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Kennesaw State researcher explores virtual reality to improve student engagement in STEM
A Kennesaw State University researcher is exploring how virtual reality can help students stay focused and engaged during science and engineering laboratory activities. Supported by a $198,486 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the research aims to help learners maintain attention, improve motor skill, and enhance learning in immersive virtual laboratories. Sungchul Jung, an assistant professor of gaming in KSU's College of Computing and Software Engineering, is leading the two-year project.
Scientists Identified 9 Ways of Measuring Earth’s Habitability. We’re Already Failing at 7 of Them.
These ecological pillars, which form the foundation of our planet’s habitability for all life, including humans, have never been in rougher shape.
UH Mānoa launches new Center for Ocean Policy, bridging science and law
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is launching a new Center for Ocean Policy, partnering its law school and oceanography department with support from The Healy Foundation to address pressing marine and climate challenges through interdisciplinary education, research, and policy advocacy.
Free Field Trips to The MAX Offered to Eligible Schools Through Mississippi Power Foundation
Mississippi Power Foundation partnership offers free 2026-2027 school year field trips to The MAX in Meridian, with transportation reimbursement available for out-of-county schools.
Community Health Foundation addresses ‘largest gift’ in 230-acre Matlock Park for county
The Community Health Foundation executive director addressed the Montgomery County Commission Monday on the 230-acre donation.
Scientists Identified 9 Ways of Measuring Earth’s Habitability. We’re Already Failing at 7 of Them.
These ecological pillars, which form the foundation of our planet’s habitability for all life, including humans, have never been in rougher shape.
Jones County welcomes new mental health liaison
Emma Smith, who works for Foundation 2 Crisis Services, is Jones County’s first mental health liaison. She’ll respond to mental health-related 911 calls, follow up with people who have mental health needs, collaborate with school resource officers and supplement the mental health work done by county law enforcement.
Des Moines Public Library Foundation seeks new executive director
The Des Moines Public Library Foundation has launched a search for a new executive director and chief advancement officer. The position will be responsible for fundraising, including developing donor relationships, securing major gifts and increasing financial support for the foundation. The executive director will also oversee the organization’s finances, operations and staff and work with…
Origins Foundation Names Shawn Battison Chief Business Development Officer
Shawn Battison, a 19-year Ducks Unlimited veteran, joins Origins Foundation to champion hunting and sustainable use in global wildlife conservation.
At risk in-person postpartum mums' groups saved
The Happy Mums Foundation supports women experiencing postpartum mental health challenges.
Perspective | Access to care: Investing in health and affordability for North Carolina
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina President Colleen Briggs reflects on the foundation's strategy: Access to Care.
Top Science Democrat probes cuts to research spending at National Science Foundation
A key Democrat is looking into a massive amount of money that was appropriated to the National Science Foundation (NSF) but reportedly not spent. In a letter first shared with The Hill, House Commi…
Iowa governor candidates address political agendas in schools
Two Polk County advocacy groups have the same concern: political ideology in the classroom. Moms for Liberty and Annie’s Foundation stand on opposing sides of the debate over what should be allowed in schools and both organizations said they believe the situation has worsened over the years. Jennifer Turner, mom and chair for Polk County’s...
Baptist Health Foundation Celebrates Philanthropic Generosity and Healthcare Excellence at The Grand Gala 2026 - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
$4.7 Million Raised To Support Extraordinary Patient Care, Research and Innovation at Baptist Health October 27, 2026 – Baptist Health Foundation held its 2026 Grand Gala Saturday, October 24 the Loews […]
Mary Black Foundation celebrates 30 years of investing in Spartanburg County
An Upstate grantmaking organization is marking three decades of investing in community health and well-being across Spartanburg County.
Augusta Health Foundation sells dinners for two to support mobile medical unit
Augusta Health Foundation is raising money for its Mobile Medical Unit, which brings care to underserved communities across the Shenandoah Valley, through a “Dinner to Go” fundraiser.
