FY20 Second Quarter Awards & Submissions

• New Awards FY20 2nd Quarter
• Continuing Awards FY20 2nd Quarter
• Submissions FY20 2nd Quarter

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

• $3,000 – Yang, Zhi Yong – 2019 Faculty Liaison Grant – North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center (NC SBTDC)

College of Arts and Sciences

• $404,939 – Croatt, Mitchell – TAK1 Inhibition by (5Z)-7-Oxozeaenol Analogues for Anticancer Leads – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $400,125 – Bhandari, Ramji – Correction of endocrine disruptor-induced transgenerational epimutations by CRISPR-dCas9 – NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• $324,000 – 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)
• $46,793 – Fernos, Talia – Young Geometric Group Theory IX – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $8,000 – Hershey, Anne – The Impact of Antibiotics on Stream Nitrate Removal via Denitrification – NCSU North Carolina Sea Grant
• $2,500 – Rhea, Christopher – UNC Greensboro’s Science Everywhere event on the main campus and at the Moss Street Partnership Elementary School – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

Finance and Administration

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

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

• $20,000 – Josephs, Eric; Osena, Ayalew – Josephs_NCBC_Flash – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
• $12,250 – Ignatova, Tetyana – Smart Nucleic Acids Nanoassemblies Programmed to Operate in Living Systems – University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)

Office of Research and Engagement

• $3,214,794 – Hancock, George – Region 6 Comprehensive Center – US Department of Education (DOED)
• $720,000 – Shelton, Terri – NC Preventing Underage Drinking Initiative (NC PUDi) – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
• $222,224 – McColskey, Wendy – NC DPI 2019-2020 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Cohort 14 Level I Grant Application Review and 2018-2019 Annual Evaluation Reporting – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
• $185,736 – Thrift, Beth – Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools – Innovative Partnership Grant Review – North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI)
• $57,000 – Janke, Emily – PLACE Collaboratory – Bringing Theory to Practice
• $37,500 – Sills, Stephen – Fostering engagement in the Cottage Grove neighborhood through community involvement in riparian cleanup to enhance stormwater quality – NCSU WRRI Stormwater Group
• $28,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Build Health Challenge 3.0 Collaborative Cottage Grove – Greensboro Housing Coalition
• $22,444 – Gruber, Kenneth – FY 2020 Evans-Allen Funding at North Carolina A&T State University – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
• $20,000 – CNNC – Safe Transitions After Resettlement (STAR) – FaithAction International House
• $11,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Access to Integrated Care by the Uninsured in Greater Greensboro – Cone Health 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
• $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 – Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools
• $5,028 – Hancock, George – Dillard Academy Charter School: Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Dillard Academy Charter School (DACS)
• $1,918 – Bowman, Diana – McKinney Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program, Kansas School Staff Resource Guide – Kansas State Department of Education
• $1,500 – Littlefield, Kimberly – Building a Case for the Essential Associate Dean for Research – National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP)

School of Education

• $958,386 – 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)
• $384,035 – 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)

School of Health and Human Sciences

• $125,311 – Pearson, Anne; Poole, Jay – Congregational Social Work Education Initiative (CSWEI 2019-20) – Cone Health Foundation
• $68,091 – Davis, Paul – BELT Program (2019-2020) – Cone Health System
• $18,151 – Adams, William – Efficacy of the Polar Breeze Thermal Rehabilitation Machine in cooling recreationally active males and females following exercise-induced hyperthermia – Statim Technologies
• $9,105 – Adams, William – Efficacy of the Techguard Custom Mouthguard in Assessing and Transmitting Internal Body Temperature During Exercise in the Heat – TechGuard, LLC
• $6,586 – Adams, William – Use of an isotonic hydration beverage on acute hydration status – QKC, LLC.

