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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.

Sustainability Research Awards

Amazon
Deadline:
Amazon's Sustainability Research Awards program invites proposals for innovative projects that merge machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies to support carbon abatement strategies.

2025 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award

Department of Energy
Deadline:
The Lawrence Award is presented by the Secretary of Energy to honor mid-career U.S. scientists and engineers for exceptional technical contributions and achievements in research and development supporting DOE’s mission and its programs to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States.

Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) Grants

Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)
Deadline:
The ADDF provides funding to academic centers and biotechs from around the world that are advancing therapeutic and biomarker development for Alzheimer's and related dementias.

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Cancer Programs

Department of Defense
Deadline:
Pre-applications required. Department of Defense (DOD) programs managed by the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) funding announcements released for cancer research.

Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
SRS RNs will conduct innovative and pioneering fundamental research and education that is of a scale and complexity that would not be possible within a single organization, center, or through the normal collaborative modes of NSF research support in core programs.

Pivot Fellowship Request for Applications

The Simons Foundation
Deadline:
The Pivot Fellowship program will support researchers who have a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, and a deep interest, curiosity and drive to make contributions to a new discipline.

Ideas Lab: Advancing Cell-Free Systems Toward Increased Range of Use-Inspired Applications (CFIRE)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
Preliminary proposal due. The Advancing Cell-Free Systems Toward Increased Range of Use-Inspired Applications (CFIRE) initiative will accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems, enable new applications of this technology and contribute to the growth of the U.S. bioeconomy.

Columbia river Basin Restoration Program, Science and monitoring competition

Environmental Protection Agency
Deadline:
Request for Applications (RFA) from eligible entities to improve the understanding of toxics and their effects on water quality in the Columbia River Basin by increasing the number, type, and scientific rigor of toxics monitoring projects in the Columbia River Basin through specific actions in three program priority areas (see within).

Neuroscience Collaborations Courses and Conferences Awards

Simons Foundation
Deadline:
The Neuroscience Collaborations at the Simons Foundation are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in fundamental neuroscience.

Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2025 Funding Opportunity.

NOAA
Deadline:
Ocean Exploration proposals should support exploration of unknown or poorly known ocean areas, processes, or resources in waters deeper than 200 meters or in tropical mesophotic environments. Maritime Heritage proposals should address the exploration for significant maritime heritage resources that improve our understanding of the past and inform decisions about management and preservation.

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.

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.

Biodegradable Micro-Encapsulation of Active Ingredients

BASF
BASF is seeking a biodegradable encapsulation material for hydrophobic active ingredients. Core-shell morphologies are of high interest, but relevant matrix capsules and other morphologies will be considered.

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.

ATA Innovative Grants Research Program

American Tinnitus Association
Researchers who are working on novel approaches that may contribute substantively to scientific understanding of tinnitus, breakthroughs in treatments, and possible cures are encouraged to apply for an ATA grant award.

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").