Promoting Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities
Tennessee Tech University strives to promote research, scholarship, and creative activities that engage faculty, students and external partners. Research and Economic Development is committed to fostering an open environment to not only encourage research but also support entrepreneurial endeavors across campus. Our efforts directly support the university's vision to provide academic, economic and cultural leadership and produce practical, ready-to-work graduates who are prepared to compete in today's technologically driven world.
Supporting the ongoing Tennessee Tech website refresh, ORED has updated its pages, links, and PDFs for easier navigation to resources and information. Along with the newly designed navigation bar we have created a Research Development page to support researchers in finding funding, preparing proposals, and managing awards.
LINK TO RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT PAGESLatest Annoucements
Condensed Research Security CITI Training Course Now Available
A new condensed, one-hour research security module, called “Research Security (Combined)” is now available to the Tennessee Tech community via CITI Program (www.CITIProgram.org). This shorter course satisfies the research security training requirements for all covered individuals (faculty, staff, and students whose research and development activities are funded by federal or state awards) and may be taken in lieu of the four-module “Research Security Training” CITI course. If you have already taken the four-module “Research Security Training” course, you do not need to take the condensed course as well. For more information, please visit the Research Compliance Training Website.
If you have any questions about training requirements, please reach out to the Office of Research Integrity and Compliance at ResearchCompliance@tntech.edu.
FY26 Federal Appropriations guidelines are now posted
In consultation with the Tennessee Tech Office of Governmental Affairs and our consultants at Cornerstone Government Affairs, we are launching internal applications for FY26 Federal and State funding requests. The formatting will follow the templates that Cornerstone has provided.
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The schedule for FY26 appropriations and federal agenda requests is as follows:
| Mid December, 2024 | Cornerstone visit and faculty information session |
| February 14, 2025 | Call for proposals (Cornerstone template) |
| February 28, 2025 | Deadline for internal 2-pages |
| March 2, 2025 | Proposal Review Meetings: Request for edits and budget information |
| March 7, 2025 | President Oldham finalizes priorities for federal agenda |
| March 15–April 15, 2025 | Delegation Meetings |
Please contact Research & Economic Development at extension 3897 or email Dr. John Liu (johnliu@tntech.edu) with any questions.