RCSA supports early career researchers in the physical sciences (astronomy, chemistry, physics) at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Founded in 1912, RCSA is the nation’s oldest foundation dedicated solely to science.
Philanthropic partnerships like the ones that power our #Scialog initiatives get a shout-out in this article by Cynthia Friend, president of The Kavli Foundation.
RCSA is building on our cornerstone programming while adapting thoughtfully to emerging challenges and opportunities. Read our 2025 Annual Report. wp.me/Pgj04D-9ne
Congratulations to #Scialog SM3 Fellow Austin Evans, Scialog AUT Fellow Grant Rotskoff, Scialog MND Fellow Karthik Shekhar, #CottrellScholar 2025 Marissa Weichman, Scialog NES Fellow Anna Wuttig, and Cottrell Scholar 2024 & Scialog QMI Fellow Timothy Su!
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1996 #CottrellScholar & 2021 SEED Awardee Ziqiang Wang has a paper in Nature Communications offering new insights into charge density wave manipulation and a platform for developing a spin-mediated multistate spin-charge coupling memory and programmable quantum devices.
RCSA welcomes the newest members of its Board of Directors: Mahooya Dinda, Senior Vice President of Finance at MNTN, and Vicky Kalogera, Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor and Director of CIERA at Northwestern University. wp.me/Pgj04D-9qZ
Congratulations to 2021 #CottrellScholar Joel Destino, Creighton University, who was named 2026 recipient of the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award! The award was established in 2022 by a gift from RCSA.
15 researchers from the United States and Canada have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.org.