Carle Health billing system problems disrupt patient payment options - CU-CitizenAccess.org
Technical snags in Carle Health‘s billing system conversion have disrupted online payment options for patients across one of central Illinois’ largest healthcare systems, prompting the provider to extend billing deadlines. The health system is temporarily unable to process payments online that are made directly from checking or savings accounts because of the software conversion, Carle […]
Inside DOGE’s involvement in National Science Foundation grant terminations last year
And, GSA expands its OneGov agreement with Anthropic
Wind Cave National Park receives grant for student science program
Wind Cave National Park received National Park Foundation funding for a student science program with nature journaling and citizen science surveys.
Apollo is bringing its private-equity operating playbook to nonprofits
The private equity giant just hosted its biennial Apollo Opportunity Foundation summit for nonprofit leaders.
Foundation leader: Let Virginia students decide what college sports is worth to them
Athletic departments are good at raising money when they have to. They sell tickets, sponsorships and donor memberships every day. Asking them to sell themselves to their own students isn’t u…
Sec. Jim Nicholson Honored with Business and Civil Leadership Award from U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Sec. Jim Nicholson, senior counsel at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, was recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as the inaugural recipient of its Business and Civic Leadership Award…
Trump administration kills science ed program named for Lou Stokes; Rep. Shontel Brown appeals
U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown wants the Justice Department to provide the evidence it used to support canceling several National Science Foundation programs including one named after former Rep. Louis Stokes of Cleveland
GTA 6 Release Time By Region: When You Can Play On November 19
"Grand Theft Auto VI" will rock the foundations of gaming on November 19th, but the hour is a little bit more flexible. We'll lay out the regional schedule.
CHI Health offering personalized ‘Tree of Love’ ornaments to benefit central Nebraska hospital foundations
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The December gathering in Washington, D.C., connects tribal leaders, lenders, foundations and investors as Native financial institutions grow and federal decisions shape their future.
WLF meet ends with new science body plan
The Shanghai-based World Laureates Foundation has proposed establishing the World Laureates Organization to further strengthen global research collaboration among scientists, with the initiative unveiled at the 2026 World Laureates Forum, which concluded in Shanghai on Sunday.
Opinion: Laying the Foundation for NYC's Small Business Renaissance
"If we want a small business renaissance, we have to stop treating empty storefronts as acceptable collateral damage of financial regulatory happenstance and start seeing them for what they are: a policy choice."
Foundations Health Solutions Enters Federal Lobbying on Health
Foundations Health Solutions registers as a federal lobbying client with Thorn Run Partners on health, budget, and housing issues. See the filing details.
WLF meet ends with new science body plan
The Shanghai-based World Laureates Foundation has proposed establishing the World Laureates Organization to further strengthen global research collaboration among scientists, with the initiative unveiled at the 2026 World Laureates Forum, which concluded in Shanghai on Sunday.
Stanford Digital Brain Project to model the human brain
Foundational support from Mark and Mary Stevens and an additional gift from Clara Wu Tsai launch a university-wide project to predict brain dynamics and accelerate treatments for brain disorders.
WVU neurobiologist expands neuroscience research, student training with NSF CAREER award
Eric Horstick, a West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences neurobiologist, will use a nearly $1 million National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how brief changes in temperature early in life can shape the brain and behavior using zebrafish.
Community close-up: Nash, Edgecombe and Wilson Counties
••• SPONSORED SECTION ••• ‘OPPORTUNITY’ IS THE WORD Nash and Edgecombe counties are building from a solid economic foundation, creating a structure that supports entrepreneurs, new and expanding businesses, and residents. There isn’t a definitive way to summarize businesses in Nash County. Pfizer, GXP-Storage and Asterra Labs are joining others to create a life-sciences hub. […]
Augusta Health Foundation sells dinners for two to support mobile medical unit
Augusta Health Foundation is raising money for its Mobile Medical Unit, which brings care to underserved communities across the Shenandoah Valley, through a “Dinner to Go” fundraiser.
