Awards
Awards separated by school/college. Listings by award amount, name of lead PI, title, and sponsor.
Bryan School of Business and Economics Awards
$25,000.00 – Welsh, Dianne – Coleman Entrepreneurship Fellows – Coleman Foundation
$20,669.00 – Erba, Joseph – UNC-GA Summer Student Initiative – North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center (NC SBTDC)
$15,400.00 – Byrd, Erick – North Carolina Muscadine Grape & Grape Products Marketing Study (MUS-MARK) – North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS)
$3,000.00 – Iyer, Lakshmi – IT is for Girls – Aspire IT Program – National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT)
$3,000.00 – Iyer, Lakshmi – We Make IT -Aspire IT – National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT)
$3,000.00 – Erba, Joseph – UNCG 2016-2 (SBA Faculty Liaison) – US Small Business Administration (SBA)
College of Arts and Sciences Awards
$306,476.00 – Keane, Susan – Behavioral Health/Primary Care Integration: Reducing Barriers to Care in Underserved Populations – Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
$299,937.00 – Gerace, William – Self-efficacy Intervention to Improve STEM Performance – NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
$270,984.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Anticancer agents from Diverse Natural products sources – Ohio State University
$126,360.00 – Reggio, Patricia – Senior Scientist Award: Molecular Determinants of Cannabinoid Activity – NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
$69,000.00 – Rueppell, Olav – Social and Behavioral Science: Monitoring Resource Acquisition Behavior Under Stress in a Biological Social Model System – DOD DA Army Research Office (ARO)
$68,627.00 – Rueppell, Olav – Characterization and Synthesis of Compounds Capable of Inducing Hygienic Behavior in Honey Bees; A Method to Control Varroa Mites in Honey Bees Hives – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
$55,000.00 – Soles, Jeffrey – Mochlos 2016: Publication and Site Conservation – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
$31,730.00 – Rychtar, Jan – The Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics & Statistics Conference – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$30,000.00 – Kalcounis-Ruppell, Matina – Rodent Population and Community Responses to Coarse Woody Debris Manipulations – USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
$30,000.00 – Tashima, Pauli – The Historicity of Authority: Status and Interpretation of the Zuo Tradition in Early Medieval China – American Association of University Women (AAUW)
$22,274.00 – Pauli, Sebastian – UNCG Summer School in Computational Number Theory – DOD NSA Mathematical Sciences Program (MSP)
$20,000.00 – Deng, Jing – CIF:Small:Collaborative Research:Security in Dynamic Environments: Exploiting the Randomness and Diversity of Ad-Hoc Networks – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$20,000.00 – Yasaki, Dan – Voronoi Reduction Theory and Applications to Arithmetic Groups – DOD National Security Agency (NSA)
$15,000.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – ITS Barcoding of Mushroom Samples: 3 competitor & 1 new vendor samples – New Chapter, Inc.
