Office of Research and Economic Development – Office of Research & Economic Development – Montana State University

Cybersecurity, photonics and optics, defense, governance and public policy
Access and equity in education and health outcomes, community-based participatory research, biomedical sciences and entrepreneurship
Sustainable food systems, precision agriculture, energy production, transmission and storage
Environmental science, design, engineering, architecture and social structure

The Office of Sponsored Programs engages in the award life cycle from proposal submission to the close-out of a grant or award.
The Office of Research Compliance oversees University programs designed to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations for research.
The Office of Research Development supports and accelerates MSU’s world-class research enterprise.
The Technology Transfer Office establishes collaborations and working relationships between industry and each of the research and creative areas of MSU, including licensing the inventions of MSU faculty and researchers to industry.

Resources for Researchers
Learn more about Research Expenditures, Parallel Credit, F&A reinvestments, IPR and IRD programs.
Internal Funding Opportunities
The office of the Vice President of Research & Economic Development strategically re-invests F&A dollars through four internal grant programs.
Centers & Institutes
As a land-grant university, MSU has a long tradition of supporting basic and applied research and creative activity. Research in MSU’s Centers and Institutes investigates everything from Agriculture to Mental Health.
Core Facilities
MSU Bozeman campus boasts more than 355,000 sq. ft. of total lab space, devoting more than 195,000 sq. ft. to Research labs, including Biosafety Level 1 (BSL1), Biosafety Level 2 (BSL2), and Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) laboratories.
The MSU Innovation Campus is Bozeman’s premier commercial development, offering exciting new opportunities for partners to invest and build in a highly creative and entrepreneurial environment.
QCORE has won the NSF Engines Development Award to advance quantum and supporting technologies in three states. This award will help fund a Quantum Supply Chain (QSC) gap analysis which will be used to guide Use Inspired Research and translation of resulting technologies for societal benefit.

Montana State University
P.O. Box 172460
Bozeman, MT 59717-2460
Location: 221 Montana Hall
Tel: (406) 994-2891
E-mail: [email protected]
Alison Harmon, Ph.D.

Located in Bozeman, MT
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