Division of Student Affairs


Hello Colleagues,

At Oregon State University, we care for OSU community members facing food insecurity and financial stress. The Basic Needs Center (BNC) and university partners are preparing for potential impacts of the federal government shutdown on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Please familiarize yourself with the resources below so that we can all help our community navigate this challenge.

Support of Basic Needs at Corvallis and OSU-Cascades:
Peer Navigators can help students access resources like food programs, cost-effective meal strategies, and employment opportunities. If you’re unsure about referring students to the BNC, we invite you to visit Champinefu Lodge in Corvallis for a tour and to meet our student leaders.

The Associated Students of Cascades Campus (ASCC) and the Student Care Case Manager are great starting points for information about accessing basic needs support at OSU-Cascades and in Central Oregon. ASCC has several Student Support Programs, including a food pantry, basic needs products, and emergency housing and childcare subsidies.

Peer Navigator Services:
Drop-in at Champinefu Lodge (1030 SW Madison Ave)
Hours: M–Th 8am–6pm, F 8am–3pm
Non-Corvallis students: email bnc.help@oregonstate.edu for remote appointments

Grocery Support Programs:
1. Food Pantry on the Corvallis Campus: Most Wednesdays, 8am–2pm (check @bncatosu on Instagram or call 541-737-9127 for updates). This program also supports staff who meet income qualifications.
2. Beaver Healthy Boosts on the Corvallis Campus: Fridays, 12–1:30pm (while supplies last).
3. Food Pantry on the OSU-Cascades Campus: Mondays and Thursdays from 6pm to 10pm; Tuesdays from 11am to 1pm; and Wednesdays from 4pm to 10pm.

Upcoming Events:
1. SNAP & OHP Support Event:
Wednesday, Oct. 29 | SEC 112 | 9am–1:30pm
BNC staff will assist with applications and share strategies for navigating the shutdown. Partners include the MU Teaching Kitchen and Student Health Services.
2. Lunch & Learn for Staff – Making Great Referrals to the BNC:
Thursday, Nov. 6 | 12–1pm
Learn a 5-step referral process and BNC basics. Register at: https://beav.es/xKj

Sustaining Basic Needs Efforts:
Financial gifts to the Beavers Fight Hunger fund help our Basic Needs Center (BNC) student leaders support their peers in creating strategies for meeting their basic needs while in college and long-term, plus provide the immediate assistance they need through the BNC food pantry on the Corvallis campus and the Associated Students of Cascades Food Pantry at OSU-Cascades. Contributions are particularly welcome at this difficult time.

Additional Resources for OSU Community Members:
If an OSU community member or someone in their household receives SNAP benefits, here are things to consider:
• Visit the Oregon Department of Human Services Food Resources website to find local programs and food support.
• Visit the Oregon Food Bank Food Finder and Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon websites for additional resources.
• To identify local food-pantry resources, call 2-1-1, text their ZIP code to 898-211, or visit www.211info.org.
o Benton County Food Pantries and Meal Sites
o Linn County Food Pantries and Meal Sites
o Deschutes County NeighborImpact Database for food pantry and meal service providers
• Older adults and people with disabilities can connect with the Aging and Disability Resource Connection of Oregon (ADRC) to find government and community resources. Call 1-855-673-2372 or visit www.adrcoforegon.org.
• Challenges like this can add stress and impact mental health, especially when people are juggling work, family, student loans, or caregiving. If you need support, remember that OSU employees have mental health resources through Lyra Health. Students can also access Counseling & Psychological Services for mental health and counseling support; Anytime Anywhere: A 24/7 mental health support app offering multilingual counseling can be downloaded from your mobile app store.
• OSU employees can sign up for a ONE Online account and download the Oregon ONE Mobile app at benefits.oregon.gov to get notices about their SNAP benefits.

Regardless of what occurs with SNAP, the strategies and supports above are good to know and to share with our campus community. Knowing where help is available makes a meaningful difference. Let’s continue to connect students and colleagues with the support they need and ensure no one faces these challenges alone.

Sincerely,
Kevin A. Dougherty, Ed.D.
Senior Associate Vice President & Dean of Students
Division of Student Affairs

Bonny Ray
Executive Director
University Human Resources


studentaffairs.oregonstate.edu

APPLICATION TO THIS YEAR’S SCIENCE & SCILIFELAB PRIZE IS NOW OPEN!Recent PhD?How about US$30,000, having your essay published in Science magazine, and being celebrated with a week of festivities in Stockholm, Sweden?A global award aimed at young researchersEach year, four winners are selected to receive up to US$30,000 in prize money for their accomplishments. In addition, all four winners are published in Science, and at the end of the year, invited to visit SciLifeLab in Stockholm.There, they will have the opportunity to meet with leading scientists in their field of research and create life-long connections during a week of unique events and experiences.