$10,089.00 – Rueppell, Olav – Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus consequences for queen health, transmission routes, and immune priming – North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC)
$5,998.00 – Nash, Donna – Beads, Ethnicity, and Empire in the Wari Colony of Moquegua – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$5,941.00 – Nash, Donna – Cuisine, Cooking Pots, and Ethnicity in the Wari Colony of Moquegua, Peru – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$3,000.00 – Murphy, Joanne – Kea Archaeological Research Survey: Testing the Value of Survey Data – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
Enrollment Management Awards
$60,000.00 – Irwin-Olson, Jeanne – RPE Rape Prevention Education – Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Health and Human Sciences Awards
$821,116.00 – Anastopoulos, Arthur – Improving the Educational and Social Emotional Functioning of College Students with ADHD – DOED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
$503,123.00 – Leerkes, Esther – Biological and Behavioral Predictors of Early School Success – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
$401,199.00 – Gold, Laurie – Pathways from Childhood Self-Regulation to Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescence – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
$400,000.00 – Milroy, Jeffrey – Increasing Concussion Disclosure among Athletes – National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
$329,681.00 – Gold, Laurie – Pathways from Childhood Self-Regulation to Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescence. – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$143,404.00 – Laparo, Karen – Early Childhood Quality Improvement Pathways System (EQuIPS) Public School Version Research Plan: ILLINOIS – National Louis University
$98,537.52 – Flynn, Perry – Exceptional Children State Speech-Language Consultant (2016 – 2017) – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
$84,400.00 – Tanner, Amanda – CATCH: Comprehensive Assessment of Transition and Coordination for HIV+ Youth as they Move from Adolescent to Adult Care – University of Alabama at Birmingham
$12,416.00 – Milroy, Jeffrey – Evaluation Proposal – Let Me Run
$1,576.00 – Cassidy, Deborah – UNCG Partnership – Guilford County Partnership for Children
$650.00 – Cassidy, Deborah – UNCG Partnership – Guilford County Partnership for Children
Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Awards
$49,468.00 – Starobin, Joseph – Noninvasive method for assessing cardiovascular stress arising from acute exposure to nanoparticles – National Science Foundation (NSF)
Research and Economic Development Awards
$499,874.00 – Phillips, Lisa – North Carolina Homeless Education Program – NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI)
$391,247.00 – Zhou, Zhanxiang – Lipotoxicity in Alcoholic Liver Disease – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$233,624.00 – McColskey, Wendy – 21st CCLC Program Evaluation – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
$99,297.00 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Thriving at Three – United Way of Greater Greensboro
$60,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – Unhealthy Homes & Childhood Asthma: Community Action Planning for an Asthma Safe City – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
$55,000.00 – Moore, Stephen – NCAN/Kresge Foundation FAFSA Challenge Grant in partnership with Say Yes to Education, College Advising Corps and North Carolina Higher Education Assistance Authority/CFNC – National College Access Network (NCAN)
$50,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – MEASURING THE IMPACT OF THE HOUSING CRISIS: A Census of Housing Stock in Greensboro – Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
$31,532.00 – Lewis, Karla – Implementation Evaluation – Furman University Riley Institute
$22,775.00 – Bowman, Diana – National Center on Homeless Education (NCHE) – US Department of Education (DOED)
$20,415.00 – Pluff, Lisa – Uber/LYFT Curriculum Development – CenterPoint Human Services
$19,320.87 – Sills, Stephen – Asset Based Community Development Planning for Hinton Rural Life Center – Hinton Center
$15,500.00 – Moore, Stephen – Degrees Matter: Advisor and Volunteer Coordinator – Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
$15,000.00 – Gruber, Kenneth – Healthy Beginnings Evaluation 2016-2017 – NCDHHS Division of Public Health (DPH)
$10,964.00 – Mooney, Kathleen – Learning By Practice Undergraduate Curriculum Evaluation – Prairie View A and M University (PVAMU)
$7,266.00 – Bowman, Diana – Migrant Interstate Coordination (Results) Website – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)
$5,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – Rental Housing Discrimination of LGBTQ Home Seekers in Greensboro: A Fair Housing Study – City of Greensboro
$650.00 – Payne, C. – Bringing Out the Best: Supporting Young Children’s Social and Emotional Development – Guilford County Partnership for Children
School of Education Awards
$115,000.00 – Fairbanks, Colleen – SPAHE contract with Elon University (2016-2017) – Elon University
$100,000.00 – Murray, Christine – Guilford County Healthy Relationships Initiative (HRI) – The UNCG Excellence Foundation, Inc
$52,000.00 – Fairbanks, Colleen – SPAHE contract with Wake Forest University (2016-2017) – Wake Forest University
$30,000.00 – Carlone, Heidi – Engineering is Elementary (contract with Museum of Science, Boston) – Museum of Science, Boston
$18,000.00 – Willse, John – OAERS contract with Guilford County Schools (2016-2017) – Guilford County Schools
$13,500.00 – Willse, John – OAERS contract with Castle Worldwide Inc. 2016-2017 – Castle Worldwide, Inc.
