Posted on September 26, 2025

Gideon Wasserberg and an undergraduate researcher care for his sandfly colony


It’s a new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through our Office of Sponsored Programs AND find your next funding opportunity.


$3,661,289. Gideon Wasserberg, Biology. Behavioral, Microbial, and Chemical Ecology of Sand Fly Oviposition Site Selection. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health.

$431,608 (continuing, $1,699,825). Julie Edmunds, Early College Research Center. The Transfer of College Credits Earned In High School. Sponsor: U. S. Department of Education.

$300,000 (continuing, $810,000). Nicholas Oberlies, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Shabnam Hematian. Nature Inspired Collaborative Energy Research (NICER). Sponsor: University of North Carolina System.

$171,759 (continuing, $404,327). Jennifer Coffman, Human Development and Family Studies. Early Education, School Readiness, and Early School Success Among Children in Poverty: Exploring the Role of Parasympathetic Function in the Preschool Classroom. Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

$82,685 (continuing, $185,196). Malcolm Schug, Biology; Aileen Reid. Collaborative Research: Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Education from Community College and Transfer Students in STEM (PROSPECT S-STEM). Sponsor: University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

$34,943. Eric Grebing, Early College Research Center; Melissa Williams, Marieke Visser. Annual Data Validation Services for Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC). Sponsor: Communities in Schools of North Carolina.

$30,597 (continuing, $265,628). Aileen Reid, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. AI Institute: AI-Augmented Learning: Adult Learning: Novel AI Techniques for Online Education. Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology.

$25,000. Stephanie Irby Coard, Human Development and Family Studies. Centering Youth Voices: Humanizing Mental Health Through Lived Experience Storytelling. Sponsor: Mental Research Institute.

$12,671 (continuing, $441,289). Regina McCoy, Undergraduate Student Success. GEAR UP NC. Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education.


New Funding Opportunities 9/26/25

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is a September 26, 2025 roundup of recently announced funding opportunities curated by the Division of Research and Engagement. Interested in having recent funding opportunities come directly to your inbox?  Subscribe to our Funding Opportunities @UNCG weekly email.

Arts and Humanities

9/29/25, Convening Grants, Terra Foundation for American Art. 

10/6/25, Collections Grants, Terra Foundation for American Art.

11/10/25, Grant Program, Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation. 

Continuous, Grant Programs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Continuous, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, Pollock-Krasner Foundation. 

Continuous, Grant Program, William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

Health and Human Sciences

10/10/25, Impact Awards, Parkinson’s Foundation. 10/15/25, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory, NIH. 

10/15/25, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory, NIH. 

10/20/25, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers, NIH. 

10/20/25, Development of Interventions to Prevent and Treat Substance Use Disorders and Overdose, NIH. 

10/25/25, Optimizing Treatment Strategies for Adult Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), NIH. 

10/28/25, BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain, NIH.

11/4/25, NIDCD Clinical Research Center Grant, NIH. 

11/7/25, Advancing Research on the Application of Digital Health Technology to the Management of Type 2 Diabetes, NIH. 

11/7/25, Influenza Transmission Research Consortium (P01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH. 

12/15/25, HeartShare 2.0: Refining Hearth Failure Subtypes and Treatment Targets for Personalized Clinical Trials – Clinical Trial Center and Clinical Centers (U01 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH. 

1/25/26, Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers, NIH. 

5/11/26, Grants for Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans and Disabled Members of the Armed Forces (Adaptive Sports Grants), Department of Veteran Affairs. 

Continuous, FY26 Rapid High Priority Awards, Tri-Service Nursing Research Program.

Social Sciences

1/30/26, Development Sciences, NSF. 

10/14/25, Residential (Group Home, Shelter, Transitional Foster Care) Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children, Department of Health and Human Services. 

Science, Technology, and Mathematics

10/9/25, Biological Technologies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

10/10/25, Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, NSF.

10/29/25, FY25 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction – Competitive Grants Program, Bureau of Justice Assistance.

10/29/25, FY25 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction – Formula Grants Program, Bureau of Justice Assistance.

11/4/25, Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL), NSF. 

2/4/26, Foundations for Operating the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource: The NAIRR Operations Center (NAIRR-OC), NSF.

2/5/26, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning, NSF.

2/11/26, Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence, NSF.

7/30/26, FY25 Office of Naval Research: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Workforce Program, Department of Defense. 

12/31/26, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – Foundational and Applied Science Program, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 

1/7/28, Development of Animal Models and Related Biological Materials for Research (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

2/8/28, NDEP STEM Open NFO, Department of Defense 

Continuous, Biosensing, NSF.

Continuous, Environmental Sustainability, NSF.

Continuous, Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research, NSF.

Continuous, Infrastructure Cluster for Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, NSF. 

Continuous, Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research, NSF.

Continuous, Mathematical Biology, NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Continuous, Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS), NSF.  

Forecasted, Advancing Biodefense Readiness: On-Demand Biologics, Automated Threat Detection, and Alternative MCM Testing in High Containment, Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium. 


About the photo by Sean Norona: Dr. Gideon Wasserberg tends to his sand fly colony with undergraduate researcher Chelsea Akabueze. Along with his research on sand flies for Leishmaniasis prevention, Wasserberg has found that the blacklegged tick, the primary vector of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, has been spreading to areas previously considered low risk.

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