Posted on May 06, 2021

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New Awards

New awards separated by school/college. Listings by total anticipated award amount, name of lead PI, title, sponsor, and award type.

Bryan School of Business and Economics

  • $16,720.00 – Byrd, Erick – NC Wine Stakeholder Familiarization Tours (FAM) – North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS)
  • $11,000.00 – Byrd, Erick – NC Wine Stakeholder Communication & Education Initiative (SCEI) – North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS)

College of Arts and Sciences

  • $237,002.00 – Egeland, Charles; Deng, Jing; Kim, Min Jeong – Archaeology Program Full Proposal: A network approach to Magdalenian social landscapes – NSF Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
  • $199,626.00 – Terui, Akira – Identifying key restoration habitats in a metapopulation network to improve species viability: a case study of Topeka Shiner – Syngenta
  • $56,198.00 – Muller, Chante; Reggio, Patricia – The Ionotropic Cannabinoid Receptor TRPV1 – NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • $50,000.00 – Wagoner, Kaira – Exploring commercialization of a novel, pheromone-based tool for determining honey bee colony pest and disease resistance – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $49,495.00 – Wagoner, Kaira – Hydrocarbon-induced immune priming to improve honey bee colony Varroa-resistance – Project Apis m.
  • $40,285.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Peak Libraries-Phase 2 plates – Procter and Gamble
  • $33,091.00 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – AI-Based Virtual Twin System for Ophthalmology – University of Pittsburgh
  • $17,460.00 – Wasserberg, Gideon – SumiShield 50WG efficacy testing against Sandflies – Sumitomo Chemical Company
  • $12,500.00 – Zhang, Yi – Studying material transport in the vortical flow using Direct Numerical Simulations: Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches – BYU Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM)
  • $12,000.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Understanding the effects of commercial pollen substitutes and microalgae-based prebiotic diet additives on the honey bee gut microbiome and metabolome – Project Apis m.
  • $10,000.00 – Parsons, Anne – Remembering Resistance: The Tuczyn Ghetto Uprising in the Holocaust – Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
  • $3,667.00 – Kutty, Asha – Magnolia House Virtual Reality Walk Through – Creative Greensboro

College of Visual and Performing Arts

  • $35,000.00 – Hofling, Ana Paula – Dancing Brazil’s Other: choreographies of race, class, and nation – National Humanities Center

Office of Research and Engagement

  • $90,339.00 – Thrift, Beth – 21st Century Community Learning Centers 2021 Summer Mini Grant Competitive Grant Program – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $75,782.00 – Johnson, Bridget – Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Schools Innovative Partnership Grant (IPG) Review – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $30,000.00 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth; Rich, Bruce – High Point Eviction Mediation Project: A Program to Improve Housing Stability and Resolve Eviction Cases Due to COVID19 – Foundation for a Healthy High Point
  • $20,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – Policy Scholar E Pluribus Unum Fund – E Pluribus Unum (EPU)
  • $16,000.00 – Murray, Christine – Promoting Infant and Toddler Early Development through Music in Guilford County through Kindermusik Programming and Resources – Cemala Foundation
  • $9,868.00 – Murray, Christine – Examining the Black Box: A Formative and Evaluability Assessment of Cross-sectoral Approaches for Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

School of Education

  • $87,870.00 – He, Ye – STARTALK: Integrating Content, Culture and Language for Student Wellbeing – University of Maryland National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)
  • $49,909.00 – Smith, Tiffany; Boyce, Ayesha – OAERS evaluation for the SCALE Program (Microelectronics Workforce Development) – Purdue University

School of Health and Human Sciences

  • $106,400.00 – Shultz, Sandra; Schmitz, Randy – Optimization of a Precision Measurement Solution for a Tri-Axial Knee Arthrometer – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
  • $50,000.00 – Shultz, Sandra – A Novel “Smart” Knee Sleeve to Provide Dynamic Motion Restraints – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $8,644.00 – Schleien, Stuart – Therapeutic Recreation Graduate Student at The Arc of Greensboro – Arc of Greensboro
  • $1,000.00 – Goldfarb, Allan – Kerry Martin – Sigma Xi Grants in Aid Research award – Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR)

Continuing Awards

Continuing awards separated by school/college. Listings by quarter award amount, name of lead PI, title, sponsor, and award type.

