2025
RCSA launched this emergency initiative to help stabilize research programs after funding disruptions at the state and federal levels, making awards of up to $100,000 each to 11 teacher-scholars. The awards were open to scientists with appointments at U.S. academic institutions who either received a Cottrell Scholar Award in 2016 or later or were Holland Award recipients whose first academic appointment was in 2013 or later. Funds from the awards, focusing on high-potential programs that experienced significant and demonstrable funding disruptions, were intended to further advance recipients’ research or educational efforts, for example by ensuring completion of dissertations or post-doctoral studies of trainees or by ensuring support of undergraduate research opportunities under the applicant’s direction.