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Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0000958

• The Office of Science in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Early Career Research Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.049 Office of Science Financial Assistance Program.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 23, 2013 and posted on Jul 23, 2013.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 19, 2013. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $6,000,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
• Only U.S. academic institutions are eligible to apply. Other Federal agencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Contractors, and nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995 are not eligible to apply. The Principal Investigator must be an untenured Assistant Professor on the tenure track or an untenured Associate Professor on the tenure track at a U.S. academic institution as of the deadline for the application. No more than ten (10) years can have passed between the year the Principal Investigators Ph.D. was awarded and the year of the deadline for the application. For the present competition, those who received doctorates no earlier than 2003 are eligible. There can be no co Principal Investigators. Each Principal Investigator may only submit one Office of Science Early Career Research Program application per annual competition. Additionally, a Principal Investigator may not participate in more than three Office of Science Early Career Research Program competitions. Participation in the competition is defined as submission of a full application. The act of submitting an application implies that the submitting institution has checked, confirmed, and certifies that the Principal Investigator is eligible. No additional certifying documentation is required. Applications must be submitted through a U.S. academic institution. A companion announcement (LAB 13 958) describes the Early Career Research Program opportunity for full time DOE national laboratory employees. An employee with a joint appointment between a university and a DOE national laboratory must apply through the institution that pays his or her salary and provides his or her benefits the eligibility criteria above must also be met. Eligibility exemptions will not be granted.

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