Posted on April 11, 2025

Dr. Aileen Reed speaks to two of her mentees in her lab

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.


$150,000. Warren Vidar, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Norman Chiu. Acquisition of a Mass Spectrometer for Sensitive Targeted Analysis. Sponsor: North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

$80,000. Nicholas Oberlies, Chemistry & Biochemistry. Treating Second-Degree Burn Wound Infections with a Quorum Sensing Inhibitor. Sponsor: Ionic Pharmaceuticals.

$37,500 (continuing, $425,097). Tiffany Tovey, Information, Library, and Research Services. OAERS evaluation for the SCALE Program (Extension). Sponsor: Purdue University.

$19,102 (continuing, $235,030). Aileen Reed, Information, Library, and Research Services. AI Institute: AI-Augmented Learning: Adult Learning: Novel AI Techniques for Online Education. Sponsor: Georgia Institute of Technology.

$17,995. Ana Sucaldito, Public Health Education. Interdisciplinary Research Leaders. Sponsors: University of Minnesota.


New Funding Opportunities 4/11/2025

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is an April 11, 2025 roundup of recently announced funding opportunities curated by the Sponsored Programs, Research Development, and Research and Engagement offices. Interested in having recent funding opportunities come directly to your inbox?  Subscribe to our Funding Opportunities @UNCG weekly email.

Internal

5/15/25, Chancellor’s Initiative for Transformative Research, Office of the Chancellor.

External

4/15/25, Research Grants, Whitehall Foundation.

4/24/25, Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants, Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

4/24/25, John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant for Psychologists Investigating Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), American Psychological Foundation.

4/30/25, Supporting Innovative Cancer Research, Elsa U. Pardee Foundation.

5/1/25, Post-PhD Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation.

5/5/25, Emerging Leader Award, Mark Foundation for Cancer Research.

5/30/25, Leonardo Grants for Scientific Research and Cultural Creation, BBVA Foundation.

6/4/25, Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

6/30/25, Grants Program, Nathan Cummings Foundation.

6/30/25, Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, BBVA Foundation.

7/1/25, Research Grants Program, Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation.

8/15/25, Angelman Syndrome Foundation Research, Angelman Syndrome Foundation.

9/1/26, Defense Logistics Information Research (DLIR) and Supply Chain Management (SCM), Department of Defense.

9/1/26, Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1), NSF.

10/15/25, Exploring Equitable Futures, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

12/31/25, Myeloma Omics Initiative, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.

Continuous

Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs, NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering.

Direct Grants Program, Saint Gobain Corporation Foundation.

DOD Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions, Department of Defense.

Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education, NSF Directorate for Geosciences.

Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction, Department of Defense.

Grants Program, Aging Biology Foundation.

Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform, Joyce Foundation.

Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research, NSF.

Office of Naval Research Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program, Department of Defense.

Preclinical Research Academic Proposals, CHDI Foundation.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) National Defense Education Program (NDEP), Department of Defense.


About the photo by Sean Norona: Information, Library, and Research Sciences professor Dr. Aileen Reed mentors students to become “change agents” through extensive research experiences in her STEM Program Evaluation Lab.

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