Mar 14FOUNDATION RELEASES 2013 - 2019 PROGRAM REPORTPlease click here to access the Foundation's 2013 - 2019 program report. This report includes a detailed listing on the Foundation's grants during this peri...
Feb 28500 YEARS OF NATURE ILLUSTRATIONS ONLINEBiodiversity Heritage Library has released over 150,000 artworks of the natural world.
Feb 132020 LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENT: MARIE MANCEAUMarie Manceau named the 2020 recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award.
Feb 122020 LOUNSBERY LECTURE: JAY SHENDUREJay Shendure will be giving the 2020 Lounsbery Lecture titled, "Global, Single Cell Views of Human and Mouse Development." LECTURE POSTPONED
Jan 6RLF REVEALS A NEW WEBSITEA new website has been designed for the Foundation, offering much more than the original from 2004.
Oct 19, 2019DULAC RECEIVES NEUROSCIENCE'S HIGHEST HONORCatherine Dulac was named the 2019 recipient of the Ralph W. Gerard Prize.
Jul 26, 2019THE RICHARD LOUNSBERY FOUNDATION TURNS SIXTYThe Foundation turned sixty this year. It was established in 1959 by a Lounsbery family trust and became the foundation that it is today after Richard Lounsb...
Apr 2, 2019RLF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS IN BIOLOGY IN ARTBiology, especially genetics, has become an increasingly powerful science in recent decades, affecting not only medicine and health care, but other fields as...
Jan 30, 20192019 LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENT: JAY SHENDUREJay Shendure, University of Washington, was the 2019 recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award. Shendure is a pioneer and leader in genomics who has developed...
Dec 3, 2018PERRIN BEGINS WORK ON NATIONAL PARKS DOCUMENTARYThe French director and producer behind nature documentaries Oceans and Seasons, Jacques Perrin, is preparing a new film on the national parks of the America...
Nov 7, 20182018 LOUNSBERY LECTURE: PARDIS CHRISTINE SABETIWatch Dr. Sabeti give the 2018 Lounsbery Lecture entitled, "Genomic Surveillance and Response System for Infectious Disease Outbreaks,"
Jul 2, 2018WWI MEMORIAL DESIGN APPROVED BY U.S. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTSAccording to the United States World War I Centennial Commission, the design concept for the Richard Lounsbery Foundation supported national World War I memo...
Jun 10, 2018REMEMBERING HOMER NEAL, 1942-2018Homer Neal served with distinction as a Lounsbery Director for thirteen years. The Foundation is proud to support the Homer and Donna Neal Scholarship Fund a...
Apr 2, 2018CARNEGIE COUNCIL PROJECT "THE LIVING LEGACY OF WWI" LAUNCHES NEW WEEKLY PODCAST SERIES ON APRIL 3Carnegie Council Project "The Living Legacy of WWI" Launches New Weekly Podcast Series On April 3 Carnegie Council's "The Living Legacy of the First World Wa...
Feb 1, 20182018 LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENT: YOHANNS BELLAICHEYohanns Bellaiche is the 2018 recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award for the French Cycle.
Feb 1, 2018CONFERENCE ON WILSON'S 14 POINTS TO END WWIMeridian International Center and Chatham House, with support from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, are partnering in London to host a conference to coincid...
Mar 17, 2017GAMES FOR CHANGE ANNOUNCES WINNER OF GLOBAL MIGRATION CHALLENGEGames for Change announced the winner of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation supported “The Global Migration Game Challenge” on March 16, 2017. The Challenge w...
Feb 1, 20172017 LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENT: PARDIS CHRISTINE SABETI"Pardis Christine Sabeti, Professor at the Center for Systems Biology & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, received the 2...
May 11, 2016HUMAN EVOLUTION ANNOUNCES LEONARDO PROJECTHuman Evolution published an article highlighting the ongoing project “Anthropological and Genetic Study of Leonardo da Vinci.” The Richard Lounsbery Founda...
Oct 26, 2015JESSE AUSUBEL RECEIVES AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY HONORARY FELLOWSHIPThe American Geographical Society (AGS) announced today that Mr. Jesse Ausubel, Dr. D. James Baker, and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs have been selected to receive Ameri...
Jun 19, 2015THE FISCAL SHIPThe Richard Lounsbery Foundation recently helped fund a game called The Fiscal Ship. The game challenges players to put the federal budget on a sustainable c...
Jan 16, 2015CLAIRE MAX RECOGNIZED FOR ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATIONAAS awarded the 2015 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation to Lounsbery Director Claire Max, director of UC Observatories.
Nov 3, 2014REMEMBERING DAVID M. ABSHIRE, 1926-2014Ambassador David M. Abshire passed away on October 31st, 2014 in his Alexandria home. Abshire served as the President of the Lounsbery Foundation since 2002...
Jul 31, 20132013 GOLDEN GOOSE AWARD RECIPIENT NAMEDThe Golden Goose Award, created in 2012 with help from a Richard Lounsbery Foundation grant, seeks to highlight and “celebrate researchers whose seemingly od...