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

• $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)
• $25,903 – Van Hasselt, Martyn – Improving Models of Alcohol Consumption Mismeasurement and Burden of Disease – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)
• $11,000 – Griffiths, Merlyn – Exploring Reactions to Health Warnings on Waterpipe Tobacco Ads – Duke University

College of Arts and Sciences

• $401,709 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Natural Product-Drug Interaction Research – UWA to WSU Transfer – Washington State University
• $322,092 – Beveridge, Aaron – MassMine Advancement Grant for Sustainable Data-Driven Humanities Research – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• $290,144 – Bobay, Louis-Marie – Dimensions: Ordering the microbial world into natural genetic, ecological, and functional units – University of Texas at Austin
• $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)
• $99,404 – Smith, Julia – National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families – Child Trends
• $76,000 – Goldstein, Evan – NAS GRP Early Career Research Fellowship: Human-landscape systems of the Coastal USA – National Academy of Sciences
• $63,303 – Goldstein, Evan – Tweets from the Storm: Assessing Uncertainty in Coastal Storm Models with Twitter Data – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• $60,640 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – Next Generation Optogenetics for Vision Restoration – Fondation Voir et Entendre- Institut de la Vision
• $46,000 – Stein, Gabriela – Keita Christophe NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $35,056 – Knowles, Sonja; Oberlies, Nicholas – :Co-culturing to Elicit Chemical Diversity in Fungi – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $32,890 – Jia, Zhenquan – Activating Multiorgan Antioxidative Gene Network for Treating Sepsis – Campbell University
• $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)
• $19,000 – Gray, Rosemery; Keane, Susan – GUILFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AGREEMENT FOR ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING – Guilford County Schools
• $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

• $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)
• $304,468 – Josephs, Eric – Complex Mechanisms of Mutation and Mutation Avoidance in Living Cells – NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
• $176,000 – Herr, Daniel – SENIC – Georgia Institute of Technology
• $40,750 – Wei, Jianjun – SBIR: A Chip-Based Nanosensor for Troponin T Detection in Human Blood – 3iNanotech, Inc

Office of Research and Engagement

• $1,492,079 – Hancock, George – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NTACHE) – US Department of Education (DOED)
• $457,254 – Shelton, Terri – Bringing Out the Best: Supporting Young Children’s Social and Emotional Development – Guilford County Partnership for Children
• $291,938 – CNNC – AmeriCorps ACCESS Project – North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
• $272,176 – Frison, Sonja – NC Healthy Transitions for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Mental Disorders – North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)
• $208,663 – Edmunds, Julie – Evaluation of EQuIPD- Engaging Quality Instruction through Professional Development – University of Florida
• $143,975 – Shelton, Terri – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project – Cone Health Foundation
• $99,900 – Streuli, Justin – Greensboro I Corp Site – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $55,283 – Janke, Emily; Haldeman, Lauren – Advancing LEAP: Lifetime Eating & Physical Activity Practices – Triad Health Network, LLC
• $12,000 – Sills, Stephen – NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR THE RESIDENTS OF 27260 HIGH POINT NC – Hayden-Harman Foundation
• $5,560 – Frison, Sonja – Building Communities of Recovery – Reintegration Support Network (RSN)
• $4,128 – Grebing, Eric – Development of Online Evaluation Resource Repository for NACEP Accreditation Process – National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
• $994 – 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)

Office of the Provost

• $12,000 – Raynor, Samantha; Saunders, Dana – Disrupting the Churn: The Effect of Targeted Supports on Late College Outcomes – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

