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.
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.
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 6th. 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
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation invites senior graduate students and early postdoctoral fellows, who are US Citizens or Permanent Residents to apply for theArnold 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:
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.
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.
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.
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 NextThe 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.
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!
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!
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.
For the last 21 years, Mitegen has always been dedicated to advancing scientific discovery by providing researchers like you with the highest quality tools and support. We understand that the current landscape of scientific research presents some unique challenges. With fluctuating tariffs, budget cuts impacting critical research, and ongoing economic uncertainty, we want to make it a little easier for you to access the products you need. For this reason, Mitegen is pleased to offer free ground shipping on all orders placed between now and May 31st, and we will split the cost of any other shipping methods. We believe that financial constraints should not hinder progress in groundbreaking research. Our commitment to the scientific community is rooted in our core mission:To enable cutting-edge research by providing innovative and reliable tools.To foster collaboration and knowledge sharing within the scientific community.To continuously improve our products and services to meet the evolving needs of researchers.By offering this shipping discount, we hope to alleviate some of the financial burden you may be experiencing, allowing you to focus on what truly matters: your important work.
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For over a decade, the Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal (OURJournal) has been dedicated to making student research more known through the publication of our research issues. These issues, featuring student undergraduate research across all fields and disciplines, are an exciting, professional way for students to feature their discoveries. OURJournal accepts lab work, term papers, and independent projects from all academic disciplines, emphasizing that research can occur in any field, from science to business to humanities. In each issue, multiple art features are also included, so artistically inclined students may be interested in submitting their visual pieces to be published as well. The publication process provides valuable experience, useful skills, and potentially resume pieces for students to incorporate into their future professional careers. Our primary goals are to increase our submission rates and get more involvement from students interested in and passionate about research.
Please let me know if you are willing to advertise submission to OURJournal. This can take the shape of many forms, such as presentations before or after classes, announcements, newsletter inclusions, emails sent out to students or undergraduate lab assistants, or mentioning what we offer to those interested in expanding what they can do with their existing work in research. We’ve attached a folder of resources, including info that can go in slides or emails, a brief blurb to provide students with more info, and advertising materials.
It is nearly time to celebrate our 2025 Beaver Grads! Oregon State University will host its 156th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, June 14 at Reser Stadium in Corvallis.
Commencement is OSU’s largest event of the year and volunteers play an important role in making the day memorable for our graduates and guests. Hospitality Volunteers are needed on Saturday, June 14 from 7 to 11:30 a.m. at Reser Stadium. Hospitality Volunteers will be asked to:
Greet guests
Guide guests to their seats
Provide directions and programs
Assist guests with accommodations
If you are interested in volunteering in this capacity for Oregon State University’s 2025 Commencement Ceremony in Corvallis, please sign-up here.
Thank you for helping us celebrate our Beaver Grads!
