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Bergan Award
THE BERGAN CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD
TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUED
Dudley Observatory announces its Bergan Career Development Award
competition, which provides one or in special cases two grants, in the
amount of $8000 each, to be awarded to persons nominated by chairpersons of
departments of physics, astronomy or earth and planetary sciences, at
universities and four-year colleges in the State of New York. The candidates
are to be non-tenured Ph.D. faculty or research staff, for whom a grant of
this magnitude will provide sufficient seed money to make a real impact in
helping the individual get the research aspects of a career off to a good
start. The Award is named in honor of Judge Francis Bergan, who was a member
of the Board of Trustees of Dudley Observatory for many years.
The motivation for this Award is the fact that many new faculty with
minimal track records in research may find it difficult to compete for
research grants in the early years of their careers; moreover some
institutions find it difficult to provide adequate funding for research
startup for new faculty or research staff.
The following are the boundary conditions for this Award.
1. Nominations for the Award are solicited by the President of the
Board of Trustees of Dudley Observatory from chairpersons of appropriate
departments in universities and four-year colleges in the State of New
York.
2. There shall be no more than one nomination per institution per year.
3. The candidates shall be in the first or second year of their
permanent appointments by September 15th following the deadline for
nominations.
4. The number of such awards will be determined by the Executive
Committee of Dudley Observatory, based on the quality of the candidates
and on the projected resources of Dudley Observatory.
5. Winners of the Awards will be selected by the Awards Committee of
Dudley Observatory, with the approval of the Executive Committee. The
nomination documentation shall include:
a curriculum vitae,
a statement of how the funds would be used,
an evaluation of the impact of such funding on the career
development of the candidate.
6. The institutions in which the candidates are located must agree to
extract no overhead from the Award other than the usual fringe benefits.
7. The recipient may use the Award for summer salary (freeing up time
to get research started), for release time from academic responsibilities
(again as needed to get research started), travel and living expenses
(useful when observing trips are involved), or equipment (computers,
software, or experimental equipment not otherwise available), or for such
other purposes as the Dudley Observatory deems appropriate.
8. The Awards are not renewable.
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