School of Education

• $549,417 – He, Ye; Alarcon, Jeannette; Howerton, Walter; Patterson Zoch, Melody; Schissel, Jamie – 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)
• $109,493 – Lenstra, Noah – Community Health and Wellness: Small and Rural Library Practices, Perspectives, and Programs – University of Oklahoma
• $105,241 – Heredia, Sara – Spanning Boundaries: A Statewide Network to Support Science Teacher Leaders to Implement NGSS – Exploratorium
• $89,885 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Engineered nanoBio Node – Indiana University at Bloomington
• $82,300 – Hewitt, Kimberly – Equity Leadership in High Need Schools – University of Kansas
• $81,600 – Hewitt, Kimberly – Equity Leadership in High Need Schools – University of Kansas
• $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)
• $23,000 – Lenstra, Noah – NC State Library Contract – An Environmental Scan of Adult Services – North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resouces (NCDCR)
• $19,807 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Hierarchical nanoMFG Node (subcontract) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
• $18,557 – Heredia, Sara – The Phenomenal Genome: Evolving Public Understanding of Genetics in the Post-Mendelian Era – Exploratorium
• $10,459 – Henner, Jonathan – Developing a validated quantitative scale of language deprivation in the deaf population – University of Rochester Medical Center
• $7,000 – McDermid, Campbell – CATIE Center Program Expansion (Fall 2019) – Saint Catherine University
• $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

• $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)
• $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)
• $436,109 – Wyrick, David; Milroy, Jeffrey; Tanner, Amanda – The Intersection of Alcohol and Sex: Engineering an online STI Prevention Program – Pennsylvania State University
• $138,999 – Poole, Jay – Partnership to Address Co-Occurring Disorders in Vulnerable Populations – Cone Health Foundation
• $50,000 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – Guilford County Additional Funding – Guilford County Department of Public Health
• $36,375 – Tanner, Amanda – iTransition: Developing and Pilot Testing a Multilevel Technology-Based Intervention to Support Youth Living with HIV from Adolescent to Adult Care – Emory University (EU)
• $34,150 – Poole, Jay; 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)
• $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
• $18,000 – Hickerson, Benjamin – A Systematic Evaluation of Park Renovation at Fairmont Park East Parkside – Phase II – Penn State University
• $10,416 – Perrin, Maryanne – SBIR: Analysis of Human Milk Pre- and Post- Use of a Concentrator – Mother’s Milk is Best, Inc.
• $8,349 – Rinker, Jeremy – City of Greensboro Human Relations Department – Graduate Student Training. – City of Greensboro Human Relation Department
• $5,279 – Chetwynd, Ellen; Yourkavitch, Jennifer – Transforming Clinics for Better Breastfeeding Outcomes – North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition
• $1,759 – Perrin, Maryanne – SBIR: Analysis of Human Milk Pre- and Post- Use of a Concentrator – Mother’s Milk is Best, Inc.

School of Nursing

• $9,750 – Sykes, Catherine – UNCG Clinical Site Development 2019-2020 – North Carolina Area Health Education Center (NC AHEC) Program

University Libraries

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

Weatherspoon Art Museum

• $13,700 – Stamey, Emily – To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art – 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

• $3,000 – Yang, Zhi Yong – 2019 Faculty Liaison Grant – North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center (NC SBTDC)

