Freelance journalist Ryan Christopher Jones was at his family’s home in Clovis, California, on Jan. 3 when he received an email from the Heising-Simons Foundation, a family foundation based in Los ...

Sushma Raman will become president and CEO of the $866 million foundation at the end of February. Currently she is the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She will succeed ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has received a $350,000 grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to support equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programs on campus. The three-year ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two freelance journalists with projects focused on Black nationalism and the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting have won the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which honors work ...

Grant will continue initiative's research and resource development in mathematics education for young children The Lynch School of Education and Human Development, in partnership with Stanford ...

With major funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the film Picture a Scientist is breaking new ground by virtually launching in theaters across North America on ...

The search for life on planets beyond our solar system has long been the purview of science fiction, but a UC Santa Barbara team supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation is now building the ...

UC Santa Cruz astronomers have received three major grants from the Heising-Simons Foundation for projects related to direct imaging of planets around other stars. In recent decades, astronomers have ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded an 18-month, $500,000 research and development grant to the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children to advance early math learning for children and ...

In 2017, the Heising-Simons Foundation -- a family foundation that works in climate and clean energy, science, education, and human rights -- established the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship to support ...

Lens and Mirrors—Shadow the Scientists (StS) started as a way to connect the public with on-the-ground scientific experiments amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The program quickly became a unique global ...