FY20 First Quarter Awards & Submissions

Posted on November 01, 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.

Bryan School of Business and Economics new awards

  • $436,371 – Bray, Jeremy – Alcohol consumption and related comorbid conditions: health state utilities for economic evaluation – NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  • $50,000 – Van Hasselt, Martyn – Understanding the Distributional Effects of SNAP on Diet Quality – USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
  • $11,000 – Griffiths, Merlyn – Exploring Reactions to Health Warnings on Waterpipe Tobacco Ads – Duke University

College of Arts and Sciences new awards

  • $762,908 – Raymann, Kasie – BEE: Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary factors shaping host–associated microbial communities. – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $218,250 – Hughes, Matthew; Touron, Dayna – The Experience of Subjective Age during Everyday Life – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $173,115 – Goldstein, Evan – COMET: the Coastlines and people Open data and MachinE learning sprinT – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $164,740 – Tsui, Martin – Collaborative Proposal: Response of mercury cycling to disturbance and restoration of low-gradient forested watersheds – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $76,000 – Goldstein, Evan – NAS GRP Early Career Research Fellowship: Human-landscape systems of the Coastal USA – National Academy of Sciences
  • $72,832 – Knowles, Sonja; Oberlies, Nicholas – :Co-culturing to Elicit Chemical Diversity in Fungi – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $20,000 – Jovanovic, Spoma – Free Speech & Public Spaces: Voice, Activism, and Democracy – University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
  • $20,000 – Wasserberg, Gideon – NC DHHS Contract to Survey Tick Distribution in NW NC 2019-2020 – North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)
  • $10,800 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Purification of contaminant from confidential materials – Procter and Gamble
  • $2,936 – Kreitinger, Brooke; Davis, Benjamin – “Wunderbar Together” Campus Weeks 2019 – German Embassy

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering new awards

  • $1,680,120 – Josephs, Eric – Complex Mechanisms of Mutation and Mutation Avoidance in Living Cells – NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
  • $599,000 – Rathnayake, Hemali; Wei, Jianjun – DOD HBCUMI Instrumentation: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope for Interdisciplinary Graduate Research and Educational Training – Department of Defense (DOD)
  • $99,999 – Herr, Daniel – 2019 NSF Grantees Conference – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $40,750 – Wei, Jianjun – SBIR: A Chip-Based Nanosensor for Troponin T Detection in Human Blood – 3iNanotech, Inc

Office of Business Affairs new awards

  • $24,500 – Jasso, Christopher – 2018 – UNC Greensboro Police Department – Mobile Data Terminals – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)

Office of Research and Engagement new awards

  • $15,632,385 – Hancock, George – Region 6 Comprehensive Center – US Department of Education (DOED)
  • $1,492,079 – Hancock, George – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NTACHE) – US Department of Education (DOED)
  • $914,508 – Shelton, Terri – Bringing Out the Best: Supporting Young Children’s Social and Emotional Development – Guilford County Partnership for Children
  • $428,781 – Shelton, Terri – Guilford Co. Specialty Courts Staff Support – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
  • $334,900 – Frison, Sonja – The Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Partnerships – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
  • $100,000 – Center for New North Carolinians – Thriving at Three (2019-21) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $60,250 -Center for New North Carolinians – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project Support – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $39,013 – Lewis, Karla – Life STEM: Promoting STEM Engagement, Identity, and Career Awareness via a Culturally Relevant and Technology-Infused STEM-Based Curriculum – Winston-Salem State University (WSSU)
  • $12,000 – Sills, Stephen – NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR THE RESIDENTS OF 27260 HIGH POINT NC – Hayden-Harman Foundation
  • $7,656 – Hancock, George – Brunswick County Schools Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Brunswick County Schools
  • $5,103 – Hancock, George – Brunswick County Schools Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Brunswick County Schools
  • $5,103 – Hancock, George – Brunswick County Schools Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Brunswick County Schools
  • $5,103 – Hancock, George – Brunswick County Schools Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Brunswick County Schools
  • $5,103 – Hancock, George – Brunswick County Schools Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Brunswick County Schools
  • $5,028 – Hancock, George – Dillard Academy Charter School: Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Dillard Academy Charter School (DACS)
  • $4,128 – Grebing, Eric – Development of Online Evaluation Resource Repository for NACEP Accreditation Process – National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)

