Career Guidance for Trainees

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund announces a workshop for early career administrators whose work focuses on the career development of PhD scientists. The workshop will focus on developing participants' research evaluation skills while creating new career focused interventions or activities for use at the participants' home institutions. In the year following the workshop, participants will each develop their research and evaluation networks, run their project with support from a $15,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, submit their results for presentation at a national meeting, and produce a rigorously prepared manuscript for publication. Eight seats are available for the Project Development and Evaluation Workshop scheduled for May 19-21, 2026. Eligible applicants are academic administrators whose work is at least 80% focused on career development activities pertaining to graduate students or postdoctoral fellows at a research focused institution in the United States or Canada and who have been in this type of role for at least 3 years but not more than 7 years. Typically, successful applicants will be running substantial activities within graduate career centers, postdoctoral offices, or interdepartmental graduate programs. Selection will be based on the creativity of the application, the strength of the institutional commitment, and the strength of accompanying letters, with an expectation that the workshop will reflect a diverse geographic range, a variety of institution types, and a diverse group of practitioners.