Awards and Fellowships for Early Career Faculty
SB Trustees Awards
SB Trsutees Awards are designed to encourage and support promising early career faculty. The University, through the Provost’s Office, provides research, scholarship and art-making funding opportunities. The awards recognize early-career faculty whose research, creative activities, and scholarly achievements predict an exceptional trajectory. Five Stony Brook Foundation Trustees Faculty Awards of $20,000 each are competitively available to early career faculty.
Eligibility: Full-time second-term Assistant Professors, i.e. those who have had a successful review process after being in residence at SBU for at least three years.
SB Trusteed Faculty Awards Winners
Fullbright Scholar Program
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is the largest program of its kind in the United States, awarding more than 800 fellowships annually. Over 400 different types of opportunities are available to teach, research and conduct professional projects in more than 135 countries. Whether you are higher education faculty and administrators, or, professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, and independent scholars outside of the academy, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program has international opportunities to fit your needs and further your goals.
This award is open to U.S. citizens only.
NSF CAREER Awards
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. Every year, one Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds, and additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists.
Please note that these are limited competitions awards and submissions must be made to the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, as only one candidate for each category can be nominated by the University.
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Provost's Awards Archive
Provost's Office maintains lists of some prestigious awards and fellowships received by Stony Brook Faculty. Please let us keep the list current by filling out "Honors and Awards" section in Interfolio Faculty180 or submitting the information about the award through the form linked below.