The PNC Foundation announced yesterday that it has funded 14 science centers (see the full list after the jump) in the mid-Atlantic region to train local teachers, help them with inquiry-based classroom activities, and arrange museum-based field trips.
One such was the Carlsberg Foundation in Copenhagen, a very prestigious organization that has funded the sciences for more than a century.
For example, the National Cancer Institute has funded 12 Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers, where physicists and cancer biologists are teamed up to uncover the physical principles that govern the emergence of cancer and its behavior at different scales.
The UK's Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) has funded much of the basic science underpinning the Biomass concept.
Since 2009, NSF has funded two workshops on forensic science issues (see Table 2).
Launched in 1952 as the agency's flagship effort to strengthen U.S. graduate training in the sciences, GRFP has funded more than 46,500 budding scientists, including 40 eventual Nobel Prize winners.
The UK Sport funding deal secured after Beijing, has funded talent coach development and sports science and medicine investment – with a level of video analysis which is equal even to that in the fabulously wealthy football.
MRC had supported me during my master's degree, so I was acutely aware of how unusual it was that an agency that had funded my science training would then support my choice to leave science behind in favour of journalism.
There had been errors on both sides, she said, as the industry has not invested in skills and education had not funded science and maths subjects.
In the US, where much of the climate science denial machinery has its base, the same groups who have funded organisations pushing climate science denial have started to pour money into journalism.
