FY22 Third Quarter Awards

• New awards totaled $3,220,718
• Continuing awards totaled $2,586,757

???? During the third quarter, UNCG scholars submitted 106 proposals seeking $49,090,053 in new funding.

New Awards

New awards separated by school/college. Listings by total anticipated award amount, name of lead PI, additional PIs, title, and sponsor. Top four new awards in bold.

Arts and Sciences

• $309,662 – Bhandari, Ramji – – Germline transmission of epigenetic alterations to offspring – HHS NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• $249,965 – Skillings, Derek – – Directedness in the Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution of Holobiont Systems – University of Minnesota
• $152,775 – Oberlies, Nicholas – – Deciphering the phenotypic and genomic traits that underlie the evolution of pathogenicity differences among Aspergillus fumigatus and its close relatives – Vanderbilt University
• $149,952 – Allen, Aaron – Kilcup, Karen – Watersheds for Place-Based, Experiential Education – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• $140,309 – Osena, Ayalew – – Identification of bioactive compounds from tef (Eragrostis tef) seed extracts for antioxidant properties – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $77,074 – Petersen, Kimberly – – Investigation and Optimization of a Novel, Pheromone-based Tool for Measuring Honey bee Colony Pest and Disease Resistance – Optera
• $75,000 – Hodgkins, Christopher – – George Herbert: Complete Works – Northern Michigan University
• $63,000 – Krueger, Derek – – Monastic Desires: Masculinity and Longing for God in Byzantium – Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
• $31,500 – Qadir, Neelofer – – Afrasian Imaginaries: Global Capitalism in Indian Ocean Worlds (monograph) – Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
• $16,570 – Wagoner, Kaira – – Investigation of the efficiacy and utility of the UBO Assay in distinguishing hygienic and non-hygienic honey bee colonies for selection and monitoring purposes by Flemish beekeepers – Buckfast Flanders
• $15,000 – Reynolds, Jeanie – – Piedmont Voices: Youth Educators Writing, Thinking, and Making Our Practice Public – National Writing Project (NWP)
• $9,975 – Oberlies, Nicholas – – P.O. from P&G regarding 4 plants for beauty (hair) care – Procter and Gamble
• $8,733 – Wagoner, Kaira – – Enhancing selection and breeding for hygienic behavior and mite resistance in commercial queen breeding operations – Bee Informed Partnership, Inc.
• $6,750 – Wagoner, Kaira – – Strengthening the quality and availability of locally adapted honey bee stock in Vermont – University of Vermont
• $1,550 – Wagoner, Kaira – – Investigation of honey bee virus deposition and replication on common crop flowers – Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS)
• $250 – Terui, Akira – – Evaluating the reproductive success of Eastern Bluebird as influenced by nesting proximity to different water body types – Piedmont Bird Club

Education

• $2,877 – Tovey, Tiffany – – Goalbook Study – Enome Inc.

Health and Human Sciences

• $100,988 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – – Opioids & COVID: Supporting Justice Involved Individuals with SUD during COVID – Guilford County Sheriffs Office
• $84,700 – Tanner, Amanda – – Identifying and addressing critical social, ethical, and behavioral factors associated with COVID-19 testing and vaccination among Spanish speakers – Wake Forest University Health Sciences
• $35,573 – Rinker, Jeremy – – Restorative Peer Mediation Development and Evaluation Program – Triad Restorative Justice
• $15,000 – Shreeniwas, Sudha – – The New “Doctor’s Orders”: Social Prescribing for Arts for Older Adults in the United States – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

• $10,000 – Obare, Sherine – – AccelNet Implementation: International Network For Researching, Advancing and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability (INFRAMES) – Duke University
• $2,000 – Bonner, Chartanay – Weavil, Allison – NC Sci Festival Aspire to Nano Spring 2022 – North Carolina Science Festival

