Key takeaways
- UCLA has received $1.4 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to help early-career faculty continue their work amid growing uncertainty about federal research funding.
- With the grant funding, seven faculty–student teams will pursue projects ranging from brain health and climate change to green chemistry and space science.
- The grant extends a more than 40-year partnership between UCLA and the Keck Foundation, which has invested over $60 million in campus research, healthcare and education initiatives.
Early-career faculty are poised to make transformative discoveries, forge innovative approaches and move all fields forward — but they’re also vulnerable to increasingly uncertain federal research funding, especially in medicine and the sciences.
To shore up the scientific pipeline and ensure that these faculty have the resources to continue their work regardless of breaks in traditional funding, the W.M. Keck Foundation has given UCLA a $1.4 million grant to support seven projects that pair newly named Keck Scholars (assistant or associate professors) with Keck Fellows (doctoral students) in critical and emerging areas of research.
Continue reading on UCLA Newsroom: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-receives-research-grant-keck-foundation-bridge-funding