| July 10, 2008
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation's
Young Investigators Program
Internal Deadline for preproposals: Wednesday, August
27, 2008
We are pleased to announce that the University
of Minnesota may submit two applications for the Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation's Young Investigators Program.
The 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. Grants are normally
in the range of $300,000 and funded over three years.
Eligibility:
- Open to persons with tenure-track appointments that conduct
fundamental research in the chemical and life sciences.
- Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United
States. Persons who have applied for permanent residency
but have not received their government documentation by the time
of application are not eligible.
- Applicant should not have completed more than three full years
in his or her tenure-track or other comparable independent research
appointment.
- No individual may apply for a Beckman Young Investigator award
more than three times.
Internal Guidelines: The
University may nominate up to two candidates. Nomination
materials should
include:
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A proposal (4 pages
maximum). The description should make clear the rationale
for the proposed work, its potential importance, the approach
to be taken, progress to date and the potential significant outcomes.
-
Curriculum Vitae (maximum
2 pages)
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Please solicit three
letters of reference. At least one of these three should be
someone who was not your Ph.D. or postdoctoral research mentor,
but who can provide a substantive evaluation of your proposal.
Also, at least one of the letters of recommendation will have
to come from an expert in the field of the proposal with whom
the applicant has no association (nor a mentor), and who is
at an institution where the applicant has never been (including,
especially, the applicant's current position.)
Letters may be addressed to the Beckman
Foundation Young Investigator's Program Selection Committee,
University of Minnesota- Graduate School/Faculty Grants Office,
420 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
All letters must be sent directly to the Graduate School via
post (address above), e-mail (facgrant@umn.edu)
or facsimile (612-626-7431). If
you are selected as a University of Minnesota candidate, each
of your referees must provide a final letter for submission
to the sponsoring agency by their deadline of October 1,
2008.
All materials must be received by
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, and may be submitted
electronically to facgrant@umn.edu.
Full program information
can be found at: http://www.beckman-foundation.com/byi.html
Please contact the Faculty Grants Office at 612-625-2356 or facgrant@umn.edu
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with questions. The internal selection process should be completed
by mid-September. The agency deadline is Wednesday, October
1, 2008.
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