NASA EPSCoR and FAST Background
This EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track 4: EPSCoR Research Fellows solicitation provides an opportunity for faculty to spend extended periods of time at the nation’s premier research facilities. The fellowship period may be used to initiate new collaborative relationships, to expand existing partnerships in ambitious new directions, or to make use of unique equipment not available at the PI’s home institution. Successful fellowships will positively impact and potentially transform the recipient’s research career trajectory. This fellowship support is intended to provide opportunities for PIs to work at facilities of national prominence that would not otherwise be possible without the fellowship.
NASA EPSCoR FAST Solicitation Parameters
- Persons who hold non-tenured faculty positions at institutions of higher education
- Junior, non-tenure, full time faculty
- An apprentice, undergraduate or graduate student selected by the faculty
- PI and potential trainee must show proof of United States Citizenship as part of an on-boarding process that is managed by NASA
- One proposal per investigator
- Areas of research are focus on NASA projects
- Minority Service Institutions are encouraged to apply
- A two-year initiative, with 24 weeks at a NASA facility
Proposals Due: Full proposal deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time): May 12, 2022