April 2026 New Awards

Engaged Youth and Family Partnerships at the Ballmer Institute

PI: Sunhye Bai
Amount: $60,000
Sponsor: CAMBIA Health Foundation

American Voices: Poetry and Song

PI: Melynn Bates
Amount: $20,000
Sponsor: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Monarch Reader

PI: Sofia Benson-Goldberg
Amount: $273,074
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)

Semiconductor Supply Chain Assessment (OSU)

PI: Joshua Bruce
Amount: $25,000
Sponsor: Oregon State University

Educator Equity Plan Implementation

PI: Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann
Amount: $150,000
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Education

Developing a 3D bioprinted bone marrow model to probe hematopoietic stem cell mobilization in response to age-related changes in stiffness gradients

PI: DeShea Chasko
Amount: $49,917
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

[M2] Adapting to Diverse Data Retrieval Patterns in Scientific Campaigns [contract from Oak Ridge National Lab]

PI: Jieyang Chen
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Historical Indigenous forest stewardship and culturally modified trees in the western Cascades

PI: Michael Coughlan
Amount: $50,000
Sponsor: National Geographic Society

(ASD3 Outcomes Project) Advancing Success & Developmental Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder through Analysis of Secondary Data

PI: Lauren Cycyk
Amount: $447,290
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Oregon Heritage Task Order#4 (M0399): Upper Story Strategy Implementation

PI: Aniko Drlik-Muehleck
Amount: $13,500
Sponsor: Oregon Parks & Recreation Department

FY26 CPB Grant Allocation [Additional Funds]

PI: George Evano
Amount: $22,300
Sponsor: Corporation for Public Broadcasting

NEEA Reporting, 2026

PI: Mark Fretz
Amount: $25,625
Sponsor: Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

ecWeb Data system for Oregon EI/ECSE programs FY25/26

PI: Kimberly Giansante
Amount: $2,397,400
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)

Oregon Heritage Task Order#3 (M0399): Oregon Heritage Resilience Toolkit

PI: Melissa Graciosa
Amount: $7,500
Sponsor: Oregon Parks & Recreation Department

California FFR Capacity

PI: Heidi Huber-Stearns
Amount: $170,000
Sponsor: Watershed Research and Training Center

The evolution of non-concatenative morphology

PI: Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Amount: $443,996
Sponsor: European Commission

Iron Feedstock Development and Refining for Structural Steel Production

PI: Paul Kempler
Amount: $41,076
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Bend Trap Club Improvements Project

PI: Jaime Kennedy
Amount: $23,939
Sponsor: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service State Wildlife Grants

Fruitdale Drive: Fruitdale Creek Exploratory Probing

PI: Jaime Kennedy
Amount: $25,920
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Transportation

FRWA South Coyote V Phase I Archaeological Investigations

PI: Jaime Kennedy
Amount: $35,172
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Restoration of Rod Bipolar Cells Following Retinitis Pigmentosa: Changes in Dendritic Complexity after Retinal Degeneration, Retinal Prostheses Design, and AMIGO2-Knockdown Gene Therapy Assessment{F31}

PI: Saumya Keremane
Amount: $305,129
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Oregon Legislative Case Studies: Housing Reform

PI: Rebecca Lewis
Amount: $69,000
Sponsor: Arnold Ventures

Oregon Legislative Case Studies: Housing Reform

PI: Rebecca Lewis
Amount: $69,000
Sponsor: Arnold Ventures

DLCD Task Order #4: Housing Outcomes Tracker

PI: Rebecca Lewis
Amount: $88,929
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

Lane Violence Prevention Coalition for Youth Violence Prevention 2026

PI: Sara Loveless-Mueller
Amount: $37,682
Sponsor: Hope & Safety Alliance fka Womenspace

Center on Early Learning Success

PI: Kent McIntosh
Amount: $116,813
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)

“Educating for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements, Sustainable Agriculture, and Latin American Institutes of Agroecology”

PI: David Meek
Amount: $16,071
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation

EQUAL MOVE - Developing Inclusive Public Transportation and Shared Mobility solutions specifically tailored to meet the needs of aging populations, disabled persons, and individuals without access to private cars

PI: Kiersten Muenchinger
Amount: $14,336
Sponsor: VINNOVA

AI Institute: ICICLE: Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment

PI: Beth Plale
Amount: $471,680
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Photodynamic Biomaterials for Microphysiological Tissue Engineering [MIRA R35]

PI: Teresa Rapp
Amount: $1,992,320
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (OCCOE)

PI: Reza Rejaie
Amount: $1,400,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

Applegate House Archaeological Field School

PI: Christopher Ruiz
Amount: $20,000
Sponsor: Oregon Parks & Recreation Department

The Role of Puberty in Corticostriatal Circuitry Development and Avoidance in Adolescents with Anxiety: A Multimodal Approach using Ultra High-Field 7T MRI

PI: Elizabeth Shirtcliff
Amount: $312,747
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Oregon Tribal Motivational Interviewing Project 2025-2027

PI: Kevin Simmons
Amount: $797,286
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Human Services

Expertfluencers in Action: Using Network Mapping to Mobilize Wildfire Mitigation Markets (WIRC IAB)

PI: Amanda Stasiewicz
Amount: $109,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Hydrodynamics and electromechanics of multifunctional biohybrid propulsors

PI: Kelly Sutherland
Amount: $35,583
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

Dynamic Pattern Formation in the Cell Cortex [R35] [Year 1 Budget Revision]

PI: George von Dassow
Amount: $65,138
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Enhancing a Technology and Digital Media Use Intervention to Address Youth Sleep Problems

PI: Ariel Williamson
Amount: $725,816
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)