The Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards advance the University’s enduring commitment to the scholarship and creative activity of early career faculty across the ten campuses of the University of California. Selected awardees will receive a one-time $50,000 allocation to support their proposed research plan and associated allowable activities during the upcoming academic year. Reflecting the power of the ten-campus system, these award recipients will represent the breadth of the excellence of the professoriate while accelerating the continued impact of UC in California, across the country and around the world. This program builds on a range of existing programs and initiatives designed to support thriving faculty careers at UC. Indeed, the changing national landscape for research funding demands a renewed commitment and investment in the talent, achievement and promise of early career faculty at UC.