Opportunities

Faculty Pathways Lunch & Learn: Navigating Wellness for Faculty Excellence

This session will focus on utilizing the wellness resources at Ohio State. It will include a short didactic followed by wellness activities. The session concludes with the development of a wellness strategy to support your growth throughout the summer. Please register and indicate any dietary restrictions on the brief registration form. Lunch will be provided. The lunch and learn will take place May 3 from noon-1:30 p.m.

Faculty Networks Year-End Celebration

Mark your calendars and save the date for our 2024 Faculty Networks Year-End Celebration on Tuesday, May 7, from 5-6:30 p.m., at the Faculty Club. All faculty are invited to enjoy an opportunity to unwind, connect with colleagues and celebrate the triumphs of the past year. Attendees are welcome to bring a guest and RSVP information will be available at a later date. Faculty Network membership is not required.

Roads Scholars Day: Newark

Faculty and staff interested in engaged scholarship are invited to join the Office of Outreach Engagement on April 12 as we visit Ohio State's Newark campus and partnership sites in the area. On a charter bus with other faculty and university colleagues, you will visit community organizations and learn more about community engaged scholarship.

Limited Submission Opportunities

The Office of Foundation Relations manages the limited submission process for private foundation opportunities, which are listed on the Research Funding and Awards site.

Foundation Relations and Faculty Affairs are pleased to introduce a new limited submission process for privately funded faculty awards. We are implementing a concise fillable application form that integrates the proposal summary with key information selected from a PI’s CV. This standardized application form will allow us to streamline the review process, make it more equitable and align it with other internal processes around faculty recognition.

Upcoming Opportunities:

• Public Interest Technology University Network – PIT-UN Challenge Grant
  Internal due date: April 5; Funder due date: May 17
• Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust Awards Programs – Catalyst Awards
  Internal due date: April 22; Funder due date: June 18
• Pew Charitable Trusts - Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
  Internal due date: April 22; Institutional nomination due date: May 15; Funder application due date: September 5
• William T. Grant Foundation – Scholars Program
  Internal due date: April 26; Mentor and reference letter due date: June 12; Funder due date: July 3

Call for Graduate Faculty Representatives for PhD final exams

The Graduate School requires additional Graduate Faculty Representatives (GFR) over the next 10 days for PhD final exams. There are 80 exams scheduled between now and the deadline of April 12 that do not yet have a GFR assigned. If you have a couple of hours this week and next week to spare, please consider serving in this role. As a reminder, the role of the GFR is to confirm the rigor and process of an oral exam. It is not to evaluate the dissertation document itself, although a copy is provided for reference. Please reach out to the Graduate School at gsgfr@osu.edu if you want to request an exam list be sent to you.

Apply for National Academies Leadership Program

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are accepting applications for their fourth cohort of fellows for New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine — a cohort-based leadership program that promotes collaboration among outstanding early and mid-career scientists, engineers and medical professionals during a two-year term of service. Applications are due Aug. 24.

Faculty Affairs events calendar

Faculty Affairs has a wide range of engaging events throughout the year. Check out the events calendar for the latest. The calendar is updated on a regular basis.

Patterson Lecture with Chancellor Donde Plowman April 18

Register now and plan to join Chancellor Donde Plowman from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as she delivers the 2024 James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture on April 18. The lecture brings to campus annually a prominent figure to speak to the range of challenges facing land-grant institutions. Seating is limited.

"Spark" grants for arts engagement

Over the next three years, the Office of Outreach and Engagement will offer "Spark" grants, funded by the Mellon Foundation, to Ohio State faculty, students and staff for engagement projects that center the arts, especially projects done in partnership with communities served by our regional campuses. During this first year of the program, grants will be funded to a maximum of $25,000. Applications are due April 12.

Find resources, training and support for digital accessibility

Digital accessibility is the practice of making digital information and services such as websites, electronic documents, applications and audio/video files useable to people on different devices with different abilities. Ohio State is committed to digital accessibility and has coordinators for each unit to serve as a dedicated resource for faculty, staff, students and visitors. For more information visit the Digital Accessibly Services website for training and resources and to find your units digital accessibility coordinator.

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship

The Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program supports faculty members seeking to improve their area studies and foreign language skills by conducting research abroad for periods of three to 12 months. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States. The application deadline is April 16. All interested faculty must contact Joanna Kukielka-Blaser at kukielka-blaser.1@osu.edu to register interest.