Early Career Development Award

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

Excerpt IIC is from the REP for the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in Chemistry (CAREER), a prestigious award offered by the NSF to exceptional junior faculty. In the rest of this module, we use excerpts from successful CAREER proposals to illustrate effective proposal-writing techniques and to apply the read-analyze-write approach to writing hence, it is important that you review the REP that motivated these proposals. (Note CAREER proposals require authors to describe, in what the NSF calls a Career-Development Plan, both research and educational activities. In this textbook, we focus almost exclusively on the research activities proposed by the CAREER authors.)... 

I am extremely grateful to a very talented group of graduate students and post-doctorals, whose names appear in the cited references, for their important contributions. Our research has been generously supported by a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, the National Institutes of Health, and the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society. 

Consider the RFPs for two NSF program solicitations the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award (excerpt IIC) and the Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC) award (excerpt IID) Explain how the moves in figure f3.f are... 

Frank would like to acknowledge the support of the Leverhulme Trust through the award of an Early Career Development Fellowship. 

Walter Kohn (b. 1923) received a Ph D. in physics from Harvard University in 1948. In the early to mid-1960s, Kohn played the lead role in developing density-functional theory, which has become the predominant method for determining the electronic structures and total energies of molecules and solids. For this work he was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Kohn also made seminal contributions to superconductivity, semiconductor physics, and surface physics. Kohn started his career as an instructor at Harvard and then moved to Carnegie Mellon (1950-1960), the University of Califomia-San Diego (1960-1979), and finally, the University of Califomia-Santa Barbara (1979), where he became emeritus in 1991. At UCSB, Kohn was the founding director of the world-renowned Institute for Theoretical Physics. Kohn was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1969, and he is a member of the Royal Society of London and the Bavarian Society. 

Lingane was a leader in the field of - electro analytical chemistry and wrote, with Kolthoff, the definitive, two volume monograph, Polarography [i] that remains a useful reference work. He also helped develop other electroanalytical techniques, like controlled potential electrolysis, -> coulometry, -> coulometric titrations, and developed an early electromechanical (Lingane-Jones) potentiostat, He wrote the widely-used monograph in this field, Electroanalytical Chemistry (1st edn., 1953 2nd edn., 1958). Lingane received a number of awards, including the Analytical Chemistry (Fisher) Award of the American Chemical Society in 1958. Many of his Ph.D. students, e.g., -> Meites, Fred Anson, Allen Bard, Dennis Peters, and Dennis Evans, went on to academic careers in electrochemistry. 

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