FY18 Second Quarter Awards & Submissions

Awards

Awards separated by school/college. Listings by award amount, name of lead PI, title, and sponsor. 

College of Arts and Sciences Awards

$368,795.00 — Oberlies, Nicholas — Natural Product-Drug Interaction Research – UWA to WSU Transfer — Washington State University

$208,960.00 — Kalcounis-Ruppell, Matina — Acoustic Monitoring of Bats in North Carolina — North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

$65,000.00 — Smith, Julia — Center for Research on Hispanic Children and Families — Child Trends

$43,000.00 — Koerner, Sarah — Global patterns of grazer effects on plant biodiversity: the role of functional traits and evolutionary history of dominant plant species — US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

$40,114.00 — Rueppell, Olav — Studies of the Plasticity of Stress Defense Induction in the Social Honey Bee Model — DOD DA Army Research Office (ARO)

$5,000.00 — Chiu, Norman — Joseph Mwangi GDEP Grant Award — Burroughs Wellcome Fund

$3,960.00 — Wisco, Blair — Effects of Trauma-Focused Rumination in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder — American Psychological Foundation (APF)

$805.78 — Pavlova, Iglika — A collaborative proposal between chemistry and biology to scaffold undergraduate research across the curriculum at UNCG — University of San Diego

College of Visual and Performing Arts Awards

$102,830.00 — Alexander, Peter — GCS Arts Professional Development — Guilford County Schools

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Awards

$176,000.00 — Herr, Daniel — SENIC — Georgia Institute of Technology

$12,978.00 — Rathnayake, Hemali — Development of titanium based oxynitirde nanowires for alternative energy generation and energy storage — North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT )

Office of Research and Engagement

$334,900.00 — Frison, Sonja — Juvenile Justice Substance Abuse Mental Health Partnerships — Trillium Health Resources (THR)

$187,508.00 — Sills, Stephen — GUILFORD SOLUTION TO THE OPIOID PROBLEM (Guilford STOP) — Guilford County

$168,780.00 — McColskey, Wendy — Extended Learning and Integrated Student Supports Competitive Grant Program – ELISS — North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)

$134,124.00 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — Immigrant Health ACCESS Project — Cone Health Foundation

$95,000.00 — Yamaguchi, Ryoko — GIRLS ROCK TECH: Integrating Computer Science Education into a National Girls Empowerment Program — Howard University

$67,889.00 — Hancock, George — Moore County Schools Strategic Plan Development and Stakeholder Input Initiative — Moore County School System

$50,000.00 — Edmunds, Julie — Evaluation Plan for the Central Ohio Compact — Columbus State Community College

$50,000.00 — Edmunds, Julie — Evaluation Plan for the Central Ohio Compact with a specific focus on the American Electric Power (AEP) Credits Count Project — Columbus State Community College

$35,000.00 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — Safe Transitions after Resettlement Program (STAR) — North Carolina Council for Women

$11,922.00 — Mooney, Kathleen — Learning By Practice Undergraduate Curriculum Evaluation — Prairie View A and M University (PVAMU)

$11,000.00 — Gruber, Kenneth — Access to Integrated Care by the Uninsured in Greater Greensboro — Cone Health Foundation

$10,000.00 — McColskey, Wendy — Improving Student Achievement through Faculty Development (Title III) Evaluation — Forsyth Technical Community College

$7,200.00 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — Refugee After School Program — New Arrivals Institute

$5,500.00 — Gruber, Kenneth — Addressing Co-Occuring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders — Cone Health Foundation

$4,950.00 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — Afternoon Academics — Kinder Morgan Foundation

$3,750.00 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — School Success for Students Transitioning After Resettlement — Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro

Office of Student Affairs

$125,000.00 — Callahan, Cheryl — Collegiate Recovery Community — North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)

School of Education Awards

$315,158.00 — Ryndak, Diane — The TIES Center: Increasing Time, Instructional Effectiveness, Engagement, and State Support for Inclusive Practices for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities — University of Minnesota

$19,643.00 — Boyce, Ayesha — Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Hierarchical nanoMFG Node (subcontract) — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

School of Health and Human Sciences Awards

$3,421,567.00 — Hestenes, Linda — North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project — NCDHHS Division of Child Development

$352,238.70 — Coffman, Jennifer — Student learning as a function of exposure to teachers’ use of Cognitive Processing Language during instruction — DOED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

$138,105.00 — Poole, Kelly — Partnership to Address Co-Occurring Disorders in Vulnerable Populations 2017-18 — Cone Health Foundation

$116,204.00 — Poole, Kelly — Congregational Social Work Education Initiative (CSWEI 2017-18) — Cone Health Foundation

