News Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Program Officer, Senior Manager STEM Teacher Initiatives If you've visited the respected Eduwonk blog over the past few days, you'll have seen incisive posts from one of our grantees, Educators 4 Excellence.
News Michele Cahill Vice President, National Program, and Program Director, Urban Education and Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Program Officer, Senior Manager More and better trained STEM teachers are essential to preparing America's students to fully participate in our democracy.
News We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories from the Kennedy Archives Public radio documentary uses interviews from a Corporation-funded oral history project, never before broadcast
News Celebrating World Book Day Celebrating World Book Day In celebration of World Book Day we look back over Carnegie Corporation of New York's 100-year history of supporting some of the world's foremost scholarly resea...
News U.S. Officials Lose Sleep over South Africa's Loose Nukes U.S. Officials Lose Sleep over South Africa's Loose Nukes Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half a dozen bombs, each powerful enough to obliterate central Washington or most of Lower Manhattan, is lo...
News Stimson Center Turns 25 Stimson Center Turns 25 In 1989, Carnegie Corporation of New York gave an initial grant, "Avoiding Nuclear War," to the Stimson center to support its work in providing policy alternatives,...
News Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board Approves 55 Grants Totaling $52,323,500 At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on September 12, 2013, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board of Trustees approved 55 grants totaling $52,323,500.
News Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations Do we need another cataclysm to re-kindle the imagination and energy and cooperation that was in the air in the 1940s, or are we smart enough to adapt i...
News New Dataset Highlights Several Trends Related to a Decline in the Unauthorized Population New Dataset Highlights Several Trends Related to a Decline in the Unauthorized Population In December 2014, the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) released a paper that provided new esti...
News Smithsonian National Museum and Zocalo Public Square ask the nation: "What does it mean to be American?" Smithsonian National Museum and Zocalo Public Square ask the nation: "What does it mean to be American?" The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and Los Angeles-based Ideas Excha...
News Remarks at a Symposium on P5+1 Iran Nuclear Negotiations Remarks at a Symposium on P5+1 Iran Nuclear Negotiations Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and lead Iran U.S. negotiator, Wendy Sherman, spoke at the first day of a two-day conference o...
News Amplifying Higher Education in Africa: Damtew Teferra and the International Journal of African Higher Education Amplifying Higher Education in Africa: Damtew Teferra and the International Journal of African Higher Education As preparations for next year's African Higher Education Summit continue to get u...
News Carnegie Corporation Grantee Nominated to California Supreme Court Carnegie Corporation Grantee Nominated to California Supreme Court Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, director of Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, received una...
News Carnegie Corporation Gives $3.15 Million to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation, Secure Vulnerable Fissile Material Carnegie Corporation Gives $3.15 Million to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation, Secure Vulnerable Fissile Material Japan crisis highlights need to re-think energy as part of broader safety measures. Car...
News Deana Arsenian: An Interim Nuclear Agreement with Iran Opinions and positions about the efficacy of this agreement vary considerably, and its ultimate ability to reach the desired goals remains uncertain, but there is little doubt that the agreement represents a major diplomatic achievement of the Obama Administration and …
News Grantee Report Finds Immigrants Provide Major Boost to NY Economy Grantee Report Finds Immigrants Provide Major Boost to NY Economy A new independent report released November 26, 2007 concludes that immigrants generate nearly a quarter of New York's economic ...
News Nuclear Power, Weapons Proliferation, and Climate Change: Carnegie Corporation Funds New Issue of Journal Daedalus to Explore the Global Nuclear Future Nuclear Power, Weapons Proliferation, and Climate Change: Carnegie Corporation Funds New Issue of Journal Daedalus to Explore the Global Nuclear Future In the future there will be more nuclear techn...
News EastWest Institute to Address Threat of Afghan Narcotrafficking EastWest Institute to Address Threat of Afghan Narcotrafficking A $300,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation will support the EastWest Institute's Joint U.S.-Russia Working Group in Afghan Narcot...
News As Nuclear Energy Grows, Int’l Cooperation Needed to Lower Proliferation Risks As Nuclear Energy Grows, Int’l Cooperation Needed to Lower Proliferation Risks The United States, Russia and other countries, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), should ensure ...
News Carnegie Corporation Investment Leads to New AAAS Database to Aid Voting Reform Carnegie Corporation Investment Leads to New AAAS Database to Aid Voting Reform A 2004 Carnegie Corporation grant to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has helped launche...
News New Program Offers Masters to University Librarians and Library Information Services Faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa New Program Offers Masters to University Librarians and Library Information Services Faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa The Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, ...
News Carnegie’s Del Rosso on Philanthropy’s Efforts to Understand Global Security, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs Carnegie’s Del Rosso on Philanthropy’s Efforts to Understand Global Security, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs In the Summer 2008 issue of the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, one of the world's...
News Reaching for Race to the Top Funds Reaching for Race to the Top Funds Carnegie Corporation program officer Talia Milgrom-Elcott was one of the primary reviewers of a new paper laying out "good bets" for Colorado as it pursu...
News New Study Shows Small Schools Can Help Students and Teachers Succeed, But Not Without Support New Study Shows Small Schools Can Help Students and Teachers Succeed, But Not Without Support A new Carnegie Corporation-funded study by Philadelphia-basedResearch for Action (RFA) takes a close loo...
News Carnegie-funded Experts Urge Reformulation of U.S. Space Policy Carnegie-funded Experts Urge Reformulation of U.S. Space Policy On July 30 in Washington, DC, participants in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Carnegie Corporation-supported Reconside...