Six faculty members from The University of Texas at Arlington received more than $3.23 million in awards as part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program . Called CAREER, these awards are considered the NSF’s most prestigious for early-career faculty and are given to those who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.
Between 2017 and 2022, UTA received nine CAREER awards; in 2023, it received six. Vice President of research and innovation Kate C. Miller called this “a true testament to the world-class research teams we’re assembling here in Arlington.”
“CAREER award winners are often considered the best and brightest in academic research,” Miller said. “It is a tribute to the outstanding caliber of our faculty and their research that the NSF funded so many UTA research projects in 2023.”
The projects and researchers supported by these grants are:
To be eligible to receive CAREER program grants, early-career faculty (those at the assistant professor or equivalent rank) must be deemed by their departments as having the potential to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by CAREER grantees should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership integrating education and research.
“I’m extremely proud of these emerging researchers and the potential societal impact of their research,” Miller said. “It says a great deal about the growth in quality and quantity of research conducted at UTA that the National Science Foundation chose to fund so many of our talented professors.”