Future Vision

Letter from the Dean

Welcome to another academic year, filled with excitement for our scientific research program and fraught with the perils of an unpredictable funding landscape.

We are lucky at the School of Science to have partners who see the long-term vision that brought us—and the world— major scientific discoveries. We honored one such visionary, Marilyn Simons, with the school’s inaugural 1932 Award. Together with her husband, the late Jim Simons ’58, the Simons Foundation has helped us in innumerable ways.

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The Latest

Myriam Heiman heads The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Jesse Thaler leads the Laboratory for Nuclear Science

The Greatest

Marilyn Simons receives School of Science’s 1932 Award

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals creates fund honoring co-founder Phil Sharp

In the News

Astronomers find space sugar

Soft Serve with Scientists

Baby black holes

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