We would like to inform you of an internship that may be of interest to your students. This is one of the ONAMI Graduate Internships in Startups program. The internship is with Diatomix, Inc.
The ONAMI Graduate Internships are open to graduate students who are currently working with ONAMI Member Researchers, or who have completed their MS or PhD within the last year. The position description for the internship is attached. Please share this opportunity with your students who may be interested and qualified.
Interested students should send their resume and cover letter to:
About ONAMI Graduate Internships in Startups:ONAMI Graduate Internships in Startups (GIST) Program: ONAMI will fund internships for qualified grad students or recent graduates at ONAMI portfolio companies for 6-9 months. This is a great opportunity for a student to determine if the startup environment is an attractive career option. Experience to date has proven the internships beneficial to both company and student.
When a match is found (this is determined by the student and company), ONAMI will enter into an agreement with the company, and the student will become a company employee or contractor. ONAMI will fund the internship at the rate of $25/hour, paid to the company. The company will provide the intern with salary (at least $25/hour), supervision, training, materials and mentorship. (Any additional compensation or benefits are the option of the company.) ONAMI will fund the company up front for half of the internship. Brief (non-confidential) monthly reports from the student, as well as a mid-term review by both company and student will determine if the internship will proceed. At that point, ONAMI will fund the remainder of the internship.
We look forward to hearing from students interested in the internship.
Cindy
Cindy L. Dahl, PEVice President, OperationsONAMI, Inc.
Category Archives: Announcements
Invitation to Participate: New Center to Support Entrepreneurship
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce a new OSU-wide entrepreneurship center led by the College of Business that may be of interest to you, as well as your students, faculty and staff –InnovationX, the OSU Center of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. While the center lives in the College of Business, we serve students of all majors across OSU. You can find more information here: http://entrepreneurship.oregonstate.edu/.
Below is a quick summary of the services and resources available through the center. I invite you to share this information broadly and to partner with us in this effort:
- FACULTY AFFILIATION. We invite faculty who are engaged in innovation or entrepreneurship research/service/teaching to consider applying to be a Faculty Fellow of InnovationX. Faculty can complete our online interest form (https://bit.ly/2HojF87) to learn more. We look forward to building a robust community of scholars and thought leaders who are dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship.
- LAUNCH PAD. Starting Fall of 2018, a new series of first-year courses for undergrads, called Launch Pad, will be open to first-year students of any major. The purpose of the Launch Pad course series is to attract students to OSU who have an interest in entrepreneurship, no matter what their major. These aspiring young entrepreneurs and their parents have expressed great excitement about this program. We believe Launch Pad will be a unique differentiator for OSU and a program that helps all colleges attract entrepreneurial students! If you’d like to partner to leverage Launch Pad to recruit entrepreneurial students into your undergrad programs, please let us know. Visit http://business.oregonstate.edu/innovationx/launch-pad for details.
- LAUNCH ACADEMY. Launch Academy is a new OSU student incubator that is open to serve all students (grad and undergrad) from any major across OSU. Launch Academy includes access to competitive seed funding, co-working space, mentoring and training to help students advance their ideas. Launch Academy students also have access to the DAMlab makerspace, the Austin Prototyping Workshop Series and the Austin Entrepreneurship Mentor Network. Visit http://business.oregonstate.edu/InnovationX/launch-academy for details.
- LAUNCH-U SPEAKER SERIES. Hosted on Thursdays each term, this speaker series features entrepreneurs and innovators from all backgrounds who share their experiences and help students develop their ideas. The speaker series is open for any OSU student to attend and is co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship Student Club and the College of Engineering. We welcome additional partners.
I hope you will encourage your students, faculty and staff to engage with these new resources. We anticipate extending InnovationX to Portland and Bend over the coming year. I’ll keep you posted as we proceed. I’m also copying Audrey Iffert-Saleem (Audrey.Iffert@oregonstate.edu) on this note. Audrey leads InnovationX and would be glad to chat with you about our work and how we can partner.
Best –
Mitzi
Mitzi M. Montoya, PhD
Sara Hart Kimball Dean
Oregon State University | College of Business | 541-737-6024
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DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
I am writing to call your attention to the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. This fellowship supports graduate students to spend 3-12 months collaborating with a DOE national lab scientist as part of their dissertation research. This program is targeted at existing graduate students that are working towards their PhDs. Please talk to your colleagues and collaborators at UW, WSU or beyond that could be candidates to take advantage of this Program to support the cultivation of new collaborations. Note that the applicants must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Resident Aliens (a DOE rule). The deadline for submission is May 15th.
