Proposals may be submitted by researchers who are faculty, postdocs, or graduate students at URA member universities. Researchers are defined as graduate students, postdocs, or faculty doing research in areas such as high energy physics experiments, astrophysics, theory, accelerator physics, engineering, materials science, computer science, quantum science and technology, and accelerator R&D, related to the Fermilab mission. Applicants must be employed by or, in the case of graduate students, enrolled at URA member institutions during the course of the award.  For more information, click here.

The URA Visiting Scholars Award Program is supported by contributions from the URA member universities. The VSP awards provide financial support for faculty and students from URA’s member universities to work at Fermilab for periods of up to one year. URA makes two rounds of awards each year, in the spring and fall. The application deadline for this cycle is February 24, 2020.

If you are interesting in applying for this funding opportunity, please contact OSRP. Proposals and routing sheets must be completed and submitted to OSRP February 18, 2020.