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Research funding, news and events for graduate students and postdocs

GP-ECOS

Research funding, news and events for graduate students and postdocs

Proposal support

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Graduate resources and awards

The College of Science awards a variety of different fellowships and scholarships in collaboration with the Graduate School and private foundations.

Learn more about our annual awards and collaborations

Upcoming Events

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

Thursday, December 5, 2024, 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.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition challenges graduate students to present their topic of research in just three minutes, using one static slide to a non-technical audience.The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of…
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, Virtual
Facilitated by the Krell Institute's DOE CSGF program manager, this presentation will cover program benefits, eligibility and Science/Engineering vs. Math/Computer Science Track options, plus insight into application components, including the program of study, reference letters and transcripts. The…
Friday, December 20, 2024
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.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 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.

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.
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.
Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Deadline:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) are accepting applications for the 2025 Marine Energy Fellowship, which features one track for graduate students working on marine energy-focused research and a new post-graduate track for recent graduates advancing their careers in marine energy.
Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
Deadline:
DOE and ORISE are accepting applications for the 2025 Marine Energy Fellowship, which features one track for graduate students working on marine energy-focused research and a new post-graduate track for recent graduates advancing their careers in marine energy.
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.
National Science Foundation
Deadline:
The objective of the PACSP Program is to support conservation research that investigates organismal biology, ecology, and/or evolution and is designed to contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based activities and/or technology solutions to advance biodiversity conservation.
Easy application through Halo
Deadline:
Halo announces 20 new partnering opportunities with several industry partners with funding up to $360k in areas such as glass strengthening, simulations models for hair/liquid interactions, periodontal disease in cats, food packaging and evaluating skin sensitivity reactions to laundry detergents.
BASF (easy apply through Halo)
Deadline:
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.
Department of Energy
Deadline:
Letter of Intent due. SBIR/STTR Phase I Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) have been issued and are available.
Simons Foundation
Deadline:
The Fellows-to-Faculty Award program supports talented early-career scientists and their research vision as they transition into tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions.
Simons Foundation
Deadline:
This award supports talented early career scientists and their research vision as they transition into tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions.
Department of Energy
Deadline:
Supports students in a range of field with a common element: applying high-performance computing to complex research problems. A 2nd track in applied math, statistics, computer science with research interested that help scientists use emerging HPC systems more effectively.
National Science Foundation
Deadline:
This solicitation calls for proposals that integrate the study of organismal mechanisms of response to climate change (ORCC) with eco-evolutionary approaches to better predict and mitigate the effects of a rapidly changing climate on earth's living systems.
Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Honor Society
Deadline:
Research grants may be used to support scientific investigation in any field.
Simons Foundation
Deadline:
The Simons Foundation announced the new Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics to provide research support to excellent graduate students in mathematics in the final years of their Ph.D. program.

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.

OSU Graduate School
Jesse M. Bell Memorial Graduate Student Loan Program provides loans for meritorious graduate students. These non-need-based loans are available on a one-time basis to domestic and international enrolled graduate students to assist with educational expenses associated with their advanced degree.
OSU Graduate School
Supports Graduate Student Professional Development
OSU Graduate School
Supports outstanding domestic or international PhD students in the final stages of their dissertation preparation
OSU Graduate School
Supports outstanding domestic or international master's students in the final stages of their thesis preparation.
Various on pathwaystoscience.org
This site provides lists of STEM funding and opportunities – such as paid summer research, graduate fellowships, and graduate programs.
Various
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.
Graduate School
Award amounts vary based upon hardship and need but will typically not exceed $1500 per student per academic year.
OSU Departmental Opportunity
The Mehl Lab in the Biochemistry & Biophysics Department at Oregon State University is looking for multiple creative and ambitious postdocs who are interested in expanding our recent developments in genetic code expansion, protein engineering, structural biology and studies on protein post-translational modifications.
OSU Graduate School
The Graduate School offers the Scholarly Presentation Award to provide graduate students with financial support to assist with certain costs associated with presenting their scholarly work at academic conferences and meetings.