- Author
- National Research Council
- Title
- Postdoctoral Research Associateships Tenable at the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Boulder, Colorado, 2009.
- Report
- Postdoctoral Research Associateships, 2008, 574 p.
- Keywords
- research facilities
- Identifiers
- National Quality Programs; Technology Innovation Program; Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory; Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory; Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory; Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology; Physics Laboratory; Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory; NIST Center for Neutron Research; Building and Fire Research Laboratory; Information Technology Laboratory; Index of Research Advisers; Advisor Phone List; Index of Research Categories; 2009 Research Associateship Programs
- Abstract
- The National Research Council conducts the Research Associateship Programs in cooperation with sponsoring federal laboratories and research organizations approved for participation. The National Research Council, through its Associateship Programs office, conducts a national competition to recommend and make awards (except NIST, which makes its own awards) to outstanding scientists and engineers at the postdoctoral level for tenure as guest researchers at participating laboratories. These Programs have been conducted on behalf of a number of federal agencies since 1954. The objectives of the Programs are (1) to provide postdoctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability opportunities for research on problems, largely of their own choice that are compatible with the interests of the sponsoring laboratories and (2) to contribute thereby to the overall efforts of the federal laboratories. For recent doctoral graduates, the Programs provide an opportunity for concentrated research in association with selected members of the permanent professional laboratory staff, often as a climax to formal career preparation. Participating laboratories receive a stimulus to their programs by the presence of bright, highly motivated, recent doctoral graduates with records of research productivity. New ideas, techniques, and approaches to problems contribute to the overall research climate of the laboratories. Indirectly, Associateships also make available to the broader scientific and engineering communities the excellent and often unique research facilities that exist in federal laboratories. For the 2009 program year, an anticipated 1,3000 applications will be received for the nearly 350 new awards to made in the Associateship programs.