It’s new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through UNCG Sponsored Programs.
$1,650,410 (continuing award, $8,201,389 total). Eric Grebing, SERVE; Karla Lewis. “National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NTACHE).” Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education.
$829,208 (continuing award, $1,827,539 total). Audrey Snyder, Nursing. “Nurse Led Mobile Health Units: Improving Health Outcomes with Data Science.” Sponsor: Health Resources and Services Administration.
$335,246 (continuing award, $1,383,566 total). Maryanne Perrin, Nutrition. “Investigating Donor Human Milk Composition Globally to Develop Effective Strategies for the Nutritional Care of Preterm Infants.” Sponsor: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
$334,900. Christine Murray, Center Youth Families & Comm. “Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Initiative – FY 2023.” Sponsor: Sandhills Center Local Mgmt Entity.
$304,557 (continuing award, $925,733 total). Edna Tan, Teacher Education and Higher Education. “STEM-based Making for Youth, Families and Communities.” Sponsor: National Science Foundation.
$287,982 (supplement). Esther Leerkes, Human Development and Family Studies; Laurie Gold; Lenka Shriver. “Biopsychosocial predictors of obesity during the first 2 years of life.” Sponsor: NIH.
$283,164. Gideon Wasserberg, Biology. “MCA: Physiology-based mechanistic models of vector fitness to forecast species responses to coarse- and fine scale anthropogenic environmental change.” Sponsor: NSF.
$260,000. Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mathematics and Statistics. “Collaborative Research: Mathematical and experimental analysis of the interaction between competitors and a shared predator – from patches to landscapes.” Sponsor: NSF
$248,700. April Dawkins, Library and Information Science. “READCON: A Curriculum for Library Readiness, Advocacy, and Community Empowerment.” Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services.
$212,504 (continuing award). Khouan Rodriguez, Center for New North Carolinians. “Americorps ACCESS Project for UNCG 23-24 Fiscal Year.” Sponsor: North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service.
$210,975 (continuing award, $1,054,875 total). Nadja Cech, Chemistry and Biochemistry. “The Center for High Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products.” Sponsor: University of California at Santa Cruz.
$125,957 (continuing award, $356,066 total). Edna Tan, Teacher Education and Higher Education. “Supporting Consequential Learning in Middle School STEM Through Rightful Parental Presence.” Sponsor: University of Michigan.
$92,022. Jigna Dharod, Nutrition. “Food insecurity: Does it cause cyclical feeding and heavy appetite among infants?” Sponsor: RTI.
$81,269 (continuing award, $130,898 total). Julie Edmunds, SERVE. “UNC Transfer, Accelerate, Complete, and Engage Initiative (TrACE) Phase II.” Sponsor: UNC System.
$70,000. Faith Freeman, IPie. “IPie Library and Information Sciences Licensure Program partnership with Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.” Sponsor: Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.
$64,819 (continuing award, $163,934 total). Robert Wiley, Psychology. “The Cognitive and Neural Bases of Word Learning in Aging, Stroke and Developmental Language Impairment.” Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University.
$50,633 (continuing award, $194,352 total). Amanda Tanner, Public Health Education. “Harnessing the Power of Peer Navigation and mHealth to Reduce Health Disparities in Appalachia.” Sponsor: Wake Forest University.
$49,980. Thomas Weighill, Mathematics and Statistics; Sat Gupta; Michael Hull; Igor Erovenko; Jianping sun. “Conference: The Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics & Statistics Conference (2023-2025).” Sponsor: NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS).
$47,092. Jianjun Wei, Nanoscience. “A Radio Frequency Quadrupole Stark Decelerator to identify Isomer and conformers and measure their effective dipole moments.” Sponsor: Moires Instruments/NSF.
$35,000. Gideon Wasserberg, Biology. “NC DHHS Contract to Survey Tick Distribution in NC 2023-2024.” Sponsor: NCDHHS.
$21,600. Min Jeong Kim, Computer Science. “Promoting Collaborative Research on Human Connectome Analysis for Substance Use Disorders.” Sponsor: UNC-CH School of Medicine / NIH.
$15,480. Kyung Yong Kim, Ed Research Methodology. “Experiential Measurement Training with American Board of Pediatrics (2023-2024).” Sponsor: American Board of Pediatrics (ABP).
$14,432. Justin Harmon, Community & Therapeutic Rec. “Arts and Economic Prosperity Study with Creative Greensboro (2023-2024).” Sponsor: City of Greensboro.
$8,423. Brooke Holt, Comm Sciences and Disorders; Sena Crutchley; Emily Hamuka; Joya Anderson. “Undergraduate CSD recruitment: Identifying the most effective strategy to recruit minority students.” Sponsor: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
$5,714 (continuing award, $189,908 total). Ayalew Osena, Biology. “Roles of Microplastics in Reclaimed Water – Enhancing Persistence and Bioavailability of Antimicrobials in Agriculture Soils.” Sponsor: Clemson University.
Photo by Sean Norona from “Friends With Math” in the 2023 UNCG Research Magazine
