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Grants Roundup: Duke University's Environmental School Receives $20 Million Grant
Also, Duke University receives $20 million to strengthen the Nicholas School of the Environment, and the Weinberg Foundation gives $12 million to improve accessible design for disabled people at Jewish summer camps.
Foundations Say They Support Grantees’ Needs Beyond Money; Charities Disagree
Foundations are not as in touch as they think they are with the needs and concerns of the nonprofits they support, according to a new survey from the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
Grants Roundup: Microsoft Dedicates $40 Million to Humanitarian-Aid Technology
Also, the Wounded Warrior Project commits $29.2 million to Emory Healthcare for its veterans program, and the Citi Foundation gives $2.5 million for social entrepreneurship.
With Kavanaugh Hearings as Backdrop, Nonprofit Leaders Call for More Grants to Curb Sexual Assault
At a meeting of foundations, donors, and charities, advocates said every grant maker has a reason to pour more money into protecting women and girls.
Grants Roundup: Starr Foundation Gives $15 Million to St. John’s University
Also, the Moore Foundation pledges $95 million to research quantum materials, UPS makes a relief grant for flood recovery, and Levi Strauss & Co. gives $1 million to youth activists working to stop gun violence.
MacArthur’s Julia Stasch, Leader of Transition to ‘Big Bets,’ to Step Down
Under Stasch, the foundation narrowed its focus to criminal justice, climate change, nuclear disarmament, and a handful of other issues.
Report Calls for ‘Open Source’ Relationship Between Foundations and Nonprofits
The report, written by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, sheds light on how foundations join together to spark "systems change," the new catchphrase among big donors.
Grants Roundup: Sunderland Foundation Awards $66 Million to Kansas Hospital
Also, Kresge commits $50 million to a Detroit college and community revitalization, and the Knight Foundation offers up a $10 million matching grant for local news journalism.
Grant Makers Boost Climate-Change Commitments by $3 Billion
The pledge, announced at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, raises questions about how best to deploy the infusion of cash without inflaming deep divisions over the issue.
JPMorgan’s $250 Million in Grants Presents Opportunities for Nonprofits Nationwide
Cooperation will be key for charities to tap the funding pool, which also includes $250 million in loan guarantees. Itâs a major expansion of the companyâs efforts, which previously focused on a handful of cities.

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Literary Hub

Lit Hub Daily: October 15, 2018
The first in our series of books that defined the decades: the 1900s. | Lit Hub “It gives a very worn racial subject defiantly modern treatment.” Darryl Pinckney on Nella Larsen’s Passing. | Lit Hub “My job was to make Donald Trump a hero and a top expert on golf.” Meakin Armstrong recalls the time […]
How I Came to Interview Donald Trump About Tiger Woods
Near the end of the Marla Maples Era, I found myself on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, in the knick-knack crowded office of Donald Trump. He didn’t shake my hand because Donald Trump doesn’t shake hands. Instead, Trump repeated my name once we were introduced. “Meakin,” he said, “I thought I knew every name […]
Jen Doll on Being an Outsider, and (Finally) Becoming A Writer
Will Schwalbe: Hi, I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. One of the great things a book can do is make us feel less like outsiders. No matter who we are or where we are, we can find ourselves reflected somewhere in a book. And just the act of reading connects us to other readers. If […]
Passing for White: A Literary History
In Nella Larsen’s day, the theme of passing had been an obsession of American popular literature, of American culture and politics, since the mid-19th century. In most of the fiction by white men about passing, a black girl of tragic birth is compelled by circumstances to pretend to be white. Her beauty always makes an […]
How to Write a Fellowship Essay When Surrounded By Chaos
It is our inward journey that leads us through time—forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. –Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings […]