College of Arts and Sciences

• $2,458,054 – Eddington, Kari – Enhancement of self-regulation as the basis for a compressed intervention for depressive anhedonia – NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• $1,959,956 – Oberlies, Nicholas; Cech, Nadja – Natural Product-Drug Interaction Research: The Roadmap to Best Practices. – Washington State University
• $1,654,178 – Petersen, Kimberly – Gtcc2uncG: Path to Success – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $888,493 – Wasserberg, Gideon – Development of an attractive lethal oviosition trap for the control of sand flies – DOD DA AMC Army Contracting Command
• $499,684 – Deng, Jing – CNS Core: Small: Perturbation-based Random Access in Highly Dynamic Delay-Constrained Wireless Networks – NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
• $479,907 – Croatt, Mitchell – Palladium-Catalyzed Protodecarboxylation of Dienoic, 4-Oxobutenoic, and Propiolic Acids – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $447,475 – Jia, Zhenquan – Novel carbon nanodots for modulation of OxLDL mediated inflammation and inhibition of atherosclerosis – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $443,772 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Risk of Xenobiotic-Drug Interactions in Chronic Disease – Washington State University
• $411,901 – Cech, Nadja – Hyaluronidase Inhibition as a New Anti-Infective Strategy Against Multi-Drug Resistant Gram-positive pathogens – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $390,662 – Bhandari, Ramji – Epigenetic effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure on bronchial epithelial cells – NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• $387,505 – Terui, Akira – Collaborative Research::The role of branching complexity in driving food chain length in rivers – NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
• $379,690 – Reggio, Patricia – Molecular Determinants of GPR18 Activity – Temple University
• $338,484 – DeJesus, Jasmine – Infants’ acceptance of new foods: Investigating social modeling as an effective strategy to increase intake of new foods – Gerber Foundation
• $319,145 – Praskievicz, Sarah – Large woody debris in low-gradient floodplain rivers: Spatial distribution, physical controls, and geomorphic effects – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $317,943 – Poli Kopper, Regis Augusto – An Informal Education Initiative to Promote Environmental Learning and Informed Engagement in Decision-making about our Coasts – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• $287,891 – Anemone, Robert – Kufeldt SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with UNCG Anthropology Department – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $283,145 – Fernos, Talia – Boundaries and Nonpositive Curvature – 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
• $181,875 – Chiu, Norman – Epitranscriptome Associated with Glioblastoma Therapeutic Resistance – Massachusetts General Hospital
• $173,707 – Miroshnichenko, Anatoly – Solving the Long-Standing Puzzle of the B[e] Phenomenon – NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
• $173,283 – Praskievicz, Sarah – Investigating dynamic interactions among socio-ecological diversity, connectivity, and resilience to inform the future of river conservation – Northern Arizona University(NAU)
• $167,626 – Green, Nancy – RI: Small: Computational Analysis of Rhetorical Figures – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $152,532 – Chung, Yu-Min – Multiparameter persistence: an algebraic topological framework for analyzing microstructure from digital imaging – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $151,608 – Wasserberg, Gideon – Disease vector mapping from laboratory experiments to global prediction using Leishmaniasis disease vector P. papatasi – US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
• $145,500 – Jia, Zhenquan – Molecular Mechanism of mercury-mediated Vascular Endothelial Inflammation – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $145,500 – Jia, Zhenquan – Intracellular assembly of caged-luciferin derivatives as bioluminescent probes for cellular ozone detection – UNC-CH Global Studies
• $138,000 – Hematian, Shabnam; Carrasco, Maria – Photochemical oxidation of mu-oxo heme/Cu complexes – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $138,000 – Schallhorn, Suzanne – An Examination of Differential Responses to Stress Reactivity Among Emerging Adults – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $136,771 – Zhang, Yi – Novel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Constrained Optimization Problems – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $123,829 – Hull, Michael – Homomorphisms to Kleinian and 3-manifold groups – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $116,057 – Chung, Yu-Min – Collaborative research: statistical mechanics models with feedback: critical transitions, topology and application for data-driven modeling – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $110,000 – Petersen, Kimberly – The use self-assembled monolayers of chiral organic scaffolds to catalyze syntheses. – American Chemical Society (ACS)
• $101,301 – Cech, Nadja – Metabolomics for Determining Mechanism of Action of Botanical Medicines – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $99,999 – Tsui, Tsz-Ki – Characterization of Water Quality Degradation and Impacts to Salmonids Resulting from the Camp Fire – CSU Chico
• $88,131 – Adamson, Amy – Epstein-Barr Virus as a Factor in the Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease – Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
• $75,000 – Grieve, Gregory – Video Games and the Problem of Evil – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
• $57,500 – Soles, Jeffrey – Mochlos 2020-2023: Publication and Site Conservation of a Minoan Town – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
• $52,450 – DeJesus, Jasmine – The Development of Eating Behavior in Infancy: Associations with Behavior, Diet, and Growth to Age 6 years – University of Michigan (UMICH)
• $51,493 – Rogers, Eugene – Imitation, Imaging, and the Image of God. – National Humanities Center
• $50,844 – Grieve, Gregory – Video Games and the Problem of Evil – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• $50,844 – Grieve, Gregory – Video Games and the Problem of Evil – National Humanities Center
• $50,000 – Wang, Ting – The Aftermath of the One-Child Policy on Gendered Deviance in China – Henry Luce Foundation
• $40,129 – Tolbert, Lisa – Beyond Piggly Wiggly: A Cultural History of the Self-Service Store in the Machine Age – National Humanities Center
• $40,076 – Workman, Cassandra – Commercial Partner Engagement for Trash Excluder – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
• $40,001 – Kim, Min Jeong – A Scalable Platform for Exploring and Analyzing Whole Brain Tissue Cleared Images – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• $40,000 – Adams, Heather – Rhetorics of Shame: A Recent History of Righteous Reporduction – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
• $37,490 – Clarke, Ben – Working-Class Writing – National Humanities Center
• $37,377 – Jones, Janine – Disappearing Black People Through Failures of White Empathy: The Case Against Good-Willed White Empathy – National Humanities Center
• $36,061 – DeJesus, Jasmine – Bridging Basic Developmental Science with Applied Health: Social Influences on Children’s Eating – University of Wisconsin at Madison
• $34,668 – Eger, Alexander – tba – National Humanities Center
• $32,000 – Zhang, Yi – Numerical Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Phase Field Models and Applications – University of Central Florida (UCF)
• $24,961 – Terui, Akira – Tracking animal dispersal in changing environments – National Geographic Society (NGS)
• $13,100 – 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)
• $10,000 – Murphy, Joanne – Kea Archaeological Research Survey: Testing the Value of Survey Data – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
• $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 – Feather, Jennifer – Cruel Authority: Renaissance Engagements with Ovid – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• $6,000 – Grieve, Gregory – Video Games and the Problem of Evil – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• $5,999 – Goldstein, Evan – Application of machine learning techniques for the development of a regression model for storm surge in New Zealand coast as a function of regional sea level pressure field maps – Universidad de Cantabria
• $5,000 – Gupta, Sat – International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC-2020) – University of Minnesota Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
• $5,000 – Rhea, Christopher – UNC Greensboro’s Science Everywhere event on the main campus and at the Moss Street Partnership Elementary School – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
• $3,489 – Milteer, Warren – Japan Residencies Program – Organization of American Historians (OAH)
• $2,948 – Herndon, Jason – Across the Spectrum: Incorporating Evidence-Based Practices for ASD in Your Practice – American Psychological Association (APA)
• $500 – Wang, Ting – Targeting the gender gap in crime in China – Laura Bassi Scholarship

