The Path to Pasadena

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How can we best leverage our independence and resources?

What do we do better than anybody else?

What questions can we pursue that others are overlooking?

Setting Up A Second Century of Excellence

In 2020, Carnegie Science decided to bring together its developmental biology, ecology, and plant science research efforts into a unified, interdisciplinary division where our experts will study the natural world at every scale, from the molecular to the global.

As we look to the future, our Carnegie Science community continues to ask fundamental questions about our scientific impact and the role we play in research and discovery.

This onging assessment informs strategies that will enable us to achieve our best science, now and going forward. While we are fortunate that our endowment and the generous support of our donors provide us with an enviable level of independence, forefront science increasingly requires major investment.

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A Partner in Pasadena

Understanding that the future of the scientific enterprise is interdisciplinary and collaborative, we have formed a new alliance with Caltech, which will open many opportunities for breakthrough research between our two institutions. This partnership builds on our shared history in astronomy and astrophysics and will enable us to make a decisive investment in understanding community resilience across species by consolidating our biology research into a single location. To meet this grand challenge, we will be leaving our campuses in Baltimore and Palo Alto and unifying our biology research in Pasadena on the Caltech campus.

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