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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: prevalence, mechanisms, and implications for the study of heredity and evolution
Q Rev Biol. 2009 Jun;84(2):131-76. Jablonka E1, Raz G. Author information Abstract This review describes new developments in the study of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, a component of […]
Epigenetic inheritance and the intergenerational transfer of experience
Psychol Bull. 2005 May;131(3):340-60. Harper LV1. Author information Abstract Currently, behavioral development is thought to result from the interplay among genetic inheritance, congenital characteristics, cultural contexts, […]
Resilience after 9/11: Multimodal neuroimaging evidence for stress-related change in the healthy adult brain
Neuroimage. 2008 Apr 1;40(2):788-795. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.010. Epub 2008 Jan 29. Ganzel BL1, Kim P2, Glover GH3, Temple E4. Author information Abstract Exposure to psychological trauma is common and predicts […]
Altered emotional interference processing in affective and cognitive-control brain circuitry in major depression
Biol Psychiatry. 2008 Feb 15;63(4):377-84. Epub 2007 Aug 24. Fales CL1, Barch DM, Rundle MM, Mintun MA, Snyder AZ, Cohen JD, Mathews J, Sheline YI. Author information Abstract BACKGROUND: Major depression is characterized […]
Psychological and psychophysiological considerations on the maternal–fetal relationship
Infant Child Dev. 2010;19(1):27-38. Dipietro JA1. Author information Abstract The earliest relationship does not begin with birth. Pregnant women construct mental representations of the fetus, and […]

Stanford University Press

The Meiji Restoration - W. G. Beasley, with a new foreword by Michael R. Auslin
For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a comprehensive account of the origins, development, and immediate aftermath of the events […]
Life Is a Startup: What Founders Can Teach Us about Making Choices and Managing Change - Noam Wasserman
After two decades of research on founders, a best-selling book on the subject, and experience teaching and mentoring thousands of students in this field, Noam Wasserman is a prominent authority on startups. Hearing from countless readers and students that his insights helped them with important life decisions, beyond the incubator and boardroom, Wasserman brings us […]
Fishing on the Terrace - Mary Mayer Tanenbaum
"Sometimes I sit down on a big flat rock, which abuts a garden pool, and listen to the drip-drip of the water as it falls with quiet measured cadence into the pool. I think of the great back-to-nature movement, which has, under the name of Taoism, for so many centuries fascinated and motivated the classic […]
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The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital. This foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. […]
Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work - Mary Gatta
America is witnessing a retirement crisis. As the labor market shifts to the gig economy and new strains restrict social security, the American Dream of secure retirement becomes further out of reach for up to half of the population. In Waiting on Retirement, Mary Gatta takes the case of restaurant workers to examine the experiences […]

Harvard University Press

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Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle (part 2)
Julian Jackson's De Gaulle draws on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile and inspiring leader put his broken nation back at the center of world affairs. Following up on our last post, we had just a few more questions for Professor Jackson. Moral leadership […]
Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle
Julian Jackson has written the definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France. De Gaulle draws on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile and inspiring leader put his broken nation back at the center of world affairs. […]
Stanley Cavell, Philosopher Untamed
The great Stanley Cavell died late last month at the age of 91. Below, HUP Executive Editor for the Humanities Lindsay Waters recalls what made Cavell so special. ----- Why not use the word “star,” Stanley asked in his breakthrough book on movies, The World Viewed, why not “the more beautiful and more accurate word,” […]
Why Gerrymandering Matters
As with many issues working their way through American courts, legal challenges to political gerrymandering have had their calculus upended by the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Indeed, one expert offered that the odds of seeing the Court identify a standard for determining whether a political map has become unacceptably partisan “plummeted” with […]
On Civility
Recent days have seen concern for civility in American public discourse rise to the fore. Some call for its preservation, casting civility as a critical norm, the erosion of which would portend even greater conflict. Others suggest that the time for civility has passed, or cast it as only ever a tool for silencing dissent. […]

Cambridge University Press

JFM Symposia 2017: Bangalore, India
In 2017, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics held their first series of mini-symposia organised by editorial board members from the journal and world-class researchers based in India – notably Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai.…
Related content trials on Cambridge Core
Following the feedback from our customers, we are excited to announce two trials for related content have started on Cambridge Core!
A promising approach to optimize pig genomics
The animal article of the month for November is ‘Genotype imputation from various low-density SNP panels and its impact on accuracy of genomic breeding values in pigs‘ The rapid increase in the world population, which is expected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, needs to be accompanied by a substantial increase in food production.…
2018 MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize Announced
MRS Bulletin is pleased to announce that Hortense Le Ferrand has been selected to receive the 2018 MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize. This award recognizes postdoctoral researchers for their intellectual merit, the impact of their research and scholarship, and their interest in science writing and communication.
Refugees, migrants, IDPs: Protecting people on the move—without distinction
‘It is not the movement of persons that is the problem, it is the movement of persons without the protection of fundamental rights and norms.’ Thus concludes the published report on Forced to flee: A multi-disciplinary conference on internal displacement, migration and refugee crises, supported among others by the ICRC and held last November at SOAS, University of […]