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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.

Upcoming Events

Upcoming conferences, workshops, seminars, events or other funding related dates.

, Hallie Ford Center Room 115 and Zoom
The College of Health research seminar speaker Diana Rohlman, Associate Professor, Senior Research in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology will highlight her research on conducting exposure studies and reporting the research results to study participants and their communities.…
, Virtual
The Division of Research and Innovation and the Office of Institutional Diversity are hosting two information sessions for principal investigators regarding changes on the federal research landscape. At these sessions, we will provide a brief overview of the university’s work to date, and then we…
, KEC 1001
OSU’s Clean Water Initiative and CEOAS Hydrogeology jointly invite you to an ignite-type session on Clean and Smart Water, encouraging everyone who is interested in the intersection of clean water, AI/ML, sensors, etc. to join us on Feb 17 at 4-6 PM. The session will be held in Kelley Engineering…
, Webinar
The Division of Research and Innovation and Research Council are now accepting requests for competitive Research Equipment Reserve Funds (RERF) applications to purchase capital equipment, through Friday, March 28. Join the Office for Research Advancement for an information session that will outline…
, Virtual
We would like to hear from the OSU research community about recent impacts or concerns with your research from recent federal administration changes and executive orders (EOs). While we may not have all the answers in a fast changing environment, we want to listen and learn from you. Capacity for…

Funding opportunities

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

Tata Steel (apply through Halo)
Deadline:
Quick application process. We are looking for a solution to enable the a) use of industrial pipeline argon gas for OES analysis of steel samples, ensuring the removal of impurities (including N2) and moisture, with the potential for argon gas recycling and regeneration in the process of usage, and/or b) regeneration/ recycling of used argon gas (supplied to OES from cylinders) in the OES process.
Homeworld Collective
Deadline:
Homeworld Collective is funding ambitious, early-stage projects at the intersection of biotechnology and greenhouse gas removal.
Foundation for Prader-Willi Research
Deadline:
Letter of Intent. The Foundation for Prader-Willi Research addresses the many issues related to Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), including childhood obesity, developmental delay, psychiatric disorders, and autism spectrum disorders.
Apply through Halo
Deadline:
Concept paper. The sponsor is seeking an innovative coating for nails that provides three-week durability, easy peel-off removal, and no damage to natural nails. They are open to collaborating with experts in materials science, polymer chemistry, or biomedical engineering to develop a viable solution.
Tata Steel (apply through Halo)
Deadline:
Concept paper. Tata Steel is seeking a solution to enable the use of industrial pipeline argon gas for OES analysis of steel samples, ensuring the removal of impurities (including N2) and moisture, with the potential for argon gas recycling and regeneration in the process of usage, and/or regeneration/ recycling of used argon gas (supplied to OES from cylinders) in the OES process.
OSU Advantage
Deadline:
The OSU Advantage Accelerator is currently seeking applications that describe technology-based projects in any discipline that will move OSU-owned technologies closer to societal impact.
Global Health Investment Corporation
Deadline:
Projects should align with global health security priorities, addressing issues such as infectious disease outbreaks, bioterrorism, antimicrobial resistance, and health system resilience. A wide range of disciplines (immunology, microbiology, virology, material science, market research, etc.) are in scope.
National Science Foundation
Deadline:
This program seeks to stimulate the development of innovative mathematical theories, techniques, and approaches to investigate challenging questions of great interest to biologists and public health policymakers.
Department of Energy
Deadline:
$2M is available to support the advancement of Nuclear Data for Fusion Applications, particularly neutron interaction cross-sections, decay pathways, and activation products.
National Institutes of Health
Deadline:
The purpose of this initiative is to request applications that aim to implement and evaluate multi-level interventions and community engaged research in advancing vision equity. 

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.

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.
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Self-nominations accepted. Scialog supports research, intensive dialogue, and community building to address scientific challenges of global significance.
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").
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.