This award supports early-career researchers in developing expertise in rigorous scientific methods such as preregistration, blinding, randomization, and transparent dissemination. Scholars collaborate within local and national cohorts to co-develop procedures and share lessons, fostering skills to promote scientific rigor and reproducibility across institutions.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of organizations such as state and local governments, tribal governments and organizations, public and private higher education institutions, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, small businesses, and others including federal agencies and non-U.S. entities.