Civic Science Associate (2024-25) and US-UK Fulbright Scholar Fiona McNeill will spend a term at the University of California, San Diego, exploring ways to encourage more young people from disadvantaged groups to study computing.
Rita Allen Scholar Lin Tian (2014) is a co-recipient of an $11 million grant from the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative to achieve comprehensive computational understanding of neural network communication and behavior.
The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University released a new report on a Civic Science Journalism pilot initiative, co-created in partnership with the Rita Allen Foundation, to seed and support experimental, cross-field collaborations. Many of the twelve projects funded in 2023 tapped into journalists’ interest in engaging their audience and the…
The pioneering Civic Science Fellows program—designed to catalyze progress toward a future where all people can shape science to expand its benefits and horizons—welcomes more than 40 new and returning partner organizations, connecting diverse sectors and disciplines including journalism, scientific research, social sciences, medicine, communications, public engagement, and philanthropy.
Rita Allen Foundation 2016 Scholar Camila dos Santos was selected for an Innovation Grant by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, an award for research projects that pursue a new area or address an unmet need and demonstrate a high likelihood of moving to the translational stage.
Rita Allen Foundation 2012 Scholar Luciano Marraffini was awarded the 2024 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science, which recognizes immigrant scientists whose work has had a profound impact on biomedical research.
Rita Allen Foundation President and CEO Elizabeth Good Christopherson and Dana Foundation President and CEO Caroline Montojo share perspectives on Co-Creating a Boundary-Spanning Approach to Science Philanthropy Leadership in the latest Civic Science Series newsletter. Read more. …
Rita Allen Foundation 2023 Scholar Lucas Farnung was awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for his work exploring molecular processes at the intersection of chromatin, transcription, and epigenetics.
Rita Allen Foundation 2011 Scholar Briana Burton received the Atwood Faculty Fellow Award for excellence in teaching from the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Rita Allen Foundation 2005 Scholar Johanna Joyce was elected as a 2024 Fellow of the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research for her significant contributions to our understanding of the microenvironment of primary and metastatic brain tumors.