Office of Research
Foundation Funding for Early Career Faculty
Note: this is not a limited submission opportunity, but a workshop offered by UW:
Foundation Funding for Early Career Faculty
A workshop offered by
The Office of Research
&
Corporate and Foundation Relations
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Gerberding Hall 142
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Here’s what we will cover:
- The focus of early career awards, how they differ from other funding opportunities and from each other
- Funding opportunities designed to help faculty launch their careers
- Packard Fellowships (science and engineering)
- Sloan Fellowships (chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology,
computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field)
- Rita Allen Foundation Scholars (biomedical sciences)
- Mallinckrodt Scholar Program (biomedical sciences)
- Pew Scholars Program (biomedical sciences)
- Searle Scholars program (biomedical sciences and chemistry)
- Beckman Young Investigators (chemical and life sciences)
- Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship (humanities)
- Blavatnik (life sciences, physical sciences & engineering, chemistry)
- Maximizing the role of each element
- What your research statement needs to accomplish
- What other application components need to accomplish
- Choosing letter writers
- The submission process
- Review processes and criteria – varied audiences
- How the UW’s limited submission opportunity (LSO) works uw.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions
- Where to learn more and get support/other opportunities
Please RSVP your plans to attend to: research@uw.edu
Note: The workshop will be webcast live. Instructions to connect to the webcast will be emailed out.
Presenters:
Caroline Harwood, Ph.D. Kim Johnson-Bogart, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Senior Director, Foundation Relations
Associate Vice Provost for Research Corporate and Foundation Relations
Inquiries and Contact Information
Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.