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Encyclopedia > Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution in the United States, was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation. Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cover of Time Magazine (December 27, 1926) Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ...


The Foundation's programs and interests fall into the areas of science and technology, standard of living and economic performance, and education and careers in science and technology.


The total assets of the Sloan Foundation have a market value of about $1.5 billion.


In 2000 the foundation initiated a national program to prevent bioterrorism that has evolved to address general terrorism preparedness. To date Sloan has made 40 grants totaling over $17 million dollars in its bioterrorism program. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the use of biological agents in warfare, see Biological warfare. ...


Among the projects recent sponsored in whole or in part by the Sloan Foundation are the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Census of Marine Life, the latter also including OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. SDSS Logo The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-filter imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2. ... The Census of Marine Life (CoML) is an ambitious, 10-year program with the aim of answering three basic questions, what lives in the oceans (current and near-current data); what did live in the oceans (historical data); and what will live in the oceans (predictive / modelled data). ... The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) is a web-based access point to information about the distribution and abundance of living species in the ocean. ...


See also

SDSS Logo The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-filter imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2. ... The Census of Marine Life (CoML) is an ambitious, 10-year program with the aim of answering three basic questions, what lives in the oceans (current and near-current data); what did live in the oceans (historical data); and what will live in the oceans (predictive / modelled data). ... The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) is a web-based access point to information about the distribution and abundance of living species in the ocean. ...

External links

  • Sloan Foundation web site

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1063 words)
Sloan Research Fellowships is by far the oldest program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, although those who receive the grants are among the youngest researchers the Foundation assists.
The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and establish their independent research projects with little or no outside support.
Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are required to hold the Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience or computational and evolutionary molecular biology, or in a related interdisciplinary field, and must be members of the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track) of a college or university in the United States or Canada.
Alfred P. Sloan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (693 words)
Sloan was averse to violence of the sort associated with Henry Ford.
A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, one of the world's premier business schools.
Sloan retired as chairman on April 2, 1956 and died in 1966.
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