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DOE SC hereby announces the Genesis Mission Graduate Fellowship Pilot to cultivate a
highly skilled, AI-ready scientific workforce. Driven by insights from the Genesis Mission

Summit and the associated Request for Information, this program addresses the urgent
national need for domestic Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers who possess
dual competencies in SI and a scientific discipline. By pioneering an
accelerated, highly focused four-year doctoral pathway, the Pilot incentivizes
U.S. academic institutions to reform traditional graduate education models.

Successful applications will establish pilots that integrate
rigorous dual-competency academic coursework with high-impact research
experiences at DOE National Laboratories/SC user facilities and industry
partners, producing an initial cohort of approximately 100 Genesis Mission
Graduate Fellows in four years.

Cost Sharing: Cost sharing for basic and fundamental
research is not required pursuant to an exclusion from the requirements of
Section 988 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Funding details:

• Approximate number of awards: 4–8
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  Approximate dollar amount of individual awards: $12–25
  million
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  Approximate award project period: 60 months
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  Anticipated length of budget periods: 12 months