As a girl growing up in Damascus, Syria, Dina Katabi loved Star Wars and was fascinated by the notion of the “Force” — the invisible energy generated by all living things that can be used for good or ...

An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer ...

Melikset Khachiyan, born in the former Soviet Union in 1970, began playing chess at the age of eight. At 10 years old he won the Baku Junior Championship and two years later became a Soviet Candidate ...

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was among the wealthiest and most famous industrialists of his day. Through Carnegie Corporation of New York, the innovative philanthropic foundation he established in 1911 ...

Since 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program has supported high-caliber scholarship and research in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting our ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

Originally interested in becoming an abstract painter, Oscar de la Renta, born in 1932 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, found that he was more interested in fashion design. After founding his ...

Political polarization has become a defining feature of American national politics. But is the same true for local government? A new survey, conducted by the nonprofit organization CivicPulse and ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. After a ...

Craig Nevill-Manning is a computer scientist who joined Google in 2000. After working in Mountain View, California for three years, he relocated to New York City and founded Google's first remote ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides support for high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The ...

The Widget Effect is a wide-ranging report by Carnegie Corporation grantee The New Teacher Project that studies teacher evaluation and dismissal in four states and 12 diverse districts, ranging from 4 ...