Double D Foundation raises funds to expand shooting sports in Georgia
Double D Foundation raises $915,000 at Georgia banquet to expand shooting sports
Global Health & WASH
The US National Institutes of Health reopened its center and program-project machinery in force. NIGMS is funding Collaborative Program Grants for interdisciplinary teams, NIAID opened both its Immune Tolerance Network and a next-generation R&D call, the NCI runs its Carcinogen Hazard Assessment Monographs program, the National Library of Medicine is funding institutional training in biomedical AI and data science, and NIH reopened its Centers for AIDS Research. The tell: these pay for standing centers and multi-year consortia at institutions with an existing funded research base, not one-off projects, so the fit is an established US research institution, not a single investigator. Disease-specific foundations are again funding the researcher, not just the research. The Parkinson’s Foundation opened its Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award and the National Ataxia Foundation its Research Seed Money Grant. The tell, the same one we flagged last cycle, is a named early-career or seed award that builds a pipeline of scientists committed to one condition, so what wins is a researcher willing to specialize. The post-USAID global-health money is routing through a State Department program statement and multilateral innovation funds. The US Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy opened its Advancing Global Health Annual Program Statement, Grand Challenges Canada opened Nexa Lighthouse for climate and health innovation in Asia and the Pacific at USD $250,000 to $2,000,000, and CEPI opened a rolling call on vaccine-manufacturing analytics. The tell: the largest health money this cycle sits in a standing program statement and in staged innovation vehicles, not in a single bilateral grant. Total Estimated Funding Pool: ~$35.4M across discrete grants. (Separately, large national-formula envelopes not counted in this total: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD).) This post is for paid subscribers. This helps support the time and effort it takes to curate and organize these opportunities. Subscribe To keep this accessible to everyone who needs it, we’re happy to offer pay what you can rates. You can find more details here. New opportunities: Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award, Parkinson’s Foundation. *New!* *Closing soon!* The Parkinson’s Foundation created the Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award to fund clinicians rethinking how people with Parkinson’s disease receive care. The Foundation is using pilot funding to move promising ideas into testable projects, backing work across four lanes: strengthening community clinician capability, redesigning care models, building patient-centered technologies, and defining the minimum clinical datasets that make better standards possible. It wants hypothesis-driven, clinically grounded projects that can generate evidence strong enough to attract further funding. By opening the door to clinicians at every career stage and strongly preferring projects that involve people with Parkinson’s in their design, the Foundation signals that it values practical, patient-shaped innovation over prestige. The strongest fits are US-licensed clinicians with a focus on Parkinson’s and an institutional home for applied care research. Geographies: united states. Who can apply: Clinicians of all career stages, from fellows to established faculty, who are licensed to care for patients in the United States and have a significant focus on Parkinson’s disease. Physicians must have completed a neurology residency (or justify how their training pathway benefits people with PD); allied health professionals must hold an advanced degree, typically a PhD. Fellows, those in mentored positions, and those within two years of starting an independent position require a mentor and a mentor support letter. The sponsoring institution’s grants office is the authorized recipient and funds are disbursed to the institution. Funding amount: Maximum of $200,000 over two years; up to three awards. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology. Deadline: November 1, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Design and Deliver the Next EIT Health Bootcamps, EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its call for consortia to design and deliver the next generation of its health start-up bootcamps, funding the curriculum, masterclasses, mentoring, and investor engagement that turn early health ventures into fundable companies. The organization is using these learning paths to strengthen Europe’s health innovation pipeline across digital health evidence, deep tech and AI commercialization, cross-border investment, and patient access. What EIT Health wants to back is not a single course but durable delivery capacity built by partners who span industry, education, and research. Requiring multi-country consortia and a revenue-sharing stake in the programs signals that EIT Health expects these bootcamps to outlast the grant. The strongest fits are established training providers, universities, and industry partners with proven reach into health entrepreneurs. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: Consortia only (individuals cannot apply), comprising a minimum of two and a maximum of five independent legal entities. Partners must cover at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (industry, education, research), including at least one industry organisation, and at least two entities must be legally established in different Horizon Europe countries. Funding amount: Foundational Learning Path: up to EUR €112,000; Thematic Learning Paths: up to EUR €124,500 per path (up to four thematic projects); up to EUR €610,000 total EIT Health funding available under the call. