Nov 21 2024Columbia University’s Russian Institute is established with Foundation support, creating the first “area studies” center in the US. Others follow.
Nov 21 2024The Foundation’s single largest appropriation of the year, $7.5 million, goes to the General Education Board to boost its declining resources.The Board’s work is now focused almost exclusively on the promotion of education for blacks and whites across the South.
Nov 21 2024Further grants are made to support completion of the 200-inch telescope at Palomar Observatory, San Diego County, which received its first Foundation funds in 1928.
Nov 21 2024The Massachusetts Institute of Technology receives Foundation support to study the design and construction of Vannevar Bush’s mechanical differential analyzer, the forerunner of the computer.