College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

Division of Student Affairs

• $90,000 – Carter, Brett – Collegiate Recovery Community – North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

• $454,045 – Kepley, Christopher – Studies examining quantitative in vivo imaging of breast cancer-targeted, therapeutic human mast cells – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $417,500 – Kepley, Christopher – Preclinical evaluation of a new cellular-based cancer immunotherapy – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $400,125 – Kepley, Christopher – Investigating the role of human mast cells in cancer pathologies and as a new immonotherapy using humanized mice – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $110,000 – Ignatova, Tetyana – 2D-based catalysts in oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propene – American Chemical Society (ACS)
• $110,000 – Rathnayake, Hemali – TRG – A Rapid and Selective Point-Of-Use Molecular Sieving Extraction Technology for Lithium – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
• $74,999 – Obare, Sherine; Boit, Rachel – Growing convergence research to develop emerging materials for the biorefinery of the future – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
• $50,000 – Kepley, Christopher – TESTING HUMAN MAST CELLS AS A NEW STRATEGY FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY. – UNC-CH Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• $43,278 – Kepley, Christopher – A role for glycolipids and unconventional T cell subsets in alpha-gal allergy – UNC-CH School of Medicine
• $20,000 – Kepley, Christopher – Testing a new cell for cancer immunotherapy – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)