Office of Provost new awards

  • $999,807 – Dunn, Dana; Kalcounis-Ruppell, Matina; Brown-Jeffy, Shelly; Glenn Manigault, Cerise; Boyce, Ayesha – Spartans ADVANCE: Adaptations of practices for faculty equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). – National Science Foundation (NSF)

School of Education new awards

  • $6,146,445 – O’Connor, Christina; Faircloth, Beverly; Heredia, Sara; Howerton, Walter; Rock, Marcia; Vetter, Amy; Wilson, Peter – Piedmont Teacher Residency Partnership (PTRP) – US Department of Education (DOED)
  • $324,714 – Heredia, Sara – Spanning Boundaries: A Statewide Network to Support Science Teacher Leaders to Implement NGSS – Exploratorium
  • $109,493 – Lenstra, Noah – Community Health and Wellness: Small and Rural Library Practices, Perspectives, and Programs – University of Oklahoma
  • $23,000 – Lenstra, Noah – NC State Library Contract – An Environmental Scan of Adult Services – North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resouces (NCDCR)
  • $19,818 – Willse, John – Experiential Measurement Training with American Board of Pediatrics (2019-2020) – American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
  • $7,000 – McDermid, Campbell – CATIE Center Program Expansion (Fall 2019) – Saint Catherine University
  • $6,000 – O’Connor, Christina – Sensory Hallways at Moss Street – Action for Healthy Kids

School of Health and Human Sciences new awards

  • $3,642,600 – Hestenes, Linda; Hestenes, Steve; Mims, Sharon – North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project – NCDHHS Division of Child Development
  • $1,099,997 – Swick, Danielle – FY 2019 OWEP Competition – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $445,339 – 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)
  • $441,516 – Bailey, Harriette; Hestenes, Linda – Education, Quality Improvement and Professional Development (EQuIPD) – Guilford County Partnership for Children
  • $436,286 – Fordahl, Steven – Dietary Fat, Brain Inflammation, and Dopamine System Function – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $125,311 – Pearson, Anne; Poole, Kelly – Congregational Social Work Education Initiative (CSWEI 2019-20) – Cone Health Foundation
  • $68,091 – Davis, Paul – BELT Program (2019-2020) – Cone Health System
  • $50,000 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – Guilford County Additional Funding – Guilford County Department of Public Health
  • $34,321 – Mendez, Lucia – More PEAS Please!Bridging the GAP Between Preschool and K-12 Learning Environments – East Carolina University (ECU)
  • $20,050 – Milroy, Jeffrey – Proposal to Examine Collegiate Recreation and Sports Experiences of College Students with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and Recreation and Sports Staff Who Serve College Students with IDD – Special Olympics
  • $8,349 – Rinker, Jeremy – City of Greensboro Human Relations Department – Graduate Student Training. – City of Greensboro Human Relation Department
  • $8,008 – Schleien, Stuart – The Arc of Greensboro – Arc of Greensboro
  • $6,586 – Adams, William – Use of an isotonic hydration beverage on acute hydration status – QKC, LLC.

