Meet The Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge Finalists | Popular Science

Meet The Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge Finalists | Popular Science: The winning projects include everything from a fusion propulsion research chamber and a handheld cancer scanner to a biological lightbulb and a better sewing needle. We even accepted a scientifically informed peace movement against mean people (because who likes mean people?).

Join the Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge And Do Something Amazing

Join the Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge And Do Something Amazing: #CrowdGrant is a brand-new partnership with RocketHub—a premiere crowdfunding platform—that's now accepting the best and brightest project proposals in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and other future-shaping fields.

Fund a uStartup

Fund a uStartup: uStartups is a special crowdfunding donation platform created to promote the maturation of university science and engineering projects to the point where they have real world impacts. uStartups is a crowdfunding platform so that donors can provide this crucial research “maturation” funding to faculty and student researchers so that they can continue their science and technology-based university inventions once the federal funding dries up. The funding provided by uStartups donors is essential to help university researchers move their discoveries into concrete, real life products and services for patients and users around the world.

A Kickstarter for Academic Research

A Kickstarter for Academic Research: The website was created in 2008 by Borya Shakhnovich, at the time an assistant professor in Bioinformatics at Boston University. Shakhnovich hopes that reducing funding time from 18 months (under a typical NIH grant review process) to about 30 days, which is typical for crowd-sourced funding, will attract the interest of NGOs and larger organizations who could use the platform to have research proposals quickly and cheaply vetted.

Crowdfunding for Research Dollars: A Cure for Science’s Ills? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

Crowdfunding for Research Dollars: A Cure for Science’s Ills? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network: As I mentioned earlier, I am one of the co-organizers of the #SciFund Challenge, a volunteer-run science crowdfunding organization. We train scientists how to run crowdfunding projects, provide community, and also provide some publicity once projects launch. We currently have 75 amazing science crowdfunding projects that are running for the month of May. You can find the projects listed by category at scifundchallenge.org or directly at scifund.rockethub.com.