Year-End Reflections from Our Board and Acting President and CEO Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/18/2024 on 12/18/2024 As we approach the end of 2024, the Heising-Simons Foundation expresses its sincere appreciation for our partners’ resilience and commitment to make progress together on some of the most pressing issues of our time.
51 Pegasi b Fellowship: Supporting the Next Generation of Planetary Astronomers Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 11/21/2024 on 11/21/2024 The Heising-Simons Foundation’s 51 Pegasi b fellowship is three-year postdoctoral fellowship that provides recipients with resources, freedom, and flexibility to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.
Climate and Clean Energy Program Awards $2.68M to Systems Change Efforts Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 10/2/2024 on 10/2/2024 In summer 2024, the Foundation’s Climate and Clean Energy program awarded $2.68 million in grants to organizations and coalitions pushing for large-scale and sustainable clean energy development in the U.S.
Empowering the Astronomical Community: Heising-Simons Foundation Awards $2 Million to Las Cumbres Observatory Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 8/15/2024 on 8/15/2024 The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) to provide the astronomical community access to LCO’s unique network of robotic telescopes for the next four years.
Heising-Simons Foundation Names Jennifer Shipp Acting President and CEO Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/22/2024 on 7/22/2024 The Heising-Simons Foundation today named Jennifer Shipp as Acting President and CEO, effective immediately.
Remembering Jim Simons (1938–2024) Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 5/10/2024 on 5/10/2024 The Heising-Simons Foundation honors the life and legacy of Jim Simons, 86, who passed away on Friday, May 10, 2024. The father of Heising-Simons Foundation Chair Liz Simons, father-in-law of Vice Chair Mark Heising, and grandfather of Vice Chair Caitlin Heising, Jim (as he preferred to be called) was an award-winning mathematician, a legend in quantitative investing, and an inspired and generous philanthropist.
New EPA Rules Put the United States on the Road to Decarbonized Transportation Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 4/22/2024 on 4/22/2024 Since 1970, April 22 has been known as Earth Day. This annual event, initially a call to clean up a polluted environment, is now focused on the existential threat to humankind: climate change.
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Creates Largest 3D Map of Universe Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 4/17/2024 on 4/17/2024 In May 2021, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) situated on the four-meter Mayall Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, begun capturing and studying the light from tens of millions of galaxies and other objects in the universe. The results from a full year of observations, released earlier this month, are mind-blowing: DESI has created the …
Families Lead California Initiative Awards $4 Million to Strengthen Diverse Parent Leaders Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 4/2/2024 on 4/2/2024 The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Education program has awarded $4 million over two years to support of 11 community-based organizations working to strengthen the pipeline of diverse parent leaders in California. This marks the second round of funding for these 11 organizations, which are part of Families Lead California, an initiative that builds parent leaders’ power to influence policy to reflect the priorities of families with children ages 0-8 in the Golden State.