External Deadline: February 23, 2024 Internal Deadline: January 8, 2024
Instructions for electronic submission: To apply for the 2024 Agilent Early Career Professor Award, please submit the materials requested below to this link no later than January 8, 2024, at 11:59 PM.
Budget:
- $120,000 distributed in 2 years
- Option to use all or part of award to obtain Agilent products at 50% discount
- Option to accelerate payments to facilitate procurement of equipment with list price over $120,000
Number of Applications: 1 application from WCM (not including Ithaca)
Program Goals:
- Promote and encourage excellent research enabling measurements of importance to Agilent Technologies and the world
- Establish strong collaborative relationships between Agilent researchers and leading professors early in their career
- Build the prominence of Agilent as a sponsor of university research
Award Focus for 2024: Contributions to environmental sustainability through development of green analytical technologies, methods, or laboratory working environments.
Selection Criteria:
- Alignment with the Focus Topic: Contributions to environmental sustainability through development of green analytical technologies, methods, or laboratory working environments.
- Significant original research contributions enabling solutions of importance to Agilent and the world (ref: sustainable lab solutions; my green lab)
- Innovation and outstanding potential for future research contributions
Eligibility
- Professor must hold a tenure-tracked faculty position
- Must have completed Ph.D. or M.D. residency within 12 years of award year (additional extensions may apply, please see FAQ)
Application Requirements
WCM is limited to submitting 1 nominee. Due to this limitation an internal selection process will be coordinated. Chairpersons/Institute Directors/Division Heads may submit no more than two nominations from their department/institute/division. Note: Chairs/Directors/Division Heads submitting more than one nomination must comment on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two nominees. The same comment should be repeated in both nomination letters. Margins should be at least one inch and font size not less than 11 pt.
- Letter of Nomination from Department Chair/Institute Director/Division Head (1-2 pages)
- Summary of Research (2 pages) including
- areas of expertise,
- contributions related to Focus Topic, and
- relevance to Agilent and the world.
- Biosketch including
- Education and academic background
- Key experiences, publications, presentations, and patents
- Technical and professional recognition, awards, honors, and affiliation.
Submit the items listed above here no later than January 8, 2024, at 11:59 PM in the order listed as one PDF document using the naming convention PI last name-first initial_Agilent2024.pdf (see example below).
Example: Smith-J_Agilent2024.pdf
- Junior Faculty
- New Investigator