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Research funding, news and events for faculty and researchers

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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.

Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Summer Course 2024

Monday, August 5, 2024, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

The OHSU Center for Developmental Health is hosting its third annual DOHaD Summer Course for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty. The course will emphasize career development. Participants will be paired with a faculty mentor throughout the course, and daily workshops…

American Cancer Society Grant writing Workshop

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, webinar

The workshop objectives are to: provide an overview of the American Cancer Society funded grants and research; provide 'insider tips' for a successful application process; understand how grants are evaluated; understand success rates in future funding; find online resources.

Open House with ACS PRF Program Officers

Monday, August 12, 2024, Zoom

ACS will hold a virtual Open House with ACS PRF Program Officers and the Finance Manager. This event is an opportunity to meet with PRF Staff and ask questions on the opening day of the submission window. The Open House is scheduled for Monday, August 12, 2024, from 2pm to 3pm EST. Please register…

Alan T. Waterman Webinar

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, Webinar

NSF is seeking nominations for exceptional candidates that represent the diversity of the U.S. Nominations for the Alan T Waterman Award will be accepted from July 22 – September 20, 2024.We will be holding an informational webinar so you can learn how to nominate someone for this prestigious award…

2024 Engagement Scholarship Consortium conference

Monday, October 7, 2024, Portland, OR

The 2024 Engagement Scholarship Consortium conference (October in Portland) is offering a fantastic pre-conference session called Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW) for advanced doctoral students and early career faculty seeking to increase their knowledge and enhance their practice of…

Funding opportunities

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

Developmental Sciences

National Science Foundation

Deadline: Tuesday, July 30, 2024

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.

Biomedical Science Grants

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation

Deadline: Thursday, August 1, 2024

Limited submission, contact the research office. This RFA supports early-stage biomedical investigators engaged in basic and translational research that has the potential to make fundamental advances in biomedical science.

ACS Professor Award

American Cancer Society

Deadline: Thursday, August 1, 2024

Letter of Intent due. Applicants must be at the rank of full professor and have made, and will likely continue to make, impactful contributions to change the direction of cancer research.

The Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP)

Department of Defense

Deadline: Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Letter of Intent (various deadlines). The BCRP challenges the scientific community to design research that will address the urgency of ending breast cancer. Specifically, the BCRP seeks to accelerate high-impact research with clinical relevance, encourage innovation and stimulate creativity, and facilitate productive collaborations.

Basic Scientific Research Grants

The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation

Deadline: Friday, August 9, 2024

Limited Submission! Examples of current research areas we support include immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, microbiology and infectious diseases, stem cell biology, and neuroscience.

Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss

McKnight Brain Research Foundation

Deadline: Monday, August 12, 2024

One award will be made to support studies focusing on clinical translational research and another award toward understanding basic biological mechanisms underlying cognitive aging and age-related memory loss.

Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG)

National Science Foundation

Deadline: Tuesday, August 13, 2024

The RTG program supports efforts to improve graduate student research training and professional development through structured groups pursuing collaborative research. In addition to graduate student trainees working with faculty members, RTG supported research teams may, but are not required to, include undergraduate or postdoctoral trainees.

Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)

National Science Foundation

Deadline: Wednesday, August 14, 2024

The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) Program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior.

MRF Grants

Medical Research Foundation

Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Medical Research Foundation supports promising biomedical exploration and the development of research careers in clinical investigation in Oregon through a program of three competitively awarded research grants: Early Clinical Investigator, Emergency Interim Support and New Investigator.

NSF Major Research Instrumentation

National Science Foundation

Deadline: Friday, August 16, 2024

Limited Submission deadline: This year’s NSF Major Research Instrumentation internal limited submission competition Notice of Intent is due on August 16 and full proposals are due in November to NSF.

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.

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.