The Graduate School's Strategic Training Grants team has established an initiative to provide financial support to faculty who are applying to extramural federal and private foundation training grant opportunities that support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
Through this program, potential principal investigator can apply for salary, course, and/or other buyout time category, with approval by the department chair, for themselves or other individuals who are critical to the proposal development process for the semester preceding the grant's submission deadline. The maximum amount any PI can request is $15,000 or up to 20% effort for the semester prior to grant submission. Note that this pre-award initiative is designed to support PIs who are in the proposal development and grant submission process and is not intended to provide post-award salary support for PIs of active training grants.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis given the varied due dates of extramural funders in the strategic training grantmaking space. An application form (accessed through the link below) must be submitted no later than 6 months prior to the grant submission due date to be considered for funding.
Learn more about this program, including eligibility, allowable expenses, conditions of receiving funding, and the evaluation rubric that will be used to assess proposals by visiting the application survey here: go.osu.edu/stg-buyout.
Please reach out to the Strategic Training Grants team (osupostdocs@osu.edu) if you have any questions about this initiative.