Topic: Education & Knowledge

The latest RAC New Research series highlights reports from archival research by stipend recipients, covering diverse subjects from prison plastic surgery policies in the Civil Rights era to Indian art fellowship impacts and the roots of Thai nursing education. It includes discussions on the effects of patronage on video art and Thai-Filipino-American healthcare interactions, revealing the historical role of Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in enabling progressive social and cultural studies.

One philanthropy invested in scientists and pushed the atomic age forward.

In nearly a century of activity in the field of economics, the Foundation initiated new research centers and training programs around the world.

The origins and legacy of a research project conducted in the American concentration camps for Japanese Americans.

Launched in the 1960s, this program provided financial support for more than two decades to strengthen universities in the Global South.

Supporting American writers and the journals that publish their work.

What began as a philanthropic fund to honor its namesake became an early force in the social sciences.

A new program in the natural sciences increased funding and attention to the life sciences, and coined a new term along the way.

A new organization played an important part in assisting the Rockefeller Foundation by assembling cooperative studies on the issues of the day.

Partnering with public agencies to encourage efficient administration in state, county, and local governments.