$13,200.00 – Chow, Anthony – Contract with VAWnet: User analysis and redesign of web site architecture (Phase III) – National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
$7,000.00 – Patterson Zoch, Melody – The “Village” Project at Guilford Elementary – Junior League of Greensboro
$1,988.42 – Pagliaro, Claudia – Salus University subaward for student doctoral Fellowship (tuition and stipend for Kimberly Hutter) – Salus University (SU)
$218.42 – Pagliaro, Claudia – Salus University subaward for student doctoral Fellowship (tuition and stipend for Adeoye Sulaiman) – Salus University (SU)
$218.42 – Pagliaro, Claudia – Salus University subaward for student doctoral Fellowship (tuition and stipend for Taylor Hallenbeck) – Salus University (SU)
School of Nursing Awards
$340,618.00 – Letvak, Susan – UNCG’s Veteran Access Program (VAP) To Prepare BSN Nurses – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
$34,334.00 – Krowchuk, Heidi – Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship (NAT) Program – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
University Libraries Awards
$66,713.00 – Motszko, Jennifer – Good Medicine: Greensboro’s Hospitals and Healers, 1865-2015 – North Carolina State Library
$66,713.00 – Gwynn, James – Good Medicine: Greensboro’s Hospitals and Healers, 1865-2015 – North Carolina State Library
Submissions
Submissions separated by school/college. Listings by proposal amount, name of lead PI, title, and sponsor.
Bryan School of Business and Economics Submissions
$86,912.97 – Griffiths, Merlyn – Effects of Messages of Harm and Ad Themes on Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Risk Appraisals, Attitudes and Desire to Quit – Duke University
$25,000.00 – Welsh, Dianne – Coleman Entrepreneurship Fellows – Coleman Foundation
$15,400.00 – Byrd, Erick – North Carolina Muscadine Grape & Grape Products Marketing Study (MUS-MARK) – North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS)
$5,906.00 – Van Hasselt, Martyn – Support and Services at Home (SASH) Evaluation: Part 2 – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)
$3,000.00 – Erba, Joseph – UNCG 2016-2 (SBA Faculty Liaison) – US Small Business Administration (SBA)
College of Arts and Sciences Submissions
$999,950.50 – Faeth, Stanley – Science, Technology, and Math Preparation Scholarships (STAMPS) – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$673,977.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Integrative Approach for the Quantitative Prediction of Natural Product-Drug Interactions – Washington State University
$626,992.71 – Remington, David – IOS EDGE: A gene-to-phenotype toolkit for evolutionary functional analysis in Arabidopsis lyrata – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$436,500.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Natural product modulation of cellular metabolism and inflammation – University of Washington
$299,685.00 – Rueppell, Olav – Collaborative undergraduate training and research network on honey bee health and biology in North Carolina – USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
$118,623.24 – Anemone, Robert – Geospatial Paleontology: Interdisciplinary Investigations at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary in SW Wyoming – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$87,300.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Advancing Pth1 as an Antibiotic Target and Early Stage Discovery of Pth1 Inhibitors – University of Alabama in Huntsville
$72,750.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Linking Transcriptional Regulatory Network Rewiring and Virulence in Aspergillus – Vanderbilt University
$61,814.22 – Chiu, Norman – Family-Inclusive Diabetes Self-management Intervention for Adult Hispanics – Ohio State University
$57,849.35 – Silvia, Paul – Experience Sampling Methods: An Innovative Contribution to the Multimethod Assessment of Parent-Child Aggression – University of Alabama at Birmingham
$50,400.00 – Levenstein, Lisa – American Women in a Global Movement: U.S. Feminists and the Beijing Conference of 1995 – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
$50,400.00 – Zimmerman, Michael – Ignorance and Moral Responsibility – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
$50,400.00 – Levine, Emily – Exceptional Institutions: Cities, Capital, and the Rise of the Research University – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
