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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.

Fall 2024 Innovation Day

Wednesday, October 9, 2024, Virtual

Join us to learn about how the OSU Advantage office support innovators and entrepreneurs on campus. During this virtual session we will give an overview of the programs we offer and share information about how to you work to secure funding for your idea. Learn more and register here.

DOE SCGSR Application Assistance Workshop 2

Thursday, October 10, 2024, Zoom

This workshop will guide attendees through the application process of the Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program, answer general questions, provide guidance on proposal writing, and feature discussions with scientists and former awardees; register here. 

NSF Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) Informational webinar

Thursday, October 10, 2024, Virtual

NSF is launching the Safety, Security, and Privacy for Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) program. This program solicits proposals from OSEs, including those not originally funded by NSF's Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, to address significant safety, security, and/or…

Using GPUs to Speed Up and Innovate Health Research

Friday, October 11, 2024, Hallie Ford Center #115

Cancer screening, medical imaging, and environmental exposure assessment. These are just a few examples in which GPUs are driving innovation in health research. In this seminar, Zoe Ryan and Andy Larkin will provide an overview of what GPUs are and why they are valuable for research. They will…

Exploring the Ethics and Societal Interactions of Climate Intervention

Tuesday, October 15, 2024, Online

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be hosting a series of workshops in October and November 2024 on the ethical and social dynamics of climate intervention technologies. NSF is looking for social scientists, ethicists, natural and life scientists, and engineers to join the conversation on…

Funding opportunities

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

Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

National Science Foundation

Deadline: Thursday, October 10, 2024

Four NSF Directorates will jointly sponsor research collaborations consisting of mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers, and social and behavioral scientists focused on the mathematical and theoretical foundations of AI.

American Cancer Society Grants

American Cancer Society

Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2024

ACS funds basic, translational, clinical, and cancer control research now and in the future.

M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust Scientific Equipment Grant Program

M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust

Deadline: Friday, October 18, 2024

Limited Submission. The Murdock Charitable Trust provides Northwest research universities three opportunities to apply for and secure funding for the acquisition of major scientific equipment to support research in the natural sciences, engineering and medicine.

Gordon and Betty Moore Inventor Fellowship Program

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Deadline: Friday, October 18, 2024

This competition seeks to identify outstanding early-stage inventors at major research universities who are harnessing science and technology solutions to enhance scientific research, strengthen environmental conservation, or improve the experience and outcomes of patient care.

Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) Young Investigator Award

Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA)

Deadline: Monday, October 21, 2024

LOI Due 10/21/2024, Full proposal 11/4/2024

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Deadline: Thursday, October 24, 2024

Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through July 2026. A review will be conducted quarterly. Next deadline is January 23, 2025.

Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research

ALS Foundation

Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024

This award, which comes with a $50,000 prize, recognizes an individual who has made significant research contributions in the search for the causes, prevention, and cure of ALS.

Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences

Simons Foundation

Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024

Letter of Intent: The aim of the Simons Collaborations in MPS program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science.

Dear Colleague Letter: UKRI/BBSRC- NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in four topical areas.

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024

Letter of Intent due.The goal of this activity is to promote transatlantic collaborative research by reducing some of the barriers that researchers may encounter. Topic areas: biological informatics, host-microbe interactions, synthetic cells/ systems, synthetic microbial communities.

Enhancing Host Immune Responses Against Solid Tumors

Daiichi Sankyo (through Halo)

Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024

We are looking for technologies to improve the efficacy and/or enhance multifunctionality of multi-specific antibody or CAR-T as single agents. Our focus is on two key areas, 1) to alleviate the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME), and 2) to overcome heterogeneity of solid tumors by leveraging host immune responses against tumor neoantigens.

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.

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.