Congrats to 13 members of RCSA’s community: Duncan Brown, Erin Carlson, David DeMille, Stephen Hill, Michael Laub, M. Lisa Manning, James McCusker, Michael Meyer, Jill Millstone, Kelly Sheppard, Alexander Spokoyny, Amy Cheng Vollmer, & Yadong Yin! #CottrellScholar #Scialog #CottrellCollege
Chemists! If you're attending #ACSSpring2026 in Atlanta, bring colleagues & students and join us at the RCSA/PRF Reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, March 23, in International Ballroom F, Omni at Centennial Park. Meet RCSA program directors, learn more about #Scialog, #CottrellScholar & #RCSAFellows.
Attending #APSSummit26 in Denver? Come meet our program directors and learn about #Scialog, #CottrellScholar & #RCSAFellows programs at RCSA’s reception -- 5-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, Hyatt Agate Room.
Group photo of Scialog conference participants.
The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems ends today with pitches for team research projects to explore how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes. - with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, @kavlifoundation.org.
Many thanks to Joellen Russell, University of Arizona Geosciences, for an inspirational & engaging keynote talk, “Climate and the Deep Blue Sea,” to kick off discussions at #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems.
The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems has begun in Tucson! Special welcome to all our new Fellows. Cosponsored with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.org.
Escaped the snow in Baltimore to go to the #Scialog conference in Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems in Tucson, Arizona.
Excited for 4 days of networking and lots of science chats with other #ScialogFellows!
Thanks @rescorp.org for this opportunity!
#CottrellScholar 2012 & #Scialog AUT Facilitator Sarah Reisman has been awarded Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Reisman, whose research focuses on the chemical synthesis of organic molecules produced in nature, also received RCSA’s Cottrell FRED Award in 2019.
19 members of RCSA’s community of scientists have been awarded 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships! Congrats to #CottrellScholar 2024 Denise Okafor; #Scialog NES Fellows Chibueze Amanchukwu, Yayuan Liu, Marcel Schreier & Anna Wuttig; AUT Fellows Herdeline Ann Ardoña & Grant Rotskoff ...
2021 #Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe awardees Greg Fournier, MIT, and Stilianos Louca, University of Oregon, are co-authors of a new study in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology tracing some of the earliest evidence of aerobic respiration on Earth.
In 2025, RCSA and its funding partners awarded more than $9.5 million to early career scientists in the United States, Canada, and Chile through its #CottrellScholar Program, #Scialog, #RCSAFellows Initiative, and emergency RCSA Bridge Awards.
RCSA, @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, the Leinweber Foundation, and Kevin Wells are funding the research of 7 collaborative teams in the 2nd year of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST, a 3-year initiative to ignite discovery with the @vrubinobs.bsky.social's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
#Scialog SLU Fellow Peter Gao, Carnegie Institution for Science, is a coauthor of a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that is highlighted in this New York Times article. #CottrellScholar 2019 & Scialog TDA Fellow Emily Rauscher, University of Michigan, is also quoted.
#Scialog AES & NES Fellow Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University, has an article in Physics Today on alternatives to conventional lithium-ion battery technology.
2025 #CottrellScholar & #Scialog #LSST Fellow Adam Miller, Northwestern University, and Scialog LSST Fellow Michael Coughlin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, are authors of a paper in Nature Astronomy presenting recommendations for accelerating transient astronomy with automation.
Congratulations to #CottrellScholar 2002 & #Scialog CMC Facilitator Neil Kelleher, Northwestern University, winner of one of four inaugural What If…? Awards (for innovative early-stage research in biomedical and health science) administered by the Science Philanthropy Alliance.
Group photo of participants at Scialog LSST
The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST closes with pitches for team projects to ignite discovery with @vrubinobs.bsky.social. Initiative cosponsored with @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, with additional support from Leinweber Foundation and Kevin Wells.
Speaker Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz at a lectern, with brown dwarf image onscreen.
#Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST continues! Thanks to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz @ucsantacruz.bsky.social for a terrific keynote talk, “The Calm Before the Boom: Astrophysical Transients & Stellar Stories with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.”
Scialog Fellows showing off their certificates from RCSA.
Special welcome to our new Fellows as the 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Early Science with the LSST begins in Tucson! Cosponsored with @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, with support from Leinweber Foundation and Kevin Wells. #RubinObservatory #LSST
RCSA, @sloanfoundation.bsky.social & @kavlifoundation.org have made awards to eight cross-disciplinary teams of early career researchers in the second year of #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials.
Congratulations to #CottrellScholar 2021 & #Scialog QMI Fellow Justin Caram!
Four #Scialog Fellows are among 20 innovative early career researchers named 2025 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering! Congratulations to: QMI Fellow James Gaynor; NES Fellow Dohyung Kim; NES Fellow Azahara Oliva Gonzalez; and NES Fellow Benjamin Snyder.
Well done to all attendees of the 2025 QMI! #Scialog
Congratulations to #CottrellScholar 2022 & #Scialog ABI Fellow Scott Cushing, and Scialog SM3 Fellow Grace Han, who are among five aspiring inventors selected as 2005 Moore Inventor Fellows!
Group photo of Fellows, Facilitators and guests at RCSA's first Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information conference.
The 1st meeting of #Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information concludes with pitches for blue-sky interdisciplinary projects, and a better-networked quantum science community. See you next year! #IYQ2025
Thanks to Xiaoyang Zhu, Columbia University, and Rana Adhikari, California Institute of Technology, for thought-provoking keynote talks at #Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information! #IYQ2025
The 1st meeting of #Scialog: Quantum Matter and Information, a new 3-year initiative cosponsored by RCSA, The Brinson Foundation, @simonsfoundation.org, and Kevin Wells, has begun in Tucson. Congratulations to our QMI Fellows! #IYQ2025
#CottrellScholar 2022 & #Scialog ABI Fellow Scott Cushing is interviewed in Chemical & Engineering News’ 2025 Trailblazer issue. He talks about changing the conversation around mental health and disabilities in chemistry by building spaces where students can focus on support and well-being.
Also among the finalists: CS 2018 Nathaniel Craig; #Scialog AES Fellow Matthew McDowell; CS 2020 Song Lin; and CS 2017 & Scialog AES Fellow Yogi Surendranath. Congrats to all!
Two members of RCSA's community — #Scialog LSST Fellow Kareem El-Badri, California Institute of Technology, and Scialog NES & SM3 Fellow Will Tarpeh, Stanford University — have been named 2025 MacArthur Fellows. Congratulations! bit.ly/4o7uRJj