$50,400.00 – Hontanilla, Ana – The Wretched and the Vagrant in the Hispanic Atlantic (1770-1821) – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
$50,400.00 – Tashima, Pauli – The Historicity of Authority: Status and Interpretation of the Zuo Tradition in Early Medieval China – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
$35,400.00 – Johnson, Corey – U.S. Energy Diplomacy – Fritz Thyssen Foundation
$33,298.60 – Murphy, Joanne – Kea Archaeological Research Survey: Testing the Value of Survey Data – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
$30,000.30 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Promoting innate immune defense to prevent diabetic infectious complications – University of New Mexico Board of Regents
$29,448.00 – Levine, Emily – Exceptional Institutions: Cities, Capital, and the Rise of the Research University – European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS)
$19,998.98 – Cech, Nadja – Evaluation of Synergy between Extracts of Turmeric – Procter and Gamble
$19,869.48 – Deng, Jing – REU supplement to existing NSF award (CCF-1320428) – NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
$12,500.00 – Johnson, Corey – Environmental Geopolitics in the Anthropocene: Understanding Causes, Managing Consequences, Finding Solutions – The Tokyo Foundation
$10,900.00 – Kreitinger, Brooke – Campus Weeks 2016: “Germany meets the US” – German Embassy
$9,998.64 – Stein, Gabriela – Padres efectivos y terapistas entregados: Increasing activation and engagement in Latino parent-provider interactions – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
$4,000.00 – Lewis, Thomas – AMS-Simons Travel Grant – American Mathematical Society (AMS)
$2,999.70 – Legreco, Marianne – Tracking and Monitoring Participation in the Mobile Oasis Farmers Market – Guilford County Department of Public Health
$1,000.00 – Pauli, Sebastian – UNCG Summer School in Computational Number Theory – Number Theory Foundation
$0.00 – Cabello, Claudia – Transnational networks of Latin American women writers, artists and intellectuals (1910-1950) – Swarthmore College
Enrollment Management Submissions
$2,776.68 – Baldwin, Kara – 2016-2017 GEAR UP Aspire Day and GEAR UP Senior Day – University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)
Health and Human Sciences Submissions
$3,501,026.00 – Hestenes, Linda – North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project – NCDHHS Division of Child Development
$1,769,988.63 – Gold, Laurie – Pathways from Childhood Self-Regulation to Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescence. – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$501,461.39 – Erikson, Keith – Regulation of iron influences metal and toxicant related neurological disorders – University of Tennessee Health Science Center
$442,080.98 – Schmitz, Randy – A Multivariate Clinical Biomechanical Model to Prospectively Identify Early Cartilage Degeneration in the ACL-Reconstructed Patient – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$436,498.55 – Dharod, Jigna – Food Insecurity: How is it related to feeding practices, weight status and rate of weight gain during infancy – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$421,307.10 – Raisbeck, Louisa – Merging attentional focus and balance training to reduce fall risk in older adults – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$415,247.65 – Mills-Koonce, William – A Mechanistic Study of the Association Between Poverty and Executive Functions in Early Childhood: Contributions of Early Brain Development and the Early Caregiving Environment – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
$127,761.00 – Flynn, Perry – Speech Language Pathology Service Contract with Phoenix Academy – Phoenix Academy
$104,946.77 – Flynn, Perry – Exceptional Children State Speech-Language Consultant (2016 – 2017) – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
$78,696.59 – Perko, Michael – STTR: Promoting Whole Foods to Athletes: Avoiding Risks of Dietary Supplements – The National Center for Drug Free Sport
$50,000.16 – Dyson, Yarneccia – Towards Healthy Living and Loving: Understanding the sexual decision making skills, risk perception, and substance among college students – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Submissions
$2,462,664.08 – Herr, Daniel – UNC Greensboro MARC USTAR Engage, Sustain, and Prepare – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$601,510.11 – Wei, Jianjun – A versatile on-chip molecular analysis tool for biomarkers of cancer – NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)
