---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16324"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16324"
heading: "Energy research fellowships"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16324"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part G — Science"
---

# §16324. Energy research fellowships

- (a) **Postdoctoral fellowship program—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall establish a program under which the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) provides fellowships to encourage outstanding young scientists and engineers to pursue postdoctoral research appointments in energy research and development at institutions of higher education of their choice.
- (b) **Senior research fellowships—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall establish a program under which the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) provides fellowships to allow outstanding senior researchers and their research groups in energy research and development to explore research and development topics of their choosing for a period of not less than 3 years, to be determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4).
  - (2) **Consideration—** In providing a fellowship under the program described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1), the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall consider—
    - (A) the past scientific or technical accomplishment of a senior researcher; and
    - (B) the potential for continued accomplishment by the researcher during the period of the fellowship.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 984, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 908.)