Research Round-Up

Research Round-Up is a communication devoted to sharing information related to open funding opportunities and research administration procedures.

For additional information on deadlines, processes and procedures, please instead see our Sponsored Programs Support Services webpage.

Friendly Reminder: Proposal Request Form 

Individuals serving as principal investigator on a CEHS-led proposal or co-investigator/collaborator on a grant proposal led by another college or external organization must submit a Proposal Request Form a minimum of 4 weeks prior to the proposal due date.  Doing so ensures the timely routing of your proposal for review and approval by College administration, Central Sponsored Programs Administration (formerly known as University Research Services), Grants & Contracts Financial Administration, and, if required, University Research Compliance.           

Please address any questions or concerns regarding the information contained below to the CEHS Sponsored Programs team: Kayley Watson (Kayley.Watson@okstate.edu) or Samar Abid (SamarAA@okstate.edu).

Tip of the Month

• Compliance Requirements for Proposals to Federal Sponsors

  In order for proposals to federal sponsors to be approved by the OSU Compliance Office during the Cayuse routing process, there are certain mandatory federal compliance certifications that must be completed prior to proposal submission.

   

  If you are planning to submit a proposal to a federal funding source, please ensure you have completed the following training courses through the CITI program:

  1. Conflict of Interest (Question 8 on Add Courses page)
  2. Responsible Conduct of Research (Question 5 or Refresher under 6)
  3. Undue Foreign Influence (Question 10)
  4. Research Security (Combined) (Question 10)

   

  Additionally, please ensure that you have submitted your annual 2025 COI form through the OneAegis system.

   

  All items must be completed by each project team member in order for the office of University Research Compliance (URC) to approve of your proposal.

   

  For proposals to non-federal sponsors, each team member is still required to have completed the CITI Conflict of Interest training course and submitted an annual COI form.

   

  If you have any questions or trouble with these systems, please contact URC:

   

  Gina Cosden

  COI Manager

  405-744-1676

  coi@okstate.edu

  gina.cosden@okstate.edu

   

  Dipali Vaghela

  Compliance Analyst

  405-744-8137

  dipali.vaghela@okstate.edu

   

   

For Your Information

• OSU Webpage for Guidance and News Related to Recent Executive Orders and Federal Actions

  OSU’s Vice President for Research office has crafted a web page that includes internal communication, as well as helpful resource information from national associations (e.g., APLU’s Council on Research; Council on Government Relations) regarding the recent executive orders (and rescinding these orders).

   

  https://research.okstate.edu/faculty-resources/guidance-executive-orders.html

   

• Register Now for the Annual Grant Proposal Writing Workshops!

  These workshops will cover the extra things that can make the difference between being funded versus not. Advanced registration is required, and participation is limited. You may register for only one workshop:

   

  • Write Winning Grant Proposals for NSF | Sept. 22
  • Write Winning Grant Proposals for any agency | Sept. 23

   

  Register here.

• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) workshop on STW campus

  Oxford Instruments/Asylum Research is hosting an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) workshop on the OSU Stillwater campus on August 8th and 9th, 2025.

   

  The workshop will consist of introductory lectures on August 8th from 1 pm - 3 pm in room 147 of the Physical Sciences building. 

  Hands-on demonstrations will be held on Friday August 9th, using the MFP-3D Infinity AFM located in the OSU Microscopy Facility - OSU Research Park, Venture 1 Building, 1110 S. Innovation Way Drive.   

   

  The lectures and demonstrations will go over many of the capabilities of the instrument including topography, electrical characterization, piezoresponse force microscopy, force mapping, and more. All interested researchers are encouraged to register to attend the event and learn how to utilize this user facility instrument for their research.

   

  REGISTER HERE!

   

  AFM Talks – Thursday 8/7/2025
  ROOM 147 PHYSICAL SCIENCES BUILDING & On MS TEAMS – Meeting Link
  1-2:15pm – What can I measure with an Atomic Force Microscope? From AFM Basics to Advanced Modes for Materials Characterization
  2:15-3pm – MFP3D Infinity AFM: The most versatile and flexible AFM for nanoscience research

  
  AFM Demos – Friday 8/8/2025
  OSU Microscopy Facility – Venture 1 Building - 1110 S. Innovation Way Drive
  10am-3pm – Hands-on Demos: Fast Force Mapping (FFM), Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM), Conductive AFM, Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM)

  
  
  

• Check Out These Public Federal Funding Databases to Learn More About Funding at NIH and Other Federal Agencies

