2014 RAF Scholar Tuan Trang and his team have identified an existing anti-gout drug that can alleviate opioid withdrawal symptoms in rodents.

The American Press Institute has issued new guiding principles for ethical philanthropic funding of nonprofit media.

In Scientific American, Paul Hanle of Climate Central comments on the National Academies’ research agenda for science communication

Public Agenda (RAF grant partner) finds that participatory budgeting grows by more than 30 percent in number of projects and people participating.

1996 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Li-Huei Tsai has received the Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award.

2004 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar David Tuveson has been named Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center.

Public Agenda (RAF grant recipient) reports that elected officials say that participatory budgeting helped them be more responsive to community needs

2016 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Bo Li has received a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

A report about research on sugar’s effect on the brain by 2016 Scholar Monica Dus was featured on NPR

Two Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, Monica Dus and Sebastian Klinge, have received a 2016 NIH New Innovator Award