October 20, 2020 Coronavirus Threatens to Push the Child-Care Industry Over the EdgeAccording to an August 2020 survey conducted by Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund grantee Bipartisan Policy Center, only 30% of parents with children under age 5 have sought child care during the pandemic. This survey is cited in the Wall Street Journal’s article on the effects of the pandemic on child care. Read the…
October 14, 2020 Child Care Centers Are Not Linked to COVID Spread, According to Large StudyEsther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund early childhood grantee Walter Gilliam, Ph.D. of the Yale Child Study Center just released his study of COVID-19 transmissibility in child care centers. Articles describing his research are featured in the Wall Street Journal and at People.com.
September 17, 2020 Yale teams get multi-million-dollar awards to study biology of Parkinson’sYale research teams, headed by a former EAJK Fellow, will receive approximately $9 million in grants from the Aligning Sciences Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative to study the underlying biology of Parkinson’s disease. Pietro De Camilli – the John Klingenstein Professor of Neuroscience, a 1989 Klingenstein Fellow in Neurowscience, and investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical…
September 17, 2020 Discoverer of neural circuits for parenting wins US$3-million Breakthrough PrizeCatherine Dulac, a member of the EAJK Scientific Advisory Committee and molecular biologist at Harvard University, has been awarded a Breakthrough prize — the most lucrative award in science and mathematics – for her work on the neurology of parental roles. In the 1990s, Dulac isolated the pheromone receptors in mice that govern sex-specific social behaviors. Virgin…
August 18, 2020 UCSF Neurological Surgery Announces New Department ChairEdward Chang, M.D. has been named the new Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF. He is currently a Professor of Neurological Surgery at UCSF and Chief of Epilepsy Surgery and will begin his new role as Chair on September 1, 2020. Doctor Chang sits on the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Scientific Advisory Committee, and…
August 11, 2020 D.C. Child Care Reopening Fund Q&A with Marica Cox MitchellThe Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund collaborates with four funders, including the Bainum Family Foundation, to support at least 115 home-based child care providers. Marica Cox Mitchell, Director of Early Learning for the BFF, details the collaborative’s response to challenges raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read full article at New America.