Television - Grants
Recent grants in this program include:
| Organization Name | Project Director | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Catticus Corporation | Michael Schwarz | For co-production for a two-hour PBS documentary based on Michael Pollan's bestseller, The Botany of Desire. |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Paula S. Apsell | To research, produce and broadcast extended profiles of scientists on NOVA Science Now. |
| Catticus Corporation | Arthur L. Singer | To develop a full-length television treatment and other possible media about the consequences of de-institutionalization and its relation to advances in neurobiology. |
| National Geographic Society | Michael Rosenfeld | For co-funding for a drama documentary about Charles Darwin to be aired on NOVA and National Geographic Channel. |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Mark Samels | To research and produce four documentaries about the role of science and technology in history for The American Experience. |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Paula S. Apsell | Support for scientist profiles on NOVA scienceNOW prime time broadcast and on the world wide web |
| Fred Friendly Seminars, Inc. | Richard Kilberg | For one-hour PBS broadcast and extensive outreach of a Socratic Dialogue on Severe Mental Illness: Law, Science and Society |
| MacNeil/Lehrer Productions | Lester M. Crystal | To research, produce and broadcast a regular, branded bi-weekly series on financial and economic literacy as part of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, with extensive web components and outreach |
| Educational Broadcasting Corporation | Jared Lipworth | To produce and broadcast a 4-part series on technology and land-based military conflict, Ground War. |
| Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. | Richard Hudson | To produce and broadcast a 2-hour documentary about the 400-year development of the telescope. |
| Teachers College, Columbia University | Richard D. Heffner | Partial support for the Open Mind Online Digital Archive. |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Paula S. Apsell | Co-funding for a four-part PBS series on space and time, Fabric of the Cosmos. |
| Living Archives, Inc. | Rosemary Reed | To develop, produce and broadcast three one-hour PBS documentaries about three women scientists. |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Paula S. Apsell | To produce extended, personal profiles of scientists on NOVA scienceNOW. |
| Catticus Corporation | Michael Schwartz | To produce, broadcast and promote a one-hour PBS documentary about fractal geometry. |
Program Director:
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