$63,661.00 — Davis, Paul — BELT Program — Cone Health System

$32,816.00 — Tanner, Amanda — Evaluating Locally-Developed or Adapted (Homegrown) Combination HIV Prevention Interventions for Transgender Persons who have Sex with Men — Wake Forest University Health Sciences

$32,035.00 — Matyok, Thomas — Visiting Research Professorship at the Peace & Stability Operation Institute — DOD DA Army War College

$29,906.00 — Tanner, Amanda — Tailored use of social media to improve engagement and retention in care and health outcomes for MSM with HIV — Wake Forest University Health Sciences

$17,845.00 — Rhea, Christopher — UNC System Collaboration to use Virtual Reality to address Human Health Challenges — University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)

$13,343.00 — Wyrick, David — NCAA Subaward — Prevention Strategies

$12,010.00 — Schleien, Stuart — The Arc of Greensboro — Arc of Greensboro

$2,671.00 — Reifsteck, Erin — Examining health literacy and health status of minority college students — Winston-Salem State University (WSSU)

$500.00 — Kinney, Judith — Recreation Therapy Service Provision in the US — North Carolina Recreation and Park Association

University Libraries Awards

$32,738.00 — Bernhardt, Elizabeth — Combined Alternative Textbook Program — East Carolina University (ECU)

$11,229.00 — Motszko, Jennifer — PRIDE! of the Community: Documenting LGBTQ+ History in the Triad — National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Submissions

Submissions separated by school/college. Listings by proposal amount, name of lead PI, title, and sponsor. 

Bryan School of Business and Economics Submissions

$400,125.00 — Andersen, Martin — Utilization Management in the Medicare Part D Program — NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA)

$46,766.81 — Griffiths, Merlyn — Exploring Reactions to Health Warnings on Waterpipe Tobacco Ads — Duke University

College of Arts and Sciences Submissions

$3,592,745.66 — Stein, Gabriela — Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care — NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

$1,399,497.70 — Stein, Gabriela — Developing a Family-based Education Activation Intervention for Latino English Learner Families — DOED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

$1,166,472.76 — Oberlies, Nicholas — Natural Product-Drug Interaction Research – UWA to WSU Transfer — Washington State University

$520,962.82 — Nile, Terence — Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) — NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)

$499,944.82 — Gao, Xiaoli — IGE: Integrating Data Analytics into Graduate STEM Education — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$496,719.54 — Green, Nancy — New Frontiers in BioNLP: Mining Arguments and Entity Quality Ontological Expressions from Scientific Literature — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$488,639.14 — McFarland, Sherri — Unraveling the Excited State Dynamics of Ru(II) Photodrugs — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$423,987.05 — Croatt, Mitchell — (5Z)-7-Oxozeaenol Analogues as Anticancer Leads — National Institutes of Health (NIH)

$400,125.00 — Oberlies, Nicholas — Hurricane Irma’s effects on human exposure to fungal populations in urban freshwater environments in Florida — NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

$353,169.24 — Blanchet-Sadri, Francine — AF: Small: Algorithms on Strings — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$327,520.19 — Petersen, Kimberly — 3 year NSF Grant — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$299,999.18 — Kiss, John — Association mapping and simulated microgravity to identify genes involved in tropistic responses — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

$282,909.07 — Koerner, Sarah — Heterogeneity of the grassland macrosystem: Using traits to understand macro-scale carbon and nitrogen cycling responses to global change — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$255,052.77 — Shivaji, Ratnasingham — Collaborative research: Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Competitive Ecological Models: Patches, Landscapes, and Conditional Dispersal on the Boundary — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$249,369.54 — Fu, Lixin — Detection of Disruptive Behavior on Social Networks — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$247,265.61 — Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan — SaTC: CORE: Small: Collaborative: Nonlinear perturbation models for big data protection — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$240,806.41 — Yasaki, Dan — Voronoi Theory over Number Fields and Applications to Arithmetic Groups — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$239,424.58 — Deng, Jing — Modeling the Human Impacts on the Propagation of Information over Dynamic Social Networks — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$209,825.55 — Blanchet-Sadri, Francine — Computing Repetitions in Strings — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$200,000.00 — Sills, Stephen — Displacement and Exclusion: Examination of the Mechanisms of Marginalization in the South — Carnegie Foundation

$174,600.00 — Oberlies, Nicholas — Graviola inhibits prostate cancer growth and progression via targeting NADPH oxidase activity — Wake Forest University School of Medicine

$165,014.46 — Miroshnichenko, Anatoly — Exploring Binary Systems with Gas-and-Dust Environments — NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)

$161,603.94 — Kalcounis-Ruppell, Matina — Regional integrated coordination of NABat in the Southeastern USA: Georgia, South and North Carolina — South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

$145,500.00 — Cech, Nadja — Impact of commensal cross-talk on MRSA colonization and infection. — University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center

