Minority Science Initiative (MSI)
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
Minority Science Initiative
Summer Faculty Fellowship
Program Overview
This program will enable three faculty members to work directly with researchers in the Office of Science at the Department of Energy. The program will link a faculty member with a department scientist whose interests overlap. The TMCF faculty member would bring his/her scientific expertise to the assistance of the DOE scientist, with the mutually beneficial goal of furthering the DOE’s work, while expanding the faculty member’s expertise in the area sufficiently for the professor to be able to compete for funding as an independent investigator. This will be a one-semester assignment on a DOE site for the professors.
Important criteria for selection will be (a) the professor’s potential to establish an independent funded program and (b) his/her stated intention to do so within six months of completing the on-site fellowship. This proposed program has goals (and structure) closely aligned with the Faculty and Student Teams (FaST) program of the Office of Science and shares many of the benefits of that program including those quoted nearly verbatim from the DOE’s Web site:
- Sustainable professional relationships between faculty and Laboratory investigators;
- A supportive approach that reinforces learning through research participation;
- Internet-based technologies to support distance education and research collaboration; and
- An opportunity to add to the diversity of the science and engineering workforce at the DOE National Laboratories.
Click Here to Download the Program RFP
Submission Deadline & Time: March 31, 2011 at 5:00 PM CST
Direct Questions to:
Crystal D. Hadnott
Senior Program Manager
Phone: (713) 574-4922
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Minority Science Initiative
Visiting Professor Scientific Research
Program Overview
This program is designed to accelerate the scientific research and careers of faculty members. Specifically, the Visiting Professors program will accelerate the scientific research careers of faculty who have less than five years post-doctoral training and enable them to engage students in research. TMCF faculty members will serve as visiting research professors for one semester at a laboratory of a senior scientist who is conducting DOE-funded research at one of the nation’s premier research universities. These funds will support the visiting professors’ compensation, travel and living expenses during the summer semester.
Four (4) awards in the amount of $100,000 each will be granted to the proposals that are most aligned with the TMCF’s Minority Science Initiative described in the RFP.
Click Here to Download the Program RFP
Submission Deadline & Time: March 31, 2011 at 5:00 PM CST
Direct Questions to:
Crystal D. Hadnott
Senior Program Manager
Phone: (713) 574-4922
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