Research and Engagement

• $440,000 – Shelton, Terri – – COVID-19 Supplemental SAPTBG Funding for NC Preventing Underaged Drinking Initiative – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
• $414,651 – Phillips, Lisa – – American Rescue Plan for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $172,104 – Thrift, Beth – – NCDPI 21st Century Community Learning Centers Cohort 16 Level I Grant Application Review, and Annual State-Level and Subgrantee-Level Evaluation Reporting – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $124,943 – Coyle, Victoria – – Study of the Implementation and Impact of North Carolina’s Summer Career Accelerator Program – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $96,230 – Hancock, George – – Regional Education Laboratory Southeast – Florida State University
• $65,000 – Lewis, Karla – – NC Child Evaluation Services – NC CHILD
• $54,672 – Murray, Christine – – Get Ready Guilford Initiative – Facilitation of Three Ages 3-5 Implementation Planning Teams – Ready for School, Ready for Life
• $51,814 – Rich, Bruce – Mohanty, Somya; DiMattina, Meredith – Technical Assistance to the Danville Regional Foundation for the development of a Quality of Life Explorer data portal – Danville Regional Foundation
• $49,629 – Edmunds, Julie – – UNC System ACE Transfer Project Pilot – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
• $38,827 – Edmunds, Julie – – Evaluation of Goalbook – Enome Inc.
• $19,990 – Sills, Stephen – – Evaluation & Technical Assistance to the VaxConnect Project of the YWCA of High Point & the Foundation for a Healthy High Point. – YWCA of High Point
• $12,500 – Jenson, Betsy – – Immigration Services Support for Afghani Evacuees Eligible for SIV – Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
• $11,155 – Goldstein, Evan – – Structure components for Coastal Elevation Models and Land Surface Variables for Use in Forecasting Hurricane Impacts – United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Student Services

• $110,000 – Hall, Nicole – Walters, Megan; Bodwell, Katelyn – UNCG SECU Public Fellows Proposal – State Employee Credit Union Foundation (SECU)

Continuing Awards

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

Arts & Sciences

• $323,420 – Santin, Joseph – – Homeostatic plasticity mechanisms regulate behavior in vivo – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $259,724 – Bobay, Louis-Marie – – Investigating the impact and patterns of homologous recombination and adaptive evolution on bacterial genomes – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $55,500 – Soles, Jeffrey – – Mochlos 2020-2023: Publication and Site Conservation of a Minoan Town – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
• $33,091 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – – AI-Based Virtual Twin System for Ophthalmology – University of Pittsburgh
• $29,041 – Chung, Yu-Min – – Multiparameter persistence: an algebraic topological framework for analyzing microstructure in porous media – College of William and Mary
• $26,797 – Lawler, Insa – – Understanding Progress, in Science and Beyond – University of Iceland
• $10,455 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – – Next Generation Optogenetics for Vision Restoration – Fondation Voir et Entendre- Institut de la Vision

Business & Econ

• $16,355 – Bray, Jeremy – – Carolina Center for Excellence in Workforce Health and Well-being – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• $5,500 – Gicheva, Dora – – Evaluation of Program to Identify Students with Financial and Academic Planning Risk and Intervene to Promote Timely Graduation – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

Education

• $470,000 – Clarida, Brian – – UNCG Equity-Focused Assistant Principal Leadership Academy (EFLA), 2021-2026 – Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools
• $52,249 – Schissel, Jamie – – Project ELEECT: English Learners’ Educational Excellence Capitol Teacher Training – Georgetown University
• $49,909 – Tovey, Tiffany – Boyce, Ayesha – OAERS evaluation for the SCALE Program (Microelectronics Workforce Development) – Purdue University
• $39,941 – Boyce, Ayesha – – BII-Implementation: GEMS: Genomics and eco-evolution of multi-scale symbioses – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Research

• $596,396 – Murray, Christine – Gruber, Kenneth – – NC Family and Youth Support and Education Program – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
• $380,033 – Zhou, Zhanxiang – Zhang, Qibin – Aldehydes in Alcohol-Induced Organ Injury – HHS NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• $100,800 – Mazade, Noel – – Indiana Leadership Fellows Academies – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
• $76,942 – Janke, Emily – Haldeman, Lauren – LEAP Partnership (Lifetime Eating and Physical Activity Practices) (2022) – Cone Health System
• $25,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Shelton, Terri – – Evaluation of NC Promoting Integration and Primary and Behavioral Health Care (PIPBHC) – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity