n partnership with the Research Council, the Office for Research Advancement is now accepting requests for competitive Research Equipment Reserve Funds (RERF) applications.  Research Equipment Reserve Funds (RERF) may be used to acquire, repair, renovate, or improve capital equipment directly used for research.  Please share this announcement with interested faculty.

This opportunity requires matching funds in support of the purchase of the equipment.  For more details, guidelines, review criteria, and application forms, see the Office for Research Advancement – Research Equipment Reserve Fund page. 

2025 HIGHLIGHTS

• Join the Office for Research Advancement for an informal Research Equipment Reserve Fund Q&A Session on February 20, 2025 at 11:00 am on Zoom (register here).  The Office for Research Advancement will provide an outline of this internal funding opportunity and answer questions to help interested principal investigators to craft a competitive proposal.

• Maximum Award request to the Research Office per application is set at $200,000 (with a maximum of 2 awards at the $150,000 – $200,000 level). Smaller requests are also encouraged.

ANTICIPATED TIMELINE

·        RERF applications due – March 28, 2025 – 11:59 Pacific time. 

·        Review Process – Begins in April

·        An announcement in early May

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

The RERF application to the Research Office is comprised of three components:

• The application form in the InfoReady portal. On your first login, please create an account with your ONID email.  User guides are available on the associated Home page.  Questions on InfoReady can be submitted to research.development@oregonstate.edu.

• The budget form.

• The proposal narrative and supporting documents.

Detailed instructions are available here. Questions – send to incentive.programs@oregonstate.edu.

Integrating an OER textbook or other course materials into your class can take some time and effort, but Open Oregon is here to help. This Open Education Week, March 3-7, Open Oregon Educational Resources is sponsoring an online, week-long sprint to help you get the work done in a supportive community environment. The best part? Participation earns you a $750 stipend. Learn more and register by Feb. 24.

Cottrell Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Awards

https://rescorp.org/cottrell-scholars/cottrell-plus/cottrell-seed-award

The Cottrell SEED award is designed to support the members of the Cottrell Scholar community (Cottrell Scholar and Holland Award recipients) as they launch high-impact research activities. There are two types of SEED submissions:

  1. New Research Directions (only for Physics and Astronomy proposals in 2025.)
  2. Exceptional Opportunities (preference given to Physics and Astronomy proposals in 2025, but Chemistry proposals will also be accepted.)

Eligibility is limited to one SEED application per Cottrell Scholar per year. Also, no submissions are accepted from those with active SEED awards.

Sialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials

https://rescorp.org/scialog/sustainable-minerals-metals-materials

Due 3/10/25
Scialog supports research, intensive dialogue, and community building to address scientific challenges of global significance. Within each multi-year initiative, Scialog Fellows participate in intensive discussions to identify bottlenecks and encourage innovative approaches, collaborate in high-risk discovery research on untested ideas, and communicate their progress in annual closed conferences. 

This Scialog series will facilitate connections between approximately 50 early career (typically within eight years of their first independent appointment) chemists, materials scientists, geologists, ecologists, engineers, and energy system modelers, with the goal of catalyzing collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects to investigate how to design, manufacture, and recycle substances so that their use and production at scale is more compatible with ethical stewardship of our environment and decarbonizing the energy system. Presented in collaboration with Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Kavli Foundation. Collaborative groups will get the opportunity to pitch ideas to foundation representatives for up to $60,000 in seed funding.

Sialog will be held September 10-13, 2025 in Tuscon, AZ. Self-nominations are due six months prior to Sialog start date. 
[Self Nomination]

Colleagues,  

We have heard from users that the Concur system is difficult to navigate and is not delivering on its expected benefits. Based on this feedback, we are launching a project focused on improving user experience with Concur. Faculty, employees, and students use Concur to submit expense reports, request reimbursement, pre-register for trips and book airfare or lodging. The goal of our project is to gather feedback from the Concur user base and address pain points.  

There are two ways that you can help with this project:  

1.                      Visit our project website to learn more about this effort and submit your suggestions via the feedback form. Your input will be assessed and prioritized to guide future improvements. 

2.                      Help us reach a broad and diverse user group by forwarding this email to any of your colleagues who may be interested in visiting the site and submitting their suggestions about Concur.  

Thank you for supporting this important effort; your input and participation in this project is greatly appreciated.

Alex Sims

Accounts Payable | Director Vendor Payment Strategies

University Plaza, Suite 100, Corvallis, OR 97331

I am writing to let you know that King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) has several Postdoc Fellowship openings for distinguished candidates who have obtained their PhD degrees recently, preferably within the last 2-3 years. The various Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRCs) where the candidates will continue their research, and the sub-areas of work in the IRCs, can be found by visiting the link below: 

https://postdoc.kfupm.edu.sa/available_vacancies.html

Appended to this message is the flyer. More details of the fellowship can be found at https://postdoc.kfupm.edu.sa

If you happen to be an interested candidate with excellent research/academic records you may apply by filling out the form at the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezjsuBf-AopUl0I0OTxpRR8TZj6fhBfCTawSmyijB2rIYRzw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Will highly appreciate it if you can also forward this brochure to other students/colleagues who have recently completed their PhD degree preferably within the last 3 years, and those who will be graduating shortly from your current university or from other excellent universities in other countries.  

Thanking you and Kindest Regards.

This professional development and leadership program prepares faculty from across Oregon State to successfully lead large transdisciplinary proposals and funded research programs. Applications for 2025-26 are due on June 6, 2025. Successful Fellows will have access to up to $50K in seed funding. Matching investments from colleges and units are required.

https://research.oregonstate.edu/ora/advancement-academy

I am writing to seek your assistance in identifying prospective students for the summer NSF-REU/Lando/CSP Program at the University of Minnesota. Undergraduate research has a long and proud history in our department and is strongly supported. We have run a successful summer undergraduate research program since 1959, and in 1974, with internal funding from the Lando endowment, the program became nationally advertised.  It has been run continuously ever since, often with additional funding from the NSF-REU program. Further details are provided in the attached flyer and on the program website at https://cse.umn.edu/chem/lando. 

Application deadline is February 3, 2025.

I also attach our department brochure, which is primarily written for prospective graduate students but will almost certainly tell you something new about our department. For example, did you know that we have more ACS journal editors on campus than any other university in the US and abroad?

Sincerely yours, 

Steve Kass   — 

Lando/NSF Summer Research Program
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemistry
207 Pleasant Street SE

115 Smith Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455 

612-624-0026

Rich Carter

Paula Christie

Rusty Root

For more info: https://senate.oregonstate.edu