If you are interested in nominating a candidate, please coordinate with the Foundation Services office. Contact: Aaron Shonk, Director at aaron.shonk@oregonstate.edu.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF)

  • Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS)

Five-year $700,000 awards for physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. Limit Summary: institutes may nominate up to five candidates. Deadline: October 1, 2013.

CAMS program information: http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/biomedical-sciences/career-awards-medical-scientists

  • Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (IPID)

Five-year awards provide $500,000 to support accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing the biochemical, pharmacological, immunological, and molecular biological understanding of how microbes and the human body interact. Limit Summary: institutes may nominate up to two candidates. To encourage applications from veterinarians, institutions that nominate a researcher who holds the D.V.M. will be allowed three nominations. Deadline: November 1, 2013

IPID program information: http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/infectious-diseases/investigators-pathogenesis-infectious-disease

 

Congratulations to our Spring 2013 Honor Roll Students!!

Nicolas Abayare
Chadd Armstrong
Dakota Backus
Kayla Bell
Scott Belozer
Monica Best
Corinne Brucks
Tora Cobb
Mark Delgado
Andrea Domen
Gillian Downey
Stephen Duda
Brandice Durfee
Derek Franco
Jecquellyn Helm
Timothy Hemphill
John Hergert
Joshua Holmes
Michael Hughes
Adam Huntley
Ashley Kastner
Jacob Kaufman
Trevor Kawamoto
Kevin Kovalchik
Joshua Laird
Jamy Lee
Stefan Lucchini
Sarah Melancon
Arica Nassar
Dang Nguyen
Kristine Nguyen
Philip Nguyen
Kyoo Park
Lars Paulson
William Ping
Philip Prater
Jordan Rains
Ryan Rains
Nathan Stephon
Ryan Stiegler
Halley Todd
Tianqi Zhang
Arsalan Zolfaghari

NEW! Introducing Fulbright Flex AwardsThe Fulbright Scholar Program welcomes applications from faculty and researchers who propose multiple, short-term stays in the host country over a period of two to three years. Flex Awards are also designed for scholars who require multiple visits abroad to accomplish their research objectives. In addition to their research activities, Flex award scholars will be required to give public talks, participate in seminars, mentor students, and otherwise engage with the host country academic community.For more information about this new program model, visit our website or the Fulbright Scholar Blog.  Guidance for Project Statements can also be found online or contact, Julie Walkin at Julie.walkin@oregonstate.edu. Deadline to Apply: Aug. 1.

Deadline: August 14, 2013

Announcement: early November 2013

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program. The Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry provides a principal investigator with an award of $120,000 over two years to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental chemistry.

 

http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/postdoctoral_program.shtml

Promote in residence halls: Plan your fall student resident promotion! University Housing and Dining Services is pleased to provide a free promotional opportunity for OSU affiliated offices, clubs or student groups again this fall.  UHDS will accept posters and fliers for placement in UHDS residence halls and cooperative houses just prior to student resident arrival.  Contact dave.warneking@oregonstate.edu, (541) 737-5622 for important details. We will accept materials Aug. 28 to Sept.11.

NEW! OSU Press request for proposals to publish an open access textbook: OSU faculty are invited to submit a proposal to create an Open Access textbook. Sponsored by OSU Press and OSU Extended Campus, this initiative’s goal is to promote the creation and adoption of open educational resources on the OSU campus. More details can be found on the RFP. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 15.

NEW! Google Apps for OSU launches in July: Everyone with an ONID account, including all OSU employees and students, will be able to access Google Apps for OSU in July. Read LIFE@OSU and discover how our community will have a new and powerful set of tools for collaborating with OSU students, faculty, researchers, and external partners. The Google Implementation Team also invites you to complete a brief survey on Google Apps; we seek your input and feedback.