College of Arts and Sciences

  • $812,865.00 – Stein, Gabriela; Eddington, Kari – Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care – NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • $289,206.00 – Bobay, Louis-Marie – Investigating the impact and patterns of homologous recombination and adaptive evolution on bacterial genomes – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $164,147.00 – Cech, Nadja – Predoctoral Training: Innovative Technologies for Natural Products and Integrative Medicine Research   – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $71,705.00 – Smith, Julia – National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families – Child Trends
  • $18,188.00 – Bhandari, Ramji – Correction of endocrine disruptor-induced transgenerational epimutations by CRISPR-dCas9 – NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  • $8,000.00 – Kim, Min Jeong – A Scalable Platform for Exploring and Analyzing Whole Brain Tissue Cleared Images – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $8,000.00 – Kim, Min Jeong – A Scalable Platform for Exploring and Analyzing Whole Brain Tissue Cleared Images – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

Finance and Administration

  • $689,184.00 – Shea, Robert – Governors Emergency Education Relief Fund (UNC Resilience Grants) – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

Office of Research and Engagement

  • $422,261.00 – Zhou, Zhanxiang; Zhang, Qibin – Aldehydes in alcohol-Indiced Organ Injury – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $354,923.00 – Zhang, Qibin – Lipidome remodeling during development of T1D – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $205,083.00 – Zhang, Qibin – Critical lipid species in the hepatovirus lifecycle – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $136,500.00 – Zhang, Qibin – Influence of almond supplementation on energy, performance, and inflammation resolution from exercise-induced muscle damage – Appalachian State University (ASU)
  • $56,825.00 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – WSPD SPI BJA 2020 – City of Winston-Salem Police Department
  • $52,616.00 – Shelton, Terri – Bringing Out the Best: Supporting Young Children’s Social and Emotional Development – Guilford County Partnership for Children
  • $21,825.00 – Mazade, Noel – Nonprofit Leadership Fellows Academy 2020-2021 – North Carolina State University (NCSU)

School of Education

  • $112,963.00 – Morris, Carrie; Borders, Leslie – ACTIVATE Plus: Advancing Coordinated and Timely Interventions through Awareness, Training & Education – a PipeLine Uplifting Students – Rockingham County Schools
  • $97,335.00 – Boyce, Ayesha – BII-Implementation: GEMS: Genomics and eco-evolution of multi-scale symbioses – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $81,600.00 – Hewitt, Kimberly – Equity Leadership in High Need Schools – University of Kansas
  • $31,882.00 – Smith, Tiffany – OAERS contract with NCCPA – National Commission on Certification on Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
  • $25,980.00 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Cyber Platform – Purdue University
  • $19,894.00 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Hierarchical nanoMFG Node (subcontract) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $2,632.05 – Pagliaro, Claudia; Freeman-Green, Shaqwana – Salus University subaward for student doctoral Fellowship (tuition and stipend for Adeoye Sulaiman) – Salus University (SU)

School of Health and Human Sciences

  • $745,717.00 – Etnier, Jennifer – The effect of physical activity on cognition relative to APOE genotype (PAAD-II) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

School of Nursing

  • $22,131.00 – McGovern, Colleen – R01 Subcontract McGovern – University of Rhode Island

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  • $299,625.01 – Chappell, Murphie – UNCG Service Expansion for Victims of Campus Violence – North Carolina Department of Public Safety

Submissions

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

Bryan School of Business and Economics

  • $99,040.00 – Bray, Jeremy – Carolina Center for Excellence in Workforce Health and Well-being – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