School of Nursing new awards

  • $99,000 – Debrew, Jacqueline – RN BSN Educational Mobility 2019-2020 – Northwest Area Health Education Center (AHEC)
  • $10,000 – Van Horn, Elizabeth – Exploration of Competence in New Graduate Nurses – Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
  • $9,750 – Sykes, Catherine – UNCG Clinical Site Development 2019-2020 – North Carolina Area Health Education Center (NC AHEC) Program

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 continuing awards

  • $727,664 – Murphy, Arthur; Hill, Jennifer – Recipe for Success – Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
  • $401,709 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Natural Product-Drug Interaction Research – UWA to WSU Transfer – Washington State University
  • $139,597 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Single Lab Validation of Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) – Washington State University
  • $44,996 – Reggio, Patricia – Molecular Determinants of GPR55 Activity – Temple University
  • $32,890 – Jia, Zhenquan – Activating Multiorgan Antioxidative Gene Network for Treating Sepsis – Campbell University
  • $10,851 – Stine, Roy – GIS Research Internships with Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. – Syngenta Crop Protection Inc.

Enrollment Management continuing awards

  • $251,817 – Green, Joseph – The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (UNCG-McNair) – DOED Office of Postsecondary Education

Office of Research and Engagement continuing awards

  • $617,495 – Hancock, George – North Carolina Homeless Education Program and Foster Care Education Program – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $391,247 – Zhou, Zhanxiang – Lipotoxicity in Alcoholic Liver Disease – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $247,349 – Zhang, Qibin – DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION OF BIOMARKERS OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS IN TYPE 1 DIABETES – University of Colorado Denver
  • $99,900 – Streuli, Justin – Greensboro I Corp Site – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $87,907 – Edmunds, Julie – Evaluation of the Aggie Success Academy at North Carolina A&T State University – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
  • $68,272 – Center for New North Carolinians – Greensboro Refugee Employment Advancement Team (GREAT) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $55,283 – Janke, Emily; Haldeman, Lauren – Advancing LEAP: Lifetime Eating & Physical Activity Practices – Triad Health Network, LLC
  • $44,180 – Hancock, George – Chatham County Schools – District Needs Assessment – Exceptional Children’s Programming – Chatham County Schools
  • $30,000 – Center for New North Carolinians – Refugee and Immigrant Social Work Education (RISE) Program – United Way of Greater Greensboro

School of Education continuing awards

  • $549,417 – He, Ye; Howerton, Walter; Patterson Zoch, Melody; Schissel, Jamie; Alarcon, Jeannette – Engaging and Advancing Community-centered Teacher Development (EnACTeD) – US Department of Education (DOED)
  • $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)
  • $25,985 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Cyber Platform – Purdue University
  • $24,684 – 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)
  • $18,000 – Willse, John – Experiential Measurement Training with Castle Worldwide, Inc. (2019-2020) – Scantron Corporation
  • $12,998 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Cyber Platform – Purdue University
  • $7,778 – Pagliaro, Claudia – Salus University subaward for student doctoral Fellowship (tuition and stipend for Kimberly Hutter) – Salus University (SU)
  • $3,999 – 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

  • $479,999 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – FY 2017 BHWET Competition – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $265,392 – Chen, Ang – The Science of Essential Balance – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $138,999 – Poole, Kelly – Partnership to Address Co-Occurring Disorders in Vulnerable Populations – Cone Health Foundation
  • $64,635 – Milroy, Jeffrey – SBIR: APC: A collaborative approach to reduce time between concussion symptom onset and treatment.” – Prevention Strategies
  • $49,812 – Scott-Little, Mary; Kang, Jean – On-Line Leadership in Infant and Toddler Learning Post Baccalaureate Certificate Pilot – NCDHHS Division of Child Development
  • $34,636 – 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
  • $34,150 – Poole, Kelly; Gruber, Kenneth – Harm Reduction Clinics – Cone Health Foundation
  • $25,000 – 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)
  • $25,000 – Scott-Little, Mary – Exploring teacher-family relationships: Avenues for increasing the quality of care in infant-toddler classrooms – DHHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
  • $20,000 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa; Poole, Kelly – GCSTOP Emergency Medical Services – Guilford County Emergency Medical Services
  • $18,000 – Hickerson, Benjamin – A Systematic Evaluation of Park Renovation at Fairmont Park East Parkside – Phase II – Penn State University
  • $9,059 – Strack, Robert – Picture me HIV free: Using photovoice to identify factors shaping PrEP uptake and adherence – Duke University
  • $9,008 – Bedini, Leandra – Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation Programs Support – Kernersville Park and Recreation Dept. – Town of Kernersville
  • $8,008 – Bedini, Leandra – CITY OF GREENSBORO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR ADAPTIVE & INCLUSIVE RECREATION (AIR) PROGRAM SUPPORT – City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department
  • $8,008 – Harmon, Justin – Greensboro Parks and Recreation Student Assistantship – City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department

