Funding Opportunity from the Office of Research
Development
DoE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR)
Program
http://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/
SUMMARY OF OPPORTUNITY:
The goal of the Office of
Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is to
prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or
mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE
Office of Science mission, by providing graduate thesis research
opportunities at DOE laboratories. The SCGSR program provides
supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to
pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory in
areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of
Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance
the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing
access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the
DOE laboratories.
The applicants to the SCGSR Program must be pursuing graduate
research in an area that is aligned with one or more of the Priority
Research Areas for the SCGSR 2014 Competition
(http://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/how-to-apply/priority-scresearch-areas/). The applicant’s proposed SCGSR research project
to be conducted at DOE laboratory must address stated aims in at
least one of the Priority Research Areas listed below.
I. Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
(a)
Applied Mathematics
(b) Computer Science
II. Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
(a) Accelerator and Detector
R&D
(b) Heavy Element Radiochemistry
(c) Neutron Scattering
Research and Instrumentation
(d) Predictive Materials Science
and Chemistry
III. Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
(a)
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
(b) Plant Breeding
Science for Sustainable Bioenergy
(c) Environmental System
Science
IV. Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
(a) Burning Plasma &
Magnetic Fusion Energy Science
(b) Discovery Plasma Science
V. High Energy Physics (HEP)
(a) Theoretical and
Computational Research in High Energy Physics
(b) Advanced
Technology Research and Development in High Energy Physics
VI. Nuclear Physics (NP)
(a) Medium Energy Nuclear
Physics
(b) Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics
(c) Low Energy Nuclear
Physics
(d) Nuclear Theory
(e) Nuclear Data and Nuclear
Theory Computing
(f) Accelerator Research and Development for
Current and Future Nuclear Physics Facilities
(g) Isotope
Development and Production for Research and Applications
(h)
Applications of Nuclear Science and Technology
(i) Advanced
Detector Technology Research and Development in Nuclear
Physics
ELIGIBILITY:
Graduate students currently pursuing Ph.D. degrees in areas of
physics, chemistry, material sciences, biology (non-medical),
mathematics, engineering, computer or computational sciences, or
specific areas of environmental sciences that are aligned with the
mission of the Office of Science are eligible to apply for the
supplemental research awards provided by the SCGSR
program. For complete eligibility information, please visit:
http://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/eligibility/.
DEADLINE(S): September 24, 2014 (by 5 PM ET)
COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES:
The Office of
Research Development offers assistance in identifying and
facilitating collaborations, putting together interdisciplinary teams,
programmatic and administrative development of large, crossschool proposals, and leveraging institutional resources for
outreach and education. Contact Fruma Yehiely
(yehiely@northwestern.edu), Director of ORD, for more
information.