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COS Career Pathway program

The College of Sciences is offering the COS CAREER pathway program with the aim to increase the number of COS faculty receiving a CAREER grant. We are looking for applications for the 2022 COS CAREER pathway program. The program is available to all Tenure Track faculty of the college of Sciences who work in an area fundable by the Federal Agencies (such as NSF, NIH and DOD) and satisfy the CAREER grant eligibility criteria, as described below. Awardees must commit to participate in the program as follows: 

  1. September 15, 2022: Faculty participant submits the first draft of his/her CAREER proposal to the COS Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs. The AD will meet with each participant to discuss best practices and strategies.
  2. Fall 2022: Faculty participate in “Keys to Research” TT faculty research and Professional development program including grant writing/CAREER training organized by the Associate Vice President for Research Enhancement, see
    https://www.utrgv.edu/research/faculty-prof-dev/keys-research-faculty-program/index.htm
  3. The proposal draft will be subject to ad hoc (internal and/or external) reviewers who will comment on the research and educational components of the proposal.
  4. March 15, 2023: Reviews are shared with the PIs. PIs are encouraged to address the reviewers’ comments/criticism in the final version of the proposal.
  5. Summer 2023: Each participant in the CAREER pathway program must submit a final proposal by the established deadline to the CAREER program.

The COS expects to fund 5 COS CAREER pathway awardees each year. Each will receive $1000 to be used to support their research as they see fit, including travel during the 2022/23 academic year. 

In addition to the CAREER eligibility criteria the applicants should have a recent record of refereed journal publications, a citation index proper for a junior faculty in that discipline, a record of awarded grants or at least attempts to get external research grants, and a record of involving students in their research. Faculty who received the COS CAREER pathway award but were not successful with their CAREER application, are not eligible to receive the COS award again. 

How to Apply? Application for the COS CAREER pathway should be emailed to Associate Dean Quetschke (volker.quetschke@utrgv.edu) and CC Dean Incera by July 1, 2022 EoB.

The application package consists of a CV and a one-page statement describing your preliminary research and grant preparation plan. The COS will announce the awards by September 1, 2022, before the “Keys to Research” program starts.

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