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EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATORS AT UNM

OVERVIEW

 

Early career investigator is a term used by a number of federal and non-federal sponsors to define individual applicants who meet one or more of these qualifications depending on the requirements of the sponsor:

  • Pre-tenured academic faculty
  • Academic or non-tenure track research faculty within their first 5-10 years postdoctoral career

In order to support the burgeoning careers of early investigators, a number of sponsors make special awards available just to this group of individual applicants.

The Faculty Research Development Office provides direct support to early career investigators interested in submitting proposals to these types of solicitations. In addition to the proposal support we provide to all UNM main campus faculty and staff, we also offer information relevant to strategies for success as an early career investigator, relevant funding opportunities from both federal and non-federal sponsors, early career investigator specific workshops and other resources, and a news archive highlighting the success of early career investigators on campus.

         Prof. Manjavacas Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award Artistic view of the angular momentum transfer along a chain of rotating nanoparticles mediated by the fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. Credit: Manjavacas Lab 2020 Professor Alejandro Manjavacas has been awarded a five-year NSF...
    Dr. Victor Acosta Awarded NSF CAREER Award With support from the Chemical Measurement and Imaging Program in the Division of Chemistry, and co-funding from the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Trans...
    UNM researcher wins NSF CAREER Award to apply more predictability to shape-shifting objects What could a wrinkled overcoat, a bad hair day and the movement of the tongue all have in common? The answer: A phenomenon called “deformation,” which is the change in the shape of any object. Yin Yang, an assistant professor in The Univers...
    UNM's Estrada honored at SC19 Estrada named Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner UNM associate professor of Computer Science Trilce Estrada was recently honored as the 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award winner at th...
    UNM CS Assistant Professor Jedidiah McClurg Awarded NSF CRII Grant Billions of people use web-based services on a daily basis for a variety of tasks, such as communication, social networking, and navigation. These services rely on correct and efficient functioning of complex networked systems, which are prone to fai...