Featured Opportunity

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET.  

Students Will Perform Graduate Theses Research at U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories  DOE’s Office of Science is now Accepting Applications for Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awards  Students Will Perform Graduate Theses Research at U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories  The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET.   SCGSR application assistance workshops will be held on March 6, 2025, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. ET and April 10, 2025, 2:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. ET. The first workshop will provide a general overview of the program and the application requirements. It will also include a time for attendees to discuss their potential research topics and their alignment with the SCGSR priority areas with managers of each participating program office; register here. The second workshop will guide attendees through the application process, answer general questions, provide guidance on proposal writing, and feature discussions with scientists and former awardees; register here. The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students for conducting part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory or facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. The goal of the program is to prepare graduate students for scientific and technical careers critically important to the mission of DOE’s Office of Science. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall graduate theses while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories. In addition, SCGSR awardees may have the opportunity for short international research visits to select prestigious institutions to broaden their horizons.  SCGSR is open to U.S. Ph.D. students in qualified graduate programs at accredited U.S. academic institutions, who are conducting their graduate thesis research in targeted areas relevant to DOE’s Office of Science. Since its inception in 2014, the SCGSR program has provided support to over 1,200 graduate awardees from 168 U.S. universities to conduct thesis research at all 17 DOE national laboratories across the nation. Areas of research include but are not limited to: physics, chemistry, materials science, planetary science, geosciences, biosciences (non-medical), mathematics, computer and computational sciences, engineering, microelectronics, quantum information science, artificial intelligence.  The SCGSR program is sponsored and managed by the Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, in collaboration with the Office of Science’s six research program offices, the DOE isotope R&D and Production Office, and the DOE national laboratories. Program administration support is provided by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.   More information on the SCGSR program can be found by visiting the SCGSR program website, by emailing the SCGSR team, or by attending the program’s virtual office hours which will be held every Friday 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET starting on March 7, 2025, via this Zoom link.

Deadline for Letters of Intent (required):	January 30, 2025 at 5:00pm ET
Deadline for Applications:	March 27, 2025 at 11:59pm ET

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: DE-FOA-0003525
Total Estimated Funding: $7 Million

The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) and the NNSA Defense Program (DP) Office of Experimental Sciences jointly announce their interests in receiving applications for new and renewal awards for research in High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasma Science. All individuals or groups planning to submit applications for new or renewal funding in Fiscal Year 2025 should do so in response to this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). This NOFO is part of the SC-NNSA Joint Program in High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasmas, a partnership aimed at advancing fundamental high-energy-density science (HEDS) within the Department of Energy.

Please see the funding opportunity for agency contacts and more details, including eligibility and application information.

DE-FOA-0003526-000002.pdf

Awards Will Support Outstanding Early Career Scientists at Universities, National Laboratories, and Office of Science User Facilities 

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it is accepting applications for the 2025 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program to support the research of outstanding scientists early in their careers. The program will support over 80 early career researchers for five years at U.S. academic institutions, DOE national laboratories, and Office of Science user facilities.

“The vision, creativity, and effort of early career faculty drive innovation in the basic science enterprise.  The Department of Energy’s Office of Science is dedicated to supporting these promising investigators, and the Early Career Research Program provides an incredible opportunity,” said Harriet Kung, DOE’s Deputy Director of Science Programs for the Office of Science.  “These awards allow them to pursue new ideas and harness the resources of the user facilities to increase the potential for breakthrough new discoveries.” 

To be eligible for the program, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory or Office of Science user facility who is within 10 years of having earned their doctorate degree. Awards to an institution of higher education will be approximately $875,000 over five years and awards to a DOE national laboratory or Office of Science user facility will be approximately $2,750,000 over five years.

Join us for LLNL’s annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) datathon and conference. Held three weeks apart, these events are hybrid, free, and open to everyone. Registration links and other details are posted at data-science.llnl.gov/wids.

LLNL Datathon on Wednesday, February 19

• Register by February 12
• Hosted at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) and virtually
• Sponsored by the Data Science Institute; LLNL Computing; and the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability
• The worldwide WiDS conference hosts a competitive datathon in which participants can learn more about data science and hone their skills. This one-day event provides an opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and investigate a challenging data science problem. The datathon is designed for data science enthusiasts who are discovering or building their data skills (beginner and intermediate levels). An LLNL data scientist will guide participants through the dataset and notebook.

WiDS Livermore conference on Wednesday, March 12

• Register by February 28
• Hosted at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) and virtually
• Sponsored by LLNL’s Data Science Institute; Computing Principal Directorate; and Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability
• This regional conference will include a tie-in with the datathon as well as keynote speakers, technical talks, career-focused panel discussions, speed mentoring, and a poster session.

This is the eighth year for WiDS Livermore, which is independently organized by LLNL to be part of the mission to increase participation of women in data science and to feature outstanding women doing outstanding work. Contact WiDS-Committee@llnl.gov with any questions.