It’s new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through UNCG Sponsored Programs.
$2,480,603. Wei Zhong, Center for Translational Biomedical Research; Zhanxiang Zhou. Roles of peroxisomal dysfunction in alcohol-related liver disease. Sponsor: NIH.
$348,202 (continuing award, $696,403 total). Jonathan Chekan, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Bioinformatic Guided Discovery and Characterization of New RiPP Natural Products. Sponsor: NIH.
$196,298. Susan Johnson, Political Science. Analyzing Language in Comparative Courts: A Multi-User Database of Judgment Texts in the Top Appellate Courts of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Sponsor: NSF.
$196,049. Faith Freeman, Institute for Partners in Education. IPie Exceptional Children Licensure Partnership with Asheboro City Schools. Sponsor: Asheboro City Schools.
$180,000. Alyssa Young, Biology; Sarah Koerner. Understanding symbiotic nitrogen fixation in longleaf pine savannas to enhance production. Sponsor: USDA.
$109,125 (continuing award, $545,625 total). Qibin Zhang, Center for Translational Biomedical Research. Enteroviral 2C Protein as a Therapeutic Target. Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
$100,298. Thomas Page, Communication Sciences and Disorders. Exceptional Children State Deaf/Hard of Hearing Research Consultant (2023-2024). Sponsor: NC Department of Public Instruction.
$90,040. Beth Thrift, SERVE; Kathleen Mooney. NCDP FY 2024 21st CCLC Summer Mini-Grant. Sponsor: NC Department of Public Instruction.
$39,500. Joan Titus, School of Music. Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Thaw-Era Cinema. Sponsor: National Humanities Center.
$20,000. Jennifer Whitney, Student Health Services. Preconception Peer Education (PPE) Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health (ICO4MCH). Sponsor: Guilford County Department of Public Health.
$18,500. Nicholas Oberlies, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Extraction of Food Waste. Sponsor: Procter & Gamble.
$1,943. Samantha DuBois, Kinesiology; Jennifer Etnier. Acute exercise and hippocampal-dependent mnemonic discrimination in older adults: An fMRI investigation. Sponsor: North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity.
$1,500. Meredith DiMattina, Center for Housing and Community Studies. Dashboard Management Project. Sponsor: Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina.
Photo by Martin Kane from “Jogging Your Memory” in the Spring 2020 UNCG Research Magazine
