James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Awards in Complex Systems Science

Submitted by mhkelley on February 23, 2012 - 5:57pm.
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Deadline: 
March 14, 2012
URL: 
http://www.jsmf.org/apply/scholar-cs/
Overview: 

The JSMF Scholar Awards program derives from and is consistent with JSMF’s commitment to supporting high quality research and scholarship leading to the generation of new knowledge and its responsible application. The JSMF Scholar Awards are designed to support research with a high probability of generating new knowledge and insights.

Eligibility: 

Once you have received a James S. McDonnell Scholar Award, you are not eligible to receive another Scholar Award. Applicants submitting to the 2012 Scholar Awards-CS will not be eligible to submit an application to future Scholar-CS competitions until 2015.

Eligible Scholar Award principal investigators must have completed all doctoral, postdoctoral, or fellowship training and hold an independent research position. James S. McDonnell Scholar Awards are not intended to serve primarily as career development awards -- the intent is to allow creative researchers to pursue important research. It is anticipated that successful Scholar-Award applications will have principal investigators between 5 and 15 years post Ph.D.

Award: 
Scholar Awards in Complex System Science provide largely unrestricted funding over a sufficient time period ($450,000 paid in three $150,000 payments); funds expendable in no less than 3 and no more than 6 years) to allow investigators to pursue and develop new directions to their research programs. JSMF is unlikely to award more than 8 Scholar Awards each year.
Full RFP text: 

The JSMF Scholar Awards program derives from and is consistent with JSMF’s commitment to supporting high quality research and scholarship leading to the generation of new knowledge and its responsible application. The JSMF Scholar Awards are designed to support research with a high probability of generating new knowledge and insights.

The Complex Systems program supports scholarship and research directed toward the development of theoretical and mathematical tools that can be applied to the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address issues in fields such as biology, biodiversity, climate, demography, epidemiology, technological change, economic development, governance, or computation.

NU Contact
Contact name: 
Jen Lawrence
Contact email: 
j-lawrence@northwestern.edu
Contact phone: 
847-491-7435
Rolling Deadlines: 
No
More info: 

Final funding decisions will be announced in late June 2012.

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