Posted on August 29, 2025

Lenstra sits in a library with a open book

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.


$477,000 (continuing). Gregory Bell, Graduate School. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 24-29. Sponsor: NSF.

$373,116 (continuing, $1,836,878). Regina McCoy, Undergraduate Student Success. Student Support Services Program. Sponsor: US Department of Education.

$225,000 (continuing, $1,735,000). Brian Clarida, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations. UNCG Equity-Focused Assistant Principal Leadership Academy (EFLA), 2021-2026. Sponsor: Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.

$197,904 (continuing, $802,097). Bryan McLean, Biology. Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America. Sponsor: NSF.

$160,004. Chesley Kennedy, Student Health Services. Spartan Recovery Program at UNCG. Sponsor: UNC System Office.

$137,309. Noah Lenstra, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. Increasing Naloxone Availability and Use in High-risk Settings: Public Libraries as Partners for Reducing Opioid Overdose Mortality. Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania.

$18,266. Sherrell House, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships; Janet Howard, Kristen Christman. Bringing Out the Best: Triple P Funding Cycle 2025-2026. Sponsor: Guilford County Partnership for Children.


New Funding Opportunities 8/29/2025

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is an August 29, 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.

Community Engagement and Education

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

10/6/25, Research Grants, American Educational Research Association. 

10/16/25, Small Research Grants, NIH. 

10/16/25, Exploratory/ Developmental Grants, NIH. 

Continuous, NSF STEM K-12, NSF.

Health and Human Sciences

9/1/25, CANS/SNRS Dissertation Research Grant, Southern Nursing Research Society. 

10/1/25, SNRS Research Grant, Southern Nursing Research Society. 

12/5/25, Ancillary Studies to Ongoing Clinical Projects (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH. 

Science, Technology, and Mathematics

9/5/25, Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative, Department of Defense. 

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

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

10/29/25, Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, Simons Foundation. 

1/22/26, Launching Early-Career Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, NSF. 

2/4/26, Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences, NSF. 

Continuous, Division of Environmental Biology, NSF. 

Continuous, Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs, NSF. 

Continuous, Research and Development Directed Energy University Assistance Instruments, Department of Defense. 

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

Forecasted, 10/15/26, Major Research Instrumentation Program, NSF. 


About the photo by David Lee Row, University Communications: Dr. Noah Lenstra’s “Let’s Move in Libraries” initiative is inspiring libraries in America and around the world to boost healthy living in their communities, as part of the growing library health movement.

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