FY19 Second Quarter Awards & Submissions

Posted on February 21, 2019

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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.

College of Arts and Sciences new awards

  • $430,911 – Cech, Nadja – Comparative Bioactivity Modeling and Bioinformatics to Study Combination Effects in Complex Natural Product Mixtures – NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
  • $412,247 – Smith, Julia – National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families – Child Trends
  • $10,809 – Cassidy, Brittany – Do age differences in associative learning and stimulus generalization lead to age differences in trust? – Duke University
  • $7,944 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Pilot activity-guided fractionation of Mikania guaco extract. – Procter and Gamble
  • $6,429 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Pilot activity-guided fractionation of Mikania guaco extract. – Procter and Gamble
  • $5,000 – Jovanovic, Spoma – Voice, Activism, and Democracy: Free Speech Conference – National Communication Association (NCA)
  • $4,000 – Sametz, Lynn – UNCG’s Science Festival Expands! Science Everywhere, Moss Street Event, The Nanobus – University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)

Office of Research and Engagement new awards

  • $556,751 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – Building Capacity to Identify and Serve Victims of Human Trafficking in Underserved Areas of Eastern North Carolina – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)
  • $499,865 – Edmunds, Julie – Evaluation of the Impact of Early College High Schools on Student’s Postsecondary Degree Attainment and Employment – Laura and John Arnold Foundation
  • $200,000 – Murphy, Joanne – Transforming Undergraduate Education at a Minority Serving Institution: Integrating Interdisciplinary Research Across the Humanities. – Andrew W Mellon Foundation
  • $143,975 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project – Cone Health Foundation
  • $98,280 – Streuli, Justin – NC I-Corps Next Step Program – NC IDEA Foundation
  • $87,541 – McColskey, Wendy – Extended Learning and Integrated Student Supports Competitive Grant Program – ELLIS – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $76,800 – Zhang, Qibin – Lipid Mediator Analysis – Appalachian State University Human Performance Laboratory
  • $50,000 – Grebing, Eric – Research Partnership between RTI Center for Education Services and SERVE Center at UNCG: Phase III and Continued Evaluation Consultation – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)
  • $44,971 – Hancock, George – Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Plan (CCIP Support) – Stanly County Schools
  • $22,003 – Gruber, Kenneth – Research and Technical Assistance Project – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT )
  • $20,000 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Safe Transitions After Resettlement (STAR) – North Carolina Council for Women
  • $11,603 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – Evaluation of Fayetteville Police Department’s EKG Program – City of Fayetteville Police Department
  • $11,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Access to Integrated Care by the Uninsured in Greater Greensboro – Cone Health Foundation
  • $10,800 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Refugee After School Program – New Arrivals Institute
  • $8,932 – Williams, Melissa – TITLE III SIP GRANT EVALUATION – Forsyth Technical Community College
  • $5,500 – Gruber, Kenneth – Addressing Co-Occuring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders – Cone Health Foundation
  • $5,000 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Afternoon Academics – Kinder Morgan Foundation

Office of the Provost new awards

  • $500,000 – Dunn, Dana; Alexander, Peter – Giant Steps: Enhancing Arts Education and Outreach/Scaling Student Success – Cemala Foundation

School of Education new awards

  • $253,062 – Boyce, Ayesha – EvaluATE: Evaluation Learning and Research Hub for Advanced Technological Education – Western Michigan University
  • $35,000 – Rock, Marcia – The Role of Systems Thinking and Change in Ameliorating the Special Education Workforce Crisis, Improving Preparation and Support, and Fortifying the Pipeline to Improve Outcomes for Students with Disabilities: Research, Policy, and Practice – American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  • $7,000 – Parker, Samuel – CATIE Center Program Expansion – Saint Catherine University
  • $2,620 – Patterson Zoch, Melody – Diversity in Language and Culture Conference – North Carolina Humanities Council)

School of Health and Human Sciences new awards

  • $138,999 – Poole, Kelly – Partnership to Address Co-Occurring Disorders in Vulnerable Populations – Cone Health Foundation
  • $125,311 – Pearson, Anne – Congregational Social Work Education Initiative (CSWEI 2018-19) – Cone Health Foundation
  • $63,516 – Davis, Paul – BELT Program – Cone Health System
  • $34,150 – Poole, Kelly; Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth – Harm Reduction Clinics – Cone Health Foundation
  • $10,000 – McGuirt, Jared – Designing and testing a community context driven evidence-based virtual avatar coaching approach to improve access to health promotion programs for low-income children and families. – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $2,000 – Bailey, Harriette – Think Babies NC – Child Care Services Association

