{"id":2148,"date":"2017-01-27T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:15:25","slug":"national-science-foundation-early-career-awards-are-open-for-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/2017\/01\/27\/national-science-foundation-early-career-awards-are-open-for-application\/","title":{"rendered":"National Science Foundation Early Career Awards are open for application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation has opened applications for the Faculty Early Career Development Program (PECASE), selecting up to 450 applicants from across the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each year NSF selects nominees for the PECASE from among the most meritorious recent \u201cCAREER\u201d awardees. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from eligible early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations, especially women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Selection for this award is based on two important criteria:<\/p>\n<p>1) Innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology that is relevant to the mission of NSF, and,<\/p>\n<p>2) Community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education, or community outreach.<\/p>\n<p>The anticipated total funding amount is estimated around $222,000,000 and there are no limitations on the number of applications from each organization.<\/p>\n<p>This program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation&#8217;s most prestigious awards for faculty members beginning their independent careers.<\/p>\n<p>The intent of the program is to provide stable support at a sufficient level and duration to enable awardees to develop careers not only as outstanding researchers but also as educators demonstrating commitment to teaching, learning, and dissemination of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:\u00a0<\/strong>Inclusion of voluntary committed cost sharing is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Proposal <\/strong><strong>Deadline<\/strong><strong>s <\/strong>(due by 5 p.m. submitter&#8217;s local time):<\/p>\n<p>July 19, 2017 for BIO, CISE, EHR<\/p>\n<p>July 20, 2017 for ENG<\/p>\n<p>July 21, 2017 for GEO, MPS, SBE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Estimated Total Program Funding:<\/strong>\u00a0$222,000,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Ceiling:<\/strong>\u00a0Not specified<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to Additional Information:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/pubs\/2017\/nsf17537\/nsf17537.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&amp;WT.mc_ev=click\">https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/pubs\/2017\/nsf17537\/nsf17537.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&amp;WT.mc_ev=click<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>General inquiries regarding this program should be made to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Division CAREER contacts listed on the CAREER web page at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/crssprgm\/career\/contacts.jsp\">http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/crssprgm\/career\/contacts.jsp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Henry A. Warchall, telephone: (703) 292-4861, email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hwarchal@nsf.gov\">hwarchal@nsf.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>See Contacts listing, NSF, telephone: (703) 292-5111, email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@nsf.gov\">info@nsf.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation has opened applications for the Faculty Early Career Development Program (PECASE), selecting up to 450 applicants from across the nation. Background: Each year NSF selects nominees for the PECASE from among the most meritorious recent \u201cCAREER\u201d awardees. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from eligible early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,28,34,5,38],"tags":[101,79,171,59],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-mathematics","category-stem","category-technology","tag-funding","tag-grants","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/fundingopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}