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To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, and to celebrate the enduring importance of French-American intellectual exchange and friendship, the Directors of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation established a short-term Fellowship Program supporting early-career scholars undertaking sabbatical research abroad. Open to French and American citizens, the program encouraged work in areas of historical and scientific interest to the

2025 Grantmaking in Review

Dulac named Harvard University Professor

French Embassy in the United States launches Fellowship celebrating 250 years of French-American friendship.

CSPC's Quarter Millennial Project on PBS News as America begins to celebrate 250

Foundation releases 2020 - 2024 program report.

The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) unveiled their America at 250 "Quarter Millennial Project" today. In...

Michael M. Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has won the Richard Lounsbery Award for...

Directors of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation are pleased to announce a short-term Fellowship Program to celebrate America at 250.

Chairman Ausubel reflects on the history of scientific relations between the US and France.

Dr. Jean-Léon Maître, CNRS Research Director at the Institut Curie Paris, has won the Richard Lounsbery Award for his outstanding and...

Dutch historian and academic Iris de Rode, Ph.D., was honored today with the 2023 Guizot Prize by the Académie Française recognizing her...

The Richard Lounsbery Foundation is pleased to announce that Michael Shelley was elected to its Board of Directors today. Dr. Shelley is...

Michelle Monje has won the 2023 Lounsbery Award for advancing understanding of pediatric brain cancer treatments.

Lounsbery Chairman Jesse H. Ausubel will be honored with the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. This award is...

Claire Wyart, Inserm research director at Paris Brain Institute, has won the 2022 Lounsbery Award for her outstanding research on the...

On May 19, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the renaming of the physics building’s Randall Laboratory addition to the...

The Richard Lounsbery Foundation is pleased to announce that Rose Gottemoeller was elected to its Board of Directors today. Gottemoeller...

The Richard Lounsbery Foundation is grateful for the outstanding service of Director Nicholas Burns and wishes him well in his new position as U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Ambassador Burns served as a Director of the Foundation for 12 years. He officially retired from the Foundation on December 21, 2021. January 2025 Update: Ambassador Burns Reflects from Beijing as his post ends

An eighteenth-century shipwreck that lay hidden under the sea has been uncovered in Antiqua. Leading the underwater team was...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York University hosted the second Art Bio Matters (ABM) conference virtually September 22 - 24, 2021. ABM aims to provide a stimulating forum in which to explore current and new directions in the study of biological materials found in cultural heritage collections through a biannual meeting and a dedicated website. A key aspect of the forum is the opportunity to discuss research at any stage of completion among a balanced community of ex

On April 16, 2021, the World War I Centennial Commission celebrated the Inaugural Raising of the Flag of the United States of America...

The US government, through the State Department-sponsored Stevens Initiative, is joining with the non-profit organization Games for...

The Lounsbery sponsored Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg by University of Toronto historian of science Jan Sapp...