Beckman Young Investigator Award

We have had several faculty members express interest in applying for this
year's Beckman Young Investigator Award in chemistry and the life sciences
(broadly interpreted- a few previous awardees have been in engineering
depts also.). This is a limited submission opportunity- ODU can submit 2
proposals per year. Please let me know by 5 pm, July 21 if you would like
to apply. This will give us time to do an internal competition, if
necessary.

Best regards, Kate

A synopsis of the program is below.

Further information can be found at:
http://www.beckman-foundation.com/byi.html

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to non-profit research
institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences,
broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods,
instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in
science. The Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) Program is intended to
provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the
early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.

The BYI program is open to persons with tenure-track appointments in
academic and non-profit institutions that conduct fundamental
research in the chemical and life sciences. No more than two (2)
candidates may apply from any one institution. If the foundation
receives more than two applications from any one institution, only
the first two received shall be considered for review. Institutions
that submit 'bulk' of two (2) or more applications will be rejected
in their entirety.

Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States
at the time of application. Documentation of U.S. citizenship (copy
of birth certificate or passport) or permanent residency status MUST
BE PROVIDED with the application. Persons who have applied for
permanent residency but have not received their government
documentation by the time of application are not eligible.

To be eligible, an applicant should not have completed more than three
full years in his or her tenure-track or other comparable independent
research appointment. Regardless of eligibility under this rule, no
individual may apply for a Beckman Young Investigator award more than
three times.

Projects should show promise for contributing to significant advances in
the research fields of interest to the Foundation. They should
represent innovative departures in research rather than extensions or
expansions of existing programs. Proposed research that cuts across
traditional boundaries of scientific disciplines is encouraged.

Projects are normally funded for a period of three years. Grants are
normally in the range of $300,000 over the term of the project. The
Foundation does not provide for overhead or for indirect costs.

Kate P. Ferguson, M.S., Ed.D.
Director of Research Development
4111 Monarch Way, Suite 203
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
phone: (757) 683-3707
fax: (757) 683-5902