FY20 Third Quarter Awards & Submissions

Posted on May 11, 2020

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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

  • $1,449,339 – Bobay, Louis-Marie – Investigating the impact and patterns of homologous recombination and adaptive evolution on bacterial genomes – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $163,623 – Goldstein, Evan – IRES Track II: The Coastal Processes & Machine Learning Advanced Studies Institute – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $89,098 – Workman, Cassandra – Exploring Syndemic Water Insecurity: Synthesizing Objective and Subjective Experiences of Multi-Scale Resource Insecurity – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $57,500 – Soles, Jeffrey – Mochlos 2020-2023: Publication and Site Conservation of a Minoan Town – Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
  • $24,374 – Lawler, Insa – Understanding Progress, in Science and Beyond – University of Iceland
  • $12,000 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – Research Collaboration – Graduate Student Workers at UNCG – University of Pittsburgh
  • $5,000 – Gupta, Sat – International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC-2020) – University of Minnesota Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nano Engineering

  • $50,000 – Kepley, Christopher – Testing Human Mast Cells As A New Strategy For Cancer Immunotherapy. – UNC-CH Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Office of Research and Engagement

  • $1,419,511 – Zhang, Qibin – Lipidome remodeling during development of T1D – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $55,603 – Sills, Stephen – CHCS Consulting Services: Market Segmentation Analysis, Neighborhood Housing Assessments, Affordable Housing Strategies, & Community Engagement Plan – Mid City Redevelopment Alliance, Inc.
  • $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 – North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission
  • $30,000 – Mazade, Noel – Consultation and Planning Assistance to Develop New Leadership Fellows Academy in Texas – Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
  • $4,943 – Grebing, Eric – Tableau Training and Support for RTI Center for Education Services – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)

School of Health and Human Sciences

  • $10,000 – Poole, Jay – Addressing Opioid Misuse: Enhancing Health Literacy and Misuse Prevention – Truth Initiative

School of Nursing

  • $10,000 – Lekan, Deborah – Frailty Risk using EHR Nursing Data for ICU Transfer and Mortality – Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN)

Weatherspoon Art Museum

  • $30,000 – Stamey, Emily – To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

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

  • $1,000 – Byrd, Erick – Community Economic Impact of Events and Festivals – North Carolina Department of Commerce (NCDOC)

College of Arts and Sciences

  • $812,865 – Stein, Gabriela; Eddington, Kari – Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care – NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • $155,016 – Cech, Nadja – Predoctoral Training: Innovative Technologies for Natural Products and CAM Research – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $40,076 – Workman, Cassandra – Commercial Partner Engagement for Trash Excluder – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $18,296 – McFarland, Sherri – Immunomodulating Ruthenium Metal Complexes for Melanoma Photodynamic Therapy – NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • $10,851 – Stine, Roy – GIS Research Internships with Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. – Syngenta Crop Protection Inc.
  • $8,001 – Kim, Min Jeong – A Scalable Platform for Exploring and Analyzing Whole Brain Tissue Cleared Images – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $6,300 – Knapp, Paul – Tree Ring Studies of Historical Fire Regimes in Longleaf Pine Forest of the Uwharrie Mountains in the Piedmont of North Carolina University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW)

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

  • $28,250 – Obare, Sherine – Growing convergence research to develop emerging materials for the biorefinery of the future – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

Office of Research and Engagement

  • $464,217 – Grebing, Eric – The Rural Early College Network – CELL – University of Indianapolis
  • $422,261 – Zhou, Zhanxiang; Zhang, Qibin – Aldehydes in alcohol-Indiced Organ Injury –National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $205,083 – Zhang, Qibin – Critical lipid species in the hepatovirus lifecycle – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $166,535 – Zhang, Qibin – Discovery and Validation of Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Complications in Type 1 Diabetes – University of Colorado Denver
  • $151,750 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – PSN Middle District of NC FY 2018 – North Carolina Gang Investigators Association
  • $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
  • $20,232 – Edmunds, Julie – CTE Research Network – American Institutes for Research (AIR)
  • $20,000 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – 2018 PSN Eastern District of NC – North Carolina Gang Investigators Association
  • $15,579Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – Support of Lexington Police Department’s Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative-Year 2019-2020 – City of Lexington Police Department
  • $10,800 – Abdo, Diya – Refugee After School Program – New Arrivals Institute

