New partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry
We are delighted to share the news that the Chemists' Community Fund (the benevolent fund of the Royal Society of Chemistry) has launched a three-year partnership of £120,000 per year to support the work of the Cara Fellowship Programme. The funds will be targeted on helping chemists who are at risk, allowing them to continue their important work, to live, study and research safely in the UK, with their families, and to play their part in the global scientific community.
Cara has long-standing connections with the world of chemistry. Ernest Rutherford, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, was chosen in 1933 as the first President of the Academic Assistance Council (AAC), which is now Cara. One of the 41 signatories of our Founding Statement was Charles Stanley Gibson, Honorary Secretary of the Chemical Society (now the Royal Society of Chemistry) 1924-33, and Vice-President 1933-36 and 1942-45. Among the sixteen Nobel Prize winners among our Fellows from the 1930s was Max Perutz (shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1962). And our Founding Statement was launched from 'the rooms of the Royal Society' in Burlington House, where the RSC is now based.
For more information on the new partnership, please click on the link here.