It is expected that the broadening of the research efforts of mathematical sciences faculty will enable them to mentor their students more effectively, bringing new perspectives to their institutions and curricula, and to create research collaborations extending well beyond the fellowship period. The full-time presence of an industrial researcher in an academic setting would allow for new perspectives and expertise to enrich the offerings of the university and to stimulate new directions of research. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is a private organization that makes grants to nonprofit 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 program provides research support to promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. Proposed research should represent an innovative departure in research rather than an extension or expansion of existing programs.
Interdisciplinary research is encouraged.
To be eligible, an applicant should not have completed more than three full years in his or her tenure-track or other comparable independent research appointment on the anniversary date of initial appointment in the year in which application is to be made. Projects are normally funded for a period of two years. The United States Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences program supports fundamental research in the natural sciences and engineering leading to new and improved energy technologies and to understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of energy technologies. The goal of the Geosciences program is to develop a quantitative and predictive understanding of geologic processes related to energy and environmental quality. The emphasis is on the upper levels of the earth s crust and the focus is on geophysics, geomechanics, hydrogeology, and geochemistry of rock-fluid systems and interactions emphasizing processes taking place at the atomic and molecular scale.