• Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards Article Emerging Ideas Five scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have receivedEarly Career Research Program (ECRP)awards from the Department of Energy. • The ECRP program, now in its 16th year, was established to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the outset of their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work. • Recipients use the funding to pursue projects that have the potential to solve scientific challenges and advance the country’s STEM capabilities. • To be eligible for the program, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. • academic institution, or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory or Office of Science user facility, who is within 10 years of having earned their doctorate. • Awards to an institution of higher education will be approximately $875,000 over five years, and awards to a DOE national laboratory or Office of Science user facility will be approximately $2,750,000 over five years.
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- Five scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have received Early Career Research Program (ECRP) awards from the Department of Energy. The ECRP program, now in its 16th year, was established to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the outset of their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work. Recipients use the funding to pursue projects that have the potential to solve scientific challenges and advance the country’s STEM capabilities. To be eligible for the program, a researcher must be an untenured, te
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