Research Grants
Deadlines: Timeline for grants, awards, and initiatives
CHS External Funding Accelerator Seed Grant
CHS Intramural Collaborative Research Seed Grant
CHS Early Career Faculty Research Seed Grant
Teaching Funds
Innovative teaching initiatives
International activities grants
Extension Funding
Heddleson Junior Faculty Grant
Iowa State University Funding
Office of Sponsored Programs Administration
- OSPA (Office of Sponsored Programs Administration) is the central point of coordination for research and sponsored programs and the university’s authorized representative for grants, contracts, and other agreements from external sponsors.
- The OSPA homepage right column provides quick links to Cayuse information, logins, and other helpful sites.
- OSPA news page features links to funding opportunities, due dates, and announcements.
Office of the Vice President for Research
- VPR (Office of the Vice President for Research) serves faculty and staff conducting research, encourages student research, and works with industry partners.
- VPR works with faculty to establish collaborative research programs and centers, both at Iowa State and with other research institutions.
VPR news, announcements, and events
Strengthening the Professoriate at Iowa State
- SP@ISU (Strengthening the Professoriate at Iowa State) helps strengthen the professoriate by enabling professional development in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), while promoting and enhancing a diverse community of scholars and learners.
- The target audience is faculty, postdoctoral research associates, and advanced graduate students in STEM.
Community of Science
VPR sponsors Iowa State University’s membership in COS (Community of Science) and encourages all members of the research community to submit a profile to the COS Expertise Database and to tap into the COS resources regularly:
- COS provides an easily searchable database of funding opportunities
- COS maintains a database of researcher expertise
Institutional Review Board
- The IRB (Institutional Review Board) is a committee that reviews all research at Iowa State involving human participants, including proposals to gather data from participants for theses, dissertations, and other student projects.
- Prior to implementation, all research involving human participants at Iowa State must receive IRB approval in accordance with federal regulations set forth by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration.
- The overall goal of the Bailey award is to foster innovative (outside of established research program) research that increases knowledge and has practical applications.
- The award allows faculty to devote time toward high-risk, high-impact research addressing emerging scientific technical and/or societal problems. The research should result in practical applications and, in appropriate disciplines, extramural funding.
- Two awards of $50,000 per year for two or three years will be made competitively in spring 2011. The award number may vary in subsequent years.
External Funding
VPR funding opportunities online search
VPR list of external funding sources
OSPA information for external grant submission
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Science Foundation (NSF)