College of Arts and Sciences

  • $2,590,480.08 – Wasserberg, Gideon – Oviposition attractants for sand fly control – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $1,760,382.15 – Bhandari, Ramji – Germline transmission of epigenetic alterations to offspring – NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS
  • $1,676,638.40 – Jensen, Michaeline – Digital Connections and College Student Substance Misuse – NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • $749,326.46 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Deciphering the phenotypic and genomic traits that underlie the evolution of pathogenicity differences among Aspergillus fumigatus and its close relatives – Vanderbilt University
  • $696,784.95 – Jensen, Michaeline – Parenting, Stress, and Emerging Adult Adjustment – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $649,826.00 – McLean, Bryan; Anemone, Robert; Obare, Sherine – MRI: Acquisition of Micro-computed Tomography and 3D Imaging Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary STEM Research in North Carolina – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $597,425.32 – Baker-Russell, Levi; Baker-Russell, Virginia; Kane, Michael; Wiley, Robert – The Role of Cognitive Ability for Problem Solving in Close Relationships – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $524,419.48 – Koerner, Sarah – Collaborative Proposal: Integrating trait diversity across hierarchical scales to predict biological resilience in an era of extreme environmental change – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $499,452.03 – Kiss, John – The Lunar Exploration Science (LES) Payload – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • $495,379.33 – McLean, Bryan; Koerner, Sarah – Collaborative Proposal: STEPP-NET: Steppe Parasite Networks – NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
  • $427,798.95 – Osena, Ayalew – Identification of bioactive compounds from tef (Eragrostis tef) seed extracts for antioxidant properties – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $412,405.20 – Kiss, John – Partial gravity studies on the ISS in preparation for growing plants on the Moon. – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • $400,101.34 – Bhandari, Ramji – Impacts of parental THC-induced changes in the epigenome of gametes on offspring transcriptome and health – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $323,186.48 – Weighill, Thomas – Collaborative Research: HDR DSC: Data for Democracy: Summer Training Institute – Tufts University
  • $299,194.56 – Kiss, John – The effects of microgravity on photosynthesis pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana – Louisiana Tech University
  • $249,965.10 – Skillings, Derek – Directedness in the Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution of Holobiont Systems – University of Minnesota
  • $222,137.76 – Oberlies, Nicholas – SBIR: A novel approach to the discovery and standardization of anti-aging nutraceuticals. – Attagene Inc.
  • $198,560.94 – Kopper, Regis; Grandi, Jeronimo – Validation and Demonstration of a Customizable Virtual Reality-Based Traffic Stop Simulation for Training and Practice with the Hillsborough Police Department – DOC National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • $191,539.11 – Johnson, Susan – Collaborative Research: The Effects of Colonization on Gendered Judging and Women’s Empowerment in Common Law Nations – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $175,965.38 – DeJesus, Jasmine – Collaborative: Research: 21st Century Gender Cognition in Young Children – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $149,999.96 – Sultana, Selima – NSF Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs): Regional Adaptation to Socio-Environmental Stressors along the Urban Rural Continuum – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $123,727.64 – Koerner, Sarah – Collaborative Research: Rewilding our understanding of how climate extremes affect grasslands – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $105,000.00 – MacInnes, Sean – Sustainability Faculty Fellows – Robert Schumann Foundation
