Research Corporation for Science Advancement
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RCSA supports early career researchers in the physical sciences (astronomy, chemistry, physics) at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.
Tucson, AZ
Joined February 2018
#Scialog SLU Fellow Peter Gao @PlanetaryGao @carnegiescience is a coauthor of a paper highlighted in this New York Times article. #CottrellScholar 2019 & Scialog TDA Fellow Emily Rauscher @michiganastro is also quoted.
nytimes.com
An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe.
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Through staff donations and matching gifts by the foundation, RCSA contributed nearly $17,000 total in December to two organizations serving people in need in #Tucson: @AvivaTucson and @foodbankofsaz
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#Scialog AES & NES Fellow Kelsey Hatzell, Princeton University, has an article in Physics Today on alternatives to conventional lithium-ion battery technology.
physicstoday.aip.org
As conventional lithium-ion battery technology approaches its theoretical limits, researchers are studying alternative architectures with solid electrolytes.
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#CottrellScholars Lou Charkoudian @haverfordedu and Daniela Fera @dfera37 @swarthmore recently joined forces to host a cross-campus #CURE symposium where students presented their research to each other as part of their classes. https://t.co/MsY0cACd3o
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2025 #CottrellScholar & #Scialog #LSST Fellow Adam Miller and Scialog LSST Fellow Michael Coughlin are authors of a paper in Nature Astronomy presenting recommendations for accelerating transient astronomy with automation.
nature.com
Nature Astronomy - The automated detection of transient phenomena in the sky has developed rapidly in recent years, driven by robotic telescopes such as the Zwicky Transient Facility and the...
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Congratulations to #CottrellScholar 2002 & #Scialog CMC Facilitator Neil Kelleher @NLKProteomics @NorthwesternU, winner of one of four inaugural What If…? Awards administered by @SciPhilOrg.
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2012 #CottrellScholar & 2020 SEED Awardee Seth Herzon, Yale University, has a new paper in Science about his lab’s work synthesizing (–)-gukulenin A, which has shown promise in treating murine models of ovarian cancer.
After a longstanding effort, chemists led by Yale University’s Seth Herzon have synthesized (–)-gukulenin A for the first time.
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The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST closes with pitches for team projects to ignite discovery with @VRubinObs. Initiative cosponsored with @HSFdn, with additional support from Leinweber Foundation and Kevin Wells. See you all next year!
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#Scialog: Early Science with the LSST continues! Thanks to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz, for a terrific keynote talk, “The Calm Before the Boom: Astrophysical Transients & Stellar Stories with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.” @VRubinObs #RubinObservatory #LSST
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Special welcome to our new Fellows as the 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Early Science with the LSST begins in Tucson! Cosponsored with @HSFdn, with support from Leinweber Foundation and Kevin Wells. @VRubinObs #RubinObservatory #LSST
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Congratulations to #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials awardees Claudia E. Avalos @nyuniversity and Karl Lang @GeorgiaTechEAS for “An Atomic-Level Perspective on Radiation Damage Annealing with Advanced SSNMR Spectroscopy.”
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Congratulations to #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials awardees Megan Fieser @USCChemistry @USCDornsife and Michael Schulz @SchulzLabVT for “SECURE Polymerization – Selective Encapsulation by Chelation Using Radiation-Enabled Polymerization.”
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Congratulations to #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials awardees Thandie Moyo @PennStateEME, Hunter Schroer @MissouriSandT , and Olumide Ogunmodimu @PSUEMS for “Buoyant Microbes for Bioflotation and Coarse Mineral Separations.”
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Congrats to #Scialog: SM3 awardees Grace Han @GraceGDHan @ucsbchemistry @ucsantabarbara, Youhong Nancy Guo @nancyguo06 @UNC @aps_unc, and Michael Zuerch @zuerchlab @UCB_Chemistry for “Sustainable Lithium Enrichment by Hydrogel-Mediated Solar Evaporation.”
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Congrats to #Scialog: SM3 awardees @Junsoo_twit @NorthwesternEng , @JoshWorchPhD @VTChemDept @VT_Science, and Micah Ziegler @GaTechEnergy @GTChBE @GTliberalarts @sppgatech for “Healable Yet Durable Tires: Localizing Dynamic Interlinks on Particle Surfaces.”
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Congratulations to #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials awardees Zhe Qiang @Zhe_Qiang @USM_Polymers and Josh Worch @JoshWorchPhD @VTChemDept @VT_Science for “Layered by Design, Ordered by Process: Single-Material Solution for Sustainable Multilayer Films.”
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RCSA, @SloanFoundation & @KavliFoundation have made awards to 8 cross-disciplinary teams of early career researchers in the second year of #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials. Congratulations! https://t.co/jZ594qMFGf
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