Posted on August 08, 2025

A $1.2M NIH-funded UNCG study led by Dr. Jessica McNeil explores the relationship between insufficient sleep and body weight among Black emerging adults.


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.


$2,998,267 (continuing, $4,470,974). Christopher Kelly, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations. Principal Preparation for Excellence and Equity in Rural Schools (PPEERS). Sponsor: University of North Carolina System Office.

$1,500,000. Samantha Durrance, SERVE. Federal Programs Consultancy: GADOE Phase 2. Sponsor: Georgia Department of Education.

$1,255,923 (continuing, $1,928,033). Jessica McNeil, Kinesiology; Laurie Wideman, Stephanie Pickett, Kathleen Edwards, and Aubrey Kehoe. Linking Insufficient Sleep with Body Weight in Black Emerging Adults. Sponsor: NIH.

$568,643. Kristen Christman, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships; Gayle Rose. NC Enhanced Mobile Crisis Pilot Program- FY 2026. Sponsor: NCDHHS.

$115,239. Richard Cox, University Libraries; Lisa Withers. People Not Property – N.C. Slave Deeds 2025 Extension Project. Sponsor: North Carolina Library Services and Technology Act.

$86,864 (continuing, $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.

$35,000. Tiffany Tovey, Information Library and Research Sciences. Evaluation of the Learning Actively Mentoring Program (LAMP). Sponsor: University of Wyoming.

$25,000. Beth Thrift, SERVE. High Point Collaborative Cohort 2 Evaluation (2025-2026). Sponsor: Hayden-Harman Foundation.


New funding opportunities 8/8/2025

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is an August 8, 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, Humanities, and Community Engagement

9/1/25, Grants Program, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

9/10/25, Public Humanities Projects, NEH.  

9/15/25, Institutional Challenge Grant, William T. Grant Foundation.

10/1/25, Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence, National Endowment for the Humanities.

Continuous, Grant Program, William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

Entrepreneurship and Technology

8/25/25, MICRO Grant, NC IDEA, Information Session Webinar Recording.

8/25/25, SEED Grant, NC IDEA, Information Session Webinar Recording.

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

Continuous, AWS Cloud Credit for Research, Amazon Web Services. 

Health and Human Sciences

9/26/25, Research Grants, Alpha-1 Foundation.

9/29/25, Support for Research Excellence – First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.  

9/30/25, General and Dedicated Research Grants, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Foundation.

11/4/25, Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort Data and Biospecimen Access (X01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.  

12/1/25, Early-Career Scientific Research Grants program, National Blood Foundation of the American Association of Blood Banks.

Continuous, Information and Practice Needs Relevant to Late Talking Children (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

Continuous, Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01- Independent Clinical Trial Required), NIH.

Continuous, NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

Continuous, NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

Science and Mathematics

9/15/25, Faculty Innovation Award, Sony Research Award Program.

9/15/25, Focused Research Award, Sony Research Award Program.

10/1/25, Mathematical Biology, NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 

11/16/25, Computational Mathematics, NSF. 

3/2/26, Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB), NSF. 

Continuous, Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB), NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences.

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

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


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