Important Note Nominations for the Sloan Research Fellowships are processed online through Interfolio.com. Candidates will use the new system to request letters of nomination and confidential letters of support from their senior colleagues, as well as to directly upload their CV, personal research statement, publication history, and scholarly articles. Candidates may begin uploading nomination documents to Interfolio.com immediately and must submit completed nomination packets by September 15, 2012. The Foundation strongly encourages candidates to begin the nomination process well in advance of the September 15 deadline. CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED All nomination materials, including nomination letters and all letters of support, must be submitted online no later than September 15, 2012 .
Important Note Nominations for the Sloan Research Fellowships are processed online through Interfolio.com. Candidates will use the new system to request letters of nomination and confidential letters of support from their senior colleagues, as well as to directly upload their CV, personal research statement, publication history, and scholarly articles. Candidates may begin uploading nomination documents to Interfolio.com immediately and must submit completed nomination packets by September 16, 2013. The Foundation strongly encourages candidates to begin the nomination process well in advance of the September 16 deadline. Candidates must be nominated by a department head or other senior researcher. Submissions unaccompanied by a nomination from a senior researcher are not accepted. More than one candidate from a department may be nominated, but no more than three. Candidates must submit the following materials to be considered for a Sloan Research Fellowship. A letter from a department head or other senior researcher officially nominating the candidate and describing his or her qualifications, initiative, and research ( Note: Nominators must upload their letters of nomination through Interfolio.com. Click here for more information); The candidate's curriculum vitae (including a list of the candidates scientific publications; Two representative articles by the candidate; A brief (one-page) statement by the candidate describing his or her significant scientific work and immediate research plans. Three letters from other researchers (preferably not all from the same institution) written in support of the candidate’s nomination. ( Note: Letter writers must upload their letters of support through Interfolio.com . Click here for more information.) Nominated candidates are normally below the rank of associate professor and do not hold tenure, but these are not strict requirements. In keeping with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's longstanding support of underrepresented minorities in the sciences, the Foundation strongly encourages the nomination of qualified women and minority candidates. Materials are submitted electronically through Interfolio.com To be considered, candidates must submit all required materials, including nomination letters and all letters of support, no later than September 16, 2013. Nominations are reviewed and candidates selected by a selection committee of three distinguished scientists in each eligible field. The committees review more than 700 nominations each year. Fellows are selected on the basis of their independent research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in the scientific community through their contributions to their field.
Candidates must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences (including marine biology), physics, or a related field; Candidates must hold a tenure track (or equivalent) position at a college, university or other degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada; Candidates must normally be no more than six years from completion of their most recent Ph.D. (or equivalent) as of the year of their nomination. (That is, most recent Ph.D. must have been awarded on or after September 2007.)** While Fellows are expected to be at an early stage of their research careers, there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. Candidates in all fields are normally below the rank of associate professor and do not hold tenure, but these are not strict requirements. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation welcomes nominations of all candidates who meet the traditional high standards of this program, and strongly encourages the participation of women and members of underrepresented minority groups. **The Selection Committees may make exceptions for candidates who were awarded their Ph.D. prior to September 2007 if their careers were disrupted due to military service, child-rearing, or a change of field. The Committees may also make exceptions for candidates who are currently serving in their first faculty position and who were appointed to that position on or after September 2011.
The long period required to earn a Ph.D. in much of science, and doubts about the suitability of present graduate training for non-academic jobs suggest that graduate schools might consider a different kind of graduate degree in addition to the Ph.D. In this program, the Foundation made grants that encouraged and promote the development of the Professional Science Master's degree, a two-year degree, heavily oriented toward coursework that provides a sound basis for work outside academia in scientific and technical fields. Active grantmaking in this program ended in 2010. The Foundation is no longer accepting grant proposals in this program. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants History Apply Headlines U.S. Pushes for Scientists, But the Jobs Aren't There Washington Post Links ScienceMasters.Com National Professional Science Masters Association New Report on PSM Enrollment and Growth in 2011
Our program to make municipal governments more responsive to their citizens, now ended, had two components. First, we sought to make citizen-informed and citizen-based government performance measurement and reporting widespread, normal and expected. Second, we sought to accelerate the spread of telephone-based or Web-based technologies that enable citizens to make and track direct service requests to their local governments. Grantmaking in this program has concluded. Though work continues on grants made in previous years, no new grants will be made in 2010 or subsequently. Letters of inquiry for grants through this program are no longer accepted. Performance measurement and reporting are citizen-informed under the following conditions: when the government involves the public in developing measures that citizens care about; when the government involves the public in deciding how performance will be reported; and when the government obtains and takes seriously feedback from the public on performance reports. Performance measurement and reporting are citizen-based when done from outside the government, normally by a non-government organization, preferably with the cooperation of the government. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants Apply
