IOs Angeles philanthropists Tony and Jeanne Pritzker have pledged $2 million to the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering through their charitable foundation. The funds will create the Pritzker Chair in Sustainability and support the Faculty Excellence Fund, designed to attract and retain outstanding engineering faculty. Gaurav Sant, director of the Institute for Carbon Management at […]
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AGCO Agricultural Foundation 2022 Grant Program
Deadline: 30-mar-22 The AGCO Agriculture Foundation (AAF) is accepting grant applications for the 2022 grant cycle through community investment software partner, Benevity, to provide resources to initiate and implement projects that promote climate solutions for farmers and the agricultural sector that benefit economies while strengthening the community. development. The goal is to identify non-profit organizations […]
What to see at the Sharjah Art Foundation Spring 2022 Program
For its spring 2022 program, the Sharjah Art Foundation promises to take viewers on a journey. Among them is the Arabian Sea, with Mumbai artists’ studio documentary CAMP From to Gulf to Gulf (2013) and Ghana, as photographer Gerald Annan-Forson’s images during the country’s revolution in the late 1970s will be the focus of a […]
The Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The Ford Foundation Millions
Mainstream Media Ignore Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence (Complete Series)Ford Foundation Millions | The climate hypocritesSubsidizing the big Labor left | The Arabella “Dark Money” Network Summary: A “leftist” billionaire who has been a major influence on our politics for decades and yet escapes almost all media scrutiny. This is all the more striking since […]
Project Fibonacci Foundation Announces Plans for STEAM Center in Rome
ROME, NY – The Project Fibonacci Foundation recently announced plans to bring a fully operational STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) center to downtown Rome by early 2023. The Multiversity of Science, Arts and Technology (MOSART) will be a collaborative hub focused on programs designed to develop the local youth […]
Free virtual conservation conference hosted by Sequoia Park Zoo & Foundation | News
The Sequoia Park Zoo Conservation Lecture Series is virtual for 2021/2022 with the fourth virtual lecture scheduled for Wednesday, February 16 at 6:45 p.m. Dr. Ho Yi Wan will join from the Cal-Poly Wildlife Department Humboldt to discuss “We are all connected: understanding the importance of conserving and managing connectivity.” Zoo updates and information will […]
British Columbia partners with science foundation working on carbon burial
Feb. 15—Bakersfield College has reached an agreement with a major Bay Area lab foundation that could advance local efforts to establish a carbon management center to benefit the Kern County economy. A Tuesday press release said the new partnership between British Columbia and the Livermore Lab Foundation will provide scientific technical assistance, community education and […]
BC partners with scientific foundation working on carbon burial | News
Bakersfield College has reached an agreement with a leading Bay Area lab foundation that could advance local efforts to establish a carbon management center to benefit the Kern County economy. A Tuesday press release said the new partnership between British Columbia and the Livermore Lab Foundation will provide scientific technical assistance, community education and workforce […]
Funds withdrawn from AAS can be donated to a new foundation
The Science for Africa Foundation is already recruiting former staff members of the African Academy of Sciences International donors who withdrew money from the African Academy of Sciences last year amid a governance wrangle are in talks with a new science foundation for Africa to handle some of their funding from the research. Although those […]
Foundation Series: Data Science, Psychohistory, and the Future of Humanity
Psychohistory is an interdisciplinary science that combines sociology and mathematics with the aim of predicting future events in major societies. The theory is inspired by the emergence of gases from billions of atoms, and similar quantities are taken into account when the first axiom speaks of sufficiently large populations. The real world would face challenges […]
Isaac Asimov’s epic “Foundation” series is now a TV show. His Jewish life was complicated. | Arts and Features
This Friday, after a pandemic delay, Apple TV+ will debut “Foundation,” the first-ever screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s award-winning sci-fi book series. First announced in 2018 and produced in association with Skydance Television, the TV show is one of Apple’s most expensive and ambitious productions to date. The series, which follows a mathematician struggling to […]
Judaism was complex for Isaac Asimov, whose ‘Foundation’ series is now a TV show
JTA — Apple TV+, following a pandemic delay, is finally debuting “Foundation,” the first-ever screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s award-winning sci-fi book series. First announced in 2018 and produced in association with Skydance Television, the TV show is one of Apple’s most expensive and ambitious productions to date. The series, which follows a mathematician struggling […]
Isaac Asimov’s epic “Foundation” series is now a TV show. His Jewish life was complicated.
(JTA) — This Friday, after a pandemic delay, Apple TV+ will debut “Foundation,” the first-ever screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s award-winning science fiction book series. First announced in 2018 and produced in association with Skydance Television, the TV show is one of the Apple streaming service’s most expensive and ambitious productions to date. The series, […]
Green Lagoon Creatures: Sea Change Foundation
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: San Francisco Mega-Foundations Bankrolling Eco-Activism (Complete Series)Paris rises from the dead | Tom Steyer | Sea Change FoundationEnergy Foundation | ClimateWorks Foundation Nat Simons and the Sea Change Foundation At the more moderate end of San Francisco’s “green” lagoon sits Nathaniel “Nat” Simons, a Bay Area billionaire who made his […]
Local arts institutions receive research grants from the Getty Foundation
When it comes to science exhibits, institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and the Mingei International Museum aren’t often the first places that come to mind. But in 2024, MCASD and Mingei, along with the La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego Museum of Art, and UC San Diego Institute of […]