$349,200.00 – Wei, Jianjun – A Handheld LSPR Fiber Optic Biosensor for Handheld Rapid Analysis of Cancer Biomarkers – University of Alabama at Birmingham
$299,340.00 – Wei, Jianjun – Design of Next Generation, Water-Processable, Graphene-Polymer Composite – UNCGA Research Opportunities Initiative (ROI)
$42,999.62 – Wei, Jianjun – SBIR: An instant drop blood analysis for point of care monitoring of the Host-Pathogen Interaction during Infection – Zymeron Corporation
Research and Economic Development Submissions
$1,179,998.28 – Moore, Stephen – Degrees Matter!: A Place-Based College Access & Completion Center for Adults with Low Educational Access & Attainment – DOED Office of Postsecondary Education
$998,252.64 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Micro-Enterprise for Refugees in the Triad (MERIT) – DHHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
$420,632.00 – Payne, C. – Specialty Courts Staff Support – Guilford County Area Authority
$250,000.38 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Citizenship Instruction and Naturalization Application Services (CINAS) – Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
$55,000.00 – Moore, Stephen – NCAN/Kresge Foundation FAFSA Challenge Grant in partnership with Say Yes to Education, College Advising Corps and North Carolina Higher Education Assistance Authority/CFNC – Kresge Foundation
$49,945.61 – Sills, Stephen – Implementing Greensboro’s Fresh Food Access Plan: Measurement Development and Evaluation – City of Greensboro
$20,414.90 – Pluff, Lisa – Uber/LYFT Curriculum Development – CenterPoint Human Services
$20,000.43 – McColskey, Wendy – Improving Student Achievement through Faculty Development (Title III) Evaluation – Forsyth Technical Community College
$19,320.87 – Sills, Stephen – Asset Based Community Development Planning for Hinton Rural Life Center – Hinton Center
$10,964.48 – Mooney, Kathleen – Learning By Practice Undergraduate Curriculum Evaluation – Prairie View A and M University (PVAMU)
$10,500.00 – Sills, Stephen – Discrimination of LGBTQ Home Seekers In Rural NC: A Paired Testing Study – Gamma Mu Foundation
$5,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – Rental Housing Discrimination of LGBTQ Home Seekers in Greensboro: A Fair Housing Study – City of Greensboro
$2,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – Discrimination of LGBTQ Home Seekers: A Paired Testing Study – The Adam Foundation
School of Education Submissions
$1,449,655.86 – Williamson, Pamela – Learning from Expository Texts about Science: A Comprehensive School-based Cognitive Strategy Intervention for Adolescents with Autism (LETS CSI) – National Science Foundation (NSF)
$114,999.96 – Fairbanks, Colleen – SPAHE contract with Elon U (2016-2017) – Elon University
$89,959.74 – Carlone, Heidi – Processes of students’ change of interest in science through the primary-secondary school transition (subcontract with Stockholm U) – Stockholm University
$51,999.84 – Fairbanks, Colleen – SPAHE contract with Wake Forest University (2016-2017) – Wake Forest University
$18,000.36 – Willse, John – OAERS contract with Guilford County Schools (2016-2017) – Guilford County Schools
$13,500.00 – Willse, John – OAERS contract with Castle Worldwide Inc. 2016-2017 – Castle Worldwide, Inc.
$13,200.00 – Chow, Anthony – Contract with VAWnet: User analysis and redesign of web site architecture (Phase III) – National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
$5,000.00 – Villaverde, Leila – Curricular Collaborations: Open Education, Project-Based Learning, and the Arts – National Education Association (NEA) Foundation
School of Nursing Submissions
$41,364.00 – Cote Arsenault, Denise – Influences on Women’s Decision-Making Concerning Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
$14,999.60 – Pickett, Stephanie – Examining Chronic Psychosocial Stress, Emotion, Eating Behavior and Weight Among Young African-American Women – American Nursing Foundation
$4,991.00 – Sheppard, Francine – Health Outcomes and Experiences of Retired Women – Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
$4,925.00 – Bacon, Cynthia – An examination of the relationship between organizational safety climate, failure to rescue, inpatient mortality and health team member job enjoyment – Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