CategoriesThe prize is presented in four categories:•Cell and Molecular Biology•Genomics, Proteomics, and Systems Biology Approaches•Ecology and Environment•Molecular Medicine

More informationQuestions: scilifelabprize@aaas.orgAbout the Prize: scienceprize.scilifelab.seApplication deadline: July 15, 2025Eligibility: applicants must have received their PhD between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024.Enabled by the generous support of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

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The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has announced the Endeavor Award opportunity which provides $3,000,000 over a three-year period to support collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Teams may comprise investigators from a single institution or multiple institutions.  These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts. Basic, translational, and clinical projects are eligible.

This is a limited submission and applicants should follow the directions in InfoReady at this link: https://oregonstate.infoready4.com/#freeformCompetitionDetail/1983697

Internal limited submission competition deadline: Friday, June 27, 2025

LOI deadline to the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research: Wednesday, September 3, 2025. Invitations for full proposals will be sent to selected applicants.

Please share with any potential project leaders.

The fall 2025 cohort of Career Champions will meet on Thursdays from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on Zoom during Weeks 3-8 of fall term (October 16-November 20). Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on June 6^th. All participants will: 

• Create a NACE competency map to understand how a current course allows students to practice transferrable skills 
• Write a NACE syllabi statement connecting the dots for students between course activities and the aforementioned transferrable skills
• Create or redesign a lecture, activity, or assignment to add in career development 
• Engage in conversations on the NACE competencies, mentoring, hidden curriculum and more

If fall term doesn’t work for your schedule, there will also be winter and spring cohorts. Please reach out if you have any questions.

All best, 

Brenna 

Brenna Gomez | she/her/hers | Director of Career Integration

Career Development Center | Oregon State University

Kerr Administration Bldg A150|541-737-7344| brenna.gomez@oregonstate.edu

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation invites senior graduate students and early postdoctoral fellows, who are US Citizens or Permanent Residents to apply for the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation. The 2026 AOB Postdoc Program opens May 28, 2025 and LOI submissions are due September 5, 2025 by 5pm Pacific time.  

Please forward this email to your colleagues, students, and institutional contacts that may be interested in our program. 

Purpose  

To support postdoctoral fellows at research institutions across the United States who have the highest potential for successful careers in chemistry and who will become the next generation of leaders and innovators in science, engineering, and technology.  

  

Description  

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation invites senior graduate students and early postdoctoral fellows to apply for the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowships has two tracks:   

1. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences:  For chemists pursuing advanced chemistry-focused research, including chemical physics, chemical engineering, and the chemistry of materials. The underlying proposed research and innovation must be chemistry-focused, although the project can have applications in other fields such as biology or physics.
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation:  For those chemists looking to conceptualize, develop, and build new instrumentation aimed at advancing research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, or the chemistry of materials science.   

   

It is the Foundation’s intent that the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship will serve as a catalyst, aiding in the fellow’s transition to an outstanding, independent research career in academics or in an industry/governmental laboratory.  Fellows who accept an academic faculty or full-time research position at an academic US research institution during the course of their AOB Postdoctoral Fellowship will be allowed to transition their current program year funding to their new institution. Candidates who already have funding for their independent careers tend to be reviewed more favorably by hiring committees, often increasing the candidates value on the job market.  

  

The Foundation will support up to 14 exceptional research fellows with $224,000 over 2 years for salary, fringe benefits and research expenditures; instrumentation fellowships will include an additional one-time payment of up to $200,000. Renewal for a third year, and an additional $118,000, is possible. As a matter of policy, the Foundation does not provide funds for overhead and indirect costs.  

  

We acknowledge, appreciate, and support the fundamental roles that varied perspectives have in scientific progress and innovation. As such, the Foundation seeks applicants from all backgrounds and strives to ensure a fairness during awardee selection, recognizing that excellent science is not the exclusive endeavor of one group of people, but of all. In an effort to avoid implicit and explicit bias in our review process, the Foundation will blind all information pertaining to applicants’ name, gender, ethnicity, citizenship status, as well as their institution from reviewers during the preliminary review.  

   
Qualifications  

The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship provides 2-3 years of financial support for a scientist:  

• who has completed their PhD by May 1 of the program year and/or has completed no more than 18 months of postdoctoral work by the application deadline  
• who is a US citizen, permanent resident, or holds Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient status  
• whose research will be conducted at a university or research institute; research at national labs and the like are not eligible  
• whose research is broadly defined as within the chemical sciences; the underlying proposed research and innovation must be chemistry-focused, although the project can have applications in other fields such as biology or physics. 