Continuing awards

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

Bryan School of Business and Economics continuing awards

  • $35,706 – Griffiths, Merlyn – Exploring Reactions to Health Warnings on Waterpipe Tobacco Ads – Duke University

College of Arts and Sciences continuing awards

  • $147,328 – Bobay, Louis-Marie – Dimensions: Ordering the microbial world into natural genetic, ecological, and functional units – University of Texas at Austin
  • $33,000 – Hall-Brown, Mary – Continuing Internship with Guilford County GIS – Guilford County
  • $7,783 – DeJesus, Jasmine – Developmental Trajectories of Dyadic Feeding Interactions During Infancy and Their Association With Rapid Weight Gain – California State Polytechnic University
  • $3,000 – Cech, Nadja – Dialogue Across Disciplines: Bridging Humanities, Arts & Sciences with Alan Alda – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering continuing awards

  • $176,000 – Herr, Daniel – SENIC – Georgia Institute of Technology
  • $5,000 – Ignatova, Tetyana – NCSU_Yingling_PG – North Carolina State University (NCSU)

Office of Research and Engagement continuing awards

  • $334,900 – Frison, Sonja – The Juvenile Justice Substance Abuse Mental Health Partnerships – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
  • $99,990 – Streuli, Justin – Greensboro I Corp Site – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $22,509 – Hancock, George – Promoting Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV Prevention – Gaston County Board of Education
  • $5,000 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – Project Safe Neighborhoods- Greensboro Police Department – City of Greensboro Police Department
  • $2,000 – Edmunds, Julie – University of North Carolina System Student Success Innovation Lab – University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)

Office of Student Affairs continuing awards

  • $105,000 – Carter, Brett – Collegiate Recovery Community – North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)

School of Education continuing awards

  • $125,000 – Ryndak, Diane; Cavanaugh, Christie; Taub Sullivan, Deborah – LEAPS (Leadership in Extensive and Pervasive Support Needs) – DOED OSERS Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
  • $101,850 – Sadler, Troy – Collaborative Research: High School Students’ Climate Literacy Through Epistemology of Scientific Modeling – University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  • $57,471 – Henson, Robert – Development of Accessible IRT-Based Models and Methodologies for Improving the Breadth and Accuracy of Item Option-Scored Diagnostic Assessments – University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
  • $19,724 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Hierarchical nanoMFG Node (subcontract) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $6,684 – Pagliaro, Claudia – Salus University subaward for student doctoral Fellowship (tuition and stipend for Kimberly Hutter) – Salus University (SU)
  • $5,063 – Rodriguez, Sophia – Promoting education equity for immigrant students: Examining the influence of school social workers – University of South Carolina (USC)

School of Health and Human Sciences continuing awards

  • $30,707 – 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
  • $25,759 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – UNCG and Sandhills Quality Response Project – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
  • $14,651 – Strack, Robert – Picture me HIV free: Using photovoice to identify factors shaping PrEP uptake and adherence – Duke University
  • $9,428 – McCoy, Regina – Wellness Coaching Training – University of Georgia (UGA)
  • $9,008 – Bedini, Leandra – Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation Programs Support – Kernersville Park and Recreation Dept. – Town of Kernersville
  • $2,920 – Flynn, Perry – Exceptional Children State Speech-Language Consultant (2018-2019) – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)

School of Nursing continuing awards

  • $7,550 – Hoffart, Nancy – Measuring Implementation Fidelity for a New Graduate Nurse Residency Program – American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) Foundation

Weatherspoon Art Museum continuing awards

  • $15,000 – Stamey, Emily; Grimaldi, Ann – Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World – North Carolina Arts Council

Submissions

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

Bryan School of Business and Economics submissions

  • $169,944 – Bray, Jeremy – The Role of Alcohol Use in Opioid Use Disorders and Related Outcomes in Underserved Rural Populations – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)
  • $132,929 – Taras, Vasyl – (How) Can Crowdsourcing Change the Business Consulting Industry? An Experimental Study of Complex Problem Solving in Very Large Groups. – US-Israel Binational Science Foundation

