Freelance journalist Ryan Christopher Jones was at his family’s home in Clovis, California, on Jan. 3 when he received an email from the Heising-Simons Foundation, a family foundation based in Los ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has received a $350,000 grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to support equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programs on campus. The three-year ...

Sushma Raman will become president and CEO of the $866 million foundation at the end of February. Currently she is the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She will succeed ...

This combination photo show freelance journalists Dara T. Mathis, left, and Tamir Kalifa who have each won a $100,000 prize from the Heising-Simons Foundation. (Drew Bird, left, and Racien ...

Grant will continue initiative's research and resource development in mathematics education for young children The Lynch School of Education and Human Development, in partnership with Stanford ...

Congratulations to Dr. Zach Ulibarri, who was named a 2024 51 Pegasi b Fellow by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded an 18-month, $500,000 research and development grant to the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children to advance early math learning for children and ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation recently announced $3 million in multi-institution grants for theoretical and experimental research on Informing Gravity Theory. Half of the award has been granted to a ...

Lens and Mirrors—Shadow the Scientists (StS) started as a way to connect the public with on-the-ground scientific experiments amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The program quickly became a unique global ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two freelance journalists with projects focused on Black nationalism and the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting have won the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which honors work ...