The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will soon begin accepting applications for their annual Sloan Research Fellowships program. Each year, the foundation awards 126 two-year fellowships for early-career scientists and scholars who show exceptional promise in the fields of chemistry, computational & evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences and physics.

The application deadline is Sept. 16, 2013. More information is available on the Sloan Foundation website.