Posted on December 06, 2024

Center for New North Carolinians Besty Jenson speaks to someone in their immigration services office

It’s new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through our Office of Sponsored Programs AND find your next funding opportunity.


$1,637,218 (continuing award). Lisa Phillips, SERVE. North Carolina Homeless Education Program – Year 17. Sponsor: NC Department of Public Instruction.

$549,309. Mina Cook, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships; Kristen Christman. Underage Alcohol Use Training and Technical Assistance. Sponsor: NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services.

$300,000. Betsy Jenson, Center for New North Carolinians. Triad Naturalization Application and Education Services Collaborative. Sponsor: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

$248,390. Willow Burgess-Johnson, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships. NC Healthy Transitions – Federal Fiscal Year 2024. Sponsor: NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services

$99,698. Beth Rice, SERVE. Strengthening and Supporting the Educator Workforce Center. Sponsor: Research Triangle Institute.

$75,582 (continuing award, $100,345). Marcia Hale, Peace and Conflict Studies. Focused CoPe: Supporting Environmental Justice in Connected Coastal Communities through a Regional Approach to Collaborative Community Science. Sponsor: East Carolina University.

$71,150. Davin Hall, Center for Housing and Community Studies. Franklin County Housing Assessment. Sponsor: Franklin County Planning and Inspections.

$40,000 (continuing award, $50,000). Sherine Obare, Deans Office-Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. AccelNet Implementation: International Network For Researching, Advancing and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability (INFRAMES). Sponsor: Duke University.


New funding opportunities 12/6/24

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is a December 6, 2024 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

12/13/24, Research Excellence Awards, Office of Research and Engagement.

1/21/25, HHS Faculty Research Grants, HHS Office of Research.

External Limited Submissions

9/8/25, NSF 24-597: U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program, NSF.

10/15/25, NSF 23-519: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, NSF.

…um, what’s a limited submission?

External

1/7/25, Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Cancer Institute.

1/7/25, NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21 Clinical Trial Required), NIH.

1/9/25, Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS), NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

1/15/25, Linguistics, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

1/15/25, Social Psychology, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

1/30/25, Developmental Sciences, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

2/3/25, Informatics Tools for the Pangenome (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Human Genome Research Institute.

2/3/25, Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS), NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

2/3/25, Perception, Action, and Cognition, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

2/3/25, Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

2/6/25, NIDCD Clinical Research Center Grant (P50 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

2/14/25, Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education, NEH.

2/16/25, Archiving and Documenting Child Heath and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

2/16/25, NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required), NIH.

2/20/25, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH.

10/14/25, Racial Equity in STEM Education (EHR Racial Equity), NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources.

Continuous

Biological Technologies, Department of Defense.

C4ISR, Information Operations, Cyberspace Operations and Information Technology System Research, Cryogenics and Quantum Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), Department of Defense.

Dear Colleague Letter: Directorate for Geosciences (GRO) Opportunity for Graduate Students Supplemental Funding to Link Geosciences and Human Health (GeoHealth INTERN), NSF.

Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Integrative Research in Computational Cognition, NSF.

Environmental Sustainability, NSF Directorate for Engineering.

Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program- Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (HEGS-DDRI), NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

Sociology, NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

Find more funding opportunities in our databases


About the photo by Sean Norona: A woman speaks with Betsy Jenson at the Center for New North Carolinians‘s office for assistance with immigration services. CNNC promotes access and integration for immigrants and refugees in North Carolina by bridging newcomer populations with existing communities through direct service provision, research, and training. 

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