The Simons Foundation is providing annual grants to the country’s chemists, biologists, physicists and mathematicians. These funds are meant to help sustain hundreds of Ukrainian scientists whose work was disrupted when Russia invaded their country last year.
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Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area.
Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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