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The OSU Postdoctoral Association (OPA) is pleased to invite applications for Professional Development awards of up to $500 each!
The Oregon State University Postdoctoral Association (OPA) was established to financially support the professional development of fellow Postdoctoral Scholars and Fellows. Understanding professional development as a wide array of activities that help build core competencies and transferable skills, the OPA strives to help remove the access barriers to opportunities that exist both within and beyond the university. The OPA invites Postdoctoral Scholars and Fellows to apply for funding through the Postdoctoral Professional Development Award to help offset some expenses for qualifying training activities that directly contribute to professional skills development.
The OPA will grant three awards per term. Each award is limited to $500 maximum with one award per fiscal year (July 1– June 30) per person. Applicants must prepare a description of a proposed professional development experience and explanation of need, a description of the other sources of funding requested, and a line-item budget. Funds will be disbursed as a reimbursement after the activity takes place, which may take up to one academic term. Advance payments are not available. Awardees must provide documentation showing that they directly provided payment. Payments made with an OSU Purchasing/Department card are not acceptable.
Applications are restricted to postdoctoral researchers as defined by OSU (see http://gradschool.oregonstate.edu/postdocs/definition).
Examples of costs not eligible for reimbursement include living expenses, editing services, and any research activities, trainings, or certifications that are part of or required by the program that Scholar/Fellow is enrolled in.
Please send the following two items as PDF via email to Claudio Guevara at [email protected] with “Postdoc professional development award” in the subject line. No CV is necessary.
Application materials will be evaluated by a Professional Development Award Committee comprised of faculty selected/invited by the Graduate School. The Committee provides recommendations for awardees to the Associate Dean of the Graduate School. Applications will be evaluated based on merit and need of the proposed activity as per Evaluation Criteria.
Postdocs and their mentors can find potential funding opportunities on the OSU Research Office website.
| Bella Tobin | Department of Mathematics |
| David Fifty | Department of Mathematics |
| Lindsey St Mary | Department of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology |
| Lluvia Vargas | Department of Botany and Plant Pathology |
| Qinghua Chen | College of Public Health and Human Sciences |
| Sai Sandeep Chitta | School of Civil and Construction Engineering |
Postdoctoral Excellent Award (PEA)
Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu and Susanna Kerio receive the Postdoctoral Excellent Award (PEA) from President Ed Ray at the award ceremony, University day, September 9th, 2019
The OPA granted two professional development awards to:
Dr. Armando Alcazar, OSU Mass Spectrometry Center
Dr. Jenny Urbina, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
And three travel awards to:
Dr. Sarah A. Gravem, Department of Integrative Biology
Dr. Sara Galbraith, College of Forestry
Dr. Alexandra Nancarrow, College of Public Health and Human Sciences
Dr. Leanne Giordono, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Susanna Keriö, Deprtment of Botany and Plant Pathology
Dr. Rachele Nieri, Department of Horticulture
Dr. Fadi El-Rami, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Rakesh Awale, Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center
Dr. Puerta will use her award to attend the prestigious ICES-PICES conference on the multidisciplinary study of the marine environment.
Dr. Sato will use her award to attend a conference and give a seminar at a research institution in Korea on biological-physical interactions in marine ecosystems.
Dr. Bezerra Da Silva will use his award to conduct research on the mechanisms of insecticide resistance of two major pests of US berries and grapes.
Carla Schubiger(Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine) - Carla's award will fund travel to Hawaii to research the efficacy of a marine probiotic to preserve coral reefs from bleaching.
Erin E. Gorsich(Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine) - Erin's award will fund travel to a conference ad grant-writing workshop on modeling infection patterns of the foot-and-mouth disease of the African buffalo.
Christopher Gaulke (Dept. of Microbiology) – Chris's award funded his mentorship of an undergraduate in a microbiome bioinformatics project.
Matthew Jones (Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society) – Matt's award funded travel as invited speaker to a national geophysical meeting and attend several workshops for networking.
Cleo Davie-Martin (Depts. of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology/ Dept. of Microbiology) – Cleo's award funded travel and special training to become an expert in PTR-MS (proton transfer reaction mass spectrometer) instruments.
Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015.