The link is: https://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/
The description of ASCR, BES, BER, FES, HEP, and NP Priority Research areas is at the following link:
Keck Foundation – Call for concept papers
From: Aaron Shonk, Senior Director, Foundation Relations
Oregon State University Foundation
Funding Opportunity: Keck Foundation – Call for concept papers
Deadline: May 29, 2018
This is a call for concept papers for research projects in either science & engineering or medical research. Proposed projects should have the potential to meet the funding interests of the W.M. Keck Foundation. Please forward this call for concept papers to department chairs and any faculty who may be interested.
Criteria
The Keck Foundation seeks to support outstanding basic research in science, engineering, and medicine that will have a significant impact in solving complex issues and problems. The Foundation strives to fund endeavors that are distinctive and novel in their approach.
Keck encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact. “High-risk” comprises a number of factors, including questions that push the edge of the field, present unconventional approaches to intransient problems, or challenge the prevailing paradigm. “Transformative” may mean creation of a new field of research, development of new instrumentation enabling observations not previously possible, or discovery of knowledge that challenges prevailing perspectives.
The Keck Foundation looks for projects that would not qualify for federal funding from agencies like NSF and NIH due to the project’s high-risk nature. Projects that have received federal funding or that have applications pending for federal funding are unlikely to be funded.
Keck also looks for outstanding project personnel who are very accomplished in terms of publications and journal citations and highly regarded in their area of research. Keck is open to funding faculty at either the junior or senior level.
The maximum amount of funding available for a Keck research grant is $2 million. Research projects can run from one to five years.
Further details can be found at:
Concept Paper
Concept papers should be limited to one page using 12 point font with 1” margins. Concept papers should include the following:
- Indication as to whether the proposal’s emphasis is for (1) science/engineering or (2) medical research. (Simply state one term or the other at the top of the page in the title.)
- Overview of the research proposed emphasizing unique aspects of the project and pilot studies.
- Brief description of the methodologies and key personnel
- Brief justification of the need for Keck support
- Length of time for the project
- Estimated budget showing major areas of expenditures such as personnel, equipment, consumable supplies, etc.
- Availability of, or potential for, matching funds from OSU or other funding sources\
On a second page, please provide a brief description of any previous or pending funding requests for your project.
Do not include illustrations in the concept paper.
Interested faculty should email their concept paper to Elizabeth Ocampo, Foundation Relations Coordinator at the OSU Foundation by the deadline above. Elizabeth’s email address is Elizabeth.Ocampo@osufoundation.org. Any questions about these concept papers can be directed to Elizabeth at 541-737-7362.
Timing
If you are interested in submitting a concept paper for consideration, please carefully review the following information about the timeline for this funding cycle.
A concept paper submitted for this funding cycle would result in the following deadlines:
May 29 Deadline for concept papers submitted to OSU Foundation
May 30 – June 21 Research Office reviews concept papers and selects 1- 2 concepts
for pre-application advice from Keck.
July 1 – Aug 15 Research Office has pre-application advice session with Keck.
Aug 15 – Aug 30 Research Office notifies PIs of Keck feedback and whether PI
can submit a Phase I application to Keck.
November 1 Phase I deadline
January 15, 2019 Keck notifies PI if s/he is invited to submit full proposal.
February 15 Phase II deadline
June 2019 Keck Board meeting for review and funding decision
Anyone wishing to be considered for this funding cycle at Keck must be available to meet the above deadlines.
Please keep in mind that Keck has two funding cycles per year. A concept paper on your research project could be considered for future funding cycles if the timeline for this funding cycle does not work for your schedule.
Other Considerations
If you have proposed this project to other funders, please provide that information as an addendum to your concept paper. This includes both proposals currently pending a decision and proposals that have been declined.
Keck looks for strong evidence of institutional support for a proposed research project. Keck favors projects that (1) present a matching amount of institutional resources and (2) have obtained or applied for support from external private funding sources. Keck will allow the OSU indirect costs of the project to be counted as institutional support.
Keck asks that the PI of a proposal disclose if he/she is considering leaving the institution.
Job Opportunity
I have a short consulting project requiring a small amount of wet chemistry in a lab to fabricate a sensor, basically following a procedure disclosed in a journal article and a patent in 1991. It probably could be done by anyone with good lab skills, including a graduate student or a BS level chemist or even a good undergraduate with supervision. Let me know if you have any interest or can help with any leads. Unfortunately, the work would need to be done on a short timeline, within the next few weeks.
