External Deadline: July 2025 Internal Deadline: April 11, 2025
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Instructions for electronic submission: To apply for the William T Grant, please submit the materials requested below to ClinicalResearchDean@med.cornell.edu no later than April 11, 2025, at 11:59 PM.
Budget: $425,000 over five years, including up to 7.5% indirect costs.
Number of Applications: 1 application from WCM (not including Ithaca)
Program Description:
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.
Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.
Awards are based on applicants’ potential to become influential researchers, as well as their plans to expand their expertise in new and significant ways. The application should make a cohesive argument for how the applicant will expand his or her expertise. The research plan should evolve in conjunction with the development of new expertise, and the mentoring plan should describe how the proposed mentors will support applicants in acquiring that expertise. Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation’s focus areas.
Please visit the Foundation website for more details.
Eligibility
- Applicants must have received their doctoral degree within seven years of submitting their application. We calculate this by adding seven years to the date the doctoral degree was conferred. In medicine, the seven-year maximum is dated from the completion of the first residency.
- Applicants must be employed in career-ladder positions.
- The award may not be used as a post-doctoral fellowship.
- Research needs to focus on outcomes for young people ages 5-25 in the United States.
Eligible Proposals:
Proposals for research on reducing inequality should:
Aim to build, test, and increase understanding of a program, policy, or practice to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States.
Proposals for research on improving the use of research evidence should:
Inform strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5–25 in the United States.
Application Requirements
Weill Cornell Medicine Internal Selection Process
Weill Cornell Medicine, may submit one (1) nomination. Department Chairs/Division Chiefs/Institute Directors may submit no more than two internal nominations from their department/division/institute. Department Chairs/Division Chiefs/Institute Directors submitting more than one nomination must comment on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two nominees. Internal submissions should contain the following information:
- A 1-2-page nomination letter authored by the Department Chair/Division Chief/Institute Director detailing why the candidate should be considered;
- Applicant's Bioketch
- Brief budget Justification
- A 2-page description of the candidate's proposed research, highlighting particularly the unique contribution of the research, its significance in terms of policy and/or practice, a brief literature review, research design and methodology, data sources and collection procedures, data analysis plans, and plans for protection of human subjects. Any references can be in addition to the two-page limit.
Margins should be at least one inch and font size not less than 11 points.
- Community Health
- Healthcare Policy
- Medicine
- Junior Faculty
- New Investigator
- Postdoc/Residents/Fellows