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Film Schools The goal of the film schools program is to influence the next generation of filmmakers to create more realistic and dramatic stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers through the visual media. This innovative program awards prizes at six leading film schools: American Film Institute UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama Columbia University Film Department NYU Tisch School of the Arts USC School of Cinematic Arts View the most recent winners of the film school prizes. Program Director: Doron Weber Bio Apply Headlines Kate Mickere Wins Sloan Screenplay Award for "Diamonds in the Sky" Times-Tribune Computer Chess Wins Sloan Prize at Sundance Salt Lake Tribune Sundance Channel to Air Bujalski's "Computer Chess" Hollywood Reporter WIRED reviews Bujalski's "Computer Chess" WIRED New Yorker Names Sloan-Sundance winner "Computer Chess" One of Top Three Films at Sundance New Yorker Links Museum of the Moving Image
Film Festivals The Foundation seeks to increase visibility for new feature films that probe science and technology with insight and depict scientists and engineers in fresh, entertaining or provocative ways. Sloan has three main film festival partners. Hamptons International Film Festival Tribeca Film Institute Sundance Film Festival Recent Festival Winners are: Film Independent Sloan Producer’s Grant Unmanned by Casey Fenton Sloan Fast Track Grant Unmanned by Casey Cooper Johnson, Peter W. Singer, and Casey Fenton Hamptons International Film Festival Sloan Feature Film Prize Future Weather by Jenny Deller Screenplay Award The Buck Decision by Laura Oaksmith Screenplay Award Magnetic by Carolyn Kras Sundance Institute Sloan Feature Film Prize Computer Chess by Andrew Bujalski Sloan Feature Film Prize Robot & Frank by Jake Schreier and Christopher Ford Sloan Feature Film Prize Valley of Saints by Musa Syeed Sloan Commissioning Grant Hawking by Young Il Kim Sloan Fellowship Prodigal Summer by Nicole Kassell and Barbara Kingsolver Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Fund Newton's Laws of Emotion by Eugene Ramos Sloan Filmmaker Fund 2030 by Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo Sloan Filmmaker Fund Oldest Man Alive by Antonio Tibaldi Sloan Filmmaker Fund Doctor by Musa Syeed Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize Waking Hours by Barnett Brettler View complete list of Sloan winning films Program Director: Doron Weber Bio Apply Headlines Brettler Wins $30K for Dystopian Screenplay Daily Bruin TFI Unveils TAA, Sloan Winners Screen Daily Tribeca All Access, Sloan Prizes Announced Variety Beyond the Brick and Mortar, TFI Shows Some Initiative Chelsea Now VIDEO: Watch the Teaser for Frances Bodomo's "Afronauts" indieWire Links VIDEO: Sloan at Sundance Sloan Science and Film at Museum of the Moving Image Sloan events at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 17-28
Film Development The Foundation seeks to create and develop new scripts about science and technology and to see them into commercial production at the major studios and networks. It has screenplay development programs with the Tribeca , Sundance and Hamptons film festivals, Film Independent , and select independent partners. Program Director: Doron Weber Bio Apply Headlines Valley of Saints at the Mumbai International Film Festival IndiaGlitz.com "Robot & Frank" a Hit at the London Film Festival London Film Review "Future Weather" Takes Sloan Feature Film Prize at Hamptons Film Festival Deadline.com Links Museum of the Moving Image
The goal of the Film program is to influence the next generation of filmmakers to tackle science and technology themes and characters, to increase visibility for feature films that depict this subject matter, and to produce new scripts about science and technology and about scientists, engineers and mathematicians. This program works primarily through initiatives with film schools, film festivals, and independent and Hollywood film producers. Film Schools Film Festivals Film Development Program Director: Doron Weber Bio Apply Headlines Kate Mickere Wins $20K Screenwriting Prize for "Diamond in the Sky" About Pioneering Astronomer Times-Tribune Film Independent Fast Track 2013 Selections Include Projects From Nikyatu Jusua, A. Sayeeda Clark, Others indieWire James Cameron Honored by National Geographic for Deepsea Challenger Expedition National Geographic Computer Chess is a New Yorker Summer Movie Pick New Yorker Links VIDEO: Sloan at Sundance Sloan Science and Film at Museum of the Moving Image Sloan events at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 17-28 Program Updates March 2013 June 2013 Public Understanding Sub Programs Books Radio Television Theater New Media
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
Faculty Career Flexibility in the Academy The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports projects designed to increase our understanding of the work-life conflicts experienced by tenured and tenure-track faculty in American colleges and universities and to promote career flexibility as a viable solution to these conflicts. This specific higher education industry focus is creating greater career flexibility for tenured and tenure-track faculty. Specific initiatives in this area include the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility in the Academy, a series of awards given to universities who demonstrate a commitment to work flexibility on campus and for pioneering creative ways to ease the work-family conflicts experienced by faculty. For more information about the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility, visit the American Council on Education Web site . Program Director: Kathleen Christensen Bio Grants History Apply Books & Publications Spotlight View a complete list of the grants in the Workplace, Work Force and Working Families Program more Spotlight more Headlines Why Do So Few Mothers Want to Work Full-Time Slate Links Basic Research The Sloan Centers on Working Families Faculty Career Flexibility in the Academy National Workplace Flexibility Initiative Aging and Flexible Work
