Posted on April 25, 2025

Dr. Esther Leerkes works with a young child for iGrow

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.


$600,000 (continuing, $949,962). Robert Cassell, Center for New North Carolinians. Afghan Legal Assistance. Sponsor: NCDHHS Division of Social Services.

$248,000. Samantha Durrance, SERVE; Eric Grebing, Bridget Johnson, Audrey Martin-McCoy, Melissa Williams, and Wendy McColskey. Federal Programs Consultancy – GADOE Phase 1. Sponsor: Georgia Department of Education.

$243,999. Ayalew Osena, Biology. Partnership: Elucidating Biogeochemical Cycling of Silicon to Improve Plant Biomass, Climate Stress Tolerance and CO2 Sequestration. Sponsor: University of Houston.

$188,839 (continuing, $740,374). Nadja Cech, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Predoctoral Training: Innovative Technologies for Natural Products and Integrative Medicine Research. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health.

$58,996 (continuing, $1,808,386). Esther Leerkes, Human Development and Family Studies. Food and Non-Food Self-Regulation in Children’s Obesity Risk: A Biopsychosocial Perspective. Sponsor: National Institutes of Health.


New Funding Opportunities 4/25/2025

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is an April 25, 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

5/1/25, Dr. Martha Pitel Global Nursing Research Grant, Sigma.

5/1/25, Dr. Patricia E. Thompson Global Nursing Research Grant, Sigma.

5/5/25, Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Awards 2025, Prostate Cancer Foundation.

5/14/25, Education Research Grants, Spencer Foundation.

5/15/25, Alternative Protein Research Grants, Good Food Institute.

5/15/25, Pediatric Research Grants, Gerber Foundation.

5/22/25, Autism & Neuroscience Conferences and Courses, Simons Foundation.

6/1/25, Strategic Initiatives and Grants, Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

6/1/25, Opportunity Grants, Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

6/18/25, FY25 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program, Department of Defense.

6/18/25, Reengineering Enabling Sleep Transitions in Operationally Restrictive Environments (RESTORE), Department of Defense.

6/30/25, Project Support Grants, Vilcek Foundation.

7/8/25, Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies, NSF.

7/14/25, Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models, NSF.

7/15/25, Social Psychology, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

1/15/26, Build and Broaden: Enhancing Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Research and Capacity at Minority-Serving Institutions, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

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

Continuous

Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement, Department of Defense.

Department of Defense Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI), Department of Defense.

Education and Broadening Participation in Earth Sciences, NSF.

Grants Program, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Grants Program, Chatlos Foundation.

Infrastructure Cluster, NSF Directorate for Geosciences.

Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus, NSF.

NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research, NSF.

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

Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) Grants, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.

Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments, Department of Defense.

Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS), NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Research on Research Security, NSF.

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


About the photo by Sean Norona: Dr. Esther Leerkes, Jefferson-Pilot Excellence Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, is the 2025 Senior Research Excellence Award for her deeply influential contributions to the study of parenting and infant development.

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