Supported by grants from the Gabriella and Paul Rosenbaum and William Randolph Hearst Foundations, the Mathematics Science Research Institute (MSRI) offers a Journalist-in-Residence Program in an effort to make mathematics accessible to the layman. Responding to complaints that mathematics is "too abstract; too remote from 'real life' to be of interest to the general public," the program...

This site describes the Alfred P. Sloan Foundations's Science and Technology Research Fellowships, two-year awards (of $35,000) granted annually to 100 young tenure-track faculty members. Established in 1955, these coveted fellowships are designed "to provide support and recognition to young scientists, often in their first appointments to university faculties ... often with little or no outside...