The timeline for the program is as follows:   

Letter of Intent Review Timeline:	Tasks
May 28, 2025	Letter of Intent Opens
September 5, 2025	Letters of Intent Due
September 8, 2025	Preliminary Review Period Begins
October 20, 2025	Full Application Invitations Sent
Full Application Review Timeline:	Tasks
December 12, 2025	Full Applications Due
December 15, 2025	Full Application Review Period Begins
February 27, 2026	Award Announcements

How to Apply  

The Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship is an open call; all senior graduate students and early postdoctoral scholars are encouraged to submit a blinded Letter of Intent (LOI), including a blinded research proposal. For full details, instructions, and to apply, please visit http://www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/beckman-postdoctoral-fellows.  

Institutional Contact Webinar  

The Foundation will be hosting a webinar for institutional contacts on August 14th at 10AM PST.  We will discuss recent program and application changes and answer questions from attendees. If you or another contact from your institution would like to join this webinar, please register here. 

  
Contact Information  

For additional information, please contact aobpostdoc@beckman-foundation.org or visit: http://www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/beckman-postdoctoral-fellows.  

I wanted to personally invite you to an upcoming webinar that explores innovative ways to teach undergraduate-level chemistry using the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).

This session will showcase how the CSD brings molecular structures to life, helping students deepen their understanding of chemistry through visualization. Whether you’re looking for new teaching strategies or ways to engage your students more effectively, this webinar is an excellent opportunity to gain insights and connect with fellow educators.

You can find more details and register here: https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/community/events/webinars/user-webinar-teaching-undergraduate-level-chemistry-using-the-cambridge-structural-database-seeing-is-believing/

I’d love for you to join us and share your thoughts!

The OSU ASPIRE Center is hosting a research funding presentation series! Bring your questions and your appetite to this lunch-time series focused on research funding! Open to all OSU faculty, staff, graduate students, and community partners.  Up Next The Big Swing: How to Make Your Research Program Attractive to Donors Thursday, May 15th from 12:00-1:00pm PDT (lunch provided) Join us for an exciting research funding presentation co-sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research. This informative presentation from the Oregon State University Foundation, Office of Foundation Relations will be an engaging opportunity for researchers at all levels to learn how to make your research program attractive to donors and how work with OSU foundation to cultivate these relationships. Presenters: Elizabeth Ocampo, Director of Development & Emily Payne, Assistant Director of Development, Oregon State University Foundation, Office of Foundation Relations In-person: Oregon State University Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children & Families, Room 115 or via Zoom: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/94679424523?pwd=7oQGT33cs8vvd6KLkrSV8g1BqZPMUB.1 Add to Calendar View Past Presentations Funding Insights & Strategies for Community Partners: Panel Discussion April 10, 2025 Panelists: Michael Couch, Executive Director at Crossroads Communities Christine Mosbaugh, MPH, Strategy and Engagement Manager, Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties Moderator: Megan McClelland, PhD, Professor, College of Health, Director for the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children & Families    Navigating Federal Funding: Panel Discussion March 6, 2025 Panelists: Perry Hystad, PhD, Professor, College of Health, Director, Spatial Health Lab Megan McClelland, PhD, Professor, College of Health, Director for the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children & Families Allison Myers, PhD, MPH, Associate Dean for Extension and Engagement Moderator: Veronica Irvin, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, College of Health    Open Door: How to Partner with OSU Foundation to Find Private Funding Opportunities That Support Research February 26, 2025 Presenters: Elizabeth Ocampo, Director of Development & Emily Payne, Assistant Director of Development, Oregon State University Foundation, Office of Foundation Relations     Oregon State University’s Advancing Science, Practice, Programming and Policy in Research Translation for Children’s Environmental Health (ASPIRE) Center is proud to be one of six centers in the United States funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to develop strategies to translate key children’s environmental health research findings to relevant stakeholders. We are a dedicated, cross-disciplinary team working together to improve children’s health and wellbeing. Our efforts focus on accelerating the adoption of evidence-informed policies, programs, and practices that can reduce harmful environmental exposures where children live, learn, and play.   Visit our Website!

the Spencer Foundation along with other foundations (for mostly education research) is providing $25k grants to PIs with terminated NSF grants in STEM education to mitigate immediate effects on their projects.
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/rapid-response-bridge-funding-program.pdf

Do you know a classified staff or professional faculty member who goes above and beyond? If so, University Human Resources is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Exemplary Employee Award!

If you would like to recognize someone in your unit or elsewhere on campus who exemplifies great service to OSU, you can find out more information about the award and nomination process online.

For clarification or questions regarding these materials, please email christina.schaaf@oregonstate.edu.                          

Please submit hard copy nomination packets to the Office of Human Resources, Attn: Christina Schaaf, 236 Kerr Administration Building, or email your digital submissions to Christina, no later than May 31, 2025. Please note: Nomination packets may be submitted in either hard copy or digital formats. You only need to submit one or the other, not both.