Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Sloan Spotlight

Morgan Spector and Geneva Carr star in Incognito, a new play by Nick Payne that uses the true story of the Princeton pathologist who stole Einstein's brain to explore the relationship between our brains and our innermost selves. Praised by the New York Times as a "multilayered work [that] remains in your mind, challenging our most fundamental notions of autonomous selfhood," Incognito plays through June 26th at the Manhattan Theatre Club. more...

About the Foundation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution based in New York City.

Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance. more...

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