$138,000.00 — Schallhorn, Suzanne — Predictors of Sleep Quality and Duration: Interactive Effects of Stress Exposure and the Additive Influence of Five Serotonergic Polymorphisms — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$96,575.57 — Tangedal, Brett — UNCG Summer School in Computational Number Theory — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$76,896.75 — Reggio, Patricia — Optimization of High Selectivity Antagonists for GPR18 — Temple University

$70,000.00 — Rogers, Eugene — How Blood Marks the Bounds of the Christian Body — American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

$63,325.97 — Sadri, Fereidoon — Crowd Curation of Interaction Data — NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)

$55,000.00 — Soles, Jeffrey — Mochlos 2018: Publication and Conservation — Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)

$50,750.00 — Morrissette, Noelle — Anne Spencer: Letters and Legacy — National Humanities Center

$50,000.00 — Cabello, Claudia — Queer Networks: Latin American and Spanish Writers, Artists and Patrons in the First Half of the XXth Century. — National Humanities Center

$50,000.00 — Parsons, Anne — Care and Custody — Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation

$40,000.00 — Rogers, Eugene — How Blood Marks the Bounds of the Christian Body — Louisville Institute

$37,800.00 — Villella, Peter — Construction of Aztec History — City of Chicago Newberry Library

$35,000.00 — Sanchez, Maria — “The Imagination of Slavery: Protest and Print Across a Shifting Border, 1810-1870.” — National Humanities Center

$32,382.00 — Villella, Peter — Of Ruin and Rebirth: The Construction of Aztec History, 1531-1625 — National Humanities Center

$19,497.00 — Pauli, Sebastian — REU: Computational Research on Local Fields and Galois Groups — Elon University

$16,800.00 — Bilinkoff, Jodi — John of the Cross (1542-1591): The History, Mystery, and Memory of a Spanish Saint — City of Chicago Newberry Library

$10,000.00 — Murphy, Joanne — Kea Archaeological Research Survey: Testing the Value of Survey Data — Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)

$8,575.00 — Schug, Malcolm — Sustainable Environmental Activities for Science Everywhere and Tech Savvy — Syngenta

$7,974.00 — Kuperberg, Arielle — Student loans, the transmission of inequality, and the transition to adulthood — Rutgers University at Camden

$6,000.00 — Sanchez, Maria — “The Imagination of Slavery.” — National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

$5,306.40 — Wasserberg, Gideon — NC DHHS Contract to Survey Tick Distribution in NW NC — North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)

$5,000.00 — Chiu, Norman — Joseph Mwangi GDEP Grant Award — Burroughs Wellcome Fund

$4,940.00 — Sametz, Lynn — Science Everywhere 2018 — University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)

$2,470.00 — Murphy, Arthur — Information-Seeking and Response after a Major Earthquake: Mexico City September 19, 2017 — University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center

College of Visual and Performing Arts Submissions

$200,000.00 — Oring, Sheryl — I Wish to Say: Dispatches from the Swing States — Carnegie Corporation of New York

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Submissions

$3,558,167.38 — Kepley, Christopher — Metabolic reprogramming of adipose tissue cells into tumor targeting mast cells for breast cancer immmunotherapy — National Institutes of Health (NIH)

$298,918.11 — Lajeunesse, Dennis — SemiSynBio: Linking Bacteria with Semiconductors to Enable Synthetic Circuit Components — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$296,326.76 — Wei, Jianjun — Cryptochromes: The Magnetic Reponses in Photoelectrochemistry and Heterogeneous Electron Transfer — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$290,742.47 — Wei, Jianjun — Experimental Studies into Magnetic Field Effect on Electrocatalysis of Well-Aligned Metal Oxides Films — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$224,438.12 — Ignatova, Tetyana — Nondestructive nanocharacterization of novel 2D-materials: Developing a quantitative framework for microwave microscopy — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$149,677.31 — Rathnayake, Hemali — De Novo Design of Synthetic Channels for Biomimetic Membranes — University of Louisville

$38,503.00 — Rathnayake, Hemali — Multifunctional Metal alloy-Polyimides-Based Cellular Lattice Nanocomposites for Lightweight Spacecraft Shielding Structures — North Carolina Space Grant Consortium (NC Space Grant)

$29,170.00 — Starobin, Joseph — Nonlinear waves in biological excitable media: wearable ECG sensors and applications — VentureWell (National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA))

Office of Business Affairs Submissions

$24,500.00 — Jasso, Christopher — 2018 – UNC Greensboro Police Department – Mobile Data Terminals — Governors Crime Commission (GCC)

Office of Enrollment Management Submissions

$349,483.00 — Wyatt, James — UNCG Student Success — University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)

