Deadline: November 15th 2023 | Principal Investigator Development In Sustainability Grant
| Title: | Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant |
| Organisation: | ACS Campaign for a Sustainable Future |
| Fund/Benefit: |
$50,000 |
| Deadline: | November 15th 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | All countries |
The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations are difficulties that must be addressed, and the ACS Campaign for a Sustainable Future seeks to push chemistry solutions to do so. This extensive project will have a long-term effect on how we carry out research, how we instruct chemistry, and how we cooperate internationally. The effort kicks off with a campaign to completely involve the chemistry community in finding solutions to sustainability’s biggest problems, reinventing how we teach and practise chemistry with a sustainability focus, and raising awareness among the general public about chemistry’s role in a sustainable future. One of the Campaign’s main initiatives is a grant programme, which aims to offer early- and mid-career faculty members interested in building a research and teaching portfolio that directly supports the creation of transformative chemistries that address Sustainable Development Goals catalytic funding.
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Purpose
- With the aim of establishing strong collaborations across industry-academia or across disciplines and utilising the mentorship of a faculty member different from their prior mentors, this award will fund early or mid-career investigators (Associate+) to spend 6-12 months in the laboratory of a private company, a national laboratory, or an academic laboratory in a different institution.
Criteria for Eligibility and Applicant
Candidates are limited to submitting a total of two applications, one per cycle.
Those interested must:
- hold a present professor position at a Ph.D.-granting university in the United States.
- Have a sabbatical scheduled (albeit not necessarily authorised) that will begin in the following 12 to 18 months.
- Have found opportunities for a sabbatical position in a company, national lab, or institution other than your own where you can gain knowledge and experience in a new research area that will enable you to pursue interdisciplinary research and teaching closely related to green and sustainable chemistry.
In order to accept the prize, candidates must promise to: - Attend a session on green chemistry for teachers.
teach at least one chemistry course that specifically incorporates green chemistry in their faculty position, or one undergraduate or graduate course on sustainability and green chemistry.
Funding Standards
- The Award Committee assigns proposals and funding recommendations relative scores based on the following factors (in order of importance):
- The PI’s proposed research’s applicability to environmentally friendly and sustainable chemistry.
novelty, overall calibre, importance, and scientific worth of the planned research, especially the degree to which it would advance fundamental understanding and/or inspire further investigation.
Research background of the candidate in green and sustainable chemistry applications.
evidence of commitment and enthusiasm for teaching, with a focus on environmentally friendly and sustainable chemistry.
Budgetary Factors
- Budgeted costs for travel, lodging, and laboratory supplies/chemicals must be justified in the context of the project and the principal investigator’s long-term career goals. Overhead expenses, such as secretarial and/or administrative salaries, cannot be billed. Laboratory assistants, independent contractors, consultants, or visiting faculty cannot be supported using grant money.
Instructions for Applicants
It is strongly advised that you gather this data in a document that you can easily copy and paste into the web form since the majority of your application will be entered directly into one. What you’ll need is as follows:
- Maximum of 250 characters for the research proposal’s title
- Abstract: The abstract must be no longer than 250 words.
- Plans for teaching sustainability: Describe your ideas for teaching courses that involve or concentrate on some or all aspects of green and sustainable chemistry in a 200-word statement.
- Sustainability Impact: Write a 200-word summary of how your study will affect the UN Sustainable Development Goals and a basic set of green chemical tools.
- Technical Research Proposal: A two-page research statement outlining your greatest accomplishments to date, your sabbatical research plan, and a statement outlining how your sabbatical research and training will affect your capacity to pursue new areas of research that advance green and sustainable chemistry. It is a single PDF file that needs to be uploaded with your application.
- The text body is double-spaced, in 12-point font (Times Roman, Arial, or Courier), with 1-inch margins, and the pages are numbered in the footer.
- CV: Please upload your CV as a single PDF file as part of your application.
For more information, visit ACS Grant.