In its Information about Careers in Science and Technology program, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is working to make available detailed, accurate information about the nature of scientific and technical careers. Foundation efforts have led to the launch, in 2003, of the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center , an ever-expanding online repository of information about careers in more than 150 scientific and technical fields. Containing information on education requirements, salaries, networking, precollege ideas, career planning resources and hundred of interviews with career professionals, Career Cornerstone has become an invaluable resource for students, advisors and guidance counselors seeking information about the prospects and challenges of work in science and technology. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants Career Cornerstone Apply
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Industry Studies program was founded in 1990. Its primary mission is to encourage close interaction between academics and industry in order to stimulate new lines of inquiry and broaden the impact of scholarly research. Industry studies researchers focus on topics related to firms and the markets in which they compete. Their research is characterized by a substantial investment of time to learn first-hand about the markets, firms and institutions in the industries they study. This approach requires interaction with industry practitioners and fieldwork, often including observation and/or primary data collection. The Foundation is no longer accepting research proposals in this program; however, industry studies researchers may apply for grants under other Foundation programs, such as Economic Institutions, Behavior and Performance. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants IndustryStudies.org Apply Links What is Industry Studies? Sloan Industry Centers Industry Studies Fellowships Working Papers Awards for Scholarship
Since 1992, the Foundation has made grants totaling nearly $75 million in support of the development of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs). These networks provide remote access to high-quality higher education and training—anytime and anyplace—by providing access to instructors, classmates, syllabi, readings, and other educational resources via the Internet. Approximately five million learners in degree-granting institutions now enroll in at least one ALN online course. ALN blends (ALN combined with traditional classroom teaching) have helped academic institutions meet the needs of local student populations. The program has demonstrated effective applications of online education for such special populations as U.S. Army personnel and students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, for workforce development in specific industries, and for training of low-wage workers. The Sloan Consortium , now a group of about 1500 academic institutions, spearheaded the movement to establish quality online courses and programs. A 2008, three-year, $4 million grant to the Consortium led to a business plan for the Consortium’s transition to a self-sustaining 501(c)(3) professional society. Ongoing projects are focusing on increasing the Sloan Consortium membership base, creating strategic relationships with foreign universities to add an international dimension to the Consortium, increasing the Consortium’s non-membership revenue base, and creating a credible and up-to-date national catalog of online courses and programs. Note: Grantmaking in this program has ended. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants History Apply Links The Sloan Consortium
In this program, the Foundation makes grants that seek to enhance scholarly, business, and public understanding of the challenges facing today’s working families and to identify how the workplace can be restructured to meet employees’ work-family needs, as well as employers’ performance needs. The program makes grants in four broad areas: Basic Research: The Foundation funds innovative, high quality research on the challenges facing today’s working families, as well as the efficacy of business and policy responses to these challenges. It also promotes the early career development of work-family scholars. Faculty Career Flexibility in the Academy: The Foundation partners with the American Council on Education to administer the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility, intended to recognize colleges and universities for their leadership and accomplishments in implementing flexibility for their tenured and tenure-track faculty. Each winner receives award monies in the form of accelerator grants. The National Workplace Flexibility Initiative: This Initiative is a collaborative effort whose overarching goal is to make grants to promote workplace flexibility as a compelling national issue, which will serve as an essential step to reaching our long term goal of making workplace flexibility the standard way of working in the U.S. Aging and Flexible Work: The Foundation funds original, high-quality research on America's aging work force and issues facing older workers. Program Director: Kathleen Christensen Bio Grants History Apply Books & Publications Spotlight View a complete list of the grants in the Workplace, Work Force and Working Families Program more Spotlight more Headlines Why Do So Few Mothers Want to Work Full-Time Slate Links Basic Research The Sloan Centers on Working Families Faculty Career Flexibility in the Academy National Workplace Flexibility Initiative Aging and Flexible Work
The goal of this program is to advance a major international observational program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life. Beginning in 2000, Foundation grants now total about $78 million. Together with more than $550 million from non-Sloan sources around the world, including national governments, international organizations, and maritime industries, Foundation funds have helped fund 14 field projects, build the History of Marine Animal Populations to benchmark current populations, create a network to predict the future of marine animal populations, develop the Ocean Biogeographical Information System (now containing over 22 million records of more than 112,000 marine species), and support the International Scientific Steering Committee and Secretariat, the U.S. National Committee, and an Education and Outreach Network to lift the project’s visibility and engage other nations and organizations and to develop the capacity for further discovery and application of accumulated knowledge once the Census is completed. Thousands of scientists from more than 80 nations are participating. Foundation support will culminate with the release of the first ever Census of Marine Life in October, 2010. Program Director: Gail M. Pesyna Bio Grants Visit the Census Apply Spotlight Read the highlights report of the first Census of Marine Life more Links Ocean Biogeographical Information System National Geographic Map of CoML Findings Watch Videos of the Census Events in London