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Technology Transfer Offices & Entrepreneurship Support Call (Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its Technology Transfer Offices and Entrepreneurship Support Call to fund consortia that will deliver the Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture program for healthcare researchers. EIT Health is using the grant to build local capacity for turning laboratory science into incorporated start-ups, paying experienced technology transfer offices and entrepreneurship support providers to run masterclasses, structured mentoring, and a closing Pitch Day across two cohorts. It wants to back organizations that can walk researchers from discovery to company formation, not just teach theory. Requiring two transfer offices plus one venture-building provider signals that EIT Health values proven commercialization experience alongside academic reach. The strongest fits are European research-commercialization teams with a track record of moving health innovations toward investable ventures. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: A consortium of two Technology Transfer Offices (representing higher education institutions or research organisations) and one Entrepreneurship Support Provider with demonstrated experience in venture building and start-up support. Applicants may apply for more than one learning path where they can demonstrate the required expertise and capacity for each. Funding amount: Up to EUR €77,000 in 2027 and up to EUR €77,000 in 2028 (up to EUR €154,000 total per consortium over two years). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. EIT Health RIS Country Representatives Call (2027-2028), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is seeking organizations to serve as Country Representatives across eleven Regional Innovation Scheme countries in central and eastern Europe for the 2027 to 2028 period. The money funds a national anchor in each country, an organization that maps the local health innovation ecosystem, connects startups and researchers to EIT Health programs, and builds the stakeholder relationships that let health ventures grow. EIT Health is backing local capacity rather than individual projects, which is why it accepts both single organizations and national consortia that span education, research, and industry. The requirement for co-financing signals that it wants representatives already embedded in their national systems. The strongest fits are established ecosystem builders with deep ties to health innovation stakeholders in one eligible country. Geographies: Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Malta; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; Turkey. Who can apply: Registered legal entities established in one of the eligible EIT RIS countries. Single organisations or national consortia may apply. Consortia must include at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (education, research and industry), and all consortium partners must be established in the same eligible country. Suitable applicants have demonstrated experience in healthcare innovation ecosystem development, innovation support and entrepreneurship, start-up acceleration, technology transfer, research and higher education, business support, and stakeholder engagement, with strong links to national innovation stakeholders. Funding amount: Up to EUR €182,000 per Country Representative (maximum funding per project); total call budget up to EUR €1,274,500; EIT Health funds up to 60% of total eligible project costs. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Architects of Trust: Community-Driven Demand Creation for New TB Vaccines, Treatment Action Group (TAG). *New!* *Closing soon!* Treatment Action Group, with funding from Wellcome, is opening its Architects of Trust call to help communities prepare for the new tuberculosis vaccines now moving through late-stage trials. The money backs civil society and community-based organizations to raise awareness, surface local questions and concerns, and press policymakers toward equitable national rollout. By pairing each grantee with an advocacy mentor and running a strategy workshop alongside the Global TB Vaccine Forum, Treatment Action Group is building a durable advocacy bench rather than funding one-off outreach. The two-stage design, starting with a short expression of interest, signals that fit and community rootedness matter more than polished proposals. The strongest fits are locally trusted groups with real TB, immunization, or health advocacy experience and a committed project lead. Geographies: Brazil; Ethiopia; India; Indonesia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nigeria; Peru; Philippines; South Africa; Tanzania; Vietnam; Zambia. Who can apply: National, subnational, or regional civil society organizations (CSOs) or community-based organizations based in one of the 14 eligible countries or in Eastern Europe/Central Asia regional networks, with experience in TB, immunization, or other health advocacy and in community engagement or policy advocacy; well integrated into stakeholder networks with membership or affiliation to other CSO or community networks; naming a dedicated project lead (’architect of trust’) who can attend the April 2027 Zaragoza forum in person; and holding (or committing to adopt) organizational policies on safeguarding (bullying, harassment, abuse, and harm), equity, diversity and inclusion, and legal compliance, research practice and governance. Funding amount: Grants of up to US$45,000 will be awarded to 8 CSO partners across 14 high-TB-burden countries plus regional networks in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; each grant funds 12 months of work. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Governance; Policy & Advocacy. Deadline: November 4, 2026. Learn more and apply here.
SebastianStrong Foundation Discovery Science Award 2027 - Oncology News, Insights, Stories by OncoDaily
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Bianca Gonzalez shares daughters' memorable birthday celebration at Tuloy Foundation
Bianca Gonzalez shared highlights of her daughters Lucia and Carmen's meaningful birthday celebration at Tuloy Foundation this year.
AGFA HealthCare Selected by Infirmary Health to Modernize Imaging Across Its Health System
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Rodrigo Martin Suarez on leadership and education in Fresno
Meet Rodrigo Martin Suarez of California Teaching Fellows Foundation. Discover how his journey shapes education and leadership in the Central Valley. Read more.
