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Taking place November 1–2 at the University of California, Berkeley, the 2013 Philomathia Symposium—Water, Climate, and Society: Challenges and Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World—will connect academics, decisionmakers and other stakeholders in in-depth discussions on two multidimensional themes: • Strategies for urban water management and infrastructure • The impact of changing water supplies on food […]

In May 2012, the Philomathia Foundation announced a $1-million gift to McMaster University to establish the Philomathia Foundation Water Project. In addition to providing fellowships and travel scholarships to students studying water-related, the Water Project also offered funding for the university to create a new research chair position for a professor with dual expertise in […]

In May 2013, the Philomathia Foundation entered into an agreement with the University of Cambridge’s School of the Humanities and Social Sciences to establish the new Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme. Through a donation of more than one million pounds, the Foundation will help Cambridge sponsor five post-doctoral research associates for a period of three […]

Sheng Shen, an assisant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and postdoctoral Philomathia Foundation fellow at UC Berkley in 2010, has received the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, its most prestigious award for junior faculty. The award also honors Shen with a five-year, $400,000 grant to understand and improve thermal transport […]

In May 2012, the Philomathia Foundation announced a donation of $1M toward establishing the Philomathia Foundation Water Project at McMaster University.  This project will enhance the existing education and research in water issues at McMaster with its collaboration with the United Nations University’s Water Without Borders project. Recently, Joseph Bahemuka, a Social Work PhD candidate […]