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.
New Research Tool
GrantForward is a search engine dedicated to helping institutions and individuals find grants to fund their research.
- GrantForward covers more than 30,000 sponsors worldwide to provide a comprehensive database of thousands of funding opportunities and pre-solicitations along with a searchable database of funded awards that continue to grow with the most up-to-date information.
- GrantForward’s powerful search system helps to reduce the burden of searching for grants with advanced search filters and specialized search features.
- GrantForward researcher profiles allow researchers to highlight their research achievements and interests to receive personalized grant recommendations that match their research needs.
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Create Your GrantForward Account and Researcher Profile
- Start moving your research forward by creating an account (see this Tutorial demo) to access GrantForward. In order to be able to take advantage of all of the features that GrantForward offers, you will have to create an account using your institution’s email address.
- If you would like to benefit from receiving grant recommendations, then you will also need to make sure to create your researcher profile (see this Tutorial demo).
Useful Resources:
GrantForward Quick Start Guide
Visit the Research Development page for the complete list of resources.
Latest Announcements
Wings Up 100
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the “Wings Up 100”. Tennessee Tech Wings 100 is an annual recognition program for faculty who have secured a minimum of $100,000 in external research funding. These successful researchers from colleges across our campus have been awarded grants and other forms of financial support for their work highlighting the university and their respective fields. The Wings Up 100 initiative celebrates the dedication to research and innovation, advancement of the university's reputation, and contributions to knowledge in a myriad of disciplines.
As a special mention, 13 Tennessee Tech researchers surpassed the $1,000,000 mark! Thank you for your hard work and commitment.
Research and Sponsored Programs Workshop Series
Join us for an exciting series on research and sponsored programs. Workshop session descriptions and information are below. Please contact cafe@tntech.edu with questions.
Tennessee Tech breaks all-time record for research funding, reaching nearly $48 million for fiscal year 2025
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Office of Research and Economic Development launches updated pages on the Tennessee Tech website
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.
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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. 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.
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