The Klarman Fellowships in Cornell University's College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. The premier program offers the Fellows independence from constraints of particular grants, enabling the recipients to devote themselves to frontline, innovative research without being tied to specific outcomes or teaching responsibilities.

Recipients may conduct research in any discipline in the College, including the natural, quantitative, and social sciences, humanistic inquiry, and the creative arts as well as emerging, cross-cutting fields that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and hold particular promise for broader impact.

Klarman Fellowships are conferred to emerging researchers of exceptional promise in any of the disciplines in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University. Qualified candidates demonstrate the capacity for original thought combined with the intellectual rigor and discipline to investigate their ideas in meaningful ways.

Awardees must have earned the doctoral degree within two years of beginning the Klarman Fellowship. Candidates with more than two years of postdoctoral experience, and those who received their PhD from Cornell or have held any position at Cornell for more than six months (at the time of application) are not eligible. Awardees may not simultaneously hold any other paid or unpaid position during the term of the appointment.