  • $48,393.30 – Wasserberg, Gideon – First detection of rickettsiae in a US chigger population and the potential risk to people – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $48,000.00 – Krueger, Derek – Monastic Desires: Masculinity and Longing for God in Byzantium – Fordham University
  • $45,913.00 – Krueger, Derek – Monastic Desires: Masculinity and Longing for God in Byzantium – Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)
  • $45,913.00 – Rogers, Eugene – Imitation, Imaging, and the Image of God – Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)
  • $42,000.00 – Yasaki, Dan – Voronoi Theory over Number Fields and Applications to Arithmetic Groups – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000.00 – Lewis, Thomas – Narrow-Stencil Approximation Methods for Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000.00 – Gao, Xiaoli – Robust Penalized Regression for Complex Big Data Analysis – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000.00 – Zhang, Yi – Robust Numerical Methods for Stochastic Optimal Control Problems – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000.00 – Erovenko, Igor – Modeling interactions in realistic populations with multiplayer games on networks – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000.00 – Smyth, Clifford – Collaborations in Combinatorics – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000.00 – Chhetri, Maya – Positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems – Simons Foundation
  • $40,284.65 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Peak Libraries-Phase 2 plates – Procter and Gamble
  • $33,091.00 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – AI-Based Virtual Twin System for Ophthalmology – University of Pittsburgh
  • $30,000.00 – Girma, Hewan – Ethiopian Migrant Identities: Transracial Adoption, Return and Repeat Migrations – American Association of University Women (AAUW)
  • $24,844.00 – Petric, Radmila – Occurrences and concentrations of pesticides in Freshwaters of North Carolina along a developmental gradient. – NCSU Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI)
  • $22,700.00 – Eger, Alexander – The Archaeology of Daphne – Leon Levy Foundation
  • $20,358.36 – Stein, Gabriela – RCN: Racism and Xenophobia in Childhood and Adolescence – University of Michigan (UMICH)
  • $20,000.00 – Cassidy, Brittany – Examining Facial Masculinity as a Cause of Backlash against Aspiring Female Leaders – American Psychological Foundation (APF)
  • $15,000.00 – Girma, Hewan – Ethiopian Migration – The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (Formerly Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)
  • $10,000.00 – Raymann, Kasie; Damico, Megan – Determining the Factors Driving Strain Level Dynamics in the Honey Bee Gut Microbiome. – Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women in Science (GWIS)
  • $9,000.00 – McAvoy, Gregory – Political Discussions in a Partisan Era: How Group Composition and Discussion Design Influence the Views and Experiences of High School Students – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $7,241.00 – Levenstein, Lisa – Collegeland: A Podcast Featuring Untold Stories from Higher Education – North Carolina Humanities Council
  • $6,000.00 – Nancekivell, Shaylene – Understanding How Beliefs About Learning Impact Teacher Practices – University of Michigan Ann Arbor
  • $4,000.00 – Chekan, Jonathan – Deciphering the Biosynthesis of An Abundant Class of Plant Natural Products – American Society of Pharmacognosy
  • $3,869.00 – Walch, Teresa – Degenerate Spaces: The Coordination of Space in Nazi Germany – Central European History Society
  • $3,667.00 – Kutty, Asha – Magnolia House Virtual Reality Walk Through – Creative Greensboro
  • $1,175.00 – Walch, Teresa – Degenerate Spaces: The Coordination of Space in Nazi Germany – American Historical Association (AHA)

