Faculty Early Career Development Program
Funds NSF's most prestigious early-career award — at least $400,000 for a research programme built together with a teaching plan.
CAREER runs across the whole of NSF and funds early-career faculty who could become the people their field looks to. What it pays for is a research programme, but the brief is deliberately double: NSF asks for activities that build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research, so the teaching side is part of the proposal rather than an appendix to it.
The money …
An early-career faculty member's research programme in any field NSF supports, proposed together with an education plan that integrates the two. The specific subject is set by the disciplinary programme that reviews the proposal.
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