Scialog Program

Scialog Program is sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA). RCSA's Scialog program provides catalytic funding for innovative scientific research and the development of academic scientists. It focuses on facilitating dialogue and community building around various scientific topics, including physical sciences.

Scialog – Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Scialog meetings generate a creative exchange of ideas across disciplines and scientific approaches. Scialog supports research, intensive dialogue, and community building to address scientific challenges of global significance.

Within each multi-year initiative, Scialog Fellows participate in intensive discussions to identify bottlenecks and encourage innovative approaches, collaborate in high-risk discovery research on untested ideas, and communicate their progress in annual closed conferences. The Scialog process is guided by senior scientists recognized as world-leading researchers in the area of focus.

Ultimately, Scialog aims to advance human knowledge by empowering a national community of early career scientists with many promising years of research ahead of them to tackle challenging multidisciplinary problems.

Scialog aims to support early career faculty to expand research in a focused area of high scientific importance; encourage scientists to form multidisciplinary teams to tackle these critical challenges; and help transition awardees to obtain further funding for their innovative ideas.

Success for Scialog Fellows is measured by highly impactful results, ongoing support from private foundations and federal agencies, and, ultimately, scientific breakthroughs. Becoming a Scialog Fellow Approximately 50 early career faculty are invited to participate as Fellows for each Scialog, with early career spanning the time from the first year on the faculty through recently post-tenure. You may nominate yourself.

To nominate another early career scientist, contact the program director or ask your colleague to self-nominate. Please check each initiative’s webpage for details and to determine if applications are being accepted.

Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems Information, Computation, and Thermodynamics in Biology Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials Quantum Matter and Information Early Science with the LSST Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres Current & Upcoming Initiatives To become a Fellow, please see application information on each initiative’s page.

Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials Early Science with the LSST Quantum Matter and Information Information, Computation, and Thermodynamics in Biology Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres Automating Chemical Laboratories Chemical Machinery of the Cell Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease Mitigating Zoonotic Threats Molecular Basis of Cognition Negative Emissions Science Signatures of Life in the Universe Search all Scialog Fellows, Facilitators, and Awardees.

Scialog: Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres to Launch in 2027 Scialog: Information, Computation, and Thermodynamics to Launch in 2027 6 Teams Win Awards for Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Funds 7 New Team Projects “ Scialog: The Catalysis of Convergence ” in ACS Energy Letters “Why a Scialog on negative emissions science?

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