College of Arts and Sciences submissions

  • $4,499,399 – Dunn, Dana; Howell, Tracey; Sametz, Lynn; Schug, Malcolm; Smith, Julia – Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Alliance: Mountains to Sea North Carolina LSAMP – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $877,469 – McFarland, Sherri – Unraveling the Excited State Dynamics of Ru(II) Photodrugs – National Science Foundation (NSF)
    $499,962 – Deng, Jing – CNS Core: Small: Taking Advantage of Delay-Constrained Wireless Networks – NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
  • $499,555 – Deng, Jing – SaTC: CORE: Small: Surviving in Proximity Social Networks – NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
  • $499,101 – Manda, Prashanti; Mohanty, Somya; NAME – Novel Deep learning Approaches for Automated Ontology-based Curation of Scientific Literature – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $468,401 – Croatt, Mitchell – Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions Enabled by Alkenes and Dienes – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $435,112 – Katula, Karen – Epigenetic and cellular effects of glyphosate exposure – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $400,125 – Hughes, Matthew; Touron, Dayna; Bray, Jeremy – The Experience of Subjective Age during Everyday Life – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $396,745 – Santin, Joseph – Acquiring resistance to anoxia in neural circuit function – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $392,586 – Petersen, Kimberly – Novel Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Asymmetric Reactions of Nitriles – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $368,777 – Reggio, Patricia – Molecular Determinants of GPR18 Activity – Temple University
  • $347,347 – Cech, Nadja; Oberlies, Nicholas; Bray, Jeremy – Identification of Bioactive Constituents in Algal Biomass – ZIVO Bioscience, Inc.
  • $247,508 – Rueppell, Olav – The Impact of Body Size on Resilience in Apis mellifera – DOD DA Army Research Office (ARO)
  • $229,166 – McFarland, Sherri – Tentative: Subcontract for PI Wenfang Sun (NDSU) Developing cancer-specific targeting near-IR photosensitizers for in vitro theranostic photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photothermal therapy – North Dakota State University
  • $218,157 – Fernos, Talia – Boundaries in Nonpositive Curvature – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $200,000 – Murphy, Joanne – Transforming Undergraduate Education at a Minority Serving Institution: Integrating Interdisciplinary Research Across the Humanities. – Andrew W Mellon Foundation
  • $199,988 – Levine, Emily – The History and Future of Learning: On Usefulness and Knowledge for Its Own Sake – Carnegie Foundation
  • $181,875 – Chiu, Norman – Epitranscriptome associated with glioblastoma therapeutic resistance – Massachusetts General Hospital
  • $175,541 – Miroshnichenko, Anatoly – Exploring Binary Systems with Gas-and-Dust Environments – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $149,670 – Zhang, Yi – Multilevel Adaptivity Algorithms for Deterministic and Stochastic Phase Field Models and Applications – Ohio State University
  • $138,000 – Stein, Gabriela – Keita Christophe NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $122,878 – Hodgkins, Christopher – Volume III: English Verse (George Herbert: Complete Works) – Northern Michigan University
  • $110,000 – Croatt, Mitchell – Exploration of the Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Deoxygenation of Allylic Alcohols – American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund
  • $110,000 – Hematian, Shabnam – Mild Metal-Catalyzed C-H Activation: Alternative Synthesis for Oxoiron(IV) Species – American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund
  • $77,686 – Knowles, Sonja; Oberlies, Nicholas – Co-culturing to Elicit Chemical Diversity in Fungi – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $75,000 – Kim, Min Jeong – Disentangle Network-Sensing Biomarkers across Neurodegenerative Diseases – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $73,704 – Praskievicz, Sarah – Creating a participatory process for restoration projects to enhance resilience for fishers and their communities – Auburn University
  • $65,691 – Rueppell, Olav; Amiri, Esmaeil; Wagoner, Kaira – Effects of breeding history and common biotic stressors on chemical signaling and susceptibility of honey bee (Apis mellifera) brood – Project Apis m.
  • $57,500 – Soles, Jeffrey – Mochlos 2019: Publication and Conservation of Minoan Town – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
  • $52,071 – Rifkin, Mark – Speaking for the People: Representativity and the Forms of Indigenous Self-Determination – National Humanities Center
  • $45,396 – Kiss, John – Novel explorations into the interactions between light and gravity sensing in plants (Supplement) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • $41,627 – Wharton, David – Latin Color Semantics – National Humanities Center
  • $40,130 – Anderson, James – On the Road to Dali: Trade, Security and Indigenous State Formation on Imperial China’s Southern Frontier – National Humanities Center
  • $40,130 – Anderson, James – On the Road to Dali: Trade, Security and Indigenous State Formation on Imperial China’s Southern Frontier – Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
  • $36,340 – Clarke, Ben – Working Class Literature – National Humanities Center
  • $35,000 – Wharton, David – Latin Color Semantics – Loeb Classical Library Foundation
  • $33,972 – Bender, Jill – Assisted Emigrants: Irish Female Migration Projects and the British Empire – National Humanities Center
  • $33,000 – Hall-Brown, Mary – Continuing Internship with Guilford County GIS – Guilford County
  • $29,925 – McFarland, Sherri – A Wearable Phtodynamic Therapy Modality for Treatment of Recurrent Melanoma – University of Central Florida (UCF)
  • $14,035 – Tsui, Tsz-Ki – RAPID/Collaborative Research: Characterization of upland watershed contamination from wildland-urban burning – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $11,324 – DeJesus, Jasmine – Developmental Trajectories of Dyadic Feeding Interactions During Infancy and Their Association With Rapid Weight Gain – California State Polytechnic University
  • $10,000 – Hershey, Anne – The Uptake and Retention of Antibiotics by Corbicula fluminea, the Asian Clam – NCSU Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI)
  • $10,000 – Murphy, Joanne – Kea Archaeological Research Survey: Testing the Value of Survey Data – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
  • $10,000 – Park, Jennifer – Cultures of Culinary Preservation: Domestic Arts, Foreign Foodways, and Race in Early Modern Britain – Folger Shakespeare Library
  • $7,944 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Pilot activity-guided fractionation of Mikania guaco extract. – Procter and Gamble
  • $6,000 – Anderson, James – On the Road to Dali: Trade, Security and State Formation on Imperial China’s Southern Frontier – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  • $6,000 – Bender, Jill – Assisted Emigrants: Irish Female Migration Projects and the British Empire – American Philosophical Society (APS)
  • $6,000 – Cabello, Claudia – Queer Networks: Latin American and Spanish Writers, Artists and Patrons in the First Half of the XXth Century – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  • $5,000 – Sametz, Lynn – UNCG’s Science Festival Expands! Science Everywhere, Moss Street Event, The Nanobus – University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)
  • $3,000 – Sametz, Lynn; Schug, Malcolm – Science Everywhere 2019 – Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp)
  • $2,356 – Knapp, Paul – A Fire History from Longleaf Pine at the Nichols Preserve, North Carolina – University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering submissions

