Potato Power: Ongoing Philanthropic Collaboration Elevates Research in Sustainable Agriculture
Ahmad Al-Mallahi is a professor of agricultural engineering and sensing technologies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and he's spent the past five years developing technology that could...more

As Melinda French Gates Leaves the Gates Foundation, Many Hope She'Ll ...
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Melinda French Gates is stepping down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates more than 20 years ago. As part of an agreement made...more

Idb and Afdb Welcome Imf Executive Board'S Decision Approving Use of Sdrs for Hybrid ...
"At a time of multiple crises and scarce resources for development, this is a unique value proposition for governments everywhere." So says the head of the African Development Bank in praising...more

How Innovative Philanthropic Collectives Are Driving Climate Action
Deforestation in south-east Asia could slash the region's GDP by 35%, according to a new report from Reuters. And that's not all. The report also finds that $100 billion pledged to fight...more

How Philanthropy Can Help to Accelerate Sustainable Development Goals
"If the class register were anything to go by, education would be one of modern civilization's greatest success stories." That's what Peter Wilson, a member of the UBS Accelerate Collective, had...more

Fellowships, awards announced during graduate luncheon
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has named its 2016 recipients of the esteemed Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The award is given to faculty...more

Princeton Nuenergy Raises $10.3 Million to Revolutionize Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling
If you've got an old lithium-ion battery in your trunk, there's a good chance it could be worth a lot more money than it would have been if it had been sent to a battery recycling plant. That's...more

This Working Mom Overcame Decades of Employment Bias to Become The Ceo of Her ...
"A lack of paid leave, exorbitant childcare costs, and discrimination made my early career difficult at best, and for the majority of Americans, makes it nearly impossible to have a family," writes...more

Medusind Showcases Innovative Behavioral Health Billing Services at West Coast ...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is out with a new report on substance abuse, and it's a doozy. The report, published in the journal Alcoholism and Alcoholism: Clinical,...more

Fidogreen, an Alternative to Esg Projects Was Launched
Italian crowdfunding site Ener2Crowd has just launched a new service called FidoGreen, which it says is the first "sustainable finance platform for sustainable investments," Quartz...more