Opportunity Kick-off: NSF Mid-Career Advancement

November 23, 2020

Topic: NSF Mid-Career Advancement Opportunity Kick-Off

Presenters: Faye Farmer, Executive Director, Research Development
Wendy Barnard, Director, College Research and Evaluation Services Team

Solicitation link: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21516/nsf21516.htm?org=NSF

Program summary:
An academic career often does not provide the uninterrupted stretches of time necessary for acquiring and building new skills to enhance and advance one's research program. Mid-career scientists in particular are at a critical career stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research.

The MCA offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the Associate Professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships, typically at an institution other than their home institution. Projects that envision new insights on existing problems or identify new but related problems previously inaccessible without new methodology or expertise from other fields are encouraged.

Date: November, 23, 2020
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: online only