Schmidt Science Polymaths
Supports recently tenured faculty with fellowships that enable bold cross-domain research pivots and sustained interdisciplinary leadership.
The Schmidt Science Polymaths award supports recently-tenured faculty who seek to make substantive research pivots into new scientific domains. Schmidt Sciences positions the program as enabling adventurous leaps across disciplines for mid-career researchers with proven cross-field track records. Awards total $500,000 per year for up to five years — a maximum of $2,500,000 per awardee — paid throu…
Adventurous research pivots by recently-tenured faculty into new domains across mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, or engineering, funded at $500K per year for up to five years.
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