NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

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...

For the past six years Richard B. Primack and John W. Wilson have been working to produce the first conservation biology textbook...

Students at IIT Tirupati have developed a game called "SurviveCovid-19", designed to raise awareness of the dangers of not social distancing

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...

Please click here to access the Foundation's 2013 - 2019 program report. This report includes a detailed listing on the Foundation's...

Biodiversity Heritage Library has released over 150,000 artworks of the natural world.

Marie Manceau of the Collège de France was named the 2020 recipient for her studies in the evolution of patterns in nature.

“Global, Single Cell Views of Human and Mouse Development"

A new website has been designed for the Foundation, offering much more than the original from 2004.

Catherine Dulac was named the 2019 recipient of the Ralph W. Gerard Prize.

The Foundation turned sixty this year. It was established in 1959 by a Lounsbery family trust and became the foundation that it is today...

Biology, especially genetics, has become an increasingly powerful science in recent decades, affecting not only medicine and health care,...

Jay Shendure of the University of Washington is the recipient for his innovations in DNA sequencing.

The French director and producer behind nature documentaries Oceans and Seasons, Jacques Perrin, is preparing a new film on the national...

Watch Dr. Sabeti give the 2018 Lounsbery Lecture entitled, "Genomic Surveillance and Response System for Infectious Disease Outbreaks,"

According to the United States World War I Centennial Commission, the design concept for the Richard Lounsbery Foundation supported...

Homer Neal served with distinction as a Lounsbery Director for thirteen years. The Foundation is proud to support the Homer and Donna...

Carnegie Council Project "The Living Legacy of WWI" Launches New Weekly Podcast Series On April 3 Carnegie Council's "The Living Legacy...

Yohanns Bellaïche of the Insitut-Curie is the recipient for his work in genetics.

Meridian International Center and Chatham House, with support from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, are partnering in London to host a...

Games for Change announced the winner of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation supported “The Global Migration Game Challenge” on March 16,...

"Pardis Christine Sabeti, Professor at the Center for Systems Biology & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard...

Human Evolution published an article highlighting the ongoing project “Anthropological and Genetic Study of Leonardo da Vinci.”  The...

Dr. Hopi Hoekstra, recipient of the 2015 Lounsbery Award, delivers a lecture about how genes affect mammalian behavior.