Posted on June 06, 2025

Interior Architecture students present to executives at Wild Dunes Resort

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.


$232,500. Kista Mansell, Interior Architecture; Travis Hicks. IARC: NC Commerce Main Street Renewal 2025-28. Sponsor: NC Department of Commerce.

$199,998. Kerui Wu, Nanoscience; Jianjun Wei. ERI: Bioengineering Synthetic Antigen-Presenting Cells for Controlled Immune Modulation. Sponsor: NSF.

$154,937 (continuing, $780,216). Lisa Anders, Professional Nursing Education. Leadership Education And Diversity (LEAD) in Maternal Child Health (MCH). Sponsor: Health Resources and Services Administration.

$120,525. Jill Bender, History. Visiting Associate Professorship, 2025-2026. Sponsor: University of Notre Dame.

$103,473. Perry Flynn, Communication Sciences and Disorders. Exceptional Children State Speech-Language Consultant (2024-2025). Sponsor: NC Department of Public Instruction.

$25,000. Yvonne Eaves, Dean’s Office – Nursing. AHEC CSD 2025-26. Sponsor: Greensboro Area Health Education Center.

$20,000. Wanda Williams, Dean’s Office – Nursing. AHEC CSD 2025-26. Sponsor: Greensboro Area Health Education Center.


New Funding Opportunities 6/6/2025

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

AI

11/20/27, Advanced Learning-enabled Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.

11/20/27, AI Model Optimization for Real-Time, Scalable Data Analytics, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.

11/20/27, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Extremely Sparse Data, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.

11/20/27, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Managing Massive Data Sets, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

6/9/25, Policy Analysis Research, Smith Richardson Foundation.

7/1/25, Research Grant Awards, EMDR Research Foundation.

7/1/25, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Broad Agency Announcement for Basic Research (Fiscal Year 2026), Department of Defense. 

7/15/25, Research Grants, Louis S. B. Leakey Foundation.

9/11/25, Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

9/15/25, Fulbright U. S. Scholars Program, Fulbright Scholar Program.

10/15/25, Exploring Equitable Futures, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Health and Human Sciences

6/10/25, Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional), NIH.

6/16/25, Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health, NIH.

8/15/25, Discovery Grants, American Hearing Research Foundation.

8/27/25, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program—Clinical Outcomes and Biomarkers Award, Department of Defense.

8/27/25, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program—Pilot Clinical Trial Award, Department of Defense.

8/27/25, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program—Therapeutic Idea Award, Department of Defense.

9/19/25, Mathers Grant Awards Program, G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.

10/6/25, Rare Cancers Research Program—Concept Award, Department of Defense.

10/6/25, Rare Cancers Research Program—Idea Development Award, Department of Defense.

10/6/25, Rare Cancers Research Program—Resource and Community Development Award, Department of Defense.

10/31/25, Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study Biospecimen Access, NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

7/17/25, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program – Foundational and Applied Science program, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

7/23/25, NSF CAREER Program, NSF.

8/1/25, Beckman Young Investigator Program, Arnold and Mable Beckman Foundation.

8/6/25, Translational Research Grants, NC Biotechnology Center.

9/30/25, Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship: STEM, Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

10/15/25, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships, NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

11/19/27, Advanced Energy Materials Program, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.

11/20/27, Biochemistry, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.

11/20/27, Energy Awareness, U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory.

Continuous, Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science, NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering.

Continuous, Infrastructure Cluster, NSF Directorate for Geosciences.

Continuous, Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research, NSF.

Continuous, Lead Agency Opportunity on Understanding and Exploiting Quantum Information in Chemical Systems, NSF.

Continuous, Measurement Science and Engineering Research, Department of Commerce.

Continuous, Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Simons Foundation.


About the photo by Sean Norona, University Communications: Interior Architecture students, led by professor Travis Hicks, visited Wild Dunes Resort to pitch redesigns to the executives for the resort’s sports pub and one of their restaurants

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