  • $1,680,120 – Josephs, Eric – Complex Mechanisms of Mutation and Mutation Avoidance in Living Cells – NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
  • $582,000 – Josephs, Eric – ‘Directed Shrinking’ of Minimal Functional Orthologues of Gene Engineering Proteins – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $444,062 – Rathnayake, Hemali; Herr, Daniel – Metal-biopolymer conjugates for sub-5 nm patterning and Functional Diversification on Useful Platforms – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $393,857 – Lajeunesse, Dennis – Bio-electronic detection and control of Microbial biofilm formation – NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
  • $299,285 – Wei, Jianjun; Lajeunesse, Dennis – Cryptochromes: The Magnetic Reponses in Photoelectrochemistry and Magnetoreception – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $291,000 – Josephs, Eric – Mechanism and Architecture of EndoMS/NucS Mutation Avoidance in Mycobacteria – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $249,672 – Ignatova, Tetyana – Near-Field Microscopies of Nanostructured 2D-Materials: Nondestructive Optics and Transport Characterization. – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $232,595 – Lajeunesse, Dennis – Nanocellulose Interactions with Engineered Oxides in the Environment – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $110,000 – Rathnayake, Hemali – A novel heterocyclic ionic plastic crystal and its conformational dynamics – ACS Petroleum Research
  • $100,000 – Ignatova, Tetyana; Josephs, Eric; Rathnayake, Hemali – Acquisition of high resolution, multimode AFM for local characterization of nanoscale materials. – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
  • $75,000 – Kepley, Christopher – Testing proof of concept for a new autologous mast cell cancer immunotherapy (AMCIT) – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
  • $74,981 – Wei, Jianjun – A chip-based nano-opto-fluidic biosensor for cardiac disease protein biomarkers – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
  • $71,270 – Wei, Jianjun – SBIR: A Chip-Based Nanosensor for Troponin T Detection in Human Blood – 3iNanotech, Inc
  • $50,000 – Kepley, Christopher – Testing Human Mast Cells as a New Cancer Immunotherapy for HER2/neu Positive Breast Cancer. – UNC-CH Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • $30,000 – Starobin, Joseph – Portable ECG devices and elastic textile – Unifi Manufacturing, Inc.

