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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.

Partner with Industry: Kraft Heinz

, 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 (Biofilm coatings for preservation of fresh produce). Registration is required.

Call for nominations Faculty and Staff Awards

Help us recognize the outstanding work of our instructional, research and administrative staff by nominating them for an award. We will celebrate them at the winter awards celebration on Wednesday, February 26, 4-6:30 pm.

Winter Awards Celebration

, TBD
Join us in celebrating the outstanding accomplishments of our instructional, reserach and administrative staff.

Funding opportunities

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

Molecular Foundations for Sustainability: Sustainable Polymers Enabled by Emerging Data Analytics program (MFS-SPEED)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
Letter of intent. The goal of MFS-SPEED is to support fundamental research enabling the accelerated discovery and ultimate manufacturing of sustainable polymers using state-of-the-art data science, and to enhance development of a cross-disciplinary workforce skilled in this area.

Scientific Software Research Faculty Award

Simons Foundation
Deadline:
Letter of Intent deadline. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path. Requires PhD in math, astronomy, physics where 50% of work focuses on teaching or supporting computational efforts.

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 and R21)

National Institutes of Health
Deadline:
Letter of intent due date. The overall goals of this NOFO is to reduce cancer risk, incidence, morbidity, and mortality and enhance quality of life in cancer survivors through an orderly sequence from research on interventions and their impact in defined populations to the broad, systematic application of the research results through dissemination and diffusion strategies.

Scientific Software Research Faculty Award

Simons Foundation
Deadline:
Letter of intent due. The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions in existing academic departments, to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers.

Lung Association funding opportunities

American Lung Association
Deadline:
Five opportunities available: Catalyst Research, Dalsemer Interstitial Research, and two innovation awards.

Human-AI Communication for Deontic Reasoning Devops (CODORD)

DARPA
Deadline:
Abstracts are encouraged but not required, due 10/31/24. DARPA invites submissions of innovative basic or applied research concepts in the technical domain of knowledge authoring for deontic logical reasoning.

Environmental System Science

Department of Energy
Deadline:
Pre-applications. This FOA will consider applications that focus on improving the understanding and representation of ecosystems and watersheds in ways that advance the sophistication and capabilities of local, regional, and larger scale models.

Chen Institute & Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research

Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute
Deadline:
Successful applicants will have made a fundamental advance in an empirical science that would not have been feasible without using an Al-associated technique to augment the standard repertoire of methods in that field.

Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
Letter of intent due. R2I2 will support community-engaged team science to co-design high-impact solutions to climate-related societal challenges that leverage recent advances in fundamental climate change and Earth system science research.

Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2)

National Science Foundation
Deadline:
Letter of Intent due. Each R2I2 project will address specific regional climate challenges and will develop and demonstrate solutions to those challenges that can be effectively applied in real- world settings.

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.

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.

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").