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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.

2025 OSU Diversity Research Reception publication submission

, Register Online
We want to highlight and celebrate you! Have you recently published on topics related to increasing access, success and belonging? Publications and other scholarly outputs collected will be shared at the reception and online. Submit your publications here by January 24, 2025.

Registration: Ignite session on Clean and Smart Water

, Kelley Engineering Center (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. Sparked by conversations of harnessing water…

DOE Office of Science 2025 Early Career Research Program Informational Webinar

, Webinar
Join us to learn about the DOE 2025 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program which supports research for outstanding scientists early in their careers. The program will support over 80 early career researchers for five years at U.S. academic institutions, DOE national laboratories, and…

Cyber AND: Bridging Disciplines for Cybersecurity Innovation

, Webinar
Facilitated by National Defense University’s Dr. Gwyneth Sutherlin, UC2 Director. The goal of the discussion is to build awareness within the academic community and the Department of Defense about the critical role multidisciplinary collaboration plays in driving innovation in cybersecurity…

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Solicitation Webinar

, Webinar
MRSEC Program Director (PD) Dr. Serdar Öğüt will give a 40-minute presentation focusing on topics such as: a brief overview of the MRSEC program and its history, an overview of the competition timeline and process and key changes to the current solicitation that should be considered. Immediately…

Funding opportunities

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

Travel Support for Mathematicians

Simons Foundation
Deadline:
The goal of this program is to stimulate collaboration in the field of mathematics primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures.

Welch Award in Chemistry

The Welch Foundation
Deadline:
[Nominations] The purpose of The Welch Award in Chemistry is to foster and encourage basic chemical research and to recognize, in a substantial manner, the value of chemical research contributions for the benefit of humankind.

Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Deadline:
[Nominations]. The foundation invites nominations for the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, a €1 million ($1.05 million) prize that recognizes outstanding contributions to climate action and climate solutions that inspire hope. Any individual, organization, or group of people and organizations making a significant contribution to tackling climate change is eligible.

EvansMDS Young Investigator Awards 2025

Edward P. Evans Foundation
Deadline:
EvansMDS is conducting this competitive grant program to identify and fund research into the etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment of MDS that is collaborative, transformative, and of high impact. This transition award is for up to three years of funding at $150K/year targeted at senior trainees looking to move to an independent investigator position in Myelodysplastic Syndromes research.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
Deadline:
The fund invites applications for its postdoctoral fellowship program, which provides stipends to between 25 and 30 postdoctoral fellows each year to conduct basic cancer and human disease-related research in laboratories in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Models and tools for predicting 3D deformation of thin flexible materials

Apply through Halo
Deadline:
Easy application process through Halo. We are seeking innovative models, research, tools and methodologies to simulate the compliance and deformation of soft materials in contact with the body.

Quantum machine learning for predicting molecular spectral properties

BASF (apply through Halo)
Deadline:
Quick application process. We are looking for promising QML methods with the potential to exceed classical methods in terms of speed and accuracy. In a joint research project, we would like to evaluate the proposed QML method.

Neuroscience and Society

Dana Foundation
Deadline:
[Letter of Interest]. The Dana Foundation advances neuroscience that inspires transformational ideas where the field intersects with education, law, policy, and public engagement, among others.

Oregon Sea Grant announces the 2026-2028 Biennial Research Competition

Oregon Sea Grant
Deadline:
This call invites preliminary proposals from researchers who are affiliated with any Oregon institution of higher education for two-year research projects that address cutting-edge socioeconomic and biophysical science related to important marine and coastal issues.

Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
This solicitation seeks projects that use a model synthetic microbial community to better understand the formation, maintenance or functionality of natural communities and to understand a natural community's impact on the host. It also seeks projects that create synthetic communities with novel capabilities and aim to understand the biological underpinnings for these novel capabilities.

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.

Human Longevity and Chronic Disease

The Longevity Science Foundation (LSF)
Letter of Intent. The LSF may consider funding applications that do not align with the current grant call theme of female fertility and longevity, provided they focus on areas such as therapeutics, personalized medicine, AI, or preventive diagnostics. We encourage applicants with high-quality research proposals to apply.

ALS Research

Hop On A Cure
Letter of Intent. Hop On A Cure is dedicated to accelerating groundbreaking research aimed at preventing, reversing, and ultimately curing Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

Advanced Modeling of Thin Flexible Materials Compressed into 3D Shapes

Private Company (apply through Halo)
We are looking for research, tools, and methodologies to predict how bending, compression, and buckling of flat sheet materials can lead to specific 3D shapes.

Oregon Metals Initiative (OMI) matching funds

Oregon Metals Initiative
Oregon Metals Initiative (OMI) provides 1:1 match for funding from eligible Oregon companies.

Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence (MultiPLEx)

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.

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NiCE)

NSF

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.