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Schmidt Science Fellows is a STEM postdoctoral fellowship awarded annually since 2018 by Schmidt Futures, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. [1] Former Google chairman and chief executive officer Eric Schmidt , and his wife Wendy Schmidt , fund the fellowship award.
The Schmidt’s relationship with the Rhodes Trust came about in 2017, and initially, the couple committed $25 million over three years to establish the post-doctoral Schmidt Science Fellows program. [3] In 2019, the couple pledged a further $1bn to talent causes on an international level. [2]
Schmidt Futures funds basic research [10] for the public good [11] in science, technology, and society. The organization searches for talented people and focuses them on hard problems through networks and competitions, new research [2] or policy organizations, and scholarships and fellowships.
Sir Keith Burnett, CBE, [1] FRS FLSW [2] FINSTP (born 30 September 1953) [3] is a Welsh physicist and President of the Institute of Physics.He is Chair of the Nuffield Foundation [4] — an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being, founding Chair of the Academic Council the Schmidt Science Fellows, [5] and a member of the Board of ...
Schmidt and his wife established the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, a University of Chicago summer school program for aspiring data scientists. The Schmidt Family Foundation's subsidiaries include ReMain Nantucket and the Marine Science and Technology Foundation; its main charitable program is the 11th Hour Project.
The Fellowship equips participants with tools and expertise to drive new discoveries to benefit human and planetary health. [19] In 2019, Wendy and Eric Schmidt funded the rebuilding and expansion of historic Guyot Hall at Princeton University’s Department of Computer Science. The new building will be renamed ‘Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall ...
An Aurora, Colorado judge granted the 'emergency closure' of The Edge at Lowry Apartments after multiple arrests and rumored gang activity.
The Trust also pioneered several new partnerships, including with Atlantic Philanthropies to set up the Atlantic Institute and with the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation to establish Schmidt Science Fellows. [29] [30] Other partnerships included the Saïd Foundation, Templeton Foundation and the Schwarzman Scholars program. [31]