School of Nursing continuing awards

  • $137,904 – Bacon, Cynthia – Improving quality and safety outcomes using the workload intensity staffing delivery of care model – Cone Health System

Undergraduate Student Success continuing awards

  • $318,183 – Foreman, John – Student Support Services Program – US Department of Education (DoED)

Submissions

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

Bryan School of Business and Economics submissions

  • $42,818 – Gicheva, Dora – The Impact of Health Insurance Access on At-Risk College Students – George Mason University
  • $37,790 – Andersen, Martin – Effect of Baby Friendly Hospital Designation on Delivery and Health Outcomes – National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation
  • $11,000 – Griffiths, Merlyn – Exploring Reactions to Health Warnings on Waterpipe Tobacco Ads – Duke University

College of Arts and Sciences submissions

  • $1,654,178 – Petersen, Kimberly – Gtcc2uncG: Path to Success – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $1,120,269 – Schallhorn, Suzanne – Project “Under Pressure:” Collaboration to Test Gene-Environment Interactions for Depression with High-Quality Stress Data – John Templeton Foundation
  • $964,972 – DeJesus, Jasmine – CAREER: Rethinking theories of disgust and its development: Food as a key disgust elicitor – NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science (SBE)
  • $964,064 – Osena, Ayalew – CAREER: Studying the molecular mechanisms of enhanced calcium accumulation in the orphan crop teff (Eragrostis tef) – NSF Biological Science (BIO)
  • $906,177 – Santin, Joseph – CAREER: Homeostatic mechanisms in neurons regulate behavior – NSF Biological Science (BIO)
  • $810,463 – Aarnio, Alicia – CAREER:Bringing the Sun to the Stars, and Stars to the Sun: Forging Solar-Stellar Connections, Addressing Magnetic Mysteries, and Connecting Stellar Underrepresented Students with Science – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $675,466 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Deciphering the phenotypic and genomic traits that underlie the evolution of pathogenicity differences among Aspergillus fumigatus and its close relatives – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • $659,796 – Wasserberg, Gideon – The role of gut microbiome in affecting the development, behavior, and vector competence of sand flies, a worldwide vector of leishmaniasis – Department of Defense (DOD)
  • $637,094 – Santin, Joseph – A novel model to improve neural performance during oxygen deprivation – Department of Defense (DOD)
  • $500,479 – Manda, Prashanti – CAREER:Ontology-powered Named Entity Recognition and Robust Semantic Similarity Metrics – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $499,991 – Koerner, Sarah – Assessing impacts of patch-burn grazing management on sustainability of multiple agroecosystem services – USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
  • $499,958 – Raymann, Kasie – Investigating the impacts of in-hive treatments on the reproductive health of queens and drones – USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
  • $497,449 – Mohanty, Somya – CAREER: A Trustworthy Infrastructure for Decentralized Container Repository – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $479,907 – Croatt, Mitchell – Palladium-Catalyzed Protodecarboxylation of Dienoic, 4-Oxobutenoic, and Propiolic Acids – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $459,350 – Kopper, Regis – Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Next Generation Public Safety User Interfaces – DOC National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • $364,825 – Cech, Nadja – Quorum sensing, diversity and skin inflammation – University of Colorado Denver
  • $312,298 – Gupta, Sat – REU Site at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Complex Data Analysis using Statistical and Machine Learning Tools – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $299,692 – Nile, Terence – IRES Track I Multi-site, Multi-institutional Undergraduate Research in the UK – NSF International
  • $282,102 – Kuperberg, Arielle – Collaborative Research: A New Class Divide: Student Loans and the Transition to Adulthood. – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $227,466 – Wiley, Robert – The cognitive and neural bases of word learning in aging, stroke and progressive neurological disease – Johns Hopkins University
  • $223,384 – Osena, Ayalew – Evaluating Hyperthermophilic Archaeal Genes For Enhancing Crop Heat Resilience – USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
