Dr. Yang Guo has been recognized by the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences for his PhD work in environmental science and engineering at Tsinghua University. Industrial parks play a critical role in the social-economic systems of China, and act as a trouble shooter in addressing regional environmental and global pressures. Yang’s PhD thesis titled Greenhouse Gas … Continued
Schmidt Science Fellows Executive Director, Dr. Megan Wheeler, and the Executive Secretary of the Truman Foundation, Dr. Terry Babcock-Lumish, have explored the importance of interdisciplinarity and engagement between science and society during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in an opinion article for the San Francisco Chronicle. “The future needs all the talent we can muster … Continued
Dr. Hal Holmes, a 2018 Schmidt Science Fellow, has been announced as one of 21 nominees for the 2020 Pritzker Award. The award, an annual prize of $100,000, is made to a young environmental leader working to solve complicated environmental challenges. Hal has been nominated for his work on a DNA ‘barcode scanner’ that he … Continued
Dr. Yogesh Goyal, a 2018 Schmidt Science Fellow, has been named one of just eight recipients of the 2020 Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s (BWF) Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI). The award supports early career interdisciplinary researchers who have transitioned or aim to transition their expertise in the fields of physical, mathematical, computational sciences or … Continued
Schmidt Science Fellows has begun the process of identifying and selecting candidates to join the Program’s 2021 cohort of Fellows. This next group of Fellows is expected to be announced in May 2021. Schmidt Science Fellows works in partnership with a select group of the world’s leading science and engineering institutions to identify and nominate … Continued
Dr. Jyotirmoy Mandal, 2019 Fellow, has recently published a perspective written during his Fellowship Placement at the University of California, Los Angeles, demonstrating how radiative cooling of buildings is achievable simply with the use of super white paints. The research published in Joule addresses the intensifying global need for cooling built environments, and the necessity … Continued
Shriya Srinivasan, a recently selected 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow, has been leading work as part of a Boston-area consortium to improve the safe sharing of ventilators for COVID-19 patients. The research, involving scientists and engineers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, has recently been published in Science Translational Medicine. Shriya has been … Continued
New research published recently by 2018 Schmidt Science Fellow Dr. Mattia Serra in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is revealing how our complex bodies develop from a single cell. Mattia and colleagues at Harvard University have applied mathematical techniques from fluid dynamics and chaos theory to imaging data to understand how cells organize … Continued
New research, first authored in Nature Communications by 2018 Schmidt Science Fellow Dr. Mattia Serra, could help to save hundreds of lives every year by helping search and rescue services to find people lost in the ocean much faster. When a person enters the ocean, rescue teams only have a short period of time, normally … Continued
New research published today in Cell Systems provides new insights into the non-genetic variations in cells that can drive resistance to therapy in rare cancer cells. The work, co-led by 2018 Schmidt Science Fellow and senior author Dr. Yogesh Goyal (University of Pennsylvania) and first author Lea Schuh (Helmholtz Zentrum München), has studied the mechanisms … Continued