Posted on May 23, 2025

UNCG researcher Willow Burgess-Johnson focuses on a conversation

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.


$1,871,265. Willow-Burgess-Johnson, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships; Sherrell House, Kristen Christman. NC Youth and Family Voices Amplified FY 2026. Sponsor: NC Department of Health and Human Services.

$96,224. Clinton Allred, Nutrition. Evidence-based Nutrition Education and Research Guidance (ENER-G). Sponsor: National University of Natural Medicine.

$19,846. Kyung Yong Kim, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. OAERS Contract with American Board of Medical Specialists (2025-2026). Sponsor: American Board of Medical Specialties.

$7,128 (continuing, $22,574). Kyung Yong Kim, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. Experiential Measurement Training with American Board of Pediatrics (2024-2025). Sponsor: American Board of Pediatrics.

$5,000. James Robert, Center for Housing and Community Studies. Healthy Homes Greensboro: Enhancing Housing Conditions for Health Equity. Sponsor: Cone Health Foundation.


New Funding Opportunities 5/23/2025

Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is a May 23, 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.

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs

The Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program manages the Congressional Special Interest Medical Research Programs focused on various diseases, conditions, military health, and other specified areas to advance health care solutions. The FY25 funded research programs are:

External Limited Submissions

9/1/25, Joy W. Pope Memorial Grant, John William Pope Foundation. 1 app/ org.

9/19/25, Grants Program, G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, 3 apps/org.

Learn more about limited submission opportunities

External

6/1/25, Innovative Leukemia Research, WES Foundation.

6/2/25, Research Grants, Whitehall Foundation.

6/2/25, Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships, NSF.

6/6/25, Screening imPlEmentation and linkage to cARe in HEpAtitis Delta (SPEARHEAD 2.0), Gilead Sciences.

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

6/11/25, Molecular Mechanisms of Combination Adjuvants (MMCA) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH. 

6/11/25, Digital Projects for the Public, National Endowment for the Humanities.

6/13/25, Meniere’s Disease Research, Cures Within Reach.

6/20/25, Gather and Listen, Gilead Sciences.

6/27/25, Regional Food Systems Partnerships, US Department of Agriculture.

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 FY2026, Department of Defense.

7/8/25, Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath), Department of Defense.

7/15/25, Research Grants, Leakey Foundation.

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

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

9/5/25, Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) – Submission to ARMY, Department of Defense.

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

9/9/25, Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact, NSF. 

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

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

11/30/25, Advanced Research Announcement Title: Advanced Tracking Architecture Using AI, Department of Defense.

3/15/26, Artificial Intelligence and Next Generation Distributed Command and Control, Department of Defense.

Continuous

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

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

Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research, NSF.

Measurement Science and Engineering Research, Department of Commerce.

Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments, Department of Defense. 

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


About the photo by David Lee Row, University Communications: Willow Burgess-Johnson spearheads new approaches to improving mental health through NC Voices Amplified, a UNCG Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships program.

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