FW: Call for Applications: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation's Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

From: Nicholas Marmor <nmarmor at mit.edu <mailto:nmarmor at mit.edu>>
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Call for Applications: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus 
Foundation's Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry

 From the [MIT] Office of Foundation Relations

Below you will find information on a call for applications from The 
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

*NOTE:**The Office of Foundation Relations is pleased to provide 
assistance to anyone applying for a grant from this program.**/Please 
also let us know if you apply, whether or not we assist you.  For more 
information, including a list of recently issued RFPs, please visit our 
website (/**http://foundations.mit.edu/for-faculty/rfp-information/).*

*/NOTE: All proposals must be routed through the Office of Sponsored 
Programs prior to submission./*

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*Deadline: August 11, 2014*
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*NOTE: Award does not include indirect costs--it will incur underrecovery*

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the 
development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental 
chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program. The 
Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry provides a principal 
investigator with an award of $120,000 over two years to appoint a 
Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental chemistry.

*ELIGIBILITY*
The Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry is open to all 
academic and other not-for-profit organizations in the States, 
Districts, and Territories of the United States of America. Applications 
are accepted from principal investigators who have well-established 
research efforts in environmental science or engineering. These research 
activities need not be located in traditional departments in the 
chemical sciences, and collaboration across departments and institutions 
is encouraged. The postdoctoral fellow is usually not already identified 
nor in the principal investigator's lab at the time of application. 
Note: award recipients must wait two years from the conclusion of an 
award before being eligible to reapply.

*RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST*
Applications most likely to be of interest should describe innovative 
fundamental research in the chemical sciences or engineering related to 
the environment. The importance of the research should be explained. 
Examples include but are not limited to the chemistry associated with: 
the climate, the atmosphere, aquatic or marine settings, toxicology, 
soil or groundwater. Also of interest are chemistry-related energy 
research (renewable sources, sequestration, etc.), and new or green 
approaches to chemical synthesis and processing, both with a clearly 
stated relation to the environment.

*SELECTION*
Applications come from the principal investigator. Recommendations for 
awards are based on several factors: assessment of the proposed 
research, the arrangements for the interdisciplinary educational 
broadening of the Fellow, and an assessment of the ability to both 
attract the best young Ph.D. candidates and subsequently place them in 
high level independent starting positions. Applications are reviewed by 
distinguished scientists in the environmental and chemical sciences. 
Current Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry awardees. 
<http://www.dreyfus.org/announcements/CURR.EP.PDF>

*BUDGET*
The Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry provides a $120,000 
award, payable in two $60,000 installments. Funds are normally expended 
over a period of two years after the appointment of the Fellow. Charges 
associated with indirect costs or institution overhead are not allowed. 
Of the total annual award amount, the stipend support of the Fellow is 
no less than $48,000 (stipends may be supplemented from institutional or 
other sources). Fringe benefits of the Fellow taken from this award may 
not exceed $12,000 annually.

*APPLICATION PROCEDURE*
All application materials must be received at the Foundation office by 
the deadline. Applications recommended for approval are presented to the 
Foundation's Board of Directors in time for award announcements by early 
November 2014.

*REQUIRED INFORMATION*
/Application package. /The application should be formatted on 8 1/2 x 
11-inch paper, using 12-point font size. Assemble it as:

1. The online application form (available HERE 
<http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/2013%20Postdoctoral_Program_in_Environmental_Chemistry.pdf>, 
note: Adobe Acrobat is required to complete the form)
2. A research proposal that would be judged as likely to advance 
environmental science in important ways (typically 2-4 pages)
3. A CV (limited to 5 pages) for each of the key professional personnel 
that includes ten or fewer relevant publications
4. A one-page description of the educational opportunities and 
institutional strengths in environmental science, and how the Fellow 
would be involved in them

Send all above materials as a PDF to: programs at dreyfus.org 
<mailto:programs at dreyfus.org>.

*REPORTS*
The first-year award of $60,000 will be paid after the Foundation has 
been provided with the Fellow’s CV and anticipated start date. The 
second-year award of $60,000 will be paid upon request, after completion 
of the first year. The request should be accompanied or preceded by a 
financial report and a progress report from the project director that 
contains highlights of accomplishments under the award and the research 
plan for the coming year.

Final reports are due when all funds are expended. The final technical 
report should detail the anticipated consequence of the research and 
provide information regarding the future professional plans of the 
Fellow. An optional statement may be included of newsworthy stories 
concerning the Mentor, the Fellow, or the consequences of the research 
funded during the period of the award.

*ADDITIONAL INFORMATION*
1. Publications and presentations describing work supported by the award 
should acknowledge the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral Program in 
Environmental Chemistry.

2. The faculty mentor is designated a Camille and Henry Dreyfus 
Environmental Chemistry Mentor. The postdoctoral scientist is designated 
a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellow.

3. Questions may be directed to the Foundation office by e-mail at 
programs at dreyfus.org <mailto:programs at dreyfus.org> or by telephone at 
212-753-1760.

Visit The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation website for complete 
program information and application procedures: 
http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/postdoctoral_program.shtml.
______________________________
Nicholas Marmor
Development Associate
Office of Foundation Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
600 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
nmarmor at mit.edu <mailto:nmarmor at mit.edu>
617.324.7163
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