February 2026 New Awards

ODOE Clean Energy Workforce Needs Assessment

PI: Joshua Bruce
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Energy

Klamath-Lake Forest Health Partnership All-Lands Monitoring, 2025-2026

PI: Michael Coughlan
Amount: $90,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

City of Corvallis Historic Design Guidelines

PI: Amanda Ferguson
Amount: $30,000
Sponsor: City of Corvallis

On-Campus Food Pantry Start-Up Infrastructure Grant

PI: Madeline Hagar
Amount: $3,000
Sponsor: Swipe Out Hunger

Clatsop County Ambulance Service Assessment

PI: Michael Howard
Amount: $50,000
Sponsor: Clatsop County

Educational Assistant (EA) Mentorship Pilot program

PI: Emily Johnson
Amount: $4,300
Sponsor: Northwest Regional Education Service District

Lane ESD EA Training & Support (Year 2023-2027)

PI: Emily Johnson
Amount: $176,500
Sponsor: Lane Education Service District

The role of conjunctive representations in cognitive control, learning, and aging

PI: Ulrich Mayr
Amount: $303,163
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Personalized postoperative management and physical therapy enabled by sensorized bone plates for traumatic fractures

PI: Keat Ong
Amount: $37,000
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Photorelease of immunomodulatory cytokines for improved survival of islet cell hydrogel depots

PI: Teresa Rapp
Amount: $50,000
Sponsor: Oregon Health & Science University

Molecular Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance from Machine Learning Augmented Enhanced Sampling [MIRA]

PI: Dhiman Ray
Amount: $2,006,425
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Bicycle Transportation Study Abroad Program - Scan Design (Summer 2026, 2027 and 2029)

PI: Marc Schlossberg
Amount: $196,095
Sponsor: Scan Design Foundation

PESO: Partnering for Scientific Software Ecosystem Stewardship Opportunities

PI: Sameer Shende
Amount: $434,500
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

2026-Cotton-in-the-Curriculum Track 2 - Advancing Cotton-Based Heritage Footwear for Modern Performance Athletes

PI: Susan Sokolowski
Amount: $5,525
Sponsor: Cotton Incorporated

Small mammals as isotopic proxies for early hominin environments and diet

PI: Jensen Wainwright
Amount: $20,000
Sponsor: Leakey Foundation

Physiological Characteristics of Performance in Elite Trail Runners

PI: Bradley Wilkins
Amount: $11,771
Sponsor: Nike, Inc.