Gruber Foundation
{{Short description|American philanthropic foundation}}
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| name = The Gruber Foundation
| logo = Gruber Foundation.svg
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| founded_date = 1993
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| location = Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut
| origins = The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
| key_people = Patricia and Peter Gruber (co-founders)
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| focus = Cosmology
Genetics
Neuroscience
Justice
Women's Rights
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| revenue_year = 2016
| expenses_year = 2016
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| homepage = {{URL|http://gruber.yale.edu}}
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The Gruber Foundation is a philanthropic foundation established by Peter and Patricia Gruber and is based at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.{{cite web|url=http://gruber.yale.edu/press/yale-and-patricia-and-peter-gruber-announce-establishment-gruber-foundation-yale |title=Yale and Patricia and Peter Gruber Announce Establishment of the Gruber Foundation at Yale |publisher=The Gruber Foundation |access-date=2015-03-30}} Its mission is to honor and encourage excellence in the fields of cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice, and women's rights, which encompasses three major programmatic initiatives: the Gruber Prizes and the Young Scientists Awards; the Gruber Science Fellowship Program; and the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights at Yale Law School.{{cite web|url=http://gruber.yale.edu/foundation |title=The Gruber Foundation |publisher=The Gruber Foundation |access-date=2015-03-30}}
Gruber Prizes
The International Prize Program awards the annual Gruber Prizes:
- Gruber Prize in Cosmology first awarded in 2000{{cite web|url=https://www.iau.org/science/grants_prizes/gruber_foundation/ |title=IAU and the Gruber Foundation |publisher=International Astronomical Union |access-date=2015-03-30}}
- Gruber Prize in Genetics first awarded in 2001{{cite web|title=2001 Gruber Genetics Prize Press Release Rudolf Jaenisch, Gene Transfer Pioneer, Receives First-Ever International Genetics Prize|url=http://gruber.yale.edu/genetics/press/2001-gruber-genetics-prize-press-release|access-date=4 August 2015|website=Gruber Foundation|date=2001}}
- Gruber Prize in Neuroscience first awarded in 2004{{cite web|url=http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and-Funding/Individual-Prizes-and-Fellowships/Outstanding-Research-and-Career-Awards/The-Gruber-Foundation-Neuroscience-Prize |title=The Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize |publisher=Society for Neuroscience |access-date=2015-03-30}}
- Gruber Prize for Justice awarded from 2001 to 2011
- Gruber Prize for Women's Rights awarded from 2003 to 2011
The prizes, which are awarded to prominent scientists, social scientists, and jurists in these subjects, provide a gold medal and a cash award of US$500,000.{{cite web|url=http://gruber.yale.edu/gruber-prizes |title=Gruber Prizes |publisher=The Gruber Foundation |access-date=2015-03-30}}
The Young Scientist Awards recognize brilliant early career international scientists and are selected in partnership with major scientific organizations:
- International Astronomical Union Fellowships
- Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, in partnership with the Genetics Society of America and the American Society for Human Genetics{{cite web |url=http://www.genetics-gsa.org/awards/rosalind.shtml |title=Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award |publisher=Genetics Society of America |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530095415/http://www.genetics-gsa.org/awards/rosalind.shtml |archive-date=2019-05-30 |url-status=dead }}
- Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience, in partnership with the Society for Neuroscience
- Peter and Patricia Gruber Awards at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel{{cite web|url=http://www.weizmann.ac.il/acadaff/gruber.html |title=The Gruber Award |publisher=Weizmann Institute of Science |access-date=2015-03-30}}
Gruber Science Fellowships
Established in 2011, the Gruber Science Fellowships are the most prestigious awards offered by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://gruber.yale.edu/science-fellowship |title=Gruber Science Fellowship |publisher=The Gruber Foundation |access-date=2015-03-30}}{{cite web|url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/01/10/grad-school-to-increase-science-admits/ |title=Grad school to increase science admits |date=10 January 2012 |publisher=Yale Daily News |access-date=2015-03-30}} Annually, only approximately 20 are awarded to the most highly ranked applicants to Yale PhD programs in the life sciences, cosmology, and astrophysics, in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments and exceptional promise.{{cite web|url=http://news.yale.edu/2014/04/21/gruber-science-fellowships-moving-research-forward-through-education |title=Gruber Science Fellowships: Moving research forward through education |date=21 April 2014 |publisher=Yale University |access-date=2015-03-30}}
In April 2024, the foundation announced its third Early Career Fellowship administered by the International Astronomical Union.{{Cite web |last=SpaceRef |date=2020-10-02 |title=Gruber Foundation to Support Third Early Career Fellowship |url=https://spacenews.com/gruber-foundation-to-support-third-early-career-fellowship/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=SpaceNews |language=en-US}}
Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights
Administered by Yale Law School, the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights continues and expands upon the missions of the previous Justice and Women's Rights Prizes, from which it evolved.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/gruberprogram.htm |title=Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights |publisher=Yale Law School |access-date=2015-03-30}} Currently, the program consists of four core components:
- Global Constitutionalism Seminar{{cite web|url=http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/globalconstitutionalismseminar.htm |title=Global Constitutionalism Seminar |publisher=Yale Law School |access-date=2015-03-30}}
- Gruber Distinguished Lectures in Global Justice and Women's Rights{{cite web|url=http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/gruberlectures.htm |title=Gruber Lectures |publisher=Yale Law School |access-date=2015-03-30}}
- Gruber Global Justice and Women's Rights Fellowships{{cite web|url=http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/gruberfellowships.htm |title=Gruber Fellowships |publisher=Yale Law School |access-date=2015-03-30}}
- Gruber Project in Global Justice and Women’s Rights