An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

Since 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program has supported high-caliber scholarship and research in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting our ...

Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates a group of remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our nation and our democracy through ...

This article was first published online in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 19, 2024. Reprinted with permission. Carnegie Corporation of New York will devote $4 million to three of the city’s ...

Biophysicist Carlos Bustamante born in Lima, Peru, in 1951, bought his first chemistry set and microscope as a teenager when he learned about Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the Spanish neuroscientist who won ...

Joy Buolamwini was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Ghanaian parents. Her mother was an artist and her father was completing his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Alberta. She ...

Vartan Gregorian served as the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grantmaking institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, from 1997 until his unexpected death on April 15, ...

Our database contains information on grants dating to 2004 (for older grants, please refer to our archives). Each record includes the grant amount, date awarded and duration, a description, and links ...

Physicist Daniel Tsui's research laid the groundwork for the development of superconductors. For his 1991 discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998.

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The award ...

Luciana Borio was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a family of Sicilian ancestry. She earned her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1996.