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Internal Funding Opportunities

The College has a portfolio of internal funding opportunities. The Research and Innovation Seed Program (SciRIS) awards seed funding for high impact collaborative proposals that build teams, pursue fundamental discoveries, and create societal impact. There are other internal funding opportunities in addition to the SciRIS awards. Deadlines 15 April, 15 October.

Innovation (Industry Partnership) Award

The College of Science Industry Partnership Award provides critical resources for projects that take a new direction, utilize a new technology or are in the “proof-of-concept” phase. Undergraduate & graduate students and faculty researchers can participate, with a preference given to graduate students and faculty who are developing new areas of research and/or establishing or augmenting research partnerships with external industrial partners. The Innovation award is made possible by funds from the College of Science Venture Fund.

Checklist for incoming researchers

This checklist is intended to assist incoming faculty in their preparations to initiate research-related activities at OSU. Please review all relevant areas below and contact the related units as appropriate. This checklist is for your reference and does not need to be returned to the Research Office or Environmental Health and Safety.

The Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Scholar Program

The SREB Doctoral Scholar Program was established more than 20 years ago to increase the number of underrepresented scholars who earn the Ph.D. and to address the need for a more diverse college faculty. The SREB provides multiple layers of support, including, but not limited to financial assistance and research funding, but also career counseling, job postings and a scholar directory for networking and recruiting.

NASA Minority Serving Institutions Exchange

The MSI Exchange is a tool that supports your search for innovative and diverse academic collaborators by curating STEM offerings and capability statements of MSIs nationwide. The MSI Exchange can inform partnerships for teaming opportunities and competitive federal awards such as contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants.

Faculty Senate Awards

Deadlines range from April - June, but many limit the number of nominations per College, so check the dates of interest for internal deadlines. Note that the OSU Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship has a limited submission. Our internal deadline is one month before The Senate's deadline. Contact us with questions.

Campus-wide cost share request form

College pre-award units across campus have teamed up and created a cost share template and request form.

Download: Cost Share Template (xlsx)

Upcoming Events

Upcoming conferences, workshops, seminars, events or other funding related dates.

NSF Webinar on New Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2) Opportunity

, Zoom
The Regional Resilience Innovation Incubators (R2I2; NSF 24-595) will support community-engaged team science to co-design high-impact solutions to climate-related societal challenges that leverage recent advances in fundamental climate change and Earth system science research. Support will result…

DARPA Connect Event

, Omaha, NE
This full-day event is designed to enhance your DARPA journey, whether you're new to the agency or a seasoned participant looking for advanced success strategies. Take advantage of this exclusive opportunity to interact with DARPA leadership, staff, program managers, and contracting office…

WiN Presents: Journey Through Innovation with Aruna Kumar

, 2 Towns Ciderhouse, 33930 SE Eastgate Cir, Corvallis. Venue is 21+
Enjoy an evening of networking at 2 Towns Ciderhouse and come meet fellow business professionals, entrepreneurs, and innovators and hear from Aruna Kumar about her journey through the tech world. Dive into the inspiring career of Aruna Kumar, a trailblazer in the tech industry who navigated the…

Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Office Hours

, Virtual
Please join Program Officers from NSF's Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (MFAI) Program for the upcoming office hour series, which will provide a forum for asking the MFAI team clarifying questions regarding the solicitation. These events are open to researchers who are…

OHSU: Biomedical Innovation Commercialization Readiness Program

, Virtual
This 6-week I-Corps short course offers a new approach to accelerate the translation of discoveries from lab to clinical practice. Based on the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-CorpsTM) program, BIP Corp is an evidence-based experience that will take you out of your comfort zone to…

Funding opportunities

You can also view a full, filterable list of funding opportunities for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.

Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics

The Greenwall Foundation
Deadline:
Letter intent due. The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research.

