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The Thai Nguyen University Learning Resource Center was awarded the 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program grant from the Elsevier Foundation. Only six libraries received the grant. As described on the Elsevier website, Supporting Research Communities in Writing, Publishing and Sharing their Works in…

Original Source University of Queensland is an Atlantic grantee. by Guy Healy BRISBANE will use $160 million in new and preserved funding to step-up recruitment of top researchers and consolidate a bullish claim to being the country's "Silicon Valley" for medical and pharmaceutical research and…

Obama's economics expert is in UCD researching pre-schoolers Original Source By Kim Bielenberg He is the economics guru who could help to shape the future of America -- and he is currently carrying out research on pre-school children in Dublin. As he plans to solve…

It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project.  Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…

Biomedical animator Drew Berry was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010. The Fellowship is a $500,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.  For more information on this article: http://atlanticphilanthropies.org/news/highlight-2010-macarthur-fellow-drew-berry

Image: A concept drawing of the planned science and technology precinct to be built at Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point campus. The Queensland and federal governments have welcomed what they say is the largest ever medical donation in Australia's history. American philanthropist Chuck Feeney…

SEATTLE, July 2 -- The University of Washington issued the following news release: A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in the hospital shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005. During that period, the proportion of hospital deaths preceded by…

  by LORNA SIGGINS ANY GOVERNMENT keen to save money will ensure that continued support is given to preventative and early intervention services for children in potential difficulty and there is an "overwhelming economic argument" for such an approach, according to Prof Pat Dolan, who…

Philanthropist Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney has been appointed an Honorary Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his services to Australian health, research and higher education. Mr Feeney founded The Atlantic Philanthropies more than 40 years ago, which has since donated or…

[caption id="attachment_83396" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] University of Queensland received one of the first grants Atlantic made when grant-making began in Australia in 1998. The A$10M grant supported the creation of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (above). Image source: University of Queensland.[/caption] On February 1, 2022, during…