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Attention grad students and postdocs: the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship will start accepting applications on May 29^th, 2026!

This fellowship program is open to early-career postdoctoral fellows and senior graduate students performing chemistry-focused research or creating instrumentation related to chemistry research. Awardees will earn $224,000 across the next two years of their work, with a supplemental cash reward of up to $200,000 for instrumentation fellowships.

The deadline to submit your letter of intent is September 4^th, 2026.

Visit the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship webpage to learn more, including who is eligible, how the award works, and how you can apply.

You have a chance to work with well-renowned scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)! Researchers at the LANL’s Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Division are interested in collaborating on projects involving:

Wildfire science
Geophysics
AI
Machine learning
Environmental science
Energy
Applied mathematics
Multiscale monitoring
Earth systems

Those interested in this opportunity should email Nikki Rak (Nikki.Rak@oregonstate.edu) and let the College of Science know that they would like to take part.

In the email, please include:

EITHER a single PowerPoint (.pptx) slide describing your research topics that you would like to collaborate on OR
a few paragraphs describing your research topics that you would like to collaborate on

Please send this email to Nikki Rak by 10:00am on May 5^th, 2026.

LANL will be meeting with the Oregon State University Division of Research and Innovation (DRI) from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on Wednesday, May 6^th. At this meeting, Executive Associate Dean Vrushali A. Bokil will work alongside other Associate Deans for Research to find potential matches between OSU faculty and LANL researchers. If you would like to sit in on this meeting, you are welcome to do so.

Three new funding opportunities are now available for full-time faculty with teaching responsibilities. The OSU Center for Teaching and Learning is offering awards through their Teaching Mini-Grants, Faculty Teaching Fellowshipsand Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars programs. If you’re interested, submit a proposal to the Office of Academic Faculty Excellence by Monday, May 18^th, 2026.

If you have any questions, reach out to Ashley Holmes (ashley.holmes@oregonstate.edu).

You can find out more about the possibilities mini-grants offer at the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Quality Teaching Symposium on Tuesday, April 28^th, 2026.

Department of Chemistry faculty have the opportunity to get research funding through the W.M. Keck Foundation! The foundation is currently accepting proposals until May 15^th, 2026. If you would like to submit a proposal, please talk with Executive Associate Dean Vrushali A. Bokil about your proposal and the associated cost matching by May 8^th, 2026. Contact Nikki Rak to set up an appointment with Vrushali A. Bokil. Check out the W.M. Keck Foundation – Call for Concept Papers for more information.

Click Here to Read the Call for Concept Papers

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