  • $189,908 – Tsui, Martin – Roles of Microplastics in Reclaimed Water – Enhancing Persistence and Bioavailability of Antimicrobials in Agricultural Soils – Clemson University
  • $181,875 – Chiu, Norman – Association and functional analysis of epitranscriptome in glioblastoma therapeutic resistance – Massachusetts General Hospital
  • $169,952 – Goldstein, Evan – IRES Track II: The Coastal Processes & Machine Learning Advanced Studies Institute – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $163,896 – Johnson, Corey – Geographic Pathways and Place-specific Experiences of Asylum Seekers in the United States – University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • $159,250 – Sultana, Selima – RCN: Spatial Justice Network – Winston-Salem State University (WSSU)
  • $150,000 – Kim, Min Jeong – Heterogeneity of Traumatic Brain Injury: Relation of Neuroimaging Markers with Different Cognitive and Clinical Outcomes – Wake Forest University
  • $112,012 – Silvia, Paul – Disentangling Parent-Child Aggression: The “What, When, and Who” of a Socio-Emotional Information Processing Model – University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • $110,165 – Workman, Cassandra – Exploring Syndemic Water Insecurity: Synthesizing Objective and Subjective Experiences of Multi-Scale Resource Insecurity – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $103,599 – Praskievicz, Sarah – Fine-scale monitoring to understand ecological and economic resilience of a productive ecosystem to natural-anthropogenic impacts – University of Florida
  • $75,000 – Grieve, Gregory – Video Games and the Problem of Evil – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
  • $75,000 – Rogers, Eugene – Imitation, Imaging, and the Image of God. – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
  • $73,305 – Lawler, Insa – Understanding Progress, in Science and Beyond – University of Iceland
  • $64,915 – Oberlies, Nicholas – UNCG/NCSU Partnership for Microbial Research – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
  • $60,000 – Tsui, Martin – Mechanistic understanding of mercury pollution in restored urban wetlands in North Carolina – NCSU Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI)
  • $51,493 – Rogers, Eugene – Imitation, Imaging, and the Image of God. – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • $50,844 – Grieve, Gregory – Video Games and the Problem of Evil – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • $50,001 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Verticillin as a New Epigenetic Therapy for High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer – University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
  • $47,893 – McAvoy, Gregory – Political Discussions in a Partisan Era: How Group Diversity Influences the Civic Values and Attitudes of High School Students – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $46,793 – Fernos, Talia – Young Geometric Group Theory IX – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $45,024 – Hunnicutt, Gwendolyn – Serving Survivors of IPV through Healthy Opportunities – ETR Services, LLC
  • $40,000 – Adams, Heather – Rhetorics of Shame: A Recent History of Righteous Reporduction – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
  • $36,061 – DeJesus, Jasmine – Bridging Basic Developmental Science with Applied Health: Social Influences on Children’s Eating – University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • $33,111 – Rueppell, Olav – Dynamics of Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus Infection within Honey Bees – USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
  • $19,000 – Gray, Rosemery; Keane, Susan – GUILFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AGREEMENT FOR ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING – Guilford County Schools
  • $15,000 – Sultana, Selima – Southeast Urban Systems Sustainability (SEUSS) Network – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
  • $10,741 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Purification of contaminant from confidential materials – Procter and Gamble
  • $8,000 – Hershey, Anne – The Impact of Antibiotics on Stream Nitrate Removal via Denitrification – NCSU North Carolina Sea Grant
  • $7,740 – Kutty, Asha – Investigating Art + Design Incubators as Places of Co-Creation – Florida International University (FIU)
  • $6,000 – Grieve, Gregory – Video Games and the Problem of Evil – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  • $3,489 – Milteer, Warren – Japan Residencies Program – Organization of American Historians (OAH)