Office of Research and Engagement Submissions

$2,736,978.68 — Zhou, Zhanxiang — Aldehydes in alcohol-Indiced Organ Injury — National Institutes of Health (NIH)

$1,887,994.08 — Yamaguchi, Ryoko — STEMscape Shelton: An Innovations in Development Project — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$1,131,966.64 — Edmunds, Julie — Evaluation Lead for an Early Childhood Initiative in Guilford County, North Carolina — Duke Endowment

$245,947.36 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — AmeriCorps ACCESS Project — North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service

$187,507.61 — Sills, Stephen — Guilford Solution to the Opioid Problem (Guilford STOP) — Guilford County

$67,888.85 — Hancock, George — Moore County Schools Strategic Plan Development and Stakeholder Input Initiative — Moore County School System

$49,999.54 — Edmunds, Julie — Evaluation Plan for the Central Ohio Compact — Columbus State Community College

$44,724.96 — Edmunds, Julie — The Business of Engineering-A Collaboration on Innovation (BEACON) — Wake Technical Community College

$19,824.84 — Hutchins, Bryan — Evaluation of the Teaching Rural Elementary Educators of STEM (TREES) — Appalachian State University (ASU)

$18,500.58 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — Community Center Youth Programs — Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation

$10,000.22 — McColskey, Wendy — Improving Student Achievement through Faculty Development (Title III) Evaluation — Forsyth Technical Community College

$7,499.07 — Sechrist, Stacy — Development of a Researcher-Practitioner Partnership to Address the Needs of Victims of Human Trafficking — Center for Victim Research

$4,950.00 — Sienkiewicz, Holly — Afternoon Academics — Kinder Morgan Foundation

$4,913.23 — Edmunds, Julie — Follow-up Study of the Impact of Early College High Schools — American Institutes for Research (AIR)

School of Education Submissions

$2,308,407.00 — Sadler, Troy — Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Skills for Scientific Modeling & Issue Oriented Teaching – The PICASSO Project — National Science Foundation (NSF)

$377,077.19 — Heredia, Sara — Spanning Boundaries: a Network of Support for Science Teacher Leaders — Exploratorium

$203,700.00 — Sadler, Troy — Collaborative Research: High School Students’ Climate Literacy Through Epistemology of Scientific Modeling — University of Nebraska at Lincoln

$157,441.19 — Boyce, Ayesha — Computational Thinking Assessment and Training for Older Adults — Michigan Technological University

$135,642.38 — Boyce, Ayesha — Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation — North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT )

$95,546.94 — Boyce, Ayesha — Engaging Undergraduates in STEM using Drosophila Behavioural Genetics (EUSTEM-DaBuGs) — North Carolina Central University (NCCU)

$30,000.00 — Wester, Kelly — The Impact of Friend Networks on Suicidal Ideation and Attempts and the Fidelity of ASIST — American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)

$23,377.20 — Murray, Christine — Gender Based Violence Prevention and Reintegration Project Cameroon — East Carolina University (ECU)

School of Health and Human Sciences Submissions

$3,568,975.63 — Leerkes, Esther — Biopsychosocial predictors of obesity during the first 2 years of life — NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

$1,360,687.72 — Coffman, Jennifer — Student learning as a function of exposure to teachers’ use of Cognitive Processing Language during instruction — DOED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

$1,341,360.00 — Chen, Ang — The Science of Essential Balance — National Institutes of Health (NIH)

$1,013,916.75 — Rhea, Christopher — INVestigating traIning assoCiated blasT pAthology (INVICTA) — Henry M Jackson Foundation

$436,500.00 — Mills-Koonce, William — Mood, mother, and child: The psychobiology of dyadic resilience — UNC-CH School of Medicine

$388,617.41 — Morrison, Sharon — Center for Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Diabetes and Health Disparities (CAIRDHD) — North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT )

$49,732.00 — Payton, Erica — Teachers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs towards Guns in US High Schools — Spencer Foundation

$15,000.00 — Powers, Meredith — Parks for All People: Promoting Health and Wellness by Engaging Aging Populations in Public Parks — Junior League of Greensboro

$12,010.00 — Schleien, Stuart — The Arc of Greensboro — Arc of Greensboro

$2,000.00 — Ross, Scott — Visual Utilization and Balance in Chronic Ankle Instability — Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainer’s Association (MAATA)

School of Nursing Submissions

$153,869.65 — Cote Arsenault, Denise — Development and Pilot of a Perinatal Palliative Care Coordinator Training Program — National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)

$30,413.60 — Germain, Cassandra — RWJF Pioneering Ideas Grant (Pre-Proposal – full proposals by invite only) — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

University Libraries Submissions

$149,780.61 — Halbert, Martin — NC Digital Scholarship Network — North Carolina State Library