School of Education

  • $533,205 – Ryndak, Diane – The TIES Center: Increasing Time, Instructional Effectiveness, Engagement, and State Support for Inclusive Practices for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities – University of Minnesota
  • $97,847 – Boyce, Ayesha – NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Strengthening Pre-college Programs as a Mechanism to Promote Equitable Access to University Admissions and Persistence in STEM – University of Pittsburgh
  • $73,817 – Morris, Carrie; Borders, Leslie – ACTIVATE Plus: Advancing Coordinated and Timely Interventions through Awareness, Training & Education – a PipeLine Uplifting Students – Rockingham County Schools
  • $53,577 – Ryndak, Diane – Factors Contributing to Academic, Social, and Behavioral Outcomes for Elementary Students with the Most Significant Cognitive DisabilitiesUniversity of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (KUCR)

School of Health and Human Sciences

  • $699,781 – Etnier, Jennifer – The effect of physical activity on cognition relative to APOE genotype (PAAD-II) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $290,818 – Smith, Paige – Statewide Training and Technical Assistance Program to Improve Services to LGBTQ Crime Victims – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)
  • $74,516 – Hestenes, Linda; Hestenes, Steve; Mims, Sharon – North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project – NCDHHS Division of Child Development
  • $57,069 – Rulison, Kelly – Evaluating Practice-Based Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Approaches from CDC’s Rape Prevention – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $49,049 – Despard, Mathieu – Common Cents Lab – Washington University in Saint Louis
  • $27,200 – Schulz, Mark – Greensboro Safe Routes to Schools – City of Greensboro Department of Transportation (GDOT)
  • $27,138 – Despard, Mathieu – Financial Health Network – Washington University in Saint Louis
  • $14,800 – Despard, Mathieu – Financial Health Network – Washington University in Saint Louis
  • $11,265 – Perrin, Maryanne – SBIR: Analysis of Human Milk Pre- and Post- Use of a Concentrator – Mother’s Milk is Best, Inc.
  • $8,000 – Bailey, Harriette; Hestenes, Linda – Education, Quality Improvement and Professional Development (EQuIPD) – Guilford County Partnership for Children

The Graduate School

  • $59,994 – Stufken, John – Collaborative Research: Information-based subdata selection inspired by optimal design of experiments – National Science Foundation (NSF)

