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2020 KSEA Young Investigator Grants (YIGs)

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2019-10-02 22:56
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Dear KSEA members,

The Korean-American Scientists Engineers Association (KSEA) is pleased to announce competition for the 2020 KSEA Young Investigator Grants (YIGs), which intend to recognize those who have demonstrated outstanding early career development in science, engineering and/or technologyTwo grants will be awarded this year as follows:

Grant: US $10,000 for each awardee an additional travel support up to $1,000 to attend the award ceremony at UKC 2020.

Application PeriodFrom October 15, 2019 to December 1, 2019

Description: The KSEA Young Investigator Grant is the KSEA's highest recognition given to young professionals who earned a doctoral degree in science or engineering, have been working in academia, industry, or government for no more than 6 yearsTwo YIGs will be awarded this year: one grant selected from Science, the other from EngineeringApplicants should select either Science or Engineering based on their research field.

Eligibility: Each applicant should have received a Ph.Ddegree within six years of the application (On or after January 1, 2014).

Application: Application for the grant should be received through the KSEA website, http://yigrant.ksea.orgThe required materials are a curriculum vita, a research or technology development plan for one year (five pages), three reference lettersThe application package must specify the pertinent Technical Group (A though M) in which it is to be evaluatedA list of 13 Technical Groups may be found at https://ksea.org/us/organization/technical-groups/.

Evaluation: Evaluation of the applications selection of the successful applicants will be conducted by the KSEA Honors & Awards Committee (HAC) in collaboration Technical Group Councilors their representativesThe recipients will be announced through the KSEA web page via email by March 31, 2020.

Administration: The grant is awarded through the recipient’s institution in the United States, not directly to the recipientThe recipient must submit a final report, which summarizes the achievements supported through the grant expenditure detailsAn additional travel reimbursement up to US $1,000 will be provided to the recipient to attend the award ceremony at UKC 2020.

For any questions, please contact HAC Chair, Kang-Wook Lee, kangwook.lee.ibm@gmail.com.

Sincerely,

Jun-Seok Oh

President of KSEA
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