Office of Research and Engagement

• $2,292,993 – Zhou, Zhanxiang – Lipotoxicity in Alcoholic Liver Disease – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $526,812 – Shelton, Terri; Andersen, Martin; Gruber, Kenneth – Evaluation of NC Promoting Integration and Primary and Behavioral Health Care (PIPBHC) – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
• $280,330 – CNNC – AmeriCorps ACCESS Project – North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
• $157,006 – CNNC – Helping Immigrants and Refugees with Employment (HIRE) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
• $133,000 – CNNC – Refugee and Immigrant Social Work Education (RISE) Program – United Way of Greater Greensboro
• $124,677 – Coyle, Victoria – Transforming Rural Community College STEM Education with Evidence-based Software Engineering – East Carolina University (ECU)
• $114,000 – Janke, Emily – PLACE Collaboratory – Bringing Theory to Practice
• $100,000 – Sills, Stephen – Building Capacity in the Greensboro Healthy-Homes Referral System: UNCG Health Impact Team – 2020-2021 – United Way of Greater Greensboro
• $100,000 – Sills, Stephen; Mohanty, Somya – Seldom Heard Voices in Housing Policy: Building Opportunity for Tenant Civic Participation and Collective Efficacy – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• $60,000 – Sills, Stephen – Evaluation and Social Return on Investment of the Greensboro Eviction Resolution Project – Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC)
• $55,283 – Janke, Emily; Haldeman, Lauren – Advancing LEAP: Lifetime Eating & Physical Activity Practices – Triad Health Network, LLC
• $50,686 – Sills, Stephen – North Carolina Statewide Legal Needs Assessment 2020 for NC Equal Access to Justice Commission & North Carolina State Bar Plan for Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts – Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts (IOLTA)
• $40,000 – Sills, Stephen – Invest Health Greensboro Supplemental Funds for Technical Assistance, Site Visits, and Learning Exchanges – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
• $25,000 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – PSN Western District FY 2018 – North Carolina Gang Investigators Association
• $16,187 – Murray, Christine – Healthy Relationships In Older Adulthood Initiative – Provident Benevolent Foundation
• $15,579 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – Support of Lexington Police Department’s Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative-Year 2019-2020 – City of Lexington Police Department
• $15,000 – Murray, Christine – Expansion of the Sesame Street in Communities-Guilford County Collaborative – Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation
• $14,000 – Sills, Stephen – Cottage Grove Neighborhood Community Revitalization Fellows – Center for Community Progress
• $11,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Access to Integrated Care by the Uninsured in Greater Greensboro – Cone Health Foundation
• $10,000 – Everhart, Joy; McCain, Dannette – Equity in the Earliest Years Program – Guilford County Partnership for Children
• $9,835 – Sills, Stephen – UNCG Health Impact Team Weatherization Referral System – Piedmont Triad Regional Council
• $9,819 – Hancock, George – Haw River Elementary School – Comprehensive Needs Assessment – Haw River Elementary School
• $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)
• $1,918 – Bowman, Diana – McKinney Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program, Kansas School Staff Resource Guide – Kansas State Department of Education
• $1,500 – Littlefield, Kimberly – Building a Case for the Essential Associate Dean for Research – National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP)