Office of Research and Engagement submissions

  • $1,869,590 – Zhang, Qibin – Novel peptides as Autoantigens in T1D – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $955,556 – Shelton, Terri – Bringing Out the Best: Supporting Young Children’s Social and Emotional Development – Guilford County Partnership for Children
  • $291,938 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – AmeriCorps ACCESS Project – North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
  • $222,224 – McColskey, Wendy – NC DPI 2019-2020 21st Century Community Learning Centers Cohort 14 Level I Grant Application Review and 2018-2019 Annual Evaluation Reporting – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $206,334 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth; Mohanty, Somya – Fannie Mae Innovation Challenge Grant: Development of a Healthy Housing Tenant Empowerment App – Fannie Mae Foundation
  • $87,316 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth – Expansion of GCSTOP Syringe Exchange Program in Guilford County and Connect Justice-Involved Persons to harm reduction: Subcontract with Guilford County Department of Public Health – Guilford County Department of Public Health
  • $76,801 – Zhang, Qibin – Lipid Mediator Analysis – Appalachian State University Human Performance Laboratory
  • $50,000 – Grebing, Eric – Research Partnership between RTI Center for Education Services and SERVE Center at UNCG: Phase III and Continued Evaluation Consultation – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)
  • $44,971 – Hancock, George – Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Plan (CCIP Support) – Stanly County Schools
  • $15,813 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Community Center Youth Programs – Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
  • $14,136 – Hutchins, Bryan – AERA Research Grant – American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  • $12,194 – Sills, Stephen – Addressing Social Determinants of Pediatric Asthma Through the CHCS Health Impact Team – Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation
  • $12,000 – Sills, Stephen – Airport Runoff and Drinking Water Quality: Analysis of Municipal Water Supply in Greensboro for PFOA and PFOS Contaminants. – Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
  • $10,800 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Refugee After School Program – New Arrivals Institute
  • $8,000 – Sills, Stephen – Community Water Quality Project – NCSU Center for Human Health and the Environment
  • $5,000 – Edmunds, Julie – University of North Carolina System Student Success Innovation Lab – University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC GA)
  • $5,000 – Sienkiewicz, Holly – Afternoon Academics – Kinder Morgan Foundation
  • $5,000 – Sills, Stephen – Safe & Healthy Homes: Reducing Pediatric Asthma – Walmart Foundation
  • $3,000 – Sills, Stephen – Evaluation of OOTGP Urban Farm and Service Learning Program – Out of the Garden Project

