2024
Cottrell Scholars, Scialog participants and initiative advisors welcomed the first cohort of RCSA Fellows to an extended community of support, mentorship, and skill building at the first annual RCSA Fellows Conference May 21-22, 2024, in Tucson. The initiative evolved from a Cottrell Scholar Collaborative project that RCSA funded in 2019 and seeks to advance the scientific enterprise by supporting the academic career advancement of a cohort of outstanding postdoctoral scholars over a critical period in their careers: as they are preparing to look for faculty positions; as they are actively interviewing; and their first year as newly independent tenure-track faculty investigators at U.S. and Canadian institutions of higher education.