Records show White House, DOGE involvement in National Science Foundation grant terminations
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When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Inside Business 2026 Top Forty Under 40: Tamika Benson, The Still She Rose Foundation VA
Tamika Benson is the founder and president of The Still She Rose Foundation VA.
Midwest Access: Lotus Health Foundation - Making Shining Foods for Thanksgiving
Everyone wants to bring a shining star of a meal to Thanksgiving Dinner. Mei Liu is showing us some shining sides that are full of flavor, and nutrients that will have everyone asking for seconds.
California professors challenge Trump administration over canceled science grants
Three researchers claim the National Science Foundation targeted federally funded projects involving climate change, diversity and STEM education.
A Dinner for Two Helps Keep Care Rolling Across the Shenandoah Valley
Augusta Health Foundation’s Dinner to Go. Care in Motion. funds Neighborhood Clinics and the Mobile Medical Unit; orders close Oct. 30 FISHERSVILLE, VIRGINIA — Each month, Augusta Health’s Mobile Medical Unit travels to neighborhoods across the Shenandoah Valley, where getting to a doctor is not always easy. The doors open, a familiar face says hello, […]
Building Business Skills on a Foundation of Military Service
An Army Ranger preparing for retirement, a Marine Corps veteran pursuing accounting and two Army veterans studying analytics share how NC State’s graduate business programs are helping them pursue their professional goals.
Lee Health Foundation Hires Kayla Reiter - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
Lee Health Foundation welcomes Kayla Reiter as marketing communication coordinator. In this role, Reiter supports the Foundation’s marketing and communication strategy by helping tell meaningful stories that connect donors to […]
CHI Health offering personalized ‘Tree of Love’ ornaments to benefit central Nebraska hospital foundations
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Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation Names Keely Davenport as Executive Director of Development
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation is pleased to announce that Keely Davenport has been hired as its new executive director of Development. Keely transitions from her previous role as executive director of Development at Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center Foundation, staying within the Hackensack Meridian Health network.
CHI Health offering personalized ‘Tree of Love’ ornaments to benefit central Nebraska hospital foundations
Community members in Kearney and Grand Island can honor loved ones while giving back to local healthcare initiatives this holiday season through CHI Health’s annual Tree of Love.
$2 Million Settlement Resolves Covenant Health Data Breach Lawsuit
Covenant Health, St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation, St. Joseph Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital Nashua, N.H., and other Covenant Health facilities were named Covenant Health, St. Joseph Healthcare Foundation, St. Joseph Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital Nashua, N.H., and other Covenant Health facilities have agreed to pay $2 million to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from a May 2025 security incident.
Scientists may have finally explained why our brains and bodies are cross-wired
Scientists propose that the brain’s mysterious cross-wiring, which connects each hemisphere to the opposite side of the body, may have originated more than 500 million years ago in the visual systems of ancient fish. Rather than evolving for a specific advantage, this unusual arrangement may simply be a legacy of evolution building new brain circuits on an ancient foundation.
Florida Blue Foundation awards grants to strengthen mental health support in Florida communities - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
October 27, 2026 – As October marks National Depression Awareness Month and a renewed focus on mental health, Florida Blue Foundation, the philanthropic affiliate of Florida Blue and part of […]
Indianapolis Foundation marks 110 years with donations to youth organizations
Five nonprofits dedicated to supporting Indianapolis-area youth each received grants aimed at strengthening mentorship and youth development work.
Parks Associates: HDR Becoming 'Foundational Component of Premium Video Entertainment'
New research from Parks Associates shows high dynamic range (HDR) is becoming a foundational component of premium video entertainment, creating opportunities for television manufacturers, streaming services, and content creators to differentiate through picture quality. The research, “High Dynamic Range and the Future of Video,” developed in partnership with InterDigital, examines HDR’s expanding role across the … Continue reading "Parks Associates: HDR Becoming ‘Foundational Component of Premium Video Entertainment’"
Langston University lands $2.25M NSF grant to boost STEM success over five years
LANGSTON, Okla. — Langston University School of Arts and Sciences announced it received a five-year, $2.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to
Holly Robinson Peete discusses The Design-Care annual gala
The co-founder of the Holly-Rod Foundation, Holly Robinson Peete, joins "Your Morning"
5 partners recognized for supporting App State initiatives to strengthen NC healthcare
During an Oct. 12 event at the Hickory campus, App State recognized five regional partners for helping the university expand clinical services, strengthen rural healthcare outreach and launch a new Doctor of Nursing Practice program in the Catawba Valley. Honorees include Catawba Valley Health System, UNC Health Blue Ridge, UNC Health Caldwell, and the Caldwell Memorial Hospital and Golden LEAF foundations.
