Early Career Professional Development Award

 Those eligible for these modest monetary awards are post-secondary instructors in the first five years of their careers. Funding is for career-enhancing opportunities not provided by applicants’ employers. Examples include professional memberships, conference travel, journal subscriptions, research equipment or software, and subvention costs for publication.
Each year, KAS will give out two Early Career Equity Professional Development Awards of up to $500 each.

Funds will be provided directly to awardees (not through their institutions) and will need to be reported as awards for tax purposes. The only obligations of awardees are
(1) To use all funds as intended within one year and
(2) To write a one-page letter to KAS by April 15 of the following year stating how the award contributed to the awardee’s career as an instructor in the natural, physical, or social sciences and
3) Provide documentation of how funds were used.

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You will need

1. Current CV
2. One-page, single-spaced statement of what you are requesting and how it will contribute to your developing career in ways not monetarily supported by your employer and how this award in turn enables you to encourage others in their learning about science in Kentucky.