Office of Sustainability

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

School of Education

• $375,192 – Wilson, Peter – Co-Designing for Statewide Alignment of a Vision for High Quality Mathematics Instruction – East Carolina University (ECU)
• $214,338 – Boyce, Ayesha – Breaking Digital Barriers: Equipping Older Adults with Lifelong Digital Skills and Attitudes – Michigan Technological University
• $165,826 – Heredia, Sara – Collaborative Research: Centering design-thinking: Building capacity for integration with intermediate-grade STEM teachers – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $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
• $77,581 – Carlone, Heidi – Engineering Access and Inclusion (EAI): Elementary Engineering Curriculum Design for English Learners – Pennsylvania State University (PENN STATE)
• $49,194 – Rakap, Salih; Coleman, Heather – Impact of IEIP-Home Intervention on Caregivers’ Use of Embedded Instruction Practices and Child Learning Outcomes – Spencer Foundation
• $38,400 – Tan, Edna – RCN: Equity Making Network: Coordinating Research for Critical Making Cultures and Practices – Boston University
• $29,831 – Cashwell, Craig – Cuéntame: Examining the relationships among spirituality/religion, mental health help-seeking behaviors and suicidal ideation among emerging adults Latinas: An Embedded design. – American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)

School of Health and Human Sciences

• $685,866 – Dollar, Jessica – Substance Use and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Contributions of Psychosocial Processes – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $473,234 – Parry, Traci – Elucidating the metabolic signature of cancer cachexia to discover novel biomarkers – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $452,792 – McGuirt, Jared – Examining the impact of highway rest area food and beverage offerings on dietary behaviors to inform cardio-metabolic disease risk reduction programs and policies – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $447,154 – Duffy, Donna; Rhea, Christopher – Retired female athletes and neurotrauma (rFAN) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $392,865 – Dharod, Jigna – Food shortage at the end of the month: to what extent it occurs and does it cause overeating among food insecure pregnant women – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $375,081 – Poole, Jay; Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – Combating Opioid Overdose through Community-level Intervention Subaward from the University of Baltimore (UB). – University of Baltimore
• $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)
• $246,417 – Tanner, Amanda – Harnessing the power of peer navigation and mHealth to reduce health disparities in Appalachia – Wake Forest University
• $149,997 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa; Poole, Jay – Qualitative Fentanyl Field-Testing and Community Notification – Guilford County Department of Public Health
• $127,296 – Despard, Mathieu – Common Cents Lab – Washington University in Saint Louis
• $100,000 – Smith Lee, Jocelyn – Addressing Invisible Wounds of Trauma and Grief to Promote the Economic Mobility of Black Boys, Men, and Families. – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• $73,965 – Doyle, Lauren – Personalizing the science curriculum with genomics for student engagement and science literacy – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
• $44,000 – Goldfarb, Allan – Almond Consumption and Physical Performance in Older Adults – Wake Forest University
• $41,938 – Despard, Mathieu – Financial Health Network – Washington University in Saint Louis
• $35,960 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – 2019 GC DPH Post-Overdose Response Team Staffing Sustainment Funding – Guilford County Department of Public Health
• $34,961 – Armah, Seth – Optimizing meat and poultry intake to improve micronutrient status and reduce cardiovascular disease risk. – Iowa State University (ISU)
• $31,662 – Armah, Seth – Effect of almond consumption on iron regulation in a mouse model of obesity – UNC-CH North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute
• $20,000 – Adams, William – Influence of Osmotic Stimulation of Vasopressin on Heart Rate Variability – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
• $10,800 – Poole, Jay – Addressing Opioid Misuse: Enhancing Health Literacy and Misuse Prevention – Truth Initiative

School of Nursing

• $436,312 – Pickett, Stephanie – Reducing EmotioNal Eating among Black Women (RENEW) study – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $200,000 – Snyder, Audrey – School Health Coordination at Moss Street Partnership School – The Edward M. Armfield Sr. Foundation
• $10,000 – Lekan, Deborah – Frailty Risk using EHR Nursing Data for ICU Transfer and Mortality – Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN)
• $7,500 – Snyder, Audrey – Home Care Pilot Project – Hospice and Home Care Foundation of NC
• $725 – Hoffart, Nancy – “A Description of Approaches Used by Nurse Residency Program Staff to Enhance Transition to Practice: A Secondary Analysis,” – Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

The Graduate School

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

University Libraries

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