News & Events
Philomathia establishes the Philomathia Center at UC Berkley
In keeping with it's longstanding support of environmental research, the Philomathia foundation its pleased to announce the creation of the Philomathia Center at UC Berkeley. This center will facilitate energy and climate research while fostering learning, innovative...
Green Chemistry: Collaborative Approaches & New Solutions, March 24 2011
The Philomathia Foundation hosted the Green Chemistry: Collaborative Approaches & New Solutions as the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry's first national conference. First described by Paul Anatas in 1991, Green Chemitry refers to efforts to design chemical...
The Humanities and Public Discourse, November 1, 2011
The dramatic changes to the public funding of higher education in the UK and elsewhere, with their implication that the humanities confer a mainly private benefit, raise serious challenges and questions for those charged with leadership of the humanities. Even where...
Valuing the Humanities, October 14, 2010
Hosted in conjunction with the Research Centre for Human Values (RCHV) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, this workshop will address questions pertaining to the importance and means of promoting the humanities. This conference is the first in a series of...
The Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future, October 1-2, 2010
The Philomathia Foundation Symposium at UC Berkeley served as a platform where leading scientists and experts to explored ways to achieve a sustainable energy future. The best course of action for a clean, green energy future was outlined through this series of...
Forum on Energy and Environment U.S.-China Workshop on Carbon Capture & Storage, November 11 2009
The Philomathia Foundation hosted its first annual form on Energy and the environment at the Lakeview Hotel Conference Center at Peking University in Beijing. This inaugural, two-day event brought together leading Chinese and American scientists to explore issues and...