William T. Grant Scholars Program 2025

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.

Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation’s focus areas:

1. Reducing inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins, and
2. Improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States.

Application Instructions

Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 7/1/2025, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/20/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee. Note: there is also a 6/11/25 sponsor deadline for mentor and reference letters.