch the UK's Channel 4 News Story on New DNA Standards in Plant Barcoding
• New Class of Galaxies: Small, Green and Bursting with New Stars
• DNA Barcode for World's Plants Agreed Upon
• New Book Pairs Science and Movies
• Splitting the ADAM
• LA Times: Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne are Two of a Kind
• Study: Flexibility Programs Gain Ground in Hard Times
• Privacy Tool Makes Internet Postings Vanish
• U.S. Gears for Huge Swine Flu Vaccination Push
• Science of Swine Flu: Unpredictability Marks the Most Recent Strain of Disease to Spread
• 10 Ways to Learn Anything on the Web
• Families and Work Institute Releases Findings on Impact of Recession on Employers
• Jim Lehrer Moderates a One-Hour Forum About the Economy With Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke
• Encyclopedia of Life Featured in This Month's Issue of BioScience
• Steppenwolf Theatre Launches New Season with Eric Simonson's Sloan-commissioned play FAKE
• Scientist Shortage? Maybe Not
• The Flexible Workplace: A Better Way To Work
• Taken for Granted: An Alternative to the Ph.D.
• They Thought Globally, But Now Colleges Push Online Programs Locally
• Older Job Seekers Struggle to Overcome Age Barrier
• 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