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NSF CAREER Award Roundtable

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Roundtable Overview

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the foundation’s most prestigious award for pre-tenure faculty. CAREER awards provide up to five years of funding to enable faculty to develop careers as outstanding teacher-scholars. To help UNL applicants develop competitive applications to the CAREER program, the Office of Research will host a roundtable discussion featuring past award recipients and experts on proposal development, budget development, and program evaluation. They will answer your questions and offer advice on topics ranging from integrating research and education activities to proposal development and program evaluation.

  • Mindy Anderson-Knott is assistant director of the Survey, Statistics, and Psychometrics (SSP) Core Facility. She has been involved in more than 50 evaluation projects while working both at UNL and at The Pennsylvania State University, including multiple National Science Foundation grant projects.
  • Myra Cohen, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UNL, received a CAREER award in 2008 to develop algorithms to better test highly configurable software systems, such as Web browsers and databases. She came to UNL after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2004.
  • Axel Enders, assistant professor of physics at UNL, was awarded a CAREER grant in 2008 to study advanced magnetic nanostructures, which could be used in computer hard drives and other high-density data storage devices. He joined the UNL faculty in 2007 from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Germany.
  • Mustafa Gursoy, assistant professor of electrical engineering at UNL, received a CAREER award in 2006 for his work related to establishing the fundamental performance limits of wireless communications when channel conditions are imperfectly known and developing energy-efficient communication techniques. He came to UNL in 2004 after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
  • Office of Research Staff will discuss the resources available to faculty from the Offices of Proposal Development and Sponsored Programs. These resources include budget review and development assistance, proposal review, and external review coordination.

NSF CAREER Award Overview

To sustain and strengthen the nation’s science, mathematics, and engineering capabilities and to promote the use of those capabilities in service to society, NSF supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. NSF established the CAREER program in recognition of the critical roles played by faculty members in integrating research and education and in fostering the natural connections between the processes of learning and discovery.

Click here for more information about the CAREER Award program.

The CAREER Roundtable will be held on Thursday, January 29, from 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. The roundtable will be in the Nebraska Union (the room will be posted) and will be followed by a free lunch to allow time for interaction with roundtable speakers and Office of Research staff.

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