  Though these tools provide a wealth of information about NIH biomedical research funding, RePORT does not provide information on sub-awards or non-R&D contracts. Moreover, only limited data are available in the RePORTER database for other federal funders. In these situations, we encourage users to explore the following resources: 

   

  • USAspending is the “official open data source of federal spending information, including information about federal awards such as contracts, grants, and loans.” Interactive tools are available to explore elements of the federal budget, such as federal loan, grant, and contract data. Importantly, it provides information on subaward data that you will not find on RePORT.
  • The Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) database provides detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance made by 12 funding agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (including NIH). The grants data are at the transaction level.
  • The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Awards database reports small business funding made by for 13 federal agencies.
  • The Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) provides visibility into unclassified information on all federal contract actions using appropriated funds over $10,000, which can also be filtered for NIH.
  • World RePORT is an interactive, open-access database that allows users to map global research investments from various funders like NIH, the United Kingdom Medical Research Council, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, European Commission, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Wellcome Trust. It fosters and facilitates funding analysis and visualization of global biomedical research networks, linking investigators and institutions collaborating on research projects. 

   

  Read more at this link.

Funding Opportunities

• LIMITED SUBMISSION: [National Science Foundation]EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC)  

  https://okstate.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1987769

   

  Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2025

  Funding Organization's Deadline: Tuesday, January 27, 2026

   

  The FEC program (formerly known as "EPSCoR Track-2 program") builds inter-jurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) focus areas consistent with the current National Science Foundation Strategic Plan. Projects are investigator-driven and must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges, which neither party could address as well or as rapidly independently. FEC projects have a comprehensive and integrated vision to drive discovery and build sustainable STEM capacity that exemplifies institutional, geographic, and disciplinary diversity. The projects' STEM research and education activities seek to broaden participation through the strategic inclusion and integration of all individuals, institutions, and sectors. Additionally, EPSCoR recognizes that the development of early-career faculty is critical to sustaining and advancing research capacity.

   

  Well-designed collaborative strategies are essential to EPSCoR's goal of enhancing the competitive position of research and research-based education in science and engineering. This approach can help overcome impediments posed by limited infrastructure or human capital within a single jurisdiction and can enable broad engagement at the frontiers of discovery and innovation in science and engineering.

   

  This FEC solicitation responds directly to national studies and community input, including the National Science Foundation Strategic Plan, Envisioning the Future of NSF EPSCoR report, and the CHIPS and Science Act. FEC seeks to build nationally and internationally competitive collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators by providing a mechanism to coalesce investigator expertise into a critical mass for a sustained, effective research and education partnership in NSF priority areas.

   

  EPSCoR support of a proposed research infrastructure improvement activity should not duplicate other available federal, jurisdictional, or organizational resources and should add significant value to increasing scientific competitiveness at the national or regional level.

   

  Focus Area

  The RII-FEC focus area will be announced biennially through a DCL, found at this link: EPSCoR Program links.

• LIMITED SUBMISSION: [Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation]2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards

  https://okstate.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1987764

   

  Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2025

  Funding Organization's Deadline: Sunday, February 1, 2026

   

  The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented early career faculty in the chemical sciences. The Award, which requires an institutional nomination, is based on an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of their appointment, as well as a demonstrated commitment to education, and provides an unrestricted research grant of $100,000.

   

  Eligibility

  The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program is open to faculty who meet all of the following criteria:

  • From academic institutions in the States, Districts, and Territories of the United States of America that grant a bachelor’s or higher degree in the chemical sciences, including chemistry, biochemistry, materials chemistry, and chemical engineering.
  • Hold a full-time tenure-track academic appointment focused on the chemical sciences.
  • From Ph.D. granting departments in which scholarly research is a principal activity and undergraduate education is an important component.
  • Are within the first six years of their independent academic careers at the time of submission of the nomination. Experience has shown that awardees tend to be close to the end of their eligibility window, but all eligible candidates are welcome to apply.

   

  Institutions may submit only one Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award nomination annually. Renominations are accepted.

   

  The Foundation will consider extensions to the window of eligibility for official tenure clock stops, for reasons including but not limited to parental leave, military leave, medical leave, and the pandemic. Any exceptions should be clearly discussed at the beginning of the letter of nomination. We encourage you to reach out to programs@dreyfus.org to discuss these exceptions prior to nomination submissions.

   

  If you feel that there are special circumstances that may apply to your nomination, please contact the Foundation office at programs@dreyfus.org.

   

• [National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification]Research Grant Program

  https://www.nctrc.org/research-grant-program/  

   

  DEADLINE: October 15, 2025

   

  PURPOSE:

  The purpose of the NCTRC Research Grant Program is to:

  • Provide opportunities for individuals pursuing a career in or already practicing recreational therapy to establish and maintain lines of research,
  • Promote the collaboration between higher education faculty and practitioners,
  • Support the provision of quality recreational therapy services, and
  • Promote the CTRS® as the qualified provider of recreational therapy services.

