January 31, 2011

Center for Public Integrity and Newsweek/The Daily Beast Ink Content Deal

The Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organization and a long-standing Carnegie Corporation grantee, has entered into an agreement...
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January 27, 2011

Carnegie Scholars Inform Public Dialogue on Egypt, Islam

Between 2005 and 2009, the Carnegie Scholars program focused on one specific area of vital importance: Islam. The goal was to expand the range of scholarship in order to promote knowledge and...
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November 23, 2010

New START's Failure Wouldn't Be Fatal

The Moscow Times

Carnegie Corporation grantee Andrei Kortunov of the New Eurasia Foundation considers the consequences should the New START treaty fail, especially in light of the recent U.S. congressional midterm...
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November 22, 2010

North Korea’s New Reactor is Subject of Report from Carnegie-Supported Center for Int’l. Security and Cooperation

A team of policy analysts from the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University recently returned from North Korea, where they visited the site of a new nuclear reactor at...
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November 17, 2010

MentorNet to Scale Mentoring Program for Women and Underrepresented STEM Students

Sunnyvale, CA- November 16, 2010–Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded a $50,000 grant to MentorNet to meet the critical national priority to increase engineering and science talent....
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November 14, 2010

Lessons from US foundation collaboration

University World News

A "highly unusual" 10-year higher education partnership between seven US foundations, each with its distinct brand of organisational culture, leadership style and mission, is guaranteed to generate...
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November 10, 2010

In Time for Obama Visit: New Blog Examines Impact of Their Domestic Views on Asian Countries’ Foreign Policies

A new blog with an emphasis on understanding the domestic viewpoints and developments within Asian countries is contributing to a more nuanced understanding among the U.S. foreign policy community...
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November 10, 2010

At International Gathering, Grantees Focus on Regional Science Issues in the Developing World

Lack of mobility, inadequate equipment and human resources, brain drain: these are some of the many challenges faced by scientists in developing countries, and were among the many topics of...
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November 2, 2010

Poynter Receives $50,000 Carnegie Corporation Grant to Develop JRN 101, an Online Journalism Course for Universities

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded a $50,000 grant to the Poynter Institute to pilot Journalism 101, an online course on the basics of journalism. The 16-week course,...
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October 25, 2010

Researcher Chronicles the Lives of African Immigrants in the Bronx

A Carnegie Corporation-funded research project sheds light on one of the largest West African enclaves in the northeastern United States. African Immigration Research, a report released this past...
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October 25, 2010

Grant to NY Academy of Science establishes afterschool mentoring program in partnership with the City

Under the direction of the Academy’s new K-12 Science Education Initiatives Manager, Meghan Groome, a cadre of Science Alliance members will soon begin serving New York City’s middle school students...
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October 13, 2010

International Conference Showcases Innovations in Immigrant Integration

The Cities of Migration project, the first international initiative to connect global cities around the shared issues of migration and immigrant integration, convened its 2010 conference in the Hague...
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October 12, 2010

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation in STEM

A new Carnegie Corporation-funded report published by the National Academies cites relatively low levels of minority representation in science and engineering, and offers recommendations on how to...
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October 8, 2010

The New Teacher Project Issues Blueprint for Teacher Evaluation Systems

Calling it "a blueprint for rigorous, fair, and credible teacher evaluation systems centered on student outcomes", Carnegie Corporation grantee The New Teacher Project has...
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October 4, 2010

EastWest Institute to Address Threat of Afghan Narcotrafficking

A $300,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation will support the EastWest Institute’s Joint U.S.-Russia Working Group in Afghan Narcotrafficking. The project brings together technical and policy experts...
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September 23, 2010

Assessing Russia’s History and Future Development

Andrew C. Kuchins, director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Carnegie Corporation grantee, reports on “Russia’s History and Future...
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September 23, 2010

Reports Offer Alternative Future Scenarios for Key Foreign Policy Issues

A new Carnegie Corporation-funded report is part of a series offering forward-looking, cross-disciplinary assessments of issues critical to U.S. national security.  Produced by New York...
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September 22, 2010

Uncommon Schools Posts Strong Results NY, NJ and MA

Carnegie Corporation grantee Uncommon Schools continues to raise expectations for families whose children attend an urban public school. Across 24 schools serving 4,500 students in New York, New...
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September 22, 2010

Carnegie-Supported Suicide Terrorism Project is Focus of New Book

Cutting the Fuse:  The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It, by Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman fundamentally changes how we understand the root causes of the most...
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September 20, 2010

A Measure of Education Is Put to the Test

The current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education examines the Carnegie Corporation funded Collegiate Learning Assessment, the widely used test is designed to measure higher order...
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