College of Visual and Performing Arts submissions

  • $444,239 – Spillane, Sunny – UNCG Arts in Community (AiC) Program – ArtPlace America

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering submissions

  • $659,920 – Rathnayake, Hemali – Dynamic and Adaptive Metal Ion-Conjugated Bioinspired Molecular Architectures for Supramolecular Recognition and Sensing – Department of Defense (DOD)
  • $499,986 – Rathnayake, Hemali – Natural Polyphenols-Based Hierachical Coordination Polymer Frameworks for Treatment and Reuse of Non-Traditional Water Resources – USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
  • $284,767 – Josephs, Eric – ‘Directed Shrinking’ of Minimal Functional Orthologues of Gene Engineering Proteins – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $274,947 – Rathnayake, Hemali – Development of novel functional graphene oxide-based organic heterostructures for thin film solar cells with high photo-efficiency and life-time stability – Department of Energy (DOE)
  • $110,000 – Rathnayake, Hemali – TRG – A Rapid and Selective Point-Of-Use Molecular Sieving Extraction Technology for Lithium – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
  • $34,948 – Rathnayake, Hemali – Increasing feed efficiency and animal productivity by reducing greenhouse gases emission in ruminants – National Academy of Sciences
  • $20,000 – Josephs, Eric; Osena, Ayalev – Josephs_NCBC_Flash – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
  • $11,500 – Ignatova, Tetyana – Smart Nucleic Acids Nanoassemblies Programmed to Operate in Living Systems – University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)

