Michelson Found Animals celebrates their 15 years of work in the animal welfare space and they are just getting started for more. Michelson Found Animals is celebrating 15-years of saving pets and enriching lives. Since 2005, Michelson Found Animals...
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Researchers Develop New Way to Watch Pancreatic Cells Package Insulin
A team of scientists have for the first time looked at a pancreatic cell as it was packaging insulin and responding to a drug treatment. A team of scientists—led by researchers at the Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent...
Michelson Found Animals Receives a Service Enterprise Certification
Michelson Found Animals has received a Service Enterprise certification from Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. Michelson Found Animals (MFA) is dedicated to being a driving force behind improvements for animal...
Epic Sciences and USC Michelson Center Partner to Improve Cancer Care
Epic Sciences and Peter Kuhn's CTC Technology Collaboration Epic Sciences, Inc. has entered into an exclusive license and collaboration agreement with Peter Kuhn, Ph.D., and the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. Dr. Kuhn is a founding member of...
Michelson Found Animals Announces New CEO
Brett Yates steps into the role following the departure of longtime executive director Aimee Gilbreath who recently became president of PetSmart Charities. Brett Yates has been named CEO of the Michelson Found Animals (MFA). He has been MFA’s chief...
Free Textbooks: A Necessary and Possible Transformation in Higher Education
Higher Ed students can benefit from open educational resources. More than $3 billion worth of financial aid in the U.S. is spent on course materials. That doesn’t need to be the case. By leveraging open educational resources and free textbook degree...
It’s Time to be Anti-Racist: Restoring Affirmative Action to Counter Systemic Racism
"It is no longer sufficient to be non-racist; now it is time for everyone to be anti-racist.” - Dr. Gary Michelson “I now realize that expecting people to compete when deprived of an even playing field from the beginning is discriminatory. It is no longer...
UCI LIFTED, a Spark Grantee, Extending Bachelor’s Degrees to Incarcerated Students
The University of California, Irvine’s new Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees (LIFTED) program extends the opportunity to earn a UC bachelor’s degree to a new demographic of students: currently incarcerated individuals. Funded in...
Over 600 Pets & Their Families Served at MFA’s Third Pet Wellness Day
With two of every three families owning a pet and considering a pet an important part of their family, pet food insecurity has become a growing challenge. October 17, 2020 marked the third Pet Wellness Day, where Michelson Found Animals partnered with Anthony...
2020 Michelson 20MM Foundation Smart Justice Spark Grantees
The Justice Spark awardees will address faculty turnover in prison-based higher education programs, make University of California bachelor's degrees available to incarcerated individuals, and further Fair Chance Hiring. In October 2020, the Michelson...
Universities Should Prioritize IP Education as Vigorously as STEM
Dr. Gary K. Michelson encourages universities to prioritize intellectual property (IP) education in the same way they prioritize science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). As post-secondary institutions continue to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Leap Awards $90,000 to Diverse Pet Care Startups
15 promising pet care startups collectively receive $90,000 in grant funding after graduating from the Leap Venture Academy Bootcamp. Leap Venture Academy, a pet startup accelerator launched by Michelson Found Animal Foundation and Kinship (a division of Mars...