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PECASE (Presidential Early CareerAward for Scientists and Engineers) Recipients
CAREER Workshop Participant Chekesha Liddell is 2006 PECASE Recipient
see NSF Press Release here
CAREER Workshop Participants Eugene Billiot and Tracy Johnson are 2005 PECASE Recipients
 click here to view NSF Press Release

CAREER

PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO INCREASE THE PARTICIPATION AND COMPETITIVENESS OF JUNIOR FACULTY AT MINORITY INSTITUTIONS AND MINORITY JUNIOR FACULTY AT NON-MINORITY INSTITUTIONS IN THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION'S FACULTY EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT (CAREER) PROGRAM


2006 PECASE awardee Chekesha Liddell of
Cornell University.  Her work focuses on
engineering strong light-matter interactions.

Credit: Chekesha Liddell


2005 PECASE awardee Eugene Billiot
of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
(center) and two students work on methods
for separating pharmaceuticals according
to their structural "handedness."

Credit: Jeff Janko and NSF

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network has received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide technical assistance to broaden participation in NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. QEM will conduct a two-day workshop focused on the FY 2009 CAREER Program for eligible science and engineering junior faculty at minority-serving institutions and for eligible underrepresented minority faculty at non-minority-serving institutions who are interested in submitting proposals. The workshop will be held on Friday and Saturday, February 27-28, 2009 at the Embassy Suites Hotel New Orleans Convention Center, 315 Julia Street, in New Orleans, LA (Tel: 504/525-1993).

Through the CAREER Program, NSF is seeking to sustain and strengthen the Nation’s science, mathematics, and engineering capabilities and to promote the use of those capabilities in service to society. In particular, CAREER supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.

To be eligible to submit a proposal to the CAREER Program, a faculty member must: (1) hold a doctoral degree in a field of science or engineering supported by NSF; (2) be untenured but on the tenure track as an assistant professor at her/his institution by October 1, 2009; (3) have not previously received a CAREER award; and (4) have not competed more than two times in the NSF CAREER Program. Applicants must be actively engaged in research and teaching. Depending on the level of interest and of funds available, QEM may be able to support the participation (travel, meals, and lodging) of up to two eligible faculty from an institution. While we are unable to support previous participants in QEM CAREER workshops, such individuals as well as additional eligible faculty are welcome to attend at their or their institution’s expense.

The minimum CAREER award, including indirect costs, will total $400,000 over a five-year period, except in the case of the Biological Sciences where the minimum request must be for $500,000 over a five-year period (approximately $100,000/year). Cost-sharing is not required or allowed.

The New Orleans workshop will be designed to assist eligible faculty in further developing their proposal ideas prior to the CAREER Program’s July 2009 proposal deadlines (dates in July vary by NSF Directorate). The latest Program guidelines (NSF 08-557) can be downloaded at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08557

Please contact Shirley McBay (smmcbay1@qem.org), Project Director  or  Althea Burns (aburns@qem.org) if additional information is needed. Either also can be reached by telephone at 202/659-1818.

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FYI – Previous QEM/NSF CAREER workshops took place May 30-21, 2008 in Washington, DC;  February 9-10, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV;   February 10-11, 2006 in Memphis, TN;  and February 4-5, 2005 in Washington, DC.

  View May 2008 Washington, DC Workshop AGENDA/Presentations
  See February 2007 Las Vegas Workshop AGENDA/Presentations
View February 2006 Memphis Workshop Agenda/Presentations    
See February 2005 Washington, DC  Workshop Agenda/Presentations

Ball  QEM FY 2009 CAREER PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION WORKSHOP  Ball
February 27-28, 2009   •   Embassy Suites Hotel New Orleans Convention Center,   New Orleans, LA

AGENDA

  Agenda  QEM FY 2008 CAREER WORKSHOP  •  May 30–31, 2008  •  Washington, DCFINAL AGENDA