IMR Kickstart Facility Grants provide $2,500 to assist Ohio State faculty and staff with facility user access fees to conduct innovative research connected to IMR’s Signature Areas and Strategic Themes, with the goal of obtaining external research funding.
IMR offers grant eligibility to the following: Non-tenured faculty (regular and research), with special consideration given to new faculty within five years of appointment; senior research staff with Principal Investigator status at Ohio State; and we will consider proposals from postdoctoral researchers who wish to perform research independent of their current advisor, as a path towards a future independent academic career [with letter of support from current advisor].
Preference is given to research conducted in one of IMR’s core materials research facilities, including:
- AFM Core Facility in Scott Laboratory W374B
- Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME)
- Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS)
- Nanosystems Laboratory (NSL)
- Nanotech West Laboratory (NTW)
- Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL)
Facility Grants are an excellent training opportunity for post-candidacy graduate students, fellows, and postdoctoral fellows to co-author proposals, and we encourage faculty to engage their students and staff in their proposal development.
Please refer to the formal REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS document for comprehensive eligibility requirements and terms.
Contact Information
Potential applicants may contact Joanna Gardner, IMR Proposal Development Specialist, at (gardner.306@osu.edu) with any administrative or procedural questions. Contact IMR Executive Director Steven Ringel (ringel.5@osu.edu) with technical questions related to potential research activities.
Spring 2022 Kickstart Awardees
Mechanism of Environmentally Assisted Hydrogen Stress Cracking in Welds of Advanced Alloys
Abbas Mohammadi, Postdoctoral Researcher in Materials Science and Engineering (Welding Engineering Program)
Cathodoluminescence studies of defects in Hexagonal-and Cubic-Boron Nitride
Shamsul Arafin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
4D Multi-functional Architected Structures and Materials using Non-contact Actuationutilizing Microwaves and Magnetic fields
Alok Sutradhar, Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Design of enzyme-mediate interface for quantification of neuronal chemicals
Jinghua Li, Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering
Evaluation of Materials for Corneal Bioprinting
Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Specific targeting of bacterial biofilm contamination of implanted devices using a novel peptide probe
Landon Locke, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Development of micro crystal electron diffraction (micro-ED) as routine technique for structure determination of organometallic functional materials like [Cu2II-bis-μ-NO−]2+at CEMAS
Nicole Hoefer, Postdoctoral Researcher in Materials Science and Engineering; Center for Electron Microscopy and AnalysiS (CEMAS)
Assessment of resins for optimizing biological sample preparation for electron microscopy
Sarah Mikula, Laboratory Supervisor in Center for Electron Microscopy and AnalysiS (CEMAS)
Previous IMR Facility Grant Award Recipients
Lists of all previously awarded IMR Facility Grants are provided for reference in the links below.
- FY2020 Kickstart Facility Grant Awards
- FY2019 Kickstart Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2018 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2016 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2016 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2016 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2015 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2015 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2014 Facility Grant Awards
- Fall 2013 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2013 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2012 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2012 Facility Grant Awards
- Fall 2011 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2011 Facility Grant Awards
- Fall 2010 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2010 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- Fall 2009 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- Spring 2009 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- Winter 2009 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- 2008 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- 2007 Facility Grant Award Recipients