COVID-19 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

对科学进步研究公司（RCSA）的这种支持有助于通过为化学，材料研究，物理学和天文学科学方面训练有素的博士后研究员提供大约四个奖学金来稳定科学劳动力的一部分。该项目由数学和物理科学理事会的化学，材料研究，物理和天文科学部门支持。COVID-19在社会多个领域造成前所未有的混乱。大学预算被削减，招聘冻结到位，停工颁布。新的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）专业人员希望进入教授在这个时候面临着重大的挑战，可能会迫使他们中的许多人离开这个行业。这项活动扩展了现有的RSCA计划，以帮助这些训练有素的STEM员工弥合培训和独立职业生涯开始之间的差距，帮助他们保留在STEM，同时也增加了他们的经验广度。申请人通过RSCA机制申请。这项活动为在COVID-19危机后陷入困境的个人提供了大约四个奖学金，这些危机影响了他们在科学就业市场的前景。这些奖学金不是让这些人离开STEM领域，而是为他们提供至少一年的支持。除了在他们已经熟悉的领域进一步发展他们的科学专业知识外，这种支持还为这些博士后提供了获得主动学习及其在混合和在线课堂中实施的教学培训的机会。这将使这些研究员在返回学术科学就业市场时更有竞争力。这些研究员的导师也从中受益，因为他们能够在研究工作中保持一定的稳定性。由于COVID-19的影响，研究资金受到压力，在这些中断期间，当个人离开实验室时，并不总是能够雇用替代人员。这些奖学金帮助导师在培训新项目成员很困难（如果不是不可能的话）的时候留住训练有素和富有成效的研究人员。学院和大学从这些奖学金中受益，因为研究员将成为课程的资源人员，无论是现在在奖学金期间，还是之后，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

This support to the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) helps to stabilize a portion of the scientific workforce by providing approximately four fellowships for highly trained postdoctoral associates in chemistry, materials research, physics, and astronomical sciences. This project is supported by the Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Research, Physics, and Astronomical Sciences in the Mathematical and Physical Science Directorate. COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption in many sectors of society. University budgets have been reduced, hiring freezes put in place, and work stoppages enacted. Newer science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) professionals hoping to enter the professoriate at this time face significant challenges that could force many of them to leave the professions. This activity extends existing RSCA programs to help these highly trained members of the STEM workforce bridge the gap between training and the start of their independent careers, by helping to retain them in STEM while also augmenting the breadth of their experience. Applicants apply through RSCA mechanisms. This activity provides approximately four fellowships for individuals caught in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis that has impacted their prospects on the scientific job market. Rather than have these individuals leave the STEM fields, these fellowships provide them with at least one year of support. In addition to furthering their scientific expertise in areas which they are already familiar, this support provides these postdocs with opportunities to gain pedagogical training in active learning and its implementation in hybrid and online classrooms. This will make these fellows more competitive for academic positions when they return to the academic scientific job market. The mentors of these fellows also benefit since they are able to maintain some stability in their research endeavors. Research funding is stressed due to COVID-19 impacts and during these disruptions, when individuals leave a lab, it is not always possible to hire replacements. These fellowships help mentors retain highly trained and productive researchers at time when training new project members is difficult, if not impossible. Colleges and Universities benefit from these fellowships in that the fellows will become resource people for courses, both now during the fellowships, but also after, when the fellows continue to benefit from the pedagogical insights they gain as they move into their faculty careers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.