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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 July, 15 December.

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.

Introduction to Datasets Speaker

, 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…

Kraft Heinz Webinar

, 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.

Introduction to Large Language Models

, Virtual
In this session, we'll overview the landscape around LLMs and Generative AI and look into a few of the most popular frameworks for training and using LLM models, including Mosaic MPT, Falcon, and Nemo. This session will also include a Jupyter Notebook lab that will take attendees through the…

Getting Started with Containers and the software stack around AI + How to get started working with OSU HPC Services

, Virtual
This session will cover the ML/DL ecosystem of container-powered technologies and the best ways to get started and accelerate your journey in building, training, deploying, and scaling your models, with the NVIDIA ecosystem software stack. We'll touch on NVIDIA NGC, Docker, Kubernetes, Singularity…

Intro to Omniverse & Digital Twins

, Virtual
In this session, we'll cover the basics around NVIDIA's Omniverse platform for 3D Design Collaboration and Simulation and the ecosystem of building Digital Twins. We'll touch on not only how to set up and rollout an Omniverse environment, but also how to integrate frameworks, like Modulus (physics…

Funding opportunities

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

Emerging Leader Award

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
Deadline:
Letter of Intent. The Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Awards support innovative cancer research from the next generation of leaders. These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio.

2025 Fellowships and Grants

PhRMA Foundation
Deadline:
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.

E-Team Program

VentureWell
Deadline:
The E-Team Program helps student teams kickstart their innovation through a powerful mix of grant funding and entrepreneurship training.

Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC): A Research and Action Competition Driven By Community Priorities

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
CIVIC funds projects that pilot state-of-the-art solutions to community challenges over 12 months, following a six-month planning phase, and have the potential for lasting impact in the partnering community as well as the potential to be scaled and implemented in other communities.

Dear Colleague Letter: Catalyzing human-centered solutions through research and innovation in science, the environment and society

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
Concept paper due. Full planning proposal due 7/1/24. The CRISES initiative invites planning proposals as a first step toward facilitating the creation of large-scale interdisciplinary research centers that will address today’s crises and ultimately enhance people’s quality of life.

DOE Clean Transportation Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment

Department of Energy
Deadline:
Concept paper due. DOE announced $45.8 million in new funding for projects that will advance research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) critical to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector.

The National Medal of Science (NMS) Nominations

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
The National Medal of Science (NMS) is the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. It was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences."

Keystone Grants

Save Our Seas Foundation
Deadline:
[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.

Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet (CHIRRP)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
Concept paper due. CHIRRP currently supports planning, conference, RCNs, EAGER, and RAISE proposals that support development of community partnerships, provide training for effective community engagement, catalyze ideas, and/or support the initial conceptualization, planning and collaboration activities aimed at formulating new and sound plans for future large-scale projects. Full proposal due 6/6

AI for Information Security

Amazon
Deadline:
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.

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.

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.

Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)

National Science Foundation
The S&CC program encourages researchers to work with community stakeholders to identify and define challenges they are facing, enabling those challenges to motivate use-inspired research questions.

University Innovation Research Fund

Oregon State University Research Office
The UIRF will support grants to public universities and the Oregon Health and Science University to match competitive federal research awards, increasing the competitiveness of Oregon universities for federal research funds, leveraging federal grants that require matching funds, and supporting innovation and research capacity.

Targeted Grants in MPS

Simons Foundation
The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
While this call for proposals is focused on broader and longer-term societal trends and shifts that were evolving prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we recognize the unique circumstances and learning created by the COVID-19 pandemic may inform your response. It is at your discretion whether you propose a project related to the pandemic directly or indirectly.

Scientific Research Grants

The G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation
The Foundation primarily supports basic science, ideally with potential translational applications. The Foundation does not support clinical or drug discovery. Immunology, microbiome, genomics, structural biology, cellular physiology, neuroscience, etc. are some noteworthy examples of current research support.

University Innovation Research Fund (UIRF) Matching Funds

Business Oregon
Call for proposals for matching funds through the UIRF. The Fund can be used as match for federal proposals that require financial match for projects that will support innovation or commercialization of technology at the universities that has a direct or potential connection to economic development. Projects must require a match of at least $250,000 to access the Fund.

Simons Foundation Grants

Simons Foundation
Information for anticipated upcoming funding opportunities through the Simons Foundation is posted in this link. Click the title for opportunities and due dates.

OSU Foundation Funding Opportunities Newsletter

Various
The OSU Foundation posts weekly Foundation RFP Funding Opportunities.

Limited submission opportunities

Oregon State University Research Office
The Research Office provides internal funding for research seeding, emergencies, time releases, equipment, and student involvement. Solicitation schedules and guidelines vary.