College of Visual and Performing Arts

  • $13,895.00 – McKoy, Constance – Developing Cross-Cultural Competence in Pre-Service Music Teachers: A Multiple-Case Study of 2 Undergraduate Music Teacher Preparation Programs – Spencer Foundation

Division of Enrollment Management

$35,000.00 – Anastasiou, Maria – Increasing diverse student participation in traditional and virtual study abroad – World Learning

Finance and Administration

  • $689,184.00 – Shea, Robert – Governors Emergency Education Relief Fund (UNC Resilience Grants) – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

  • $1,250,000.00 – Obare, Sherine – UNC ROI – Sustainable Nanoscale Catalyst Manufacturing Facility (prelim title – will change) – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
  • $235,134.24 – Wei, Jianjun; Ignatova, Tetyana; Jia, Zhenquan; Obare, Sherine – MRI: Acquisition of CRAIC 20/30 PV UV-VIS-NIR Microspectrophotometer for optical characterization of nano- and micro- scale materials and structures – National Science Foundation (NSF)

Office of Research and Engagement

  • $2,124,392.00 – Murray, Christine; Bray, Jeremy; Sills, Stephen – The North Carolina Tiered Care Coordination Pilot Project, Year 5 – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
  • $492,564.61 – Hancock, George – Regional Education Laboratory Southeast – Florida State University
  • $442,645.00 – Edmunds, Julie – Exploring the Role and Effects of High School Advising on CTE Students’ Transitions to Postsecondary Education and the Workforce – DOED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
  • $438,450.20 – Gruber, Kenneth; Bray, Jeremy; DiMattina, Meredith; Sills, Stephen – Comparison of CIT and Non-CIT Patrol Officer Outcomes Involving Persons with Mental Health Issues – Arnold Ventures, LLC
  • $367,513.30 – Frison, Sonja; Sills, Stephen – System of Care Expansion and Sustainability Grant for HFW and Enhanced Mobile Crisis – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
  • $282,312.20 – Goldstein, Evan – Collaborative Research: Linking Landscapes: Unraveling the connection between sediment delivery and coastal marsh persistence with big data and machine learning – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $219,827.22 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth; Hicks, Travis; Rich, Bruce – Comprehensive Neighborhood Planning Process for West End Community Development – Cornerstone Corporation
  • $199,995.00 – Edmunds, Julie – CARES Act Evaluation – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $174,277.00 – Elledge, Myles – Building Expanded Science and Technology Ties (BESTT) between US-Jordan to unlock New Opportunities for Women in Science – US Department of State (DOS)
  • $135,157.00 – Johnson, Bridget; Thrift, Beth – 21st Century Community Learning Centers 2021-2022 Cohort 15 Competitive Grant Review – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $106,810.10 – Sills, Stephen; Erausquin, Jennifer; Gruber, Kenneth; Payton, Erica; Strack, Robert – Guildford County COVID19 Vaccine Health Messaging – Guilford County Department of Public Health
  • $100,000.00 – Abdo, Diya – Thriving at Three (2021-22) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $90,339.00 – Thrift, Beth – 21st Century Community Learning Centers 2021 Summer Mini Grant Competitive Grant Program – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $75,782.00 – Johnson, Bridget – Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Schools Innovative Partnership Grant (IPG) Review – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $75,000.00 – Arshavsky, Nina – Using Smart Foodscapes for the Enhancement of Sustainability in Western Rangelands – Utah State University
  • $69,727.00 – Payton, Erica; Erausquin, Jennifer; Gruber, Kenneth; Sills, Stephen; Strack, Robert – Community Needs Assessment: Vaccine Resistance and Health Messaging in African American Communities – RAO Community Health Charlotte, NC – RAO Community Health
  • $67,234.10 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth; Rich, Bruce – Development of an Affordable Housing Plan for the Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina – Town of Wake Forest
  • $63,000.00 – Grebing, Eric – CHAT-MET: Cultural-Historical Activity Theory as Model for Utilizing Emerging Technologies in Museum Learning with Ecologically-Focused Gallery Objects – Texas Tech University
  • $62,310.38 – Sills, Stephen; DiMattina, Meredith; Rich, Bruce – Comprehensive Land Use Plan Town of Farmville, North Carolina – Town of Farmville
  • $57,391.40 – Abdo, Diya – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project Covid Relief Program – New Arrivals Institute
  • $50,000.00 – Coyle, Victoria – Artificial Intelligence Education: From Theory to Practice in Undergraduate Civil and Mechanical Engineering Programs – University of North Texas (UNT)
  • $46,959.00 – Abdo, Diya – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project Support (2021-22) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $30,945.20 – Murray, Christine – Promoting Infant and Toddler Early Development through Music in Guilford County through Kindermusik Programming and Resources – Cemala Foundation
  • $25,193.05 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth; Payton, Erica – Project Resilience: A community empowerment approach to support victims of community violence. – Foundation for a Healthy High Point
  • $24,999.66 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – PSN Western District FY 2019 – North Carolina Gang Investigators Association
  • $24,254.85 – Sills, Stephen; Rich, Bruce – Stokes County Habitat For Humanity Housing Needs Assessment – Habitat for Humanity of Stokes County
  • $20,000.43 – Sills, Stephen – Policy Scholar E Pluribus Unum Fund – E Pluribus Unum (EPU)
  • $18,493.05 – Murray, Christine – Child Care Equity Infrastructure and Investment Needs Assessment: City of San Jose/STIR Labs Challenge – City Innovate (STIR Labs)
  • $15,000.00 – Lewis, Karla – Gate City Coalition Evaluation – One Step Further, Inc.
  • $10,000.00 – Abdo, Diya – WOMEN: Women’s Opportunities for Mentorship and Empowerment Network – Womens Professional Forum Foundation
  • $7,500.00 – Sills, Stephen – Addressing SDOH through upstream improvements of housing in health impacted communities – Alexander Worth McAlister Foundation

