Knowledge Development and Discovery

The Research Development team positions the university for research leadership and growth. The team analyzes agency research priorities and funding portfolios with Ohio State’s capabilities and capacities and the competitive landscape to develop the university’s strategy. The team provides strategic support for multi-investigator, cross-disciplinary research teams to help increase the competitiveness of large, complex, and strategically significant federal research proposals. The team also develops strategies to grow and diversify Ohio State’s federal funding portfolio, positioning the university for leadership in emerging and high-growth potential areas of federal research.

The President's Research Excellence (PRE) program provides seed support to catalyze and accelerate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary or convergent research teams pursuing external funding.

The Early Career Faculty Research Development Program provides guidance and resources to Ohio State tenure-track faculty interested in pursuing federally-sponsored early career research grants. The program works synergistically with other programs that support faculty to pursue NSF Early Career and NIH K Awards.

The Erdos Institute is a career development program and placement services designed in collaboration with PhD alumni and corporate partners.

Ohio State’s research and creative expression community is committed to defining and addressing the world’s most pressing challenges through the creation and dissemination of new knowledge. Learn more about the centers, institutes and units within the Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge that bring together faculty, students and staff to address focused topics whose breadth cannot be confined to research in a single college.

Tackling complex societal challenges requires researchers to learn new ways to collaborate that integrate multiple disciplinary approaches. The Growing Research Opportunities (GRO) Academy is a free, eight-week, in-person professional development program for faculty across disciplines.

Limited Submission Opportunities require an institutional nomination because of sponsor restrictions regarding the number of proposals a university may submit or based on a strategic decision to internally coordinate submissions to avoid competing with ourselves.

The STEAM Factory provides a space where researchers from all disciplines can broaden their perspectives, share resources, spark creative research ideas and form collaborations across areas of common interest through formal and informal activities.