RCSA supports early career researchers in the physical sciences (astronomy, chemistry, physics) at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.
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RCSA is building on our cornerstone programming while adapting thoughtfully to emerging challenges and opportunities. Read our 2025 Annual Report. wp.me/Pgj04D-9ne
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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
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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
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RCSA’s new grants management system is open! Thanks for your patience during this transition. Click for details. wp.me/pgj04D-aBk
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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
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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!
The Dreyfus Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 17 new Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars!
The award honors early-career faculty in the chemical sciences who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship & are deeply committed to education.
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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.
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 25 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research.
Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy! 🎊
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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
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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
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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
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#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.”
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