   

  ELIGIBILITY:

  All individuals who hold active status as a CTRS, or are currently enrolled in TR/RT coursework or academic programs may apply for an NCTRC Research Grant.

  Note: Students applying for the grant must have a faculty sponsor who holds active CTRS status at the time the proposal is submitted and reviewed.

   

  FUNDING LIMITATIONS:

  • A maximum of $5,000.00 per proposal will be awarded to the selected applicant(s).
  • The Primary Investigator (PI) may have a maximum of one proposal funded per year.
  • Non-funded proposals may be resubmitted for the next review cycle.
  • Funding supports student assistants, supplies, necessary travel for data collection and other costs of the research project.
  • Funding will not cover fringe benefits, administrative costs, personal stipends or salary, training, courses, lessons or travel to conferences.
  • All materials and equipment purchased with the NCTRC Research Grant funds must stay with the requesting agency.
  • Duration of the grant is one year unless an extension is requested and approved.

   

• [USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture]Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program: Foundational and Applied Science Program

  https://www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/funding-opportunities/agriculture-food-research-initiative-foundational-applied-science

   

  DEADLINE: Between October 2, 2025 and November 6^, 2025, depending on the Program Area.

   

  The purpose of AFRI (listed in the Assistance Listings under number 10.310) is to support research, education, and extension projects that will help farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other agricultural producers address key problems of local, regional, and national importance in sustaining food and agricultural systems. These include farm and ranch production efficiency, profitability, and sustainability; bio-based products; forestry; aquaculture; rural communities and entrepreneurship; human nutrition; mitigating impacts of biotic and abiotic constraints on food production; food safety; physical and social sciences; rural human ecology; and genetic improvement of plants and animals. In addition, the economic sustainability of food systems is an overarching priority for the projects funded in response to this RFA; therefore, projects focusing on plant or animal species or commodities that are important to small- or medium-sized farms or ranches are also welcome. Through this support, AFRI advances knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. Additionally, AFRI supports work in education and extension activities that deliver science-based knowledge to end users, allowing them to make informed, practical decisions. This AFRI RFA provides funding for research-only, education-only, extension-only, and integrated research, education, and/or extension projects addressing six priorities:

   

  1. Plant health and production and plant products;
  2. Animal health and production and animal products;
  3. Food safety, nutrition, and health;
  4. Bioenergy, natural resources, and environment;
  5. Agriculture systems and technology; and
  6. Agriculture economics and rural communities.
• [Spencer Foundation] Vision Grants

  https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/vision-grants 

   

  Required Intent to Apply Form DEADLINE: August 13, 2025

  Full Proposal DEADLINE: September 17, 2025

   

  The Vision Grants program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity. Vision Grants are research planning grants to bring together a team, for 6 to 12 months, to collaboratively develop ambitious, large-scale research projects focused on transforming educational systems toward greater equity. This program takes as core that visionary, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research projects require time, space, and thoughtfulness to incubate and plan. Vision Grants are $75,000 total and two cycles of this grant program will be held annually. Different from many of Spencer’s other programs, the proposal should not be a fully fleshed out research plan. Instead, this is an invitation to think forward about what research we need to transform education systems toward equity and then to envision how that systems-change will happen, utilizing research evidence. Teams are encouraged to reflect on the people who need to be involved from the beginning of the research design process, and how evidence from the eventual research study/studies could be used to actually transform systems. Vision Grant proposals should identify the system(s) targeted for transformation and the specific levers the team thinks need to be engaged in order to work toward systems transformation.

• [National Institutes of Health] NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

  https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-25-003.html

   

  DEADLINE: September 03, 2025

   

  The NIH Director's Transformative Research Award supports collaborative investigative teams or individual scientists who propose unusually bold and innovative research projects, which, if successful, would have a major impact in a broad area of relevance to the NIH. To be considered transformative, projects must have the potential to establish new or overturn fundamental scientific paradigms through novel concepts or perspectives, transform the way research is conducted through the development of novel tools or technologies, or lead to major improvements in health through the development of highly innovative diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive strategies.
  
  Several key features of this NOFO are designed to emphasize to applicants and peer reviewers that Transformative Research applications are very different from conventional, investigator-initiated research applications. The Transformative Research application focuses on the importance of the problem, the novelty of the hypothesis and/or the proposed methodology, and the magnitude of the potential impact rather than on preliminary data or experimental details. Reviewers will be instructed to emphasize the significance and innovation of the application in their evaluations. Applicants and reviewers should keep the goal of the Transformative Research Award initiative in mind throughout the process– to solicit and fund unusually innovative and potentially transformative research.
   
