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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congratulations to Dr. Zach Ulibarri, who was named a 2024 51 Pegasi b Fellow by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to ...

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 ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation's Science program has announced a generous grant of $3 million over three years, aimed at bolstering theoretical and experimental research efforts to bridge the realms of ...