National Science Foundation CAREER Award

The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions.[1][2] The awards, presented once each year, include a federal grant for research and education activities for five consecutive years.[3]

The winners of this prestigious award are considered the best and brightest talent in the United States. Many of the winners later became world-famous scientists and won the Nobel Prize. For example, Carolyn Bertozzi, winner of this award in 1997, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022.[4]

History

The Presidential Young Investigators (PYI) program was initiated in 1983, and remained active until the NSF New Young Investigators (NYI) program replaced it in 1992. Both programs were research-oriented and funded an average of 200 faculty members per year. Another, more selective program began in 1992, when the White House asked NSF to institute the Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) program. It awarded young faculty up to $100,000 per year for five years, with no matching-fund option, and put more emphasis on education and outreach. In 1994, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program was approved by NSF's National Science Board, and the first awards were presented in FY 1995. Several existing NSF programs and their objectives were merged into CAREER.[5]

In 1996, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) program was instituted, replacing the PFF Awards. NSF PECASE recipients receive no additional funding.[6] Beginning in FY 1997, the NSF selected nominees from among the "most meritorious first-year CAREER awardees supported by the CAREER program." The same year, the CAREER program announcement termed CAREER "a premier program."[5]

References
  1. "Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  2. "SO YOU WANT TO WIN A CAREER AWARD". www4.ncsu.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  3. "Support for NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award Proposal Preparation | STEM Initiatives". steminitiatives.osu.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  4. "NSF congratulates laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry". News. National Science Foundation. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  5. "Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program" (PDF). National Science Foundation. Retrieved 1 January 2016. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program for Submission in Years 2022 - 2026" (PDF). National Science Foundation. National Science Foundation. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
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