Civic Science Fellows Program Launches 2024-25 Cohort to Shape Science, Expand its Benefits and Horizons
May 6, 2024
The pioneering Civic Science Fellows program—designed to catalyze progress toward a future where all people can shape science to expand its benefits and horizons—welcomes more than 40 new and returning partner organizations, connecting diverse sectors and disciplines including journalism, scientific research, social sciences, medicine, communications, public engagement, and philanthropy.
About the Civic Science Fellows Program: Seeding Transformative Change to build a Culture of Civic Science
The Civic Science Fellows program is building a network of leaders working to advance change across sectors—so people from all backgrounds shape science and benefit from its power and promise. The program brings together an interdisciplinary network of journalists, bench and social scientists, community-facing practitioners, content creators, public-interest organizations, and funders to develop evidence-based, human-centered approaches to build meaningful collaboration between science and diverse communities.
The 2024-25 Civic Science Fellows will work on projects addressing: ethical questions born from advances in neuroscience; the future of graduate education and the future of work; how race is applied and understood in the design of clinical algorithms and the assessments they inform; climate communication and action; and evidence-based approaches to communicating about science in polarized political environments, as well as many other emergent civic science issues.
Civic science goes beyond science outreach, co-creating a culture in which science is strengthened through evidence-based engagement with people across diverse issues and experiences, and scientists are equipped to anticipate and engage around the civic context of their work. Organized by the Rita Allen Foundation, the program is supported by a growing community of leaders and organizations who recognize that a culture of civic science will be key to solving the grand challenges of today and tomorrow.
The program, designed as a civic science lab, was established in 2020, with initial support from the Rita Allen Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Kavli Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 2021, a second cohort launched with support from 35 funding and host partners.
MEET THE 2024-25 CIVIC SCIENCE FELLOWS
2024–25 Civic Science Fellows Program—Funding Partners
- Rita Allen Foundation
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Dana Foundation
- Doris Duke Foundation
- Feld Family Initiative for Civic Science Communication at the Boston University College of Communication
- William T. Grant Foundation
- The Kavli Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Morgridge Institute for Research
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Princeton University Graduate School
- Science in Society Funder Collaborative
- John Templeton Foundation
2024–25 Civic Science Fellows Program—Host Partners
- Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York Graduate Center
- American Medical Student Association
- American Physical Society
- Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
- Association of Health Care Journalists
- Association of Science and Technology Centers
- Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
- UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, University of California, Berkeley
- Center for Clinical and Translational Science, The Rockefeller University; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Institute for Global Infectious Disease Research, The Rockefeller University; and Clinical Directors Network
- Center for Cooperative Media, Montclair State University
- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine
- Ciencia Puerto Rico
- Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University
- Climate Central
- College of Communication, Boston University
- Council of Medical Specialty Societies
- Data Innovation Lab, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
- Evidence Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts; Transforming Evidence Funders Network
- Exploratorium
- The Franklin Institute
- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
- GradFUTURES Professional Development, Princeton University Graduate School
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, University of California, Berkeley
- The Knowledge House
- Morgridge Institute for Research
- Neuromatch
- Open Environmental Data Project
- Science Communication Lab
- Science Philanthropy Alliance
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
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Read more and sign up for the monthly Civic Science Series newsletter at civicsciencefellows.org. For further information about the program, please reach out to civicscience@ritaallen.org.