Ensemble Studio Theatre Mainstage Productions Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler (2010) Sixteen London, 1953. Scientists are on the verge of discovering what they call the secret of life: the DNA double helix. Providing the key is driven young physicist Rosalind Franklin. But if the double helix was the breakthrough of the 20th century, then what kept Franklin out of the history books? Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen (2009) A dark comedy set against the backdrop of Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union, Lenin's Embalmers is the story of two biochemists charged with embalming, and preserving for all eternity, Lenin's body. Using new and inventive scientific techniques they succeed admirably, but will it be enough to save them from Stalin's purges? End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer (2008) Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn’t changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close personal relationship with Jesus. Her new neighbor, a sixteen-year-old Elvis impersonator, has fallen for her, hard. And the Apocalypse is is coming Wednesday. Her only hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all. Lucy by Damien Atkins (2007) A play about an ambitious archeologist suddenly forced to reexamine her life when she must care for her estranged autistic daughter. Serendib by David Zelnik (2007) A Shakespearean comedy about scientists studying Macaque monkeys, and inadvertently, themselves, in Sri Lanka. Relativity by Cassandra Medley (2006) A compelling family drama about race and genetics opened in New York under Tavis Wilks direction to excellent notices. Medley subsequently won the 2006 Audelco-August Wilson Award for outstanding playwright and Relativity was published by Broadway Play Publishing. Luminescence Dating by Carey Peloff (2005) A play about a female archeologist, her obssessive search for a lost statue of Aprhodite, and her broken heart. Tooth and Claw by Michael Holinger (2004) a play about the clash between environmentalists and native fisherman on the Gallapagos Islands. String Fever by Jacquelyn Reingold (2003) Starring Cynthia Nixon, this play broke EST box office records. String Fever was later published by Samuel R. French and selected for a 2003 anthology of best plays by women playwrights. The Secret Order by Bob Clyman (2002) A play about a young scientist's breakthrough discovery in cancer research and the money and ethics involved in bio-research. Louis Slotin Sonata by Paul Mullins (2001) A play about a brilliant scientist's deterioration and descent into death caused by radiation poisoning and his ultimate redemption. Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron (2000) An inspired and totally original look at Richard Feynman's life. Tesla's Letters by Jeff Stanley (1999) A play about one American's journey to Belgrade to study the life of Nikola Tesla during the Serbian/Croatian conflict and the choices she must make. Flight by Arthur Giron (1998) A penetrating family drama about the Wright Brothers. Program Director: Doron Weber Bio Apply Spotlight Photograph 51 , playwright Anna Ziegler’s story of the power and politics behind one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, sold out its New York run at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Headlines Six Playwrights Announced as Recipients of 2012 Manhattan Theatre Club Sloan Commissions Broadway World Links Panel Discussion: Photograph 51 and the Race for the Double Helix of DNA, Part 1 of 2
Grantmaking in this small interdisciplinary program looks for unique opportunities to expand our understanding of the economic, technological, organizational, regulatory, national security, and environmental consequences of energy production and consumption. Past grantmaking in this program has led to the publication of the influential MIT reports, The Future of Nuclear Power (2003), and The Future of Coal (2007) and the Foundation is currently supporting a similar project which focuses on economic, technological, and institutional issues associated with the use of solar energy. Other recent Foundation grants in this area support the exploration of strategies for the safe, responsible expansion of nuclear power around the world, a project to examine the feasibility of extending the life of existing nuclear plants, a project to disseminate safety guidelines for the responsible use of radioactive materials at academic, industrial and medical institutions, a project examining a variety of questions related to energy security, and three projects on natural gas: one examining the economics of state-of-the-art natural gas extraction based on detailed analyses of the geological and economic attributes of five important U.S. shale gas deposits; one examining environmental and regulatory issues surrounding shale gas exploration and extraction; and one examining the politics associated with the development of public policies toward shale gas exploration and development. The Foundations most recent large grant in the energy area provides start-up funds to create a research center to study the impacts of government and utility programs to promote energy efficiency. Due to the significant funding available from both public and private sources for energy and environmental research, the Foundation is very selective in the grants it makes in this area, supporting only projects for which non-partisan funding is not readily available, projects related to other Foundation programs or priorities, or projects where Foundation support could be leveraged to significantly raise the chances of the project’s success. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio
