NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

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 conference to coincide with the centennial of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points – a set of principles for ending World War I and securing sustainable peace, delivered in a speech to Congress in January 1918.

Games for Change announced the winner of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation supported “The Global Migration Game Challenge” on March 16, 2017.  The Challenge was an international game design competition with the goal of inspiring innovative games that would enable players to explore migration issue from multiple viewpoints, challenge assumptions, and yield new insight into the complex, geopolitical phenomenon of migration.

"Pardis Christine Sabeti, Professor at the Center for Systems Biology & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, received the 2017 Richard Lounsbery Award. A geneticist-virologist with a passion for global health, Sabeti’s groundbreaking contributions include the development of new methods to study evolutionary selection in humans and viruses; the creation of new collaborative models for combatting emerging diseases across disciplinary and natio

Human Evolution published an article highlighting the ongoing project “Anthropological and Genetic Study of Leonardo da Vinci.”  The Richard Lounsbery Foundation provided seed funding for this collaborative project. The project aims to determine why Leonardo da Vinci, scientist, artist, engineer, mathematician, and author, was so intelligent using DNA and other factors. Human Evolution Announces The Leonardo Project

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

The American Geographical Society (AGS) announced today that Mr. Jesse Ausubel, Dr. D. James Baker, and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs have been...

The Richard Lounsbery Foundation recently helped fund a game called The Fiscal Ship. The game challenges players to put the federal...

AAS awarded the 2015 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation to Lounsbery Director Claire Max, director of UC Observatories.

Ambassador David M. Abshire passed away on October 31st, 2014 in his Alexandria home.  Abshire served as the President of the Lounsbery...

The Golden Goose Award, created in 2012 with help from a Richard Lounsbery Foundation grant, seeks to highlight and “celebrate researchers whose seemingly odd or obscure federally funded research turned out to have a significant, positive impact on society.” The recipient of the 2013 Golden Goose Award is Dr. John Eng, who’s Federally-funded research of poisonous Gila monster venom led directly to the creation of a drug that protects diabetic patients from common complication

Lounsbery Director Homer Neal has been elected Vice President of the American Physical Society (APS), with his term beginning January 1, 2014. The APS is a non-profit membership organization “working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics” via publications, meetings, educational events, advocacy, and international activities and has a membership of over 50,000. According to the APS succession structure, the elected Vice President automatically becomes President the f

On October 26, 2012, Monmouth University (New Jersey) named Jesse Ausubel the 2012 National Champion of the Ocean. We are honored to join...

Frederick Seitz, former chairman of the Richard Lounsbery foundation, passed away at age 96.

Dr. David Sabatini received the Grande Medaille D'Or, the highest honor of the French Academie de Sciences for his work in cell biology.