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.
$1,773,949 (continuing, $2,523,961). Kari Eddington, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships; Kristen Christman. Strong Minds, Strong Communities Continuation. Sponsor: NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services.
$457,377 (continuing, $915,135). Mina Cook, Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships. Underage Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention T/TA Center. Sponsor: NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services.
$184,000. Khouan Rodriguez, Center for New North Carolinians; Robert Cassell. 25-26 AmeriCorps ACCESS Project. Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service.
$65,156. Kelly Poole, Social Work. Partnership to Address Co-occurring Disorders 2025-2026. Sponsorship: Cone Health Foundation.
$19,999 (continuing, $266,416). Amanda Tanner, Public Health Education. Harnessing the Power of Peer Navigation and mHealth to Reduce Health Disparities in Appalachia. Sponsor: Wake Forest University.
$11,374. Benjamin Hickerson, Community and Therapeutic Recreation. Winston-Salem Recreation and Parks GA – Community Rec GA 2025-2026. Sponsor: City of Winston-Salem Recreation and Parks Department.
$5,000 (continuing, $50,000). Jianjun Wei, Nanoscience. Development of Hybrid Nanoprobes for Herbicide Detection using Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering Spectroscopy. Sponsor: Syngenta.
$3,209. Syed Shuva, Information Systems and Supply Chain Management. Empowering Gen Z Innovators: A Multi-Institutional Digital Learning Initiative for AI-Driven Smart Systems Research and Outreach. Sponsor: NC Agriculture and Technical State University.
New Funding Opportunities 10/3/2025
Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is an October 3, 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 Humanities
11/19/25, Collaborative Research, National Endowment for the Humanities.
12/3/25, Scholarly Editions and Translations, National Endowment for the Humanities.
3/1/26, Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund, CAS Office of Research.
Continuous, Grants Program, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
Health and Human Sciences
12/3/25, Flash Grants, North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
1/15/26, Grants Program, Allen Foundation.
1/30/26, NIDDK Education Program Grants (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.
3/1/26, Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund, CAS Office of Research.
3/24/26, Alternatives in Research (AiR) Challenge Program, Alternatives Research and Development Foundation.
5/7/27, Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.
1/7/28, NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.
Science, Technology, and Mathematics
10/9/25, Biological Technologies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
10/27/25, OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Programs, Department of Justice.
11/17/25, Applied Mathematics, NSF.
12/3/25, Flash Grants, North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
1/20/26, Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026, Department of Defense.
2/5/26, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Resoning, NSF.
3/1/26, Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund, CAS Office of Research.
7/30/26, FY25 Office of Naval Research: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Workforce Program, Department of Defense.
2/8/28, NDEP STEM Open NFO, Department of Defense.
7/31/29, Department of Defense Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI), Department of Defense.
Continuous, Continuing, Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring, and Sustaining (CHEERS), Department of Defense.
Continuous, NSF STEM K-12, NSF.
Continuous, Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research (PACER), Department of Defense.
About the photo by Sean Norona, University Communications: Dr. Benjamin Hickerson researches public attitudes toward parks to help parks and recreation leadership better serve their communities.