  Applications are encouraged in all research areas broadly relevant to the mission of NIH. These areas include, but are not limited to, the behavioral, medical, natural, social, applied, and formal sciences. Research may be of basic, translational, or clinical focus. The primary requirements are that the research be highly innovative and have the potential for unusually significant impact.

  Prospective applicants are invited to view a pre-recorded, pre-application webinar on the Transformative Research Award website, where NIH staff discuss the initiative and answer common questions about the application and review process. Additional information and resources can be found on the website, and any questions can be sent to Transformative_Awards@mail.nih.gov.

   

  The NIH Director's Transformative Research Award is part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program funded through the NIH Common Fund, which supports cross-cutting programs that are expected to have exceptionally high impact. All Common Fund initiatives invite investigators to develop bold, innovative, and often risky approaches to address problems that may seem intractable or to seize new opportunities that offer the potential for rapid progress.

   

  Investigators proposing NIH-defined clinical trials may refer to the Research Methods Resources website for information about developing statistical methods and study designs.
• [American Heart Association] All Open Funding Opportunities

  AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
  Proposal deadline: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
  Enhances the training of promising students in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists, or related careers aimed at improving global health and wellbeing.
  
  Within this award, additional collaboration money has been designated through the AHA/CHF Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards,  Autism Speaks, and by the  Barth Syndrome Foundation and California Walnut Commission.
  
  AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
  Proposal deadline: Thursday, September 4, 2025
  Enhances the training of postdoctoral applicants who are not yet independent. The applicant must be embedded in an appropriate investigative group with the mentorship, support, and relevant scientific guidance of a research mentor.

  
  Within this award, additional collaboration money has been designated through the AHA/CHF Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards,  Autism Speaks, and  AHA/VIVA Physician Research Award and by the Barth Syndrome Foundation and California Walnut Commission.

  
  Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training
  Proposal deadline: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
  This award is made to qualified institutions that can offer a meaningful research experience that supports the AHA mission that encourages undergraduate college students from all disciplines to consider research careers.
  
  AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)
  Proposal deadline: Thursday, September 11, 2025
  Stimulates research at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees related to scientific research training. Eligible institutions may not have been major recipients of NIH support. Awards provide funding for small-scale research projects related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular topics, enhancing the research environment at eligible institutions, and exposing students to research opportunities.
  
  Career Development Award
  Proposal deadline: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
  Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals in the early years of first professional appointment to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular disease research.
  
  Within this award, additional collaboration money has been designated through the California Walnut Commission and the  AHA/VIVA Physician Research Award.
  
  

• [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] Exploring Equitable Futures

  https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/exploring-equitable-futures.html

   

  DEADLINE: October 15, 2025

   

  Purpose

  The purpose of this Exploring Equitable Futures call for proposals (CFP) is to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.

  We aim to fund projects that:

  • Explore the future by researching and experimenting with ideas that are ahead of the curve or at the edge of our collective imagination;
  • Shine a light on the emerging trends and forces that are shaping our future for better or worse—and suggest ways to navigate them to mitigate harm and advance health equity;
  • Dream big and challenge conventional wisdom to surface possibilities and uncover new paths to dismantle structural racism and build a more equitable future.

   

  These projects should address one or more of RWJF’s Prioritized Systems.

   

  We are particularly interested in projects that seed new and unconventional ideas within the Health Science Knowledge System—or that reimagine this system completely. At RWJF, we believe that the knowledge and evidence that’s needed to guide better decisionmaking, as well as policies that influence health, must include wisdom generated and shared by communities, including those that have been traditionally ignored or undervalued. With our grantees and partners, we are working to transform the way we produce, share, and use health evidence so that it is rooted in equity and justice. As such, we are interested in projects that explore questions such as, but not limited to:

  • How might trends, such as artificial intelligence and decreasing trust in institutions impact efforts to transform the Health Science Knowledge System?
  • How might a reimagined Health Science Knowledge System produce knowledge that advances health equity? In a desired future, who gets to frame research questions? How does research reflect the priorities and concerns of community members? What qualifies as evidence?
  • How might new structures, processes, and incentives ensure the future Health Science Knowledge System produces, validates, disseminates, and applies evidence to improve health?

   

  Learn more about the kinds of ideas funded in the past by the Ideas for an Equitable Future team at www.rwjf.org/ideasforthefuture.