Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded for a two-year period; if unexpended funds remain at the end of two years, an extension of the termination date may be obtained. Extensions are limited to a maximum of two years. Funds remaining at the end of that period must be returned to the Foundation. If a Fellow transfers to another eligible institution during the term of the Fellowship, the Foundation will transfer unexpended funds to the new institution. The size of the award is $50,000 for the two-year period. Funds are awarded directly to the Fellow's institution and may be used by the Fellow for such purposes as equipment, technical assistance, professional travel, trainee support, or any other activity directly related to the Fellow's research. Funds may not be used to augment an existing full-time salary or for indirect or overhead charges by the Fellow’s institution. Expenditures must be approved by the Fellow's department chair and must be in accord with the policies of the institution.
The long period required to earn a Ph.D. in much of science, and doubts about the suitability of present graduate training for non-academic jobs suggest that graduate schools might consider a different kind of graduate degree in addition to the Ph.D. In this program, the Foundation made grants that encouraged and promote the development of the Professional Science Master's degree, a two-year degree, heavily oriented toward coursework that provides a sound basis for work outside academia in scientific and technical fields. Active grantmaking in this program ended in 2010. The Foundation is no longer accepting grant proposals in this program. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants History Apply Headlines U.S. Pushes for Scientists, But the Jobs Aren't There Washington Post Links ScienceMasters.Com National Professional Science Masters Association New Report on PSM Enrollment and Growth in 2011
Our program to make municipal governments more responsive to their citizens, now ended, had two components. First, we sought to make citizen-informed and citizen-based government performance measurement and reporting widespread, normal and expected. Second, we sought to accelerate the spread of telephone-based or Web-based technologies that enable citizens to make and track direct service requests to their local governments. Grantmaking in this program has concluded. Though work continues on grants made in previous years, no new grants will be made in 2010 or subsequently. Letters of inquiry for grants through this program are no longer accepted. Performance measurement and reporting are citizen-informed under the following conditions: when the government involves the public in developing measures that citizens care about; when the government involves the public in deciding how performance will be reported; and when the government obtains and takes seriously feedback from the public on performance reports. Performance measurement and reporting are citizen-based when done from outside the government, normally by a non-government organization, preferably with the cooperation of the government. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants Apply
In its Information about Careers in Science and Technology program, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is working to make available detailed, accurate information about the nature of scientific and technical careers. Foundation efforts have led to the launch, in 2003, of the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center , an ever-expanding online repository of information about careers in more than 150 scientific and technical fields. Containing information on education requirements, salaries, networking, precollege ideas, career planning resources and hundred of interviews with career professionals, Career Cornerstone has become an invaluable resource for students, advisors and guidance counselors seeking information about the prospects and challenges of work in science and technology. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants Career Cornerstone Apply
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Industry Studies program was founded in 1990. Its primary mission is to encourage close interaction between academics and industry in order to stimulate new lines of inquiry and broaden the impact of scholarly research. Industry studies researchers focus on topics related to firms and the markets in which they compete. Their research is characterized by a substantial investment of time to learn first-hand about the markets, firms and institutions in the industries they study. This approach requires interaction with industry practitioners and fieldwork, often including observation and/or primary data collection. The Foundation is no longer accepting research proposals in this program; however, industry studies researchers may apply for grants under other Foundation programs, such as Economic Institutions, Behavior and Performance. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants IndustryStudies.org Apply Links What is Industry Studies? Sloan Industry Centers Industry Studies Fellowships Working Papers Awards for Scholarship
Since 1992, the Foundation has made grants totaling nearly $75 million in support of the development of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs). These networks provide remote access to high-quality higher education and training—anytime and anyplace—by providing access to instructors, classmates, syllabi, readings, and other educational resources via the Internet. Approximately five million learners in degree-granting institutions now enroll in at least one ALN online course. ALN blends (ALN combined with traditional classroom teaching) have helped academic institutions meet the needs of local student populations. The program has demonstrated effective applications of online education for such special populations as U.S. Army personnel and students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, for workforce development in specific industries, and for training of low-wage workers. The Sloan Consortium , now a group of about 1500 academic institutions, spearheaded the movement to establish quality online courses and programs. A 2008, three-year, $4 million grant to the Consortium led to a business plan for the Consortium’s transition to a self-sustaining 501(c)(3) professional society. Ongoing projects are focusing on increasing the Sloan Consortium membership base, creating strategic relationships with foreign universities to add an international dimension to the Consortium, increasing the Consortium’s non-membership revenue base, and creating a credible and up-to-date national catalog of online courses and programs. Note: Grantmaking in this program has ended. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants History Apply Links The Sloan Consortium
Since our Biosecurity program began in 2000, the Foundation has provided $44.1 million in support. Our original focus was on preparedness, both for individual citizens and for organizations. We have supported a number of important projects, including the development of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Ready.gov initiative. Since 2000, we have underwritten the influential Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, whose mission is to strengthen national security by reducing the risks posed by biological attacks, epidemics, and other destabilizing events, and to improve the nation’s preparedness and response in the face of such events. Our Biosecurity program has also addressed issues surrounding dangerous research and the potential misuse of scientific knowledge, methods and materials in the life sciences. In this arena, we funded a number of significant projects, including the landmark Fink committee report: “Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism,” the U.S. National Academies’ International Biosecurity Project and the World Health Organization’s program to raise awareness of the potential for misuse of biotechnology research. Sloan’s Biosecurity Program has been very successful in bringing attention to the issues and challenges posed by biological threats. When our program began in 2000, the US government funding for strictly biodefense was approximately $50 million. The FY2010 budget is $1.09 billion. Grantmaking in the Biosecurity program concluded in 2010. Program Director: Paula Olsiewski Bio Grants Apply Headlines VIDEO: What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease The National Academies Links Center for Biosecurity Charting the Future of Biosecurity: Ten Years After the Anthrax Attacks REPORT: A Framework for Voluntary Preparedness What is Your Readiness Quotient? Ready.gov Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism (The Fink Report)
The Fields Medal is awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement. Fields Medal Awarded Name SRF Year 1962 John Willard Milnor 1955 1966 Paul Joseph Cohen 1962 1966 Stephen Smale 1960 1970 Heisuke Hironaka 1962 1970 John Griggs Thompson 1961 1974 David Bryant Mumford 1962 1978 Charles L. Fefferman 1970 1978 Daniel G. Quillen 1967 1982 William P. Thurston 1974 1982 Shing-Tung Yau 1974 1986 Michael H. Freedman 1980 1990 Vaughn F. R. Jones 1983 1998 Curtis T. McMullen 1988 2002 Vladimir Voevodsky 1997 2006 Terence Tao 1999 2006 Andrei Okounkov 2000 Program Director: Daniel Goroff Bio Past Fellows History Apply Links Apply Online Nobel Laureates Fields Medalists John Bates Clark Medalists National Medal of Science Winners Members of the Selection Committees FAQ Questions? Download our Brochure Spotlight See the full-page New York Times ad congratulating the 2012 Sloan Research Fellows more