2023 LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENT: MICHELLE MONJE
Michelle Monje has won the 2023 Lounsbery Award for advancing understanding of pediatric brain cancer treatments.
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- Sep 19, 2022
JESSE AUSUBEL TO RECEIVE 2022 NIERENBERG PRIZE FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Lounsbery Chairman Jesse H. Ausubel will be honored with the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. This award is...
- Jun 9, 2022
2022 LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENT: CLAIRE WYART
Claire Wyart, Inserm research director at Paris Brain Institute, has won the 2022 Lounsbery Award for her outstanding research on the...
- May 25, 2022
FORMER RLF DIRECTOR HOMER NEAL HONORED AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
On May 19, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the renaming of the physics building’s Randall Laboratory addition to the...
- Dec 21, 2021
RLF DIRECTOR NICHOLAS BURNS TO SERVE AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
The Richard Lounsbery Foundation is grateful for the outstanding service of Director Nicholas Burns and wishes him well in his new...
- Oct 27, 2021
CENTURIES-OLD SHIPWRECK UNCOVERED IN ANTIGUA
An eighteenth-century shipwreck that lay hidden under the sea has been uncovered in Antiqua. Leading the underwater team was...
- Sep 28, 2021
ART BIO MATTERS 2021
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York University hosted the second Art Bio Matters (ABM) conference virtually September 22 - 24,...
- May 1, 2021
WWI MEMORIAL OPENS IN WASHINGTON
On April 16, 2021, the World War I Centennial Commission celebrated the Inaugural Raising of the Flag of the United States of America...
- Apr 9, 2021
GAME EXCHANGE PROGRAM WILL BRING TOGETHER TEENS FROM THE US, UAE, BAHRAIN, AND ISRAEL
The US government, through the State Department-sponsored Stevens Initiative, is joining with the non-profit organization Games for...
- Mar 8, 2021
JOSHUA LEDERBERG BIOGRAPHY PUBLISHED
The Lounsbery sponsored Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg by University of Toronto historian of science Jan Sapp...
- Mar 1, 2021
CATHERINE DULAC RECIPIENT OF 2021 NOMIS DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST AND SCHOLAR AWARD
Lounsbery Director Catherine Dulac was named a recipient of the NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award on March 1, 2021. NOMIS...
- Jan 21, 2021
2021 LOUNSBERY AWARD RECIPIENT: FENG ZHANG
Dr. Feng Zhang is the 2021 recipient of the Lounsbery Award for his achievements developing CRISPR tools with potential to treat diseases.
- Jan 21, 2021
YOUNG SCIENTISTS GET HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE IN OUTBREAK PREPAREDNESS
High school students at BioBus, Inc. (a Lounsbery grantee) in New York City are a step ahead as they begin work to prepare for and...
- Dec 10, 2020
GEORGE & BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW CEO MAX ANGERHOLZER
It was announced today that Lounsbery Director Max Angerholzer was named as the new CEO of the George and Barbara Bush Foundation. Click...
- Dec 3, 2020
ENVIRONMENTAL DNA (eDNA) COULD BECOME RELIABLE INDICATOR OF THE ABUNDANCE OF FISH
Lounsbery Chairman Jesse Ausubel in the News: A study published today shows that loose DNA in seawater offers a cost-effective way to...
- Nov 18, 2020
A U.S. DIPOLOMATIC SERVICE FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Lounsbery Director Nicholas Burns is one of three authors of the new report entitled "A U.S. Diplomatic Service for the 21st Century."
- Sep 21, 2020
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADS ARE CHANGING THE WAY DNA IS PRESERVED
OGL has launched a new long-term undergraduate student research program called “Student Research in DNA Preservation.”
- Sep 10, 2020
CATHERINE DULAC RECIPIENT OF 2021 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES
Lounsbery Director Catherine Dulac was awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences on September 10, 2020.
- Jun 26, 2020
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE LEONARDO DA VINCI HAD SUPERHUMAN TRAIT
Scientists have come to believe Leonardo da Vinci’s superfast eye may have helped him catch the enigmatic magic of Mona Lisa’s smile. In...
- Jun 18, 2020
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK AVAILABLE FOR ALL
For the past six years Richard B. Primack and John W. Wilson have been working to produce the first conservation biology textbook...
- May 11, 2020
COVID-19 GAME: RAISING AWARENESS OF THE VIRUS
Students at IIT Tirupati have developed a game called "SurviveCovid-19", designed to raise awareness of the dangers of not social distancing
- Apr 1, 2020
WHALES HAVE RETURNED TO THE NEW YORK HARBOR
Humpback whales have, in the past 10 years, started to make New York Bight—the crescent of ocean stretching from Cape May, New Jersey, to...
- Mar 14, 2020
FOUNDATION RELEASES 2013 - 2019 PROGRAM REPORT
Please click here to access the Foundation's 2013 - 2019 program report. This report includes a detailed listing on the Foundation's...
- Feb 28, 2020
500 YEARS OF NATURE ILLUSTRATIONS ONLINE
Biodiversity Heritage Library has released over 150,000 artworks of the natural world.
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