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The 93 undergraduate students will receive invaluable, hands-on research experience in nearby Simons Foundation-supported neuroscience labs.

The program supports talented early-career scientists as they transition to tenure-track faculty positions. Submit your application by January 13, 2027.

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology. The application deadline is December 3, 2026, at 12 …

Deisseroth wins the award, along with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for discoveries leading to the development of optogenetics — a technique that uses light to control cellular signals.

Applications are now open for two grant programs that will support faculty and new centers of excellence at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), continuing their legacy of …

The Simons Foundation welcomes astrophysicist Lars Bildsten to its board of trustees. As a board member, he will provide strategic vision, oversight and stewardship to support the foundation …

The events selected for funding include a training program for African autism researchers, a computational neuroscience forum and a conference supporting open-science tools in neurophysiology.

“Transformation” will explain the latest results, put them in context and track how mathematicians are grappling with AI’s impact on their field.

This year’s Open Interval program will fund trios collaborating on projects exploring the theme of turbulence.

… genotype-phenotype studies.” The data are available to approved researchers via SFARI Base. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Autism BrainNet (ABN) announces the release of genetic data from the laboratories of Tomasz Nowakowski and Stephan Sanders. This release includes omics data from studies of postmortem brain …

… PIs on a proposal can be employed by institutions outside the Empire AI consortium through a subcontract. Subcontract institutions may be from U.S. and non-U …

The new collaboration will explore randomness and correlations in number theory, tackling problems related to the Riemann zeta function, prime numbers and other major questions in the field.

Jaume Gomis of the Perimeter Institute will lead the collaboration’s work exploring nonlocal observables in theoretical physics.

The data include PacBio long-read whole genome sequencing data for 110 individuals from 37 families participating in the SPARK autism research study.

… California, Santa Barbara Chenxi Wu University of Wisconsin–Madison Jiahong Wu University of Notre Dame Hang Xue University of Arizona Amanda Young University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign …

Established in memory of Simons Foundation co-founder Jim Simons, these fellowships support research from exceptional graduate students in mathematics.

Each group will receive three years of funding to support research into fundamental questions.

Mathematician Yair Minsky will direct the collaboration’s work studying the mathematical structures, which are invaluable to modern physics.

Simons Searchlight, a program of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), announces the release of new de-identified participant data available to qualified researchers. This release includes …

These workshops seek to support research that applies emerging genomic technologies and artificial intelligence approaches to develop a more comprehensive understanding of autism’s genetic architecture.

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the 2026 class of its Fellows-to-Faculty program. The program supports talented early-career scientists and their research visions as …

… researchers while fostering a broader and more inclusive community of contributors. David Wells Enabling Simulations of Realistic Cardiac Dynamics and Biomedical Devices by Enhancing Existing Scientific Software …

The fellows join a cross-disciplinary environment that encourages experimentation and innovation among researchers based in New York City.

The 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians welcomes the public to enjoy free talks, performances, films, hands-on activities and more that showcase how mathematics shapes art, music, science …

The program provides funding for early-career researchers who are interested in a career in plant biology.

The distinguished theoretical physicist, scientific leader and long-serving board member passed away on June 15, 2026.

The prize recognizes Martin’s contributions to the discovery of local protein translation in neurons.

The book, written by journalist Kevin Hartnett, tells the story of the birth and rise of Lean, a proof assistant that’s ushering in the biggest modern shift …

… joining the Flatiron Institute, Chung was a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Before that, she was a fellow in computation in …

The Simons Foundation is helping scientists from developing countries travel to the meeting, widely regarded as the most significant gathering in mathematics.

… Society and the Simons Foundation, and marks the first ICM in the United States since 1986. Thousands of mathematicians will attend the event, with hundreds from developing …

The next Open Interval program will enable trios of artists, scientists and arts organizations to collaborate deeply for several months on the science and art of “turbulence.”

The funding will support research aimed at advancing our understanding of how plants function.

“Turbulence” will be the theme of the next Open Interval program, which supports trios of artists, scientists and arts organizations ready to think outside their disciplines.

The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution. The application deadline is June 30, 2026 …

Eero Simoncelli, director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He joins 119 national and 25 …

To enable bold and innovative new directions in autism research, the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) welcomes applications for its recently launched New Ideas grant program. These …

Mathematician Charles Epstein of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 22. He joins leaders in the …

… Astrophysics Group at ICISE (SAGI), facilitating robust collaborative research in theoretical physics and astrophysics in Vietnam. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) SFI will provide funding for …

… Florian Pop University of Pennsylvania Anantharam Raghuram Fordham University Emily Riehl Johns Hopkins University Arnd Scheel University of Minnesota Andreas Seeger University of Wisconsin–Madison Anne Shiu …

These awards support interdisciplinary research into the sex bias associated with autism and its underlying biological mechanisms.

… and commitment to the foundation’s mission.

The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications from undergraduate students to participate in its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2026–2027 academic year …

… PAG-organized conference, you can explore the Conference Grant Support for Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorder Communities Participating in Simons Searchlight RFA. Applicants must submit a letter of intent …

The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for the next class of Pivot Fellows, offering a unique opportunity for researchers ready to bring their expertise to a new …

The Simons Foundation is supporting events nationwide and co-producing an event with the Brooklyn Public Library featuring a keynote by filmmaker Werner Herzog.

… that Quanta has released over the last two years. September 2024’s “The Unraveling of Space-Time” received the National Magazine Award for Best Single-Topic Issue …