Florida education chief defends science plan
Education Commissioner Henry Mack pushed back Tuesday against criticism that Florida is de-emphasizing evolution in its new plan for teaching science, insisting the state is still covering a subject he agreed was a bedrock of biological science.“Evolutionary biology and the theory of evolution is in the standards,” Mack said. But several parents and teachers who attended an evening forum on the state’s proposed science standards criticized the proposal by the Florida Department of Education, which Mack runs, specifically the handling of evolutionary science.Joshua Garrett, a teacher in Orange County Public Schools, said the state’s proposed standards “danced around” evolution.State standards are benchmarks for what students should learn in their classes kindergarten through 12th grade, guiding what lessons are taught, what subjects are in state-approved textbooks and what concepts are tested on state exams.Florida’s current science standards call evolution a “big idea” and “the fundamental concept underlying all of biology.”The proposed ones barely mention evolution — a scientific theory explaining change in living species over time from natural selection that has been a cornerstone of biology for more than a century. The term “evolution,” in fact, is never defined in the new high school life sciences standards, though the concepts are sprinkled across several units.The education department has made revisions to its proposal, officials said, but it was not immediately clear at the Tuesday forum, held at Lake Buena Vista High School in southwest Orange County, what those changes were.Mack interjected during Garrett’s comments asking him where specifically he wanted the state to mention evolution more prominently. Then he said, “Consider it done.”Mack also asked Garrett to join the state’s faculty committee on the standards.The state released the new standards in September, and several experts quickly criticized them, saying they lacked depth and skirted around both evolution and climate change, important topics for Florida students to learn.The state has since hosted a “listening tour,” including a virtual forum and two other in-person meetings in Walton and Hillsborough counties. Tuesday’s meeting drew a small crowd of about 30 people, six of whom spoke.Mack described the state’s public forums as a chance for “myth busting” and to make clear Florida’s position.He wants to students to learn “above ideology,” he said, and added that evolution isn’t settled science. TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-middle-asset', slot: 1, fold: "span"}); “I want to cultivate skeptics in the healthy sense of that term. As a result of these standards, students should not be walking away convinced of anything other than the rigor of the scientific method,” Mack said.The new standards would replace the current set, adopted after a monthslong, statewide fight over the inclusion of evolution as a required subject of study. Those who opposed the 2008 standards argued creationism, or the biblical story that God created all living things, should be taught alongside evolution.Thomas Simon, a Winter Park parent, compared Florida adopting the new standards to Nazi Germany ignoring the findings of Jewish scientists — which in part lost them World War II.“If this board could explicitly name communism in the history standards last year — because words matter — you must explicitly name the foundations of modern medicine, agriculture, and energy,” Simon said.Florida last year adopted new standards that require students learn about the “dangers and evil of communism.”Teri O’Connor, an elementary science teacher in Orange County, urged Mack to curtail the total number of standards, as they list more than 1,000 benchmarks teachers are to cover during their classes.“It’s only 180 days of school. That right there is an issue, especially if you want to dive in. If we need to teach the rigor of it and to critically think about each one, that’s difficult,” she said.Kathleen Murray, who spoke on behalf of the conservative political group Citizens Defending Freedom, said she was in “strong support” of the proposed standards. Science should teach children how to think, not what to think, she said.“When teaching the origins of life and the universe, the curriculum owes it to the Florida students to be honest about the limits of what scientific models can actually prove,” Murray said.State education officials said they’d received about 1,800 comments on the benchmarks, and they have updated them based on that criticism.With Tuesday the state’s final scheduled public forum, Mack said his biggest takeaway was that the standards needed to be more explicit about teaching students how to evaluate scientific studies and evidence and how to understand the scientific method.“We might have to do a better job of helping students question more as a result of these standards,” he said.In his original statement when the standards were announced in September, Mack wrote in a social media post that “science begins in wonder, not in ideology,” and “the classical tradition taught that nature is intelligible because it is ordered — that the book of creation can be read by reason.”Some read that to mean he was trying to interject religion into public school education. 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Clemson faculty to use research award to study rural student success in science
A College of Education faculty member with an extensive background in rural education outreach and research will use an award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how rural students can excel in the study of life science.