School of Education

  • $2,999,940.00 – Rock, Marcia; Kochmanski, Nicholas – Innovative Technologies and Systems for Transforming and Improving Math Equity (Project IT’S TIME) – DOED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
  • $1,154,848.17 – Tan, Edna – Research in Service to Practice: Critical, Connected Co-Making with Youth, Families and Communities (C3) – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $549,781.17 – Reid, Aileen; Boyce, Ayesha – NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Access in STEM (IDEAAS Alliance) – University of California at Irvine (UCI)
  • $505,082.95 – Reid, Aileen; Boyce, Ayesha – NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Building a Diverse Data Science Workforce for STEM: A Chicago and New York Alliance (DATACANA) – Chicago State University
  • $505,082.95 – Boyce, Ayesha; Reid, Aileen – NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Flexible Pathways for Access through the Transfer Hub (Flex-PATH) – University of Nevada at Reno
  • $275,558.09 – Reid, Aileen – Expeditions: Mind in Vitro – Computing with Living Neurons – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $239,916.00 – Boyce, Ayesha – NRT WoU: Transforming Graduate Training at the Convergence of Multi-Messenger – Georgia Institute of Technology
  • $224,922.63 – Morris, Carrie – Social-Emotional Learning as a Foundation and Catalyst to Advance Resilience and Equity in STEM (SELF CARES) – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $199,504.48 – Lewis-Durham, Tiffanie; Chestnut, Catina – Advancing Equity-Centered Early Childcare Policies: Innovative Usage of School-Based Community Partnerships in a Rural Community – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
  • $160,077.65 – Reid, Aileen – NRT-RoL OoLALA: student-centered interdisciplinary graduate education in Origins of Life, Artificial Life, and Astrobiology – University of Wisconsin
  • $140,791.62 – Rock, Marcia – Immersive Virtual Reality for Change in Cross Cultural Competence (Project VR4C3) – University of Northern Iowa (UNI)
  • $74,975.00 – Ford, Jesse – The Black Male Research BootCamp: An Intervention for Graduate Degree Completion – Spencer Foundation
  • $19,171.08 – Reid, Aileen – BCSER: Collaborative Research: Workshop: Building Capacity to Support Career Acceleration and STEM Workforce Development – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
  • $18,750.00 – Vetter, Amy – Beyond Anti-Racism Solidarity Statements: Challenging the Space Between Rhetoric and Action in Equity-Oriented School Spaces – Hunter College

School of Health and Human Sciences

  • $1,919,999.28 – Dyson, Yarneccia – FY 2021 BHWET COMPETITION – Integrated Behavioral Health & Racial Equity Scholars Program (IBHRES) – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $1,064,766.27 – Wyrick, David – Reducing Drug Use among Young Adults: Optimizing an Online Prevention Program for Students as they Transition out of High School – Pennsylvania State University (PENN STATE)
  • $916,821.27 – McGuirt, Jared – Multifaceted online grocery shopping intervention among rural residents to improve dietary intake and reduce health disparities – University of Kentucky (UK)
  • $473,817.74 – Parry, Traci – Elucidating the metabolic signature of cancer cachexia to discover novel biomarkers – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $436,500.00 – Dharod, Jigna – Cross-generational effect of food insecurity: Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and breastfeeding behaviors. – NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  • $402,570.33 – Milroy, Jeffrey – SBIR: APC A collaborative approach to reduce time between concussion symptom onset and treatment – Prevention Strategies
  • $145,101.33 – Dollar, Jessica – Longitudinal biopsychosocial processes as predictors of co-occurring substance use and obesity in emerging adulthood – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $139,973.70 – Park, Kyoungshin – Efficacy of Rhythmic Entrainment to Music for Exercise in Dementia Care – Alzheimers Association
  • $74,997.98 – McGuirt, Jared – STTR: Good Bowls: Empowering Communities to Achieve Good Food Access and Health Equity – Equiti Foods, LLC
  • $60,780.95 – Adams, William – Understanding risk factors associated with chronic disease in firefighters – National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA)
  • $39,346.56 – Allred, Clinton – Evidence-based Nutrition Education and Research Guidance (ENER-G) – National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM)
  • $35,234.28 – Milroy, Jeffrey – SBIR: Developing an inclusive culture within sport and recreation for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities – Prevention Strategies
  • $28,769.55 – Echeverria, Sandra – State-level Policies and Contexts Shaping Cardiovascular Risk in Older Immigrants – University at Albany, SUNY
  • $23,000.00 – Adams, William – Determinants of habitual fluid intake behaviors and hydration status in collegiate athletes – National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA)
  • $10,000.00 – Adams, William – Impact of Cellular Dehydration on Cardiac Autonomic Function and Cognition – American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
  • $10,000.00 – Harmon, Justin – Celebrate the Trail to Recovery hiking program – Clif Bar Family Foundation
  • $9,690.00 – Yongue, Christina – Documentary Production for Voices for Reproductive Justice: Local Narratives from the Triad – SisterSong, Inc.
  • $9,458.90 – Hestenes, Linda – Outdoor Learning Environment Observational Evaluation: Infant / Toddler Shape NC Healthy Starts for Young Children Initiative – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $8,648.64 – Schleien, Stuart – Therapeutic Recreation Graduate Student at The Arc of Greensboro – Arc of Greensboro
  • $4,960.00 – Maher, Jaclyn – Derek Hevel – ACSM Foundation Doctoral Student Research Grant – American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
  • $2,000.00 – Chen, Ang; Deng, Anqi – Physical Activity, Cognitive Load, and Health-Related Knowledge in Physical Education – Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE)
  • $1,490.40 – Coakley, Tanya – Journey to a successful career as an academic and funded researcher – California State University – Long Beach
  • $1,000.00 – Goldfarb, Allan – Kerry Martin – Sigma Xi Grants in Aid Research award – Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR)

