Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and the Sciences

Career Initiation Grant

Each year, the program will provide two $30,000 Career Initiation Grants to promising doctoral graduate students that accept a tenure track faculty position in a STEM discipline at a U.S. college or university. These funds are intended to assist new assistant professors at an early stage in their academic careers. The grant can be used to purchase research equipment, and support graduate and/or undergraduate researchers.

Download application and eligibility information: Application (PDF or Word) and RFA (PDF or Word), or visit faces.gatech.edu Or contact: Reginald DesRoches, PhD, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA 30332-0355, phone 404 385-0039, fax 404 894-0211 email: reginald.desroches@ce.gatech.edu. Applications due March 14, 2007.

Winners of the CIG

• Stefan France, PhD, (Chemistry) Georgia Institute of Technology
• Monique Hite, PhD, (Civil and Enviornmental Engineering) Texas A&M University
• Cleon Davis, PhD, (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
• Melanie Griffin, PhD, (Biology) Kennesaw State University
• Amos Johnson, PhD, (Computer Science) Morehouse College
• Raheem Beyah, PhD, (Computer Science) Georgia State University
• Frances Williams, PhD, (Electrical Engineering) Norfolk State University
• Ali Gordon, PhD, (Mechanical Engineering) University of Central Florida
• Gregory Triplett, PhD, (Electrical and Computer Engineering) University of Missouri at Columbia
• Chekesha Liddell, PhD, (Chemical Enginerring) Cornell University
• William Robinson, PhD, (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Vanderbilt University
• Samuel Graham, PhD, (Mechanical Engineering) Georgia Institute of Technology
• Deidre Paris, PhD, (Civil and Enviornmental Engineering) Clark Atlanta University
• Ron Metoyer, PhD , (Computer Science) Oregon State University
• Jason Matthews, PhD, (Chemistry) Howard University
• Janice McNair, PhD, (Electrical and Computer Engineering), University of Florida
• Mark Lewis, PhD, (Industrial and Systems Engineering) University of Michigan
• Joseph Owino, PhD, (Civil and Enviornmental Engineering) University of Tennesse at Chattanooga