GE Vernova Foundation launches Engineers of Change program in Greenville
The program aims to provide 3,000 Greenville area middle and high school students with immersive programming about engineering careers.
Largest nonprofits and foundations in Chicago 2025
These organizations run the gamut from healthcare and disease awareness to food security and the arts.
Lincoln Sports Foundation opens new volleyball courts amid effort to revitalize complex
The Lincoln Sports Foundation cut the ribbon on its new volleyball facility Wednesday, featuring four new courts in a 20,000 square foot indoor space.
Mustafa Foundation unveils programs for International Week of Science and Peace
TEHRAN – The Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation has organized a series of programs and educational and media productions to mark the International Week of Science and Peace (November 9–15) and World Science Day for Peace and Development (November 10).
2026 KlarText Prize for Science Communication: Klaus Tschira Foundation Honors Seven Researchers
What exactly did you do in your doctoral dissertation? The Klaus Tschira Foundation honors the most compelling answers to this question with the KlarText Prize for Science Communication. On Octobe ...
Jackson Health Foundation’s 27th Annual Guardian Angels Luncheon Raises More Than $750,000 for Holtz Children’s Hospital - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
Signature fundraiser brings together fashion and philanthropy, featuring Saks Fifth Avenue October 30, 2026 — Today, Jackson Health Foundation hosted its 27th Annual Guardian Angels Luncheon and Fashion Show at […]
Golden LEAF names Ted Lord as CEO
The Golden LEAF Foundation board picked Winston-Salem native Ted Lord as the organization's fourth president and CEO. He will succeed Scott Hamilton, who is retiring after leading the group since 2019.
Korea opens its first AI humanoid data factory
– Dedicated Data Production Facility for Bipedal Humanoid Robots Established – – Supports AI Training and Performance Validation, Laying the Foundation for Korea’s Technological Self-Reliance in Humanoid Robotics –
Zamorano shares a day with the beneficiaries of the Real Madrid Foundation's social sports schools in Mexico
The ambassador of the Real Madrid Foundation and former Real Madrid player Iván Zamorano participated in the 15th edition of the Úne-T Tournament...
Paul Bettany blew out 10 blood vessels in his eye while ‘wildly overacting’ on ‘VisionQuest’
Paul Bettany strained so hard while playing Vision in ‘VisionQuest’ that he ‘blew about 10 blood vessels’ in his eye: ‘I was just wildly overacting.’
CHI Health offering personalized ‘Tree of Love’ ornaments to benefit central Nebraska hospital foundations
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Pulse of Philanthropy: The Business of Being a Nonprofit
At the Door County Community Foundation, one of our primary roles is to connect generous people to the charities that help our community thrive. In nearly two decades of introducing […]
OpenAI asks outside experts, including a Nobel laureate, to check proofs its AI produced in math, computer science, and physics
OpenAI says its internal AI models have cracked three major open questions in math, computer science, and physics. One of them is part of a famous Millennium Prize Problem, each of which carries a $1 million prize. Outside experts, including a Nobel laureate, are now checking whether the proofs hold up. If the computer science proof holds on its own, hundreds of research papers lose their foundation.
Leading the Health Care Workforce Through Change: Leadership, Policy, and Innovation in Action
On Sept. 17, human resources (HR) and employee relations leaders from seven essential hospitals gathered in Washington, D.C., for “Leading the Health Care Workforce Through Change: Leadership, Policy, and Innovation in Action.” Hosted by America’s Essential Hospitals and Essential Hospitals Institute with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the convening focused on strategies for […]
Winter Music Showcase Offers Inspiration to Holiday Season
Grace Fisher stops for photo outside the Granada Theater, where her foundation's Music Showcase will take place on Dec. 13. (Grace Fisher Foundation) Each
Placemaking effort Vivid Junction launches with five murals
The Historic Valley Junction Foundation unveiled five new walkway murals in October as part of its new Vivid Junction redevelopment and place-making effort. The murals are the largest public art investment made in Valley Junction, the historic neighborhood in West Des Moines. Vivid Junction is a collaborative effort in the business district meant to honor…
Augusta Health Foundation sells dinners for two to support mobile medical unit
Augusta Health Foundation is raising money for its Mobile Medical Unit, which brings care to underserved communities across the Shenandoah Valley, through a “Dinner to Go” fundraiser.
