HOME ABOUT GRANT ABSTRACTS GRANT PROGRAMS IMPACT FOR GRANTEES CONTACT You are here: Home > Impact Magnetoelectric Sensors Mimicking Enzymes UW Madison Chemists Produce Large, Useful Carbon Rings Project Finds Lean Process Improvements Can Benefit the Bottom Line at Safety Net Hospitals Deep-Time Data Infrastructure Predicting Catalyst Selectivity Blurring the Boundaries of the Animate and Inanimate Atomically Precise Chemical Modification of Graphene Preserving Landmark Building Reaps Dividends Rhythms of the Brain Discovery in Liquids For 65 years, the Foundation has supported the highest levels of academic inquiry and discovery conducted by the finest researchers at the most innovative institutions in the United States. We have seen the real-world impact of these brilliant, though untested, ideas that have now come to fruition, and we are pleased to share those stories here. With funding from the W. M. Keck Foundation, Northeastern University’s Nian Sun and colleagues developed devices that provide a new way of measuring neural activity that is not voltage-dependent. The grant generated an additional, unexpected and very important outcome. Read more... A grant made in 2000 to support a Center for Chemical Genomics to use synthetic organic chemistry and high-throughput screening techniques to study biologically significant molecules continues to pay scientific dividends today. Read more... A demonstration project facilitated by the Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) and funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation has shown that three safety net hospitals in the Los Angeles area successfully used lean process improvement to reduce ED length of stay. Read more... The Denmark laboratory at the University of Illinois has developed a new, computationally-guided workflow that can accelerate the identification and optimization of catalysts. A Keck grant made in 2013 has realized its primary goal of leveraging the power of informatics (machine learning) to guide the optimization of certain types of catalysis in organic synthesis. Read more... With support from the W. M. Keck Foundation, a diverse team of researchers from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, RPI, Rutgers, and the University of Arizona, led by principal investigator, Robert M. Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science, have explored new ways to analyze and visualize the evolution of minerals, fossils, rocks, proteins, and planetary systems through billions of years of Earth history. Read more... With the support of the W. M. Keck Foundation, a team from Brandeis University developed a hierarchy of systematically tunable model systems and materials that capture the essential functionalities found in the living organisms. Read more... Researchers at Northwestern University have explored chemical modification of graphene with the goal of establishing new classes of two-dimensional nanomaterials with tailored chemical, electrical and optical properties. Read more... In 2002, the W. M. Keck Foundation awarded a grant to the Little Tokyo Service Center to renovate the Far East Building and provide a range of services on-site. Read more... What does space have to do with learning? And what does either of them have to do with brain rhythms? This is the subject of a recent experiment funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation, conducted by a team of researchers at UCLA lead by Professor Mayank Mehta. Read more... 2007 grantees at Drexel University have demonstrated that light emitted from a new form of plasma (non thermal corona discharge) in liquid permits analysis of the elemental composition of solutions within nanoseconds from volumes that are 10-100 times smaller than a single mammalian cell. Read more... If you have received a W. M. Keck Foundation grant in the past and have an impact story you would like to share, send a summary of 500 words or less, a few images and your contact information to Impact Stories. W. M. Keck Foundation © 2021. All Rights Reserved. ContactSitemapPrivacy PolicySite by Formative