School of Education submissions

  • $1,186,492 – Sadler, Troy – Collaborative Research: Core Science Teaching Practices and Tools for Socio-Scientific Issues & Model-Based Learning – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $429,955 – Heredia, Sara – Spanning Boundaries: A Statewide Network to Support Science Teacher Leaders to Implement NGSS – Exploratorium
  • $394,605 – Smith, Tiffany – UNC Educator Quality Research Initiative: Evaluating the Needs of Beginning Teachers – University of North Carolina System Office(UNC SysOff)
  • $157,939 – Boyce, Ayesha – Breaking Digital Barriers: Equipping Older Adults with Lifelong Digital Skills and Attitudes – Michigan Technological University
  • $150,763 – Boyce, Ayesha – Expeditions: Collaborative Research: Grand Challenges in Algorithms and Machine Learning for Emerging Genomics – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $97,994 – Boyce, Ayesha – BD Hubs: Collaborative Proposal: Midwest: Midwest Big Data Hub: Building Communities to Harness the Data Revolution – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $49,760 – Vetter, Amy – The Writing Lives of Teens – Spencer Foundation
  • $35,000 – Rock, Marcia – The Role of Systems Thinking and Change in Ameliorating the Special Education Workforce Crisis, Improving Preparation and Support, and Fortifying the Pipeline to Improve Outcomes for Students with Disabilities: Research, Policy, and Practice – American Educational Research Association (AERA)
  • $8,280 – O’Connor, Christina – A running club project at the Moss Street Partnership School in Reidsville, N.C. – Saucony Run For Good Foundation
  • $7,078 – Smith, Tiffany – Evaluation of the Phillips Management Group Housing Community Programming – Phillips Management Group (PMG)
  • $6,999 – Parker, Samuel – CATIE Center Program Expansion – Saint Catherine University
  • $3,000 – O’Connor, Christina – An edible school garden project at the Moss Street Partnership School in Reidsville, N.C. – Annie’s Grants for Gardens

School of Health and Human Sciences submissions

  • $3,584,125 – Gold, Laurie; Calkins, Susan – Pubertal development and the psychological and physical health of girls. – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $1,999,530 – Rhea, Christopher – Rehabilitation Evaluation of TBI Function prior to Return-to-full-duty (RETURN Study) – Department of Defense (DOD)
  • $1,676,509 – Bailey, Harriette; Hestenes, Linda – Education, Quality Improvement and Professional Development (EQuIPD) – Guilford County Partnership for Children
  • $494,791 – Rhea, Christopher – A Primary Passive Screening Tool to Identify Neurological Dysfunction After Repeated Sub-Concussive Head Trauma: The Gauging Ambulation In Training (GAIT) Study – Department of Defense (DOD)
  • $445,333 – Washington, Tyreasa – Family’s Impact on the Development of African American Children in Kinship Care – NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  • $436,286 – Fordahl, Steven – Fat, Brain Inflammation, and Dopamine System Function – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $250,000 – Morrison, Sharon – Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Diabetes and Health Disparities (CIRDHD) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT )
  • $92,875 – Perrin, Maryanne – Nutrient and Bioactive Composition in Donor Human Milk in the United States – Connecticut Childrens Medical Center
  • $63,516 – Davis, Paul – BELT Program – Cone Health System
  • $59,995 – Doyle, Lauren – A ‘Genes and Genealogy’ based personalized STEM curriculum to improve undergraduate training and retention in science – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT )
  • $27,805 – Adams, William – Efficacy of the Polar Breeze Thermal Rehabilitation Machine in cooling recreationally active males and females following exercise-induced hyperthermia – Statim Technologies
  • $25,000 – Haldeman, Lauren; Janke, Emily – LEAPing Together: Engaging Neighbors for Lifetime Eating and Physical Activity Practices Data – Illinois Public Health Institute (IPHI)
  • $15,000 – Powers, Meredith; Harmon, Justin; Hickerson, Benjamin – Parks for All People: Promoting Health and Wellness by Engaging Aging Populations in Public Parks – Junior League of Greensboro
  • $12,000 – Bailey, Harriette – Deborah J Cassidy ASCEND Peer Mentoring Summer Institute – Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation
  • $10,000 – McGuirt, Jared – Designing and testing a community context driven evidence-based virtual avatar coaching approach to improve access to health promotion programs for low-income children and families. – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $9,182 – Schmitz, Randy – ACL Research Retreat VIII – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
  • $8,961 – Chetwynd, Ellen; Yourkavitch, Jennifer – North Carolina Breastfeeding Friendly Clinics – North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition
  • $6,000 – Adams, William – Inter-Association Task Force Meeting on Preseason Heat Safety in Secondary School Athletics – National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA)

School of Nursing submissions

  • $154,000 – Cote Arsenault, Denise – LOI- Perinatal Palliative Care Coordinator Training Program – National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)
  • $139,475 – Bacon, Cynthia – Improving quality and safety outcomes using the workload intensity staffing delivery of care model – Cone Health System

University Libraries submissions

  • $175,500 – Gwynn, James; Cox, Richard – Digital Library on American Slavery Research Fellowship – Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

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