Office of Research and Engagement submissions

  • $852,840 – Shelton, Terri; Francis, Valera – Research Administration Modernization Program at UNCG (RAMP UNCG) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $720,001 – Shelton, Terri – NC Preventing Underage Drinking Initiative (NC PUDi) – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
  • $431,924 – Center for New North Carolinians – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project – Cone Health Foundation
  • $185,736 – Thrift, Beth – Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools – Innovative Partnership Grant Review – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $157,006 – Shelton, Terri – Helping Immigrants and Refugees with Employment (HIRE) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $142,323 – McColskey, Wendy – Extended Learning and Integrated Student Supports Competitive Grant Program – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
  • $133,000 – Shelton, Terri – Refugee and Immigrant Social Work Education (RISE) Program – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $105,362 – Frison, Sonja – Evaluation of NC Promoting Integration and Primary and Behavioral Health Care (PIPBHC) – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
  • $100,000 – Sills, Stephen – Building Capacity in the Greensboro Healthy-Homes Referral System: UNCG Health Impact Team – 2020-2021 – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $75,000 – Sills, Stephen – Fostering engagement in the Cottage Grove neighborhood through community involvement in riparian cleanup to enhance stormwater quality – NCSU WRRI Stormwater Group
  • $65,771 – Sills, Stephen – 5 year Consolidated Plan for Housing, Fair Housing, Market Analysis, and Homeless Needs for High Point North Carolina, 2020-2024 – City of High Point
  • $55,283 – Janke, Emily; Haldeman, Lauren – Advancing LEAP: Lifetime Eating & Physical Activity Practices – Triad Health Network, LLC
  • $41,454 – Hancock, George – Federal Programs Administrative Support – Stanly County Schools – Stanly County Schools
  • $40,000 – Sills, Stephen – Invest Health Greensboro Supplemental Funds for Technical Assistance, Site Visits, and Learning Exchanges – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
  • $32,143 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – OVC: Research to Support World Relief Triad’s Anti-Human Trafficking Program – World Relief Triad
  • $28,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Build Health Challenge 3.0 Collaborative Cottage Grove – Greensboro Housing Coalition
  • $27,800 – Frison, Sonja – Building Communities of Recovery – Reintegration Support Network (RSN)
  • $22,444 – Gruber, Kenneth – Research and Technical Assistance Project – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
  • $20,388 – Edmunds, Julie – CTE Research Network – American Institutes for Research (AIR)
  • $20,000 – Mazade, Noel – Nonprofit Leadership Fellows Academy 2019-2020 – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $20,000 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – 2018 PSN Eastern District of NC – North Carolina Gang Investigators Association
  • $19,986 – Sills, Stephen – Technical Assistance and Evaluation Services for Safe and Healthy Homes in Southern Appalachia – Hinton Center
  • $19,939 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth – CHCS Health Impact Team (HIT): Engaging community through health education and housing interventions – Ecolab Foundation
  • $15,000 – Moore, Janice; Hancock, George – Helping Children in Foster Care Succeed in School – The Tomberg Family Philantropies
  • $12,000 – Sills, Stephen – NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR THE RESIDENTS OF 27260 HIGH POINT NC – Hayden-Harman Foundation
  • $11,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Access to Integrated Care by the Uninsured in Greater Greensboro – Cone Health Foundation
  • $10,535 – Sills, Stephen – Guilford County Schools – Fannie Mae Challenge Grant – Fannie Mae Foundation
  • $10,000 – Everhart, Joy; McCain, Dannette – Equity in the Earliest Years Program – Guilford County Partnership for Children
  • $9,819 – Hancock, George – Haw River Elementary School – Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Haw River Elementary School
  • $9,217 – Sills, Stephen – EVALUATION OF OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT WORKSHOPS AT WASHINGTON TERRACE COMMUNITY CENTER – Out of the Garden Project
  • $9,157 – Sills, Stephen – Evaluation of the OOTGP Lifting Up Women By Leveraging Partnerships Project – Out of the Garden Project
  • $5,500 – Gruber, Kenneth – Addressing Co-Occuring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders – Cone Health Foundation
  • $5,299 – Hancock, George – Moore Magnet Elementary School Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Moore Magnet Elementary School
  • $5,028 – Hancock, George – Dillard Academy Charter School: Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Dillard Academy Charter School (DACS)
  • $4,128 – Grebing, Eric – Development of Online Evaluation Resource Repository for NACEP Accreditation Process – National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
  • $3,583 – Gruber, Kenneth; Munns, Carri – Working with Clients with Opioid Use Issues – Seminar Series – Greensboro Bar Association Foundation
  • $1,500 – Littlefield, Kimberly – Building a Case for the Essential Associate Dean for Research – National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP)

School of Education submissions

  • $1,399,876 – Dyson, Benedict; Lashley, Carl; Henson, Robert – Social, Physical, Emotional and Academic Learning (SPEAL) Education Intervention – DOED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
  • $1,203,561 – Rock, Marcia; Freeman-Green, Shaqwana; Rakap, Salih – Project Convergence – DOED OSERS Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
  • $1,122,209 – Williamson, Pamela; Flynn, Perry; Kamhi, Alan; Cavanaugh, Christie – Project iSPEAC: Interprofessional Preparation in Special Education And Communication – DOED OSERS Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
  • $742,633 – Chow, Anthony – Reading Nation Waterfall: Increasing Access to Literacy and Libraries for Native American Children and Families – Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • $706,800 – Hewitt, Kimberly – Equity Leadership in High Need Schools – University of Kansas
  • $377,885 – Morris, Carrie; Borders, Leslie – ACTIVATE Plus: Advancing Coordinated and Timely Interventions through Awareness, Training & Education – a PipeLine Uplifting Students – Rockingham County Schools
  • $248,708 – Lenstra, Noah – HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living) at the Library via Shared Use Programming) – Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • $158,017 – Tan, Edna – EHR CORE Research: Fostering Deep Learning, Identity & Agency: Minoritized Students Learning Biology in Personal & Community-Relevant Contexts – Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
  • $157,753 – Williamson, Pamela – Connecting Students with Autism to Geospatial and Data Science Careers – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $39,964 – Coleman, Heather – Project V-iCOPA: Virtual Coaching to increase Communication Outcomes using Parents of Children with Autism – Organization for Autism Research (OAR)
  • $23,000 – Lenstra, Noah – NC State Library Contract – An Environmental Scan of Adult Services – North Carolina State Library
  • $6,999 – McDermid, Campbell – CATIE Center Program Expansion (Fall 2019) – Saint Catherine University
  • $750 – O’Connor, Christina – The Moss Street Partnership School Aquarium Outreach – North Carolina Aquariums at Fort Fisher

