February 2024

Kavli Foundation Science and Society Director Brooke Smith shares her perspective on funding for AI and other discoveries, and she explains why when someone asks if The Kavli Foundation provides funding in AI, she answers, "not exactly, but yes."

Research proposals aimed at understanding how neural systems are impacted by - or resilient to - changes in natural environments are invited through application to the National Science Foundation. Preferred projects will emphasize interdisciplinary collaborations and integrate diverse methodologies, such as environmental monitoring, behavioral and physiological measurement, ecological and evolutionary modeling, combined with traditional approaches in neuroscience investigation.

Details on submitting proposals can be found on the NSF website through a?Dear Colleague Letter.

The winners of the 2023 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards were celebrated at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on February 16. The program, endowed by The Kavli Foundation and open to journalists worldwide, drew entries from a record 74 countries last year.

Congratulations to our partners!

Omar Yaghi, co-director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute titute at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the?Science for the Future Ernest Solvay Prize by Syensqo?for his pioneering work on nano-porous "reticulated" materials.

Congratulations to?2024 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellows:

• Susan Clark, member of the?Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford
• Justus Kebschull , member of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at?Johns Hopkins University
• Abdoulaye Ndao , 2022 recipient of a?Sculpted Light in the BrainKavli Innovation Grant
• Lina Necib , member of the?MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
• Andrew Vanderburg ,?member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research