Bryan was awarded a Sustainable Futures Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant from the ACS-GCI
Congratulations to Bryan for being awarded one of six Sustainable Futures Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grants by the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute. This award provides Bryan with funding (up to $125,000) to support a postdoctoral fellow in his future lab for two years. These awards were created as part of the American Chemical Soceity’s strategic initiatives in support of green chemistry, sustainable development, and to support chemistry in having a positive impact on the world.
Announcement of the award can be found on the ACS GCI blog and a feature of Bryan’s future research and teaching vision in green chemistry and engineering on the ACS GCI blog can be found here.
As stated, “This award provides a post-doctoral fellow/associate or faculty in first 9 months of appointment who plans to launch an independent research career in academia, funds to support a post-doctoral associate/fellow for two years once their new research group is launched.”
The motivation for creating this award is, “Building a productive research group as a new faculty member in chemistry and engineering is highly challenging. To that end, the support available to the faculty member in the first two years is critical to developing the foundation for a robust research program that attracts grant funding, provides holistic training and mentorship to graduate students, and contributes to the culture of the department and the professional community. In recognition of this need, the ACS Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant provides support at this crucial junction in the form of salary for a postdoctoral fellow/associate, who can both help launch the new research lab and can gain invaluable experience in the process that can be applied to their own ability to launch an independent career in the future. To ensure meaningful mentorship for the postdoctoral fellow/associate, the award stipulates that the new PI will participate in ACS-based training in mentorship. This grant mechanism is synergistic with the ACS P2F workshop, which provides critical training to a select group of postdoctoral fellows/associates from around the country.”