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Pain Research Awards

Applications for the 2025 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain will open from October 16 through December 11, 2024. Since 2009, the Rita Allen Foundation has provided a special award for early-career leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high potential for uncovering new pathways to improve the…

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Science for the People

In a new article for “Science at the Ballot Box,” a new series published by Nautilus magazine in partnership with the Aspen Institute Science and Society Program, 2024 Civic Science Fellow Michael Akinwumi, Rita Allen Foundation President and CEO Elizabeth Christopherson, Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics Science and Politics Program Director…

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Open Position: Senior Writer and Editor, Ideas and Impact

The Rita Allen Foundation works to advance discovery science, collaborative philanthropy, and innovative approaches to strengthening the connections between science and the public. We seed ideas and relationships, incubate prototypes, and seek to catalyze institutional and systemic change. The Foundation seeks a purpose-driven writer, editor, and narrative strategist to support…

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Announcing the 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars

Seven pioneering scientists selected for major biomedical research grants. The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2024 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating seven early-career leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health.   The…

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Civic Science Fellows Program Launches 2024-25 Cohort to Shape Science, Expand its Benefits and Horizons

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.

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