School of Nursing

  • $2,207,767.12 – Snyder, Audrey – Transforming Primary Advanced Practice (TPAC): Serving Medically Underserved Communities (MUCs) – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $770,510.24 – Hill, Carrie – Leadership Education And Diversity (LEAD) in Maternal Child Health (MCH) – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $663,075.27 – Avorgbedor, Forgive – Reducing the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Postpartum Women with early Multicomponent Intervention – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $254,005.17 – Stamp, Kelly – Examining the Reliability and Validity of the New York Heart Association Classification Guide to Assign Class of Patients with Heart Failure and Application into Practice – Illinois State University
  • $229,606.30 – Avorgbedor, Forgive – Link Between Maternal Psychosocial Distress, Health Behaviors. and Cardiometabolic Complications and Future CVD Risk – American Heart Association (AHA)

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  • $2,000,000.00 – Obare, Sherine; Mo, Yirong; Rathnayake, Hemali – EFRI-DCheM Preliminary Proposal: Converging Technologies for Future Distributed Manufacturing of Novel Nanoscale Catalysts for Sustainable Chemical Production – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $1,698,088.35 – Rathnayake, Hemali; Starobin, Joseph – ECO-CBET Preliminary: Convergent Platform Technologies for Lithium Recovery and Pre-treatment of Oil & Gas Produced Water. – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $699,998.21 – Wei, Jianjun; Mo, Yirong – ECO-CBET Preliminary: Converging Nascent Catalytic and Highly Efficient Enzymatic Processes for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Nitrogen Cycle Management (CONCEP Green) – North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
  • $644,943.44 – Chappell, Murphie – UNC Greensboro Campus Violence Response Center 2021 – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)
  • $500,000.00 – Rathnayake, Hemali; Hematian, Shabnam; Ignatova, Tetyana; Obare, Sherine; Osena, Ayalew – NIFA EGP: Acquisition of an Analytical Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for Nanotechnology Research at the Interface of the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus – USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
  • $400,125.00 – Kepley, Christopher – HUMAN LUNG MAST CELLS AS A RESERVOIR FOR CORONAVIRUS; AN UNRECOGNIZED MECHANISM FOR SARS-COV-2 IMMUNE-MEDIATED PATHOLOGY – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $299,999.18 – Wei, Jianjun – A Dual Signal Amplified Array Sensor for Visual Monitoring Stress Biomarkers – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
  • $110,000.00 – Rathnayake, Hemali – Discovery on Reticular Design and Synthesis of Metal-Organic Phenolate Frameworks from Natural Polyphenols – Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
  • $50,000.00 – Raynor, Samantha – Using Peer Mentoring to improve sense of belonging, self-efficacy and retention among first-year transfer students – Spencer Foundation

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UNCG Graduate Students Compete to Quickly (and Clearly) Present Research

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Drollette wins 2026 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, tenure-track category

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Science Everywhere Festival creates fun for all ages on UNCG Campus

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