RCSA Fellows

The RCSA Fellows Initiative seeks to advance the scientific enterprise in the United States and Canada by building and strengthening an engaged community of faculty who bring a variety of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to teaching and research in the physical sciences.

This program supports 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.

The initiative evolved from a Cottrell Scholar Collaborative project that RCSA funded in 2019 and seeks to better prepare postdoctoral scholars for the faculty search process and the professoriate, where they will thrive as innovative research scientists, teachers, and mentors.