Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

We're hiring an Investment Operations Analyst!

We're hiring an Investment Operations Analyst! As a key member of the Sloan Foundation's eight-member investment team, the analyst will help manage the Foundation's $2.3 billion endowment.

For more details, visit our careers page: sloan.org/about/career...

Call for Letters of Inquiry. Economic Research on the Returns to R&D Investment.

The Sloan Foundation, in collaboration with Coefficient Giving, is pleased to announce an open call for letters of inquiry in support of economic research on the returns to R&D investment.

📌 Submission deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2026

More info: sloan.org/programs/res...

Call for Letters of Inquiry.

We are pleased to announce an open call for letters of inquiry to support US higher education institutions and organizations working to advance access and opportunity in STEM graduate education.

📌Submission deadline: June 1, 2026

More details: sloan.org/programs/hig...

Seven faculty members win Sloan Research Fellowships for early-career researchers Computer scientists Maria Apostolaki, Benjamin Eysenbach, and Yasaman Ghasempour; chemists William Jacobs and Erin Stache; physicist Isobel Ojalvo; and mathematician Bartolomeo Stellato are members of...

7️⃣ Princeton faculty members are among the 126 early-career scientists and engineers who have received this year’s @sloanfoundation.bsky.social Research Fellowship, recognizing promising early-career researchers. https://bit.ly/3OrDodG

We're hiring a Program Associate!

The Sloan Foundation is hiring a Program Associate for the Science and the Arts to support our Public Understanding of Science and Technology program!

Full description, qualifications, and information on how to apply: sloan.org/about/career...

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Steven Banik on being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow, an honor awarded to promising early-career researchers paving the way for new scientific advancements.

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @stevenbanik.bsky.social on being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
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Big congrats to HF Awardees @stevenbanik.bsky.social and @herdelineardona.bsky.social for being awarded Sloan Research Fellowships! 🤩

John Eric Humphries named 2026 Sloan research fellow for early-career excellence Yale labor economist Humphries studies how childhood shocks shape economic mobility and long-run outcomes.

Congratulations to John Eric Humphries for being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow!

Humphries is one of three Yale faculty members honored this year by the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. Learn more about his background & research in our Q&A: economics.yale.edu/news/260217/...

Congratulations to @yaleneuro.bsky.social Assistant Professor Liang Liang for being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! She is one of 126 early-career scholars who won this prestigious award from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, and who represent the most promising scientific researchers.

Honored to receive a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics. This wouldn't be possible without my entire research group at Princeton, and I'm grateful to the colleagues who supported my research. #SloanFellow

Deeply honored to have been selected as a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! The tenacity and talent of my research group members, current and former, make this dream a reality. 😄 Thanks so much to my nominator and letter writers for your steadfast support! #SloanFellow

Honored to be named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. Grateful to my students, collaborators, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social community as we work to understand the mechanics and energetics of animal locomotion. #SloanFellow

Honored to receive the 2026 Sloan Fellowship in Physics. I’m grateful to my mentors, my research group, and those who supported my nomination. Thank you! #SloanFellow

I am deeply humbled and grateful to receive the Sloan Fellowship in Physics -- although not a physicist by training, I seem to have been entangled long enough.

I’m deeply grateful to my mentors, research group, colleagues and collaborators, and department chair for supporting my nomination.

2026 Congratulations, Sloan Research Fellows!

Congrats to the 126 early-career scholars awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, whose creativity and innovation set them apart as the next generation of scientific leaders! Our #SloanFellows represent 7 fields and 44 institutions across the US and Canada.

Full list: sloan.org/fellowships/...

This Year’s Sloan Student Prize-Winning Scripts Tackle Sam Altman, ChatGPT, and Modern Medicine Quinn Spicker's script takes on Sam Altman and ChatGPT, while Nora Kaye's is about modern medicine.

The Sloan Foundation and Musum of the Moving Image are pleased to announce the the winners of the 2025 Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize and 2025 Sloan Student Discovery Prize.

Read more: www.indiewire.com/news/busines...

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Since 2020, the Sloan Foundation has been providing support for research universities to build institutional capacity for developing high-quality open-source software. We were thrilled to see our grantees last week at the @curiossorg.bsky.social Gathering last week at @tcddublin.bsky.social lin!

2026 Sloan Research Fellowships. Fellows announced February 17!

Stay tuned! On Feb 17, we will be announcing the 126 early-career scientists selected for the 2026 cohort of Sloan Research Fellows.

We can’t wait to celebrate their accomplishments!

SLAS Receives Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Develop Lab Automation Educational Guidelines The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has been awarded a $199,884 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to lead a multi-year initiative to develop education standards for labo...

We're supporting an effort from the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening to develop education standards for lab automation, addressing a growing gap between the adoption of automation technologies and formal training pathways for the scientific workforce.

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Questions about our open call? We will be holding an informal webinar next Tuesday, February 3 at 1:00pm EST to provide information about the submission guidelines and share insights for early-career faculty.

📌 Register here: sloan.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Women Saving America’s Climate Data Meet the network saving federal environmental data. But, as Trump enters his second year, how long can this effort last?

“Whether you’re making business decisions, or deciding whether to buy a house in a certain area that might be flood prone,” says Sloan grantee @denicewross.bsky.social, “government data can’t be replaced.”

Ross is building a more resilient national data infrastructure: time.com/7344773/wome...

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Congratulations to Sloan grantee Cynthia Dwork of @harvard.edu for earning the 2026 Japan Prize in Electronics, Information, and Communication! Dwork was honored for her work on building an ethical digital society, including differential privacy and fairness.

More: seas.harvard.edu/news/dwork-a...

Call for Letters of Inquiry. Early-Career Faculty Support for Interdisciplinary Energy System Research.

The Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for letters of inquiry to support interdisciplinary energy system research by early career-faculty!

📌Submission deadline: Tuesday, March 17, 2026

More details on our website: sloan.org/programs/res...

Sloan Foundation grant supports research on economics of academic publishing - University Library

Through our Economics Program, the Sloan Foundation is supporting work by @eschares.bsky.social at Iowa State University to probe the economics of academic publishing models.

Read more: lib.iastate.edu/news/sloan-f...

February 25 at 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET. Understanding and Addressing Energy Affordability in the U.S.

Rising energy costs in the U.S. pose a major concern for everyone from residential customers to industrial facilities. Join
@nationalacademies.org for a Sloan-supported workshop on 2/25 to examine the contributing factors for rising energy costs and explore potential solutions.

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Making Care Affordable is Key to Our Economic Future Author Nancy Folbre explains why no amount of economic growth is going to make care provision affordable—unless we commit to putting people first.

Economist and Sloan grantee Nancy Folbre highlights the need for affordable caregiving in a @ucpress.bsky.social blog post.

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/m...

Mark April 7 on your calendars for the 46th Pullias Lecture! Stacie Bloom, the incoming president of @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, will speak regarding thriving, through the challenging times we're facing.

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We are happy to support the continued growth of the @jhu.edu OSPO, along with the expansion of OSPOs at many universities across the United States!

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Applications are open for the OpenDP 2026 Summer Internship program!

Supported by the Sloan Foundation, OpenDP is a community effort to build trustworthy, open-source software tools for analyzing sensitive private data. Deadline Feb. 1, 2026!

Learn more: opendp.org/2025/12/15/o...

Environmental themes within a series of interconnected gears.

We are pleased to announce the grants we made in 2025 resulting from an open Request for Proposals for interdisciplinary social science research on energy system interactions the United States!

Read more: sloan.org/programs/res...