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December
Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative
Application Deadline
Designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams
$500,000 over a four-year period
BWF Spotlight
Sustainability and Art – Beyond the Edge
“One of the most beautiful functions of art is to envisage worlds that do not yet exist, to imagine them, give them form, help them be born and seen. Beyond the Edge explores a further step: combining the power of storytelling with data analysis to seek a more sustainable future for all.” –Álvaro Laiz
Beyond the Edge is a collaboration between Álvaro Laiz and UreCulture, made possible thanks to the support of the National Geographic Society, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Museo Universidad de Navarra.
BWF News
Oct 13, 2025
BWF Expands Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program to Support 14 Pre-Doctoral Scholars
DURHAM, N.C. - The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP)—fourteen outstanding pre-doctoral scientists whose work ...
Sep 30, 2025
A Spork in the Road: Educational Theater for Climate Empowerment
Images of climate change confront children on practically every screen they encounter. A polar bear stranded on a chunk of ice. Raging wildfires. Heatwaves, hurricanes, and floods. But a different typ ...