Posted on July 11, 2025

UNCG researcher Jeff Milroy speaks with youth athletes and their parents at a focus group

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.


$2,334,548 (continuing). Tara Royster, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships; Kristen Christman, Sherrell House. NC High Fidelity Wraparound Training Program FY 2026. Sponsor: NCDHHS Division of Child and Family Well-Being.

 $425,253. Nicholas Kochmanski, Teacher Education and Higher Education. Practical Measurement for 1:1 Math Coaching. Sponsor: The Gates Foundation.

$320,834. Jeffrey Milroy, UNCG Center for Athlete Well-Being; Amanda Tanner, David Wyrick. Preventing Drug Use Onset and Progression Toward Addiction during a Critical Transition Period: Optimizing an Online Intervention for High School Seniors. Sponsor: NIH Prevention Strategies.

$26,539. Kyung Yong Kim, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. Psychometric Graduate Assistant for the PA Education Association (PAEA) 2025-2026. Sponsor: PA Education Association.

$19,997. Kyung Yong Kim, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. Experiential Measurement Training with Meazure Learning (2025-2026). Sponsor: Meazure Learning.

$15,000 (continuing, $75,000). Nina Arshavsky, SERVE. Using Smart Foodscapes for the Enhancement of Sustainability in Western Rangelands. Sponsor: Utah State University.

$461. Erin Reifsteck, Kinesiology; Yeongjun Seo. The Development and Preliminary Validation of the Athletic Identification, Prominence, and Exclusivity Scale (AIPEx). Sponsor: North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity.


New Funding Opportunities 7/11/2025

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is a July 11, 2025 roundup of recently announced funding opportunities curated by the Sponsored Programs, Strategic Initiatives and 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.

Arts, humanities, and community engagement

7/17/25, Grants for Arts Projects, National Endowment for the Arts.

9/1/25, Digital Art History Grants Programs, Samuel H. Kress Foundation. 

9/9/25, Artist Grants, Jim Henson Foundation.

10/1/2025, Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence, National Endowment for the Humanities.

12/3/2025, Scholarly Editions and Translations, National Endowment for the Humanities.

Continuous, A. O. Smith Foundation Grants, A. O. Smith Foundation.

Continuous, Culture Grants, Hearst Foundations.

Continuous, Education Grants, Hearst Foundations.

Continuous, Social Service Grants, Hearst Foundations.

Chemical, life, and physical sciences

7/31/2025, Department of Defense Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI), Department of Defense.

8/6/2025, Equid Health, Morris Animal Foundation.

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

2/4/2026, Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG), National Science Foundation.

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

3/2/26, NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM), NSF.

Continuous, Infrastructure Cluster (AGS-IC), NSF.

Continuous, Public Understanding of Science & Technology – Books, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 

Continuous, Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ), National Science Foundation.

Cybersecurity and technology

7/23/25, AI for Privacy, Safety, and Security, Google Academic Research Award.

7/23/25, Trust, Safety, Security, and Privacy Research, Google Academic Research Award.

9/29/25, Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0), NSF.

10/10/2025, Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, National Science Foundation.

1/21/26, Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI), NSF.

2/5/2026, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning, National Science Foundation.

4/8/2026, Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS), National Science Foundation 

Continuous, Generative AI: Training and Model Development, NVIDIA. 

Continuous, Generative AI: Alignment and Inference, NVIDIA. 

Continuous, Robotics and Edge AI, NVIDIA. 

Health and human sciences

By invitation only, 7/22/2025, Strengthening Analytic Capacity for Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases in Low-and-Middle Income Settings, Gates Foundation. 

7/22/25, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort Data and Biospecimen Access (X01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

10/16/25, Joint NINDS/NIMH Exploratory Neuroscience Research Grant (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

3/6/26, Collaborative Research Using Biosamples and/or Data from Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Studies (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

3/6/26. New Investigator Gateway Awards for Collaborative T1D Research (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

9/7/28, Support for Research Excellence First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16- Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.

Continuous, Health Grants, Hearst Foundation.


About the photo by Martin W. Kane: Dr. Jeffrey Milroy is improving athlete health outcomes through education for coaches, parents, school administrators, and athletes.

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