Promoting Human Values and Science through Education and Research
One of the important mandates of the Philomathia Foundation is to support research and learning relating to issues of global importance, and the ongoing work of the McMaster University Water Network in Hamilton, Ont., certainly fulfills that directive. Established in 2014, the McMaster Water Network connects water science, policy and technology to deliver transformative impacts […]
The issue of climate change could be the single biggest scientific story in our collective lifetimes. But beyond the science of how and why it’s happening, another question must be asked: how it will be affecting the people of the world, and impact the cities that they live in? That’s what the 2016 Philomathia Forum […]
Periodically on the Philomathia website, we will spotlight the work, research and thoughts of our distinguished faculty and fellows — providing them with a platform to share their expertise and insight in their own words. This is the first such post, coming to us from Professor Simon Haines at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. […]
Dr. Adam Branch possesses a rare combination of academic credibility and real world experience – a life spent researching, writing and teaching about life in some of the far-flung locales that his work has led him to. This past summer, Dr. Branch was appointed as Philomathia Fellow in African Politics at Trinity Hall, in addition […]
The word ‘genius’ is not a word to be thrown about lightly. But recently, cutting-edge research taking place in a Philomathia-funded program was recognized as exactly that. In September, 2015, Dr. Peidong Yang, a co-director of Kavli ENSI at UC Berkeley, was named as a “genius” fellow by the MacArthur Foundation for his work in […]