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...

Although Radcliff, the women's college affiliated with Harvard for over a century, ceased to formally exist in 1999, it became the highly regarded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Headed by the noted historian Drew Gilpin Faust, the mission of the Institute is "to create an academic community where individuals can pursue advanced work in academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts."...