Golden celebration: Riverview Health Foundation commemorates 50th anniversary
What began in 1976 as a community effort to raise funds for equipment and hospital needs has evolved into a foundation that is set to have raised more than $19 million for local healthcare by the end of this year. The Riverview Health Foundation commemorated its 50th anniversary during an Oct. 2
Three Penn State researchers awarded scientific grants from Kaufman Foundation
The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has selected three researchers from the Penn State Eberly College of Science to receive scientific research grants: Carlos Blanco, assistant professor of physics, Ribhu Kaul, professor of physics, and Bryce Gadway, professor of physics.
New Program and Partnership Officers Complete Rasmuson Foundation Team
Rasmuson Foundation hired Molly Parkan and Calvin Chang as Program Officers and Gretchen Fauske as Partnership Officer.
Helping Local Businesses Connect with Hawaiʻi’s Visitors
The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority’s 2026 Foundational Technical Assistance workshops will help farmers, makers, small-business owners, cultural practitioners and nonprofits explore opportunities in the visitor industry. The workshops welcome beginners and […]
Charting new pathways for the next generation of scientists, engineers and Ai specialists
We had two or three representatives from Agriculture, Education, Labor, National Science Foundation, and we really worked well together," said Jan Tyler.
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month: UCI Health Medical, Surgical, Radiation Clinicians Available to Comment About Pancreatic Cancer, New Treatment Options
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center based in Orange County, can offer hope for patients and families Pancreatic cancer accounts for about 3% of all cancers in the nation and about 8% of all cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. Yet, pancreatic cancer is expected to become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths by 2040, according to the National Foundation for Cancer Research. The Foo
Ann Arbor foundation doubled its assets by trying something new
The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation said it responded to what donors wanted and it paid off.
Aggie Foundation helping First District Health Unit expand healthcare services
A group of friends that came together 14 years ago are still working together to make communities better.
NMHU Forestry Chair Presents Fungal Research at International Forest Science Symposium in Switzerland
Dr. Michael Remke, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Forestry at New Mexico Highlands University, presented research at the New Phytologist Foundation’s Forest Interactions symposium, held October 13–16, 2026, in Leysin, Switzerland. The symposium brought together more than 100 forest scientists from around the world to share new work on how trees interact
Mercy Health Foundation awards life-saving equipment to Heartland organizations
Mercy Health Foundation Southeast awarded nine automated external defibrillator devices to Heartland organizations and non-profits.
Defending Science From Partisanship
Protecting scientific institutions from political interference should not eclipse the need for these institutions to evolve with the times.
AHF • Reaching Men Where They Are Can Improve Their Health Outcomes
Health services must reach men in their communities, and create opportunities for open conversations about prevention and care.
Business Beyond the Beach: The Miami Foundation & Give Miami Day
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Host Brittnie Bassant sits down with Jocelyn Noya Quintana, Chief Marketing Officer, and Laurel Woloszyn, Philanthropy Director, from The Miami Foundation to discuss their work strengthening the community and the impact of philanthropy across South Florida. They also highlight Give Miami Day, Miami’s biggest annual giving event, and how […]
Augusta Health Foundation sells dinners for two to support mobile medical unit
Augusta Health Foundation is raising money for its Mobile Medical Unit, which brings care to underserved communities across the Shenandoah Valley, through a “Dinner to Go” fundraiser.
Karl Rove: To Understand Today’s Politics, Look to America’s Past - Richard Nixon Foundation | Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum
Understanding today’s political climate starts with understanding America’s past, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told an audience at the Nixon Library on Oct. 27. Rove spoke at a National Civics Day program of the Foundation’s Nixon Civic Academy. He met with student participants before the talk and praised their engagement and questions.