Office of Research

Sloan Research Fellowship 2020

Limited Submissions

I am writing to urge you to consider nominating your promising early career faculty for a Sloan Research Fellowship.  In order to be considered for a Sloan Research Fellowship, a candidate must have a letter of nomination from a department head or other senior researcher.

 

Our UW faculty have a high success rate in obtaining Sloan Fellowships and when we compare ourselves to our peer institutions, it is clear that there is room for even greater numbers of UW faculty to obtain Fellowships. But we need to nominate more candidates.

 

Sloan Fellowships are open to scholars in eight scientific and technical fields—chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics

 

Faculty in tenure-track positions who are not yet tenured (as of September 16, 2019) and who have a regular teaching obligation are eligible to apply.

 

Awards are $75,000 over two years in flexible research funds.  The award dollar amount is not large, but the benefits of being named a Sloan Research Fellow can be sizable. Sloan Research Fellowships provide an early signal of Fellows’ promise and potential, and may help them secure subsequent awards. UW Sloan Research Fellows have won other larger early career awards, including those from Pew, Searle, Packard, and Moore. UW Sloan Research Fellows also have won Keck awards for path-breaking work in their fields.

 

To learn more about Sloan Research Fellowships, visit https://sloan.org/fellowships . Nominations for 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships open July 15, 2019 and close September 16, 2019.

 

Please note that more than one candidate from a department may be nominated, but no more than three.

 

Please email to research@uw.edu the names of faculty you plan to nominate, and we will invite them to a workshop on maximizing the application components, including how to make the most of the one-page research statement. The workshop will be helpd Tuesday July 15, 2019, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Gerberding Hall, room 142.

 

Sincerely,

Caroline (Carrie) Harwood

Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Professor of Microbiology

Associate Vice-Provost for Research

Chair, Limited Submissions Review Committee

Application Instructions

Please email to research@uw.edu the names of faculty you plan to nominate, and we will invite them to a workshop on maximizing the application components, including how to make the most of the one-page research statement. The workshop will be helpd Tuesday July 15, 2019, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Gerberding Hall, room 142.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2020

Deadlines
09/16/2019 UW Internal Deadline Closed
09/16/2019 OSP Deadline
09/16/2019 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Alfred P Sloan Foundation

Maximum Number of Applications

99 (not a limited submission)

Eligible groups
  • All campus

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.