Freelance journalist Ryan Christopher Jones was at his family’s home in Clovis, California, on Jan. 3 when he received an email from the Heising-Simons Foundation, a family foundation based in Los ...

On Tuesday, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced new grants from the Barr Foundation and Heising-Simons Foundation… On Tuesday, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has received a $350,000 grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to support equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programs on campus. The three-year ...

When considering what makes up the universe, it’s surprising that scientists could focus on just one yes/no question. But that’s exactly what a group of researchers supported by the Heising-Simons ...

Grant will continue initiative's research and resource development in mathematics education for young children The Lynch School of Education and Human Development, in partnership with Stanford ...

Two freelance journalists, Dara T. Mathis and Tamir Kalifa, have won the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. The prize, awarded by the Heising-Simons Foundation, grants each journalist $100,000, making ...

With major funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the film Picture a Scientist is breaking new ground by virtually launching in theaters across North America on ...

Sushma Raman will become president and CEO of the $866 million foundation at the end of February. Currently she is the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She will succeed ...

To help combat the public health crisis presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Heising-Simons Foundation has made a $2 million grant to UC San Francisco to establish a COVID Response Initiative at ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded an 18-month, $500,000 research and development grant to the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children to advance early math learning for children and ...

UC Santa Cruz astronomers have received three major grants from the Heising-Simons Foundation for projects related to direct imaging of planets around other stars. In recent decades, astronomers have ...