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Cayuse Training
We are pleased to announce the session schedule for the Cayuse Workshop scheduled for Monday, April 30, in Milne (MCC) 130. Bethany Northquist, Professional Services Consultant from Cayuse, will be on campus to conduct a full day Cayuse Workshop comprising multiple sessions. Presentations will include basics of Cayuse, new features of recent upgrades, and reporting/data tools. Please note the computer classroom holds just 20 people so we have provided a Google Docs sign up list below for anyone who wants to reserve a seat. Non-reserved seats will be open to anyone on a first come basis. All sessions are open to our Outreach Community as well as Faculty and others who use Cayuse for proposal creation and submission.
To RESERVE a seat, please sign up on the Google Doc available at:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l9Vzy8ZXDdhaEVO_W6WLG9sDerripyNtoHKgTfGZLWw/edit?usp=sharing. If you have trouble signing on to this site, reply to this email <Julie.Meier@oregonstate.edu> and I will add your name to the session(s) you want to attend.
10:30am-Noon: Intro to Cayuse/Cayuse Basics
Basic Navigation
Proposal Creation in Cayuse SP
Creating a paired proposal in Cayuse 424
Proposal Submission
Noon-12:30pm: Break
12:30-1:00pm: Open Session/Workshop/Q&A
Open to anyone that is interested in learning more about Cayuse. Feel free to drop in even if you already attended an earlier session.
1:00-2:00pm: Reporting with Cayuse
How to access the canned reports in Cayuse SP
Who can see what within the reports
Cayuse SP/Cayuse 424 Data Connect
2:00-3:00pm: Navigating Cayuse SP
Advanced navigation in Cayuse SP
How to locate, view, and edit proposals in Cayuse SP
Roles and Access within Cayuse SP
3:00-5:00pm: Open Session/Workshop/Q&A
Open to anyone that is interested in learning more about Cayuse. Feel free to drop in even if you already attended an earlier session.
Julie
Julie Meier, Cayuse Administrator
Office for Sponsored Research and Award Administration
Textbook Replacement Grant
Reduce the cost of textbooks and save OSU students money! OSU Faculty are invited to submit a proposal to replace a current textbook with high-quality, no or low-cost alternatives. Winners receive $500 to $1,000 to compensate them for time spent in locating, evaluating and selecting open educational resources or low-cost alternatives. This grant is sponsored by the Women’s Giving Circle. Proposals are due by May 30, 2018. Contact Stefanie Buck (stefanie.buck@oregonstate.edu).
CGRB Spring Conference
Spring Conference Registration is now CLOSEDContact keith.foster@cgrb.oregonstate.edu for late registrationFriday, April 27, 2018CH2M Hill Alumni Center Conference Committee Vrushali Bokil – Associate Professor, Mathematics Rebecca Hutchinson – Assistant Professor, Fisheries & Wildlife, EECS Duo Jiang – Assistant Professor, Statistics Molly Megraw – Assistant Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology |
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All individuals with an interest in computational biology are invited to attend and participate.
The Spring Conference/Colloquium will feature excellent science from invited guests, OSU faculty, students and staff.
http://cgrb.oregonstate.edu/spring-conference
Benny Buy Training
ASBC Customers,
I wanted to let you know about a special Benny Buy training to be provided to ASBC staff and customers. The training will cover primarily the requestor role, with considerable overlap with the shopper role. The same training will be offered on two separate days, May 7 & 10. Both trainings will be identical content, but are being offered at different times to make it easier for you to find a time that works with your schedule.
While Benny Buy is not yet required for all our purchasing, my understanding is that it will be our main mode for purchasing in the future. This would be a great opportunity to get first time training, get extra training to help reinforce what you’ve already learned, ask questions directly to Alex Sims (trainer), bring examples to work through, and share observations/suggestions, etc.
This training would be particularly beneficial to unit administrative assistants, key contacts, and office staff. Unit heads and directors are also assigned the requestor role in the system, and may benefit from this training to help them handle requests themselves, or to assist them in supervising those who do. Please also feel free to pass this invitation along to others in your units that you feel would benefit. Examples would be individual PI’s or lab managers who have a particular interest in learning to use the new system in the requestor role.
The trainings will be 2 hours each in Kidder Hall, Room 278
May 7 from 3PM to 4:50PM
May 10 from 8AM to 9:50 AM
Hopefully, one of those times will work for you. There is no need to RSVP, just show up.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Thank you.
Mark
Mark Johnson, C.P.A.
Manager, Arts & Sciences Business Center
Oregon State University
Hovland Hall, 011
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
541-737-3125