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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.

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NSF's Molecular Foundations for Sustainability: Sustainable Polymers Enabled by Emerging Data Analytics (NSF MFS-SPEED) program invites you to attend a virtual question-and-answer session. The goal of the NSF MFS-SPEED program is to support fundamental research enabling the accelerated discovery…
, Sentinel Hotel in Portland
Attend the largest entrepreneurial awards event in Oregon at Sentinel Hotel in Portland. This is the perfect in-person opportunity to rekindle relationships and make a new connections with other members of the regional entrepreneur ecosystem. Check information or register to attend at www.oen.org
The OSU Advantage Accelerator is offering Iterate, a free virtual class for researchers and prospective entrepreneurs who have a business idea or technology that could become a sellable product or service but aren't sure what to do next. Iterate consists of four workshops on Wednesdays that build…
, Austin, TX
Showcase and pitch your innovations to leading investors, corporate scouts, and over $50B in federal funding authority. Our government and industry customers are seeking top emerging technologies across most all technology domains, with a special interest in innovations with dual-use industry and…

Funding opportunities

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

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
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
Deadline:
ACS funds basic, translational, clinical, and cancer control research now and in the future.
M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Deadline:
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 Foundation
Deadline:
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)
Deadline:
LOI Due 10/21/2024, Full proposal 11/4/2024
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Deadline:
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through July 2026. A review will be conducted quarterly. Next deadline is January 23, 2025.
ALS Foundation
Deadline:
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 Foundation
Deadline:
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.
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Deadline:
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.
Daiichi Sankyo (through Halo)
Deadline:
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.

National Science Foundation
Supports international multilateral research partnerships that address urgent global challenges by leveraging diverse expertise from countries outside the U.S., focusing on advancing research and understanding of effective multilateral collaboration.
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.
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.
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This site includes postings for paid jobs, Postdoctoral Fellowships, etc from all over the country.
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.