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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.

AI Week Lightning Talks and Poster Session

, CH2MHILL Alumni Center, Ballroom C
This is a fantastic opportunity to highlight your research, connect across disciplines, and help showcase the breadth and impact of AI-related work happening at OSU from foundational research to applied projects and classroom explorations. We would love to see work done by students working on…

Oceanography in the Age of Intelligent Robots and a Changing Climate

, National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. or virtually
This year’s lecture will explore how oceanography has changed in the age of intelligent robots and climate change. The featured lecturer, Dr. Chris Scholin (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), will discuss how the advent of robotic and advanced sensing and computing technologies has…

AI Week at OSU

, Apr 28 - May 2: See events page for locations
Join us for a week of learning, innovation, and collaboration as we explore the transformative potential of AI at Oregon State University. Events will be hosted virtually and in-person at the Corvallis campus and will include presentations from key industry leaders and partners. Events are…

Funding opportunities

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

AACR-Exelixis Renal Cell Carcinoma Research Fellowship

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Deadline:
The research proposed for funding may be in basic, translational, clinical, or population sciences research and must have direct applicability and relevance to renal cell carcinoma.

Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)

Department of Defense (DoD)
Deadline:
This program aims to enhance the research capabilities of U.S. institutions of higher education by providing funds for the acquisition of major research equipment or instrumentation.

Advance Underwater Communication for the Future of Naval Operations: A Call for Solutions

Department of Defense (DoD)
Deadline:
This solicitation is looking to rapidly speed and scale solutions that will enhance the sensing, interpreting, and navigating capabilities of autonomous platforms to provide an operational advantage in all environments.

Cancer Research Grants

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Deadline:
The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research to investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking Urgent Climate Action by Making the Health Effects of Climate Change Visible

Wellcome
Deadline:
The aim of this scheme is to make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale. We will fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that maximise policy outcomes by combining evidence generation with influencing and engagement strategies.

Photosensitive insulating materials for semiconductor packaging

Apply through Halo
Deadline:
The sponsor is looking for a novel photosensitive insulating material or a new method to induce photosensitivity to resin materials that goes beyond those currently used in industrial applications, specifically for semiconductor back-end processes.

Shortwave infrared photodetector materials and growth technologies

Apply through Halo
Deadline:
The sponsor is looking for new materials and manufacturing approaches to enable the next generation of cost-effective, high-performance SWIR photodetectors.

AWS AI: Agentic AI call for proposals

Amazon
Deadline:
AWS offers a broad and deep set of tools for businesses to create impactful AI solutions faster. Our mission is to share our learnings and AI capabilities as fully managed services, and put them into the hands of every scientist and developer.

Standing up for Science - The John Maddox Prize

Nature Awards
Deadline:
The John Maddox Prize, is for researchers who stand up and speak out for science and for evidence-based policy, advancing public discussion around difficult topics despite challenges or hostility, successfully making change happen in public discourse, opinion or policy.

Dear Colleague Letter: Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bioeconomy (UICREX-Bioeconomy)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
NSF invites existing awardees in selected clusters/programs/divisions within the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO) and Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) to explore the Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bio-economy (UICREX-Bioeconomy) to extend funding for research awards that have the potential to be translated into commercial activities in the U.S. bio-economy.

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 20-586: Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE)

National Science foundation
The RARE program includes two Tracks to catalyze the advancement of investigators along the academic tenure system after a research hiatus, either to a tenure-track position or to a higher-tenured academic rank.

Rolling grant opportunities

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Grand Challenges family of initiatives fosters innovation to solve key health and development problems.

Human Longevity and Chronic Disease

The Longevity Science Foundation (LSF)
Letter of Intent. The LSF may consider funding applications that do not align with the current grant call theme of female fertility and longevity, provided they focus on areas such as therapeutics, personalized medicine, AI, or preventive diagnostics. We encourage applicants with high-quality research proposals to apply.

ALS Research

Hop On A Cure
Letter of Intent. Hop On A Cure is dedicated to accelerating groundbreaking research aimed at preventing, reversing, and ultimately curing Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

Advanced Modeling of Thin Flexible Materials Compressed into 3D Shapes

Private Company (apply through Halo)
We are looking for research, tools, and methodologies to predict how bending, compression, and buckling of flat sheet materials can lead to specific 3D shapes.

Oregon Metals Initiative (OMI) matching funds

Oregon Metals Initiative
Oregon Metals Initiative (OMI) provides 1:1 match for funding from eligible Oregon companies.

Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence (MultiPLEx)

National Science Foundation
Supports international multilateral research partnerships that address urgent global challenges by leveraging diverse expertise from countries outside the U.S., focusing on advancing research and understanding of effective multilateral collaboration.

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.

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.