Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship    https://sloan.org/fellowships/?L=0

Limitation:  Candidates must be nominated by a department head or other senior researcher. Submissions unaccompanied by a nomination from a senior researcher are not accepted. More than one candidate from a department may be nominated, but no more than three.

Eligibility:

• Candidates must hold a tenure track (or equivalent) position at a college, university, or other degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada.  Tenure track faculty positions at the candidate's institution must include a yearly teaching requirement.
• Candidates must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field;
• A candidate's most recent Ph.D. (or equivalent) must have been awarded on or after September 1, 2011.  Exceptions may apply. 

Deadline:   Application materials should be routed through your department and to Sponsored Programs by September 8, 2017.  All nomination materials, including nomination letters and all letters of support, must be submitted online to the sponsor by September 15, 2017.