School of Health and Human Sciences submissions

  • $3,730,616 – Hestenes, Linda; Hestenes, Steve; Mims, Sharon – North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project – NCDHHS Division of Child Development
  • $3,564,447 – Gold, Laurie – Biopsychosocial influences on cardiometabolic risk from adolescence through emerging adulthood – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $3,454,463 – Fletcher, Anne – Biopsychosocial processes linking childhood adversity to youth adjustment difficulties – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $925,499 – Hestenes, Linda; Willse, John – Early Childhood Quality Improvement Pathway System (EQuIPS): Refining A New Program Quality Measure for Use in State Early Childhood Accountability Systems – University of Delaware
  • $572,749 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – Addressing Barriers to MAT Services: Establishing a Provider Network for Coordination and Support of Health and Social Services for Limited Resource Persons with Opioid Use Disorder in Central North Carolina – Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)
  • $397,897 – Coffman, Jennifer – Early Education, School Readiness, and Early School Success: Exploring the Role of Parasympathetic Function in the Preschool Classroom – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $250,000 – Shriver, Lenka; Haldeman, Lauren – Boosting Participation in the WIC Program: A Participatory Approach to Identifying Actionable Equity-Based Policy Solutions – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
  • $234,342 – Tudge, Jonathan – Building gratitude as a character virtue among youth from different racial/ethnic and SES backgrounds – John Templeton Foundation
  • $180,000 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – HepConnect UNCG Harm Reduction – North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC)
  • $138,999 – Poole, Kelly – Partnership to Address Co-Occurring Disorders in Vulnerable Populations – Cone Health Foundation
  • $125,311 – Pearson, Anne; Poole, Kelly – Congregational Social Work Education Initiative (CSWEI 2019-20) – Cone Health Foundation
  • $68,091 – Davis, Paul – BELT Program (2019-2020) – Cone Health System
  • $50,000 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – Guilford County Additional Funding – Guilford County Department of Public Health
  • $50,000 – Tudge, Jonathan – Encouraging youth to feel gratitude to people in their lives: A school-based intervention to develop connective gratitude and build relationships – Spencer Foundation
  • $43,400 – Schulz, Mark – Greensboro Safe Routes to Schools – City of Greensboro Department of Transportation (GDOT)
  • $34,150 – Poole, Kelly; Gruber, Kenneth – Harm Reduction Clinics – Cone Health Foundation
  • $10,416 – Perrin, Maryanne – SBIR: Analysis of Human Milk Pre- and Post- Use of a Concentrator – Mother’s Milk is Best, Inc.
  • $8,439 – Rinker, Jeremy – City of Greensboro Human Relations Department Contract – City of Greensboro Human Relation Department
  • $8,008 – Schleien, Stuart – The Arc of Greensboro – Arc of Greensboro
  • $6,585 – Adams, William – Use of an isotonic hydration beverage on acute hydration status – QKC, LLC.

The Graduate School submissions

  • $488,007 – Bell, Gregory; Lawson, Austin – IGE: Graduate Academy of Informatics and Analytics – National Science Foundation (NSF)

UNC Greensboro submissions

  • $109,815 – MacInnes, Sean – UNCG Diesel Refuse Truck Replacement – NCDENR Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)

University Libraries submissions

  • $21,862 – Smith, Kathelene – Building Partnerships for Student Success – North Carolina Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)

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