Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§288a Visiting Scientist Awards

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter III— NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part G— Awards and Training › § 288a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give awards called "Visiting Scientist Awards" to excellent scientists who agree to work temporarily at colleges or universities that have many disadvantaged students. The goal is to let local faculty and students get help, advice, and teaching about research, teaching, and building courses in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and other related topics the Secretary allows. Each award must include pay equal to the salary the scientist would have gotten from the institution where they are permanently employed or most recently worked. The Secretary will set rules about who can get an award and the award terms.

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Title 42, §288a

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(a)The Secretary may make awards (hereafter in this section referred to as “Visiting Scientist Awards”) to outstanding scientists who agree to serve as visiting scientists at institutions of postsecondary education which have significant enrollments of disadvantaged students. Visiting Scientist Awards shall be made by the Secretary to enable the faculty and students of such institutions to draw upon the special talents of scientists from other institutions for the purpose of receiving guidance, advice, and instruction with regard to research, teaching, and curriculum development in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and such other aspects of these sciences as the Secretary shall deem appropriate.

(b)The amount of each Visiting Scientist Award shall include such sum as shall be commensurate with the salary or remuneration which the individual receiving the award would have been entitled to receive from the institution with which the individual has, or had, a permanent or immediately prior affiliation. Eligibility for and terms of Visiting Scientist Awards shall be determined in accordance with regulations the Secretary shall prescribe.

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42 U.S.C. § 288a

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60