An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer (31 percent) see negative effects in their own communities New York, NY, ...

In hopes of persuading students to stay, community elders in Roscoe, Texas, have banded together to invest in school-to-career pipelines that create jobs near home. (Credit: Carnegie Corporation of ...

Cesiah Gonzalez had thought about joining the Marines, but in her sophomore year of high school in Albuquerque, she tried a paid internship as a medical assistant in a family health clinic. She ...

Luciana Borio was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a family of Sicilian ancestry. She earned her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1996.

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides support for high-caliber scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. The anticipated result of each fellowship is the publication of a book or major ...

Chemist Ahmed Zewail’s biggest contribution to science was his pioneering work on femtochemistry, detecting transitional states during chemical reactions that happen fast enough to be measured by ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. After a ...

Dumarsais Simeus is an entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for Simeus Foods International, one of the largest black-owned food-product concerns in the U.S. Starting his career as an electrical ...

Cristeta Comerford is the White House's executive chef, the first ethnic minority to serve in that position. She arrived at the White House as an assistant chef during the Clinton Administration, but ...

Political polarization has become a defining feature of American national politics. But is the same true for local government? A new survey, conducted by the nonprofit organization CivicPulse and ...

Leana Wen’s family immigrated to the United States when she was just seven years old. Her father was a dissident, and the family was granted political asylum following the crackdown in Tiananmen ...