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William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program
Program Summary
The William T. Grant Scholars Program is designed to foster career development among promising early-career researchers trained across a range of social, behavioral, and health sciences. The award is designed to expand a researcher’s expertise.
The foundation supports research to understand and improve the settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. “Settings” are defined as the proximal environments in which youth experience daily life. These settings would include but are not limited to schools, youth-serving organizations, neighborhoods, families, and peer groups. Sponsor is focused upon two areas related to youth settings:
- Studies that enhance understanding of how settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved.
- Studies that improve understanding of how and under what conditions research is used to influence policies and practices that affect youth settings.
Sponsor limits UIC to one applicant per college. If more than one LOI is received from a college, OVCR will work with respective Associate Dean for Research to make the selection.
Awards
$350,000 over a five year period.
Eligibility
Any discipline is eligible. Applicant’s ability to conduct and communicate creative, sophisticated research is demonstrated through prior training and publications. The quality of publications is more important than the quantity.
Applicants must have received their terminal degree within seven years of submitting their application. In many scholarly disciplines, this translates to a maximum of seven years following the award of the doctoral degree and includes time spent as a post-doctoral fellow. In medicine, the seven year maximum is dated from the completion of the first residency. The award may not be used as a post-doctoral fellowship.
Additional Information
Potential applicants encouraged to visit sponsor website for complete program description, in-depth discussion of their current research interests, and a copy of their annual report: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/
Deadlines
| UIC Letter of Intent | February 18, 2008 |
| Sponsor Full Application | July 9, 2008 |
Letter of Intent
LOI Form: http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/forms/0600.doc.
By
submission of this form, applicant attests that s/he has read and meets
the sponsor's eligibility criteria for this program.
Questions
Please contact Tony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 6-7036 with any questions.
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