WAGS/ProQuest Awards

OSU Graduate School
Deadline:
Each year, the Graduate School at Oregon State University partners with the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and ProQuest to solicit nominees in four award categories

Research Advancement Academy 2024-25 Recruitment

Office for Research and Advancement
Deadline:
The goal of the Academy is to support a cohort of Fellows to successfully lead large transdisciplinary proposals & funded research programs.

Earth and Environmental Systems Science in the Southeast U.S.

Department of Energy
Deadline:
Pre-application. FOA focuses on measurements, experiments, field data, modeling, analysis, and synthesis to provide improved understanding and representation of ecosystems, watersheds, atmospheric processes, and regional modeling in ways that advance the sophistication and capabilities of models that span from individual processes to Earth-system scales.

Bats for the Future Fund

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Deadline:
NFWF and US FWS are soliciting proposals to take action to slow or halt the impacts of white-nose syndrome disease (WNS) in North America and promote the survival and recovery of WNS-affected bat populations and species.

The Alan T. Waterman Award

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
The Alan T. Waterman Award recognizes an outstanding early career researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The annual award is the nation's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers. 

ACS Postdoc bridge grant and early-, mid-career grants

American Chemical Society
Deadline:
Postdoc or faculty in first 9 months of appointment who plans to launch an independent research career in academia, and an early/mid-career opportunity to spend 6-12 months in an industry, national or academic lab at a different institution.

Sustainable Future Grant Program

Deadline:
The initiative begins with a campaign to fully engage the chemistry community in designing solutions to the grand challenges of sustainability, reimagining how we teach and practice chemistry with a sustainability focus, and raising public awareness among about chemistry’s role in a sustainable future.

Artificial Intelligence Powered Approaches For T1D Cell Therapy

Breakthrough T1D
Deadline:

Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations

National Institutes of Health
Deadline:
This opportunity invites eligible academic or research institutions to apply for funding support to purchase latest scientific equipment that will enhance and modernize research-supporting operations of existing shared biomedical research facilities.

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.

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NiCE)

NSF

Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunities for Science and Engineering Research with Impact on Women's Health

National Science Foundation
NSF continues to support fundamental science and engineering research with implications for women's health. This DCL reaffirms NSF's commitment to fund discovery, innovation, and research translation on topics of relevance to women's health, from the molecular to the ecosystem level, including input from the full range of science, engineering, and education that NSF supports.

Dear Colleague Letter: Funding Opportunities for Science and Engineering Research with Impact on Women's Health

National Science Foundation
NSF continues to support fundamental science and engineering research with implications for women's health. This DCL reaffirms NSF's commitment to fund discovery, innovation, and research translation on topics of relevance to women's health, from the molecular to the ecosystem level, including input from the full range of science, engineering, and education that NSF supports.

Gaulke Center for Marine Innovation and Technology

Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
This initiative aims to leverage the diverse strengths of our faculty to foster multidisciplinary research teams focused on marine innovation and technology to address pressing global challenges. All faculty are encouraged to collaborate and submit a proposal, with the requirement there be at least one investigator from two of the following colleges: CAS, COE and CEOAS.

SACNAS Career Center

Various
This site includes postings for paid jobs, Postdoctoral Fellowships, etc from all over the country.

Dear Colleague Letter: Leveraging Innovations From Evolution (LIFE)

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.

U.S. Healthcare Donations

Amgen

Scialog Fellows

Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Self-nominations accepted. Scialog supports research, intensive dialogue, and community building to address scientific challenges of global significance.

Institutional Grant of the Stuntz Mycology Fund

Daniel E. Stunz Memorial Foundation
The aim of this grant program is to provide financial support for mycological research and education in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Although a wide range of mycological subjects can be considered, priority will be given to projects involving mushroom-forming fungi ("macrofungi," "macromycetes").

Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)

National Science Foundation
The CMMT program supports fundamental research that advances conceptual understanding of hard and soft materials, and materials-related phenomena; the development of associated analytical, computational, and data-centric techniques; and predictive materials-specific theory, simulation, and modeling for materials research.