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The College of Science awards a variety of different fellowships and scholarships in collaboration with the Graduate School and private foundations.
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Research funding, news and events for graduate students and postdocs
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Research funding, news and events for graduate students and postdocs
Upcoming Events
Upcoming conferences, workshops, seminars, events or other funding related dates.
Monday, April 22, 2024, Virtual
Now more than ever, technical expertise is needed in AI governance and policy. In this live chat, hear from three current AAAS STPF AI fellows who will share the journey as a fellow and how the fellowship has impacted their careers. They’ll offer advice on how your experience intersects with policy…
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, Virtual
In this session, we'll cover the basics around what Deep Learning is, look at how it fits within the AI/ML universe, dive into neural networks (including CNNs, LSTMs, and GANs), and walk through a typical Deep Learning project lifecycle. We'll cap the session with a 20-minute rapid mini-workshop…
Thursday, April 25, 2024, MU Horizon Room
This year's cohort of Research Advancement Academy Fellows will present 3-minute pitch presentations followed by a Q&A. Opening remarks by President Jayathi Murthy, closing remarks by VPRI, Irem Tumer. The closes out with a hosted celebration honoring the Fellows. Current class of RAA fellows…
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, Virtual
In this session, we'll cover what datasets for Machine Learning and Deep Learning projects look like and how to find them. This will include highlighting some of the most popular datasets in the community today as well as good sources to download these datasets from. Some brief tips and tricks for…
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, Webinar
Kraft Heinz scientists will be discussing their partnering opportunity on Halo and answering questions directly from researchers. You can review the opportunity in advance here.
Funding opportunities
You can also view a full, filterable list of funding opportunities for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.
PhRMA Foundation
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Letter of Intent: The PhRMA Foundation catalyzes the careers of promising researchers through competitive, peer-reviewed grants and fellowships in three focus areas: Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Translational Medicine.
VentureWell
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The E-Team Program helps student teams kickstart their innovation through a powerful mix of grant funding and entrepreneurship training.
Save Our Seas Foundation
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[Stage 1 Proposal]. Our Keystone Grants are dedicated to supporting all marine scientists, conservationists and educators with innovative projects that target a clearly defined question or are working on conservation issues pertaining to sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras.
Simons Foundation
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We are interested in applicants with training in different disciplines, including modeling and theory development, as well as applicants already involved in ocean research.
Simons Foundation
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The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support candidates who intend to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in marine microbial ecology, with an emphasis on understanding the role of microorganisms in shaping ocean processes and vice versa.
Amazon
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AWS is committed to helping customers achieve the highest levels of security in the cloud. Our security services use cutting-edge machine learning (ML) algorithms to improve the security posture of AWS accounts.
Amazon
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Amazon's Sustainability Research Awards program invites proposals for innovative projects that merge machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies to support carbon abatement strategies.
Human Frontier Science Program
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[Letter of Intent] The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged.
Environmental Protection Agency
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Request for Applications (RFA) from eligible entities to improve the understanding of toxics and their effects on water quality in the Columbia River Basin by increasing the number, type, and scientific rigor of toxics monitoring projects in the Columbia River Basin through specific actions in three program priority areas (see within).
Various
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Opportunities with BASF, Kraft Heinz, Bayer Pharma, and other industry sponsors focused on topics like micro-algae production, aluminum foil alternatives, digital solutions in agriculture, and more.
Vilcek Foundation
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The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement.
Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Research Foundation
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The Research Foundation is focused on funding projects grounded in basic laboratory science and the education of scientists working on breakthroughs directed toward a cure for paralysis, secondary health effects and technologies associated with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D).
National Science Foundation
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Developmental Sciences supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan.
National Science Foundation
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The objective of the PACSP Program is to support conservation research that investigates organismal biology, ecology, and/or evolution and is designed to contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based activities and/or technology solutions to advance biodiversity conservation.
Rolling opportunities
Faculty funding opportunities with no set deadline. You can also view a full, filterable list of funding opportunities for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.
BASF
BASF is seeking a biodegradable encapsulation material for hydrophobic active ingredients. Core-shell morphologies are of high interest, but relevant matrix capsules and other morphologies will be considered.
Various
This site includes postings for paid jobs, Postdoctoral Fellowships, etc from all over the country.
National Science Foundation
NSF seeks to catalyze research that leverages the full diversity and complexity of life to focus attention on the discovery of molecular and evolutionary mechanisms that have permitted organisms, over millions of years of evolution, to innovate and thrive, often in hostile and changing environments.
Graduate School
Award amounts vary based upon hardship and need but will typically not exceed $1500 per student per academic year.
OSU Departmental Opportunity
The Mehl Lab in the Biochemistry & Biophysics Department at Oregon State University is looking for multiple creative and ambitious postdocs who are interested in expanding our recent developments in genetic code expansion, protein engineering, structural biology and studies on protein post-translational modifications.
OSU Graduate School
The Graduate School offers the Scholarly Presentation Award to provide graduate students with financial support to assist with certain costs associated with presenting their scholarly work at academic conferences and meetings.
NIA pre and Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to Promote Diversity in Translational Research for AD/ADRD
National Institute on Aging
This FOA promote diversity in the translational research workforce for Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD).
U.S. Department of Defense
CCDC-SC is offering a novel research opportunity focusing to treat nanoparticles as giant atoms and construct new "molecules" out of them. The goal of this project is to translate this atomic level reality to nanoparticles by viewing them as atoms and generating nanoparticle "molecules" that will show new optical, electronic, mechanical, and catalytic properties.
OSU Graduate School
The Professional Development Award from the Graduate School reimburses eligible students up to $250 to pay for training, conference fees, webinars, and more.