Research Corporation for Science Advancement

The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems ends today with pitches for team projects to explore how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes. - with Allen Family Philanthropies, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation & @KavliFoundation.

Congratulations to #CottrellScholar 2017 Michelle Kovarik, who will receive the 2026 J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education from the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. bit.ly/4usPvaS

The event will celebrate Daniel Pitonyak, Lebanon Valley College, 2026 recipient of the APS Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution, which is sponsored by RCSA.

Attending #APSSummit26 in Denver? Come meet our program directors and learn more about #Scialog, #CottrellScholar & #RCSAFellows at RCSA’s reception -- 5-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, Hyatt Agate Room, Hyatt Regency Denver.

Many thanks to Joellen Russell @DeepBlueSeaNext @uazgeos for an inspirational & engaging keynote talk, “Climate and the Deep Blue Sea,” to kick off discussions at the 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems.

The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems has begun in Tucson! Special welcome to all our new Fellows. Cosponsored with Allen Family Philanthropies, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation & @KavliFoundation.

RCSA’s #CottrellScholar community welcomes 2026 Robert Holland Jr. Award recipient Davita Watkins! @OSU_CBC

RCSA’s #CottrellScholar community welcomes 2026 Robert Holland Jr. Award recipient Amy Mainzer! @UCLA

3 experienced researchers, leaders & mentors join the #CottrellScholar community as recipients of RCSA’s 2026 Holland Awards. Congrats to Jorge Colón, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; Amy Mainzer, UCLA; and Davita Watkins, Ohio State University! wp.me/pgj04D-aBC

RCSA is moving to a new grants management system. Details and instructions will be updated at this link on our homepage during the transition. wp.me/pgj04D-aBk

Congratulations to RCSA President & CEO Eric Isaacs, who has been chosen as President-Elect of the @aaas! wp.me/pgj04D-aBo

Congratulations to #CottrellScholar 2020 Song Lin @songlin_chem @SongLinLab @Cornell, who has received the 2025 Snapdragon Prize for Innovation in Chemistry Technology. bit.ly/3OvI0zz

Visit the Funding Opportunities Posters (LBB122-LB126) Presentation today from 1:45pm to 3:45pm featuring funding opportunities from @NIH #NIGMS @TheNCI @NINDSFunding @BurroughsWellcomeFund and @RCSA1. Find us on the exhibit floor in the Late Posters section.

#CottrellScholar 2012 & #Scialog AUT Facilitator Sarah Reisman has received Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman Prize. Reisman, whose research focuses on chemical synthesis of organic molecules produced in nature, also received RCSA’s Cottrell FRED Award in 2019. bit.ly/3OosEwM

2/2 AES Fellow Yang Yang; NCE Fellows Valentina Di Santo & Brian DePasquale; MBC Fellows Michael Economo & Azahara Oliva Gonzalez; MND Fellow Karthik Shekhar; MZT Fellow Christoph Thaiss; and LSST Fellows Wenbin Lu, Katelin Schutz & Allison Strom.

1/2 Congrats to 19 members of RCSA’s community! #CottrellScholar 2024 Denise Okafor; #Scialog NES Fellows Chibueze Amanchukwu, Yayuan Liu, Marcel Schreier & Anna Wuttig; AUT Fellows Herdeline Ann Ardoña & Grant Rotskoff; QMI Fellows Andres Montoya-Castillo & Xiaomeng Liu ....

#Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe awardees Greg Fournier, MIT & Stilianos Louca, University of Oregon, co-author a study in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology tracing early evidence of aerobic respiration on Earth. bit.ly/4awx6ko

Congratulations to 2026 #CottrellScholar Award recipient Tianyu Zhu @TianyuZhu_0903 @YaleChem for “Elucidating the Design Space of Photoactive Molecules Using Quantum-Chemistry-Informed Machine Learning.”

Congratulations to 2026 #CottrellScholar Award recipient Yizhi You @NortheasternCOS @Northeastern for “A Route Map to Open Quantum Systems and Mixed States: Insights from Duality.”

RCSA welcomes 24 early career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2026 #CottrellScholar Awards. Each awardee receives $120,000. Congratulations to this outstanding class! wp.me/pgj04D-aAu