[Cuga] FY 2011 Early Career Research Program---a message from DOE

[Rachel Harris]

The Office of Science announced today the Funding Opportunity 
Announcement for the SC Early Career Research Program. See the 
announcement below for details. Please forward this message to those 
nuclear scientists who may be interested in applying.
Gene Henry
Director, Physics Research Division
Office of Nuclear Physics
Department of Energy
301-903-3614/301-903-6093
 From http://www.science.doe.gov:

*Office of Science Announces the Early Career Research Program for FY 2011*

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today it 
is accepting proposals for the second year of the DOE Office of Science 
Early Career Research Program to support the research of outstanding 
scientists early in their careers. Up to $15 million in funding will be 
awarded in 2011 to support at least 50 early career researchers for five 
years at U.S. academic institutions and DOE national laboratories.

To be eligible for the competition, a researcher must be an untenured, 
tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. academic 
institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory. The 
applicant must also have received a Ph.D. within the past ten years.

University awards will be at least $150,000 per year for five years and 
are intended to provide research expenses and summer salary over and 
above the awardee’s academic-year faculty salary. For DOE national 
laboratories—where DOE funding typically covers a researcher’s full 
year-round salary—the award will be at least $500,000 per year for five 
years to provide equivalent support.

Early career researchers may apply to one of six Office of Science 
program offices: Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Biological and 
Environmental Research; Basic Energy Sciences; Fusion Energy Sciences; 
High Energy Physics; or Nuclear Physics. Proposed research topics must 
fall within the programmatic priorities of DOE’s Office of Science, 
which are provided in the program announcements. Funding will be 
competitively awarded on the basis of peer review.

Preapplications are mandatory and are due on August 13, 2010, and 
proposals will be due on November 9, 2010. Only those applicants that 
receive notification from DOE encouraging a formal application may 
submit full applications.

This is the second year of an annual competition. Last year’s program 
yielded 47 university awards and 22 national laboratory awards.

Further information can be found at
http://www.science.doe.gov/SC-2/early_career.htm