Heising-Simons Foundation Awards $25.6M to Systems Change Efforts in Second Quarter of 2024 Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/16/2024 on 7/16/2024 Heising-Simons Foundation awarded $25.6 million to systems change efforts across 57 grants during the second quarter of 2024. This latest round of funding supports advancing climate and clean energy policies, ensuring that AI does not disrupt the 2024 election, and developing a clearer understanding of the causes of underrepresentation of women in math and physical …
First Open Call for Support of Science Events and Gatherings Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 5/30/2024 on 5/30/2024 The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program is soliciting its first open call for proposals for support of meetings, workshops, conferences, summer schools, research collaboration gatherings, and other events related to astronomy, cosmology, fundamental physics, climate change science, as well as increasing the representation and retention of underrepresented groups within these areas. The Science program expects to …
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Creates Largest 3D Map of Universe Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 4/17/2024 on 4/17/2024 In May 2021, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) situated on the four-meter Mayall Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, begun capturing and studying the light from tens of millions of galaxies and other objects in the universe. The results from a full year of observations, released earlier this month, are mind-blowing: DESI has created the …
Eight Scientists Awarded 51 Pegasi b Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 3/28/2024 on 3/28/2024 Eight early-career scientists have been awarded the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship, a three-year postdoctoral fellowship that provides recipients with resources, freedom, and flexibility to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.
Heising-Simons Foundation Awards $3 Million for Informing Gravity Theory Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/22/2024 on 2/22/2024 This month, the Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program awarded $3 million over three years for two theoretical and experimental research projects on Informing Gravity Theory in the laboratory. These projects focus on exploring how the platforms and techniques of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physics can elucidate simple models of quantum gravity and inform the construction …
Dr. Jochen Marschall Appointed Science Program Director Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/18/2023 on 12/18/2023 We are pleased to share that Dr. Jochen (Joe) Marschall, currently serving as interim Science program director, has been appointed as Science program director at the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Gas Giants and Their Influence on the Cosmos and Careers Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/9/2023 on 12/9/2023 In a time when astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets with a huge diversity of properties, Dr. Marta Bryan is all about gas giants—analogs to Jupiter and Saturn.
A Multi-Faceted View of Solar System Worlds Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 11/29/2023 on 11/29/2023 To Dr. Katherine de Kleer, science is at its best when diverse areas of study converge. Her career is an inspired case in point, drawing people and perspectives together to sharpen our understanding of the enormous, enigmatic cosmos.
Collaboration Meets Inspiration to Advance Planetary Science Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 10/25/2023 on 10/25/2023 Hot Jupiters. Super-Earths. There is nothing like these types of exoplanets in our own solar system—which makes them an ideal focus for Dr. Songhu Wang’s research. His goal is to explore how our solar system fits into the grander scheme of the cosmos.