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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)

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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.

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.

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.

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").

Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)

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.

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.