The K-State Mentoring Fellowships for women and minority tenure-track faculty in the sciences and engineering were established in 1995 with a grant from the Alfred E. Sloan Foundation.
They are now funded from the K-State Office of the Provost. These fellowships are designed to help tenure-track women and minority scientists and engineers find mentors and develop their research programs to a level that attracts outside funding. For a description of the minority categories please click on the following link. Race/Ethnic Identification.
Below you will
find the request for proposals, application
procedures, criteria for selection, closing
dates, and evaluation forms for both the fall
and spring competitions. The fall competition is open to tenure-track
women and minority faculty in the sciences and engineering appointed
since January 1 of the current calendar year. The closing date for applications
in the Fall 2007 competition is September 18, 2007. The spring competition
is open to all eligible tenure-track women and minority faculty in the
sciences and engineering. The closing date for applications in the Spring
2008 competition is March 24, 2008.
K-State awards fellowships that provide mentoring for tenure-track women and minority faculty in the basic sciences, applied sciences, and engineering disciplines. The K-State mentoring program will support up to five mentees per year at approximately $6,000 each. Typically, four awards are made in the spring competition and one award is made in the fall competition of each year. The fall competition is open only to new tenure-track women and minority faculty in the sciences and engineering appointed at K-State since January 1 of the current calendar year. The funds provided for the Fall 2007 award are to be used during the current academic year, 2007-2008. The spring competition is open to all eligible faculty members, and the Spring 2008 awards are for the next academic year, 2008-2009. Eligibility for both the fall and spring competitions is limited to those who have not yet received significant external funding.
The goal is to provide women and minority scientists and engineers with mentors who will help them secure the external funding usually necessary for achieving tenure in these fields. The award monies can be used for such things as personnel, attendance at short courses, meetings that enhance professional development, seed money for research, or other justifiable uses. Each award recipient submits a report toward the end of the academic year that describes the results of the progress achieved as a result of the fellowship. Individuals who are awarded fellowships graduate from the program upon receipt of substantial external funding. If a fellowship recipient does not receive extramural funding during the year of the award, a request for renewal for a subsequent year may be submitted, but it is important for applicants to show both progress in their research and attempts to obtain extramural funding to be considered for a renewal.
The two-page description should include:
Submit seven copies of the completed application to:
For more information contact Ruth Dyer: 532-4797 or rdyer@k-state.edu
K-State Mentoring Fellowship Evaluation Form