The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced on July 26 that astrophysicist Shirley Ho is a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in the physical sciences and engineering category.
When pursuing a science degree, hands-on experience is critical. But for undergraduates, especially those in their first or second year, such opportunities are typically limited to lab classes. Getting that early real-world experience is a boon when applying to graduate school, especially for students from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences.
The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund has announced that neuroscientist SueYeon Chung is one of this year’s recipients of a prestigious Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. The award recognizes and supports outstanding early-career neuroscientists who have made valuable research contributions and show great promise.
Following 15 years of data collection in a galaxy-sized experiment, scientists have “heard” the perpetual chorus of gravitational waves rippling through our universe for the first time — and it’s louder than expected.
This fall, nearly 30 students will attend Stony Brook University as the first ever Simons STEM Scholars. With support from the Simons Foundation, these accomplished students — all among the top in their year — will receive full scholarships, programmatic support, academic advising, and assistance finding internships and research opportunities. On May 5, 2023, 25 of the incoming Scholars celebrated their acceptance into the program at a signing ceremony hosted at the Simons Foundation’s New York City headquarters.
The Simons Foundation is honoring the memory of neuroscientist Krishna Shenoy by renaming its undergraduate research fellowship the Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, or SURFiN.
The Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) is pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of its CCQ-NYC graduate fellowships: Alev Orfi, Jaylyn C. Umana and Sophia Wolczko.
The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2023 class of Junior Fellows in the Simons Society of Fellows. The 10 researchers are outstanding early-career scientists and mathematicians based in the New York City area. The fellows hold expertise in a diverse range of fields, including neuroscience, biophysics and number theory.
Governors Island in New York Harbor will soon be home to a world-class hub for generating innovative solutions for combating climate change.
Cross-posted on the Simons Foundation International website.
By closely measuring the distorted path taken by the universe’s oldest light, researchers with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration have mapped out the distribution of dark matter in the cosmos with unparalleled precision. The results shore up Einstein’s theory of gravity, provide new insights into the nature of dark matter and expose critical information about the universe’s fundamental properties.
Adapted from University of Pennsylvania press release.