Research Corporation for Science Advancement

6 cross-disciplinary projects have won awards in the 2nd year of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @AllenPhil_, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation & @KavliFoundation. wp.me/pgj04D-aFX

Philanthropic partnerships like the ones that power our #Scialog initiatives get a shout-out in this article by Cynthia Friend, president of The Kavli Foundation. bit.ly/4unoxB1

1996 #CottrellScholar & 2021 SEED Awardee Ziqiang Wang has a new paper offering insights into charge density wave manipulation and a platform for developing a spin-mediated multistate spin-charge coupling memory and programmable quantum devices. bit.ly/4tDvuNn

RCSA’s new grants management system is open! Thanks for your patience during this transition. Click for details. wp.me/pgj04D-aBk

Congrats to #Scialog NCE awardees Rebecca Pinals @RLPlikesscience @StanfordEng @Stanford_ChEMH, Eric Sun @EricDSun @MIT & Yuecheng (Peter) Zhou @illinoismatse for “High-Throughput, Multi-Modal Screening of Environmental Stressors on the Human Brain.”

Congrats to #Scialog Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems awardees James Crall @UWMadison @UWMadisonCALS, Matthew Lovett-Barron @lovett_barron @ucsdbiosciences & Orit Peleg @oritpeleg @CUBoulder for “Detection and Prediction of Environmental Disruption by Animal Collectives.”

6 cross-disciplinary projects have won awards in the 2nd year of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @AllenPhil_, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation & @KavliFoundation. wp.me/pgj04D-aFX

RCSA welcomes the newest members of its Board of Directors: Mahooya Dinda, Senior Vice President of Finance at MNTN, and Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor and Director of CIERA at Northwestern University. wp.me/Pgj04D-9qZ

Congratulations to #Scialog SM3 Fellow Austin Evans, Scialog AUT Fellow Grant Rotskoff, Scialog MND Fellow Karthik Shekhar, #CottrellScholar 2025 Marissa Weichman, Scialog NES Fellow Anna Wuttig, and Cottrell Scholar 2024 & Scialog QMI Fellow Timothy Su!

Congratulations to two members of RCSA’s community who were elected members of the National Academy of Sciences: #Scialog CMC Fellow Clifford Brangwynne and #CottrellScholar 2005 Chuan He.

Potential #CottrellScholar Award applicants! Register by May 6 to attend one of RCSA's virtual Cottrell Scholar Office Hours sessions on May 14 or 15 for tips on preparing your proposal for the upcoming July 1, 2026, deadline. wp.me/pgj04D-aFz

Angela Hagen, RCSA’s Director of Communications, will retire in June. Congratulations and thank you for all that you have done for RCSA and its community. We wish you the best as you begin your next chapter! wp.me/pgj04D-aFw

An RCSA-funded 2012 #CottrellScholars Collaborative led by CS 2009 Snezana Stanimirovic has produced a 3rd Galaxy Scouts comic book & activity book! This one is inspired by work of CS 2010 Sarbajit Banerjee on regolith modification for lunar landings. bit.ly/4sOZrcI

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As the final meeting of #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories comes to a close, many thanks to our participants and cosponsors for a fun and fruitful initiative! – with @BeckmanFnd, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, Walder Foundation

#Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories continues! Thanks to Christopher Welch, Indiana Consortium for Science and Engineering, for kicking off discussions with a great talk, “Advancing the Automation of Chemical Laboratories through Industry-Academia Research Collaborations.”

The 3rd meeting of Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories -- cosponsored by RCSA, @BeckmanFnd, and Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, with support from Walder Foundation – has begun in Tucson. Special welcome to our new AUT Fellows!