Submissions

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

College of Arts and Sciences

  • $2,151,377 – Keane, Susan – Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting the Training of Clinical Psychologists from Disadvantaged Backgrounds to Enter Primary Care Settings and Medically Underserved Communities – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $1,764,605 – Bhandari, Ramji – Germline transmission of epigenetic alterations to offspring – NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  • $1,605,306 – Jensen, Michaeline – Digital Connections and College Student Substance Misuse – NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • $659,142 – Goldstein, Evan – Collaborative Research: Using big data and machine learning to understand the phasing and processes that link upland sediment sources to coastal wetland change – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $649,826 – McLean, Bryan; Anemone, Robert; Obare, Sherine – MRI: Acquisition of Micro-computed Tomography and 3D Imaging Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary STEM Research in North Carolina – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $545,625 – Petersen, Kimberly – New methods for the stereoselective preparation of important heterocycles – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $499,950 – Osena, Ayalew – Enhancing the productivity of an orphan crop Eragrostis tef by silicon and unveiling the molecular mechanisms of Si uptake and assimilation – US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • $449,990 – Kiss, John – Molecular characterization of gravity perception and response in light-grown plants on the ISS – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • $435,839 – McLean, Bryan; Koerner, Sarah – Collaborative Research: STEPP-NET: Steppe Parasite Networks – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $428,721 – Hematian, Shabnam – Mild Metal-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions: Alternative Synthesis for Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin Species – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $398,876 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Anti-Malarial Drug Leads from Fungal Cultures – NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  • $349,949 – Popova, Maia – BCSER: Developing expertise in educational testing to support characterizing the impact of organic chemistry instruction on students’ ability to reason with representations – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $326,854 – Bobay, Louis-Marie – DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for Ellis Torrance (Mentor Dr. Bobay) – Department of Energy (DOE)
  • $324,102 – Nancekivell, Shaylene – Possessions, person-judgments, and underlying reasoning processes in early childhood. – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $242,234 – Kiss, John – Partial gravity studies on the ISS in preparation for growing plants on the Moon – NASA Ames Research Center
  • $227,213 – Egeland, Charles; Deng, Jing; Kim, Min Jeong; Nicholson, Christopher; Schwendler, Rebecca – Archaeology Program Full Proposal: A network approach to Magdalenian social landscapes – NSF Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
  • $148,652 – Popova, Maia – Collaborative Research: Characterizing Student Strategies When Using Symmetry to Interrogate Molecular Structure – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $141,468 – Praskievicz, Sarah – A bottom-up approach for developing ecological flows using machine learning: An application to the Southeast US – United States Geological Survey (USGS)
  • $135,137 – Mohanty, Somya – Twitter Follower / Friend Assessment Tool (TWIFFA) – Deep Thought Technologies, LLC
  • $132,285 – Tsui, Tsz-Ki – How does mercury methylation respond to intensive forest management and the creation of anoxia in floodplain soils? – Department of Energy (DOE)
  • $127,525 – Tognasoli, Ana Paula; Adamson, Amy – Epstein-Barr virus as an etiological agent in the promotion of neurodegenerative diseases. – NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA)
  • $110,000 – Petersen, Kimberly – The use of self-assembled monolayers of chiral organic scaffolds to catalyze syntheses – American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • $85,440 – Eger, Alexander – Princeton Antioch Republication Project, Turkey – Leon Levy Foundation
  • $61,000 – Goldstein, Evan – Academic Research Study: Understanding the Building Back Bigger Phenomena – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
  • $42,000 – Chhetri, Maya – Bifurcation results for nonlinear elliptic problems – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000 – Fernos, Talia – Products of Hyperbolic Spaces-Explorations in Nonpositive Curvature – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000 – Gao, Xiaoli – Robust Penalized Regression for Complex Big Data Analysis – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000 – Gupta, Sat – Parameter Estimation with Optional Randomized Response Models under Measurement Errors and Non-Response – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000 – Lewis, Thomas – Narrow-Stencil Approximation Methods for Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000 – Smyth, Clifford – Collaborations in Combinatorics – Simons Foundation
  • $42,000 – Zhang, Yi – Numerical Methods for Optimal Control Problems with PDE Constraints – Simons Foundation
  • $33,058 – Rueppell, Olav – Dynamics of Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus Infection within Honey Bees – USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
  • $29,484 – Reddick, Jason – BII-Design: The Triad Institute for Bioanalytics, Biochemistry, and Biophysics – Winston-Salem State University (WSSU)
  • $15,000 – Green, Tara – Greensboro Big Read Silver Sparrow and Family Dynamics – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
  • $14,550 – Jia, Zhenquan – Subaward from the UNC-Chapel Hill-the development of novel metabolic animal models of obesity – UNC-CH Global Studies
  • $12,000 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – Research Collaboration – Graduate Student Workers at UNCG – University of Pittsburgh
  • $7,468 – Knapp, Paul – Radial Growth Rate Responses of Ponderosa Pine to Carbon Dioxide Enrichment and Climate Change: A Longitudinal Study – Appalachian State University (ASU)
  • $6,300 – Knapp, Paul – Tree Ring Studies of Historical Fire Regimes in Longleaf Pine Forest of the Uwharrie Mountains in the Piedmont of North Carolina – University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW)
  • $6,292 – Jensen, Michaeline – Supporting adolescents and their families digital well-being through youth participatory methods – University of Washington
  • $5,000 – Remington, David; Foster, Anslei – Characterization of Genetic Mechanisms Influencing Perenniality Variation in Arabidopsis lyrata – American Genetic Association (AGA)
  • $5,000 – Remington, David; Foster, Anslei – Characterization of Genetic Mechanisms Influencing Perenniality Variation in Arabidopsis lyrata – Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women in Science (GWIS)
  • $3,500 – Reynolds, Jeanie – Piedmont Voices: Youth Educators Writing, Thinking, and Making Our Practice Public – North Carolina Humanities Council
  • $1,250 – Parsons, Anne – Dorothea Dix, Psychiatric Asylums, and the Institutionalization of Modern Insanity – University of Toledo
  • $1,000 – Keith, Jennifer – The Arts of Exile: Anne Finch’s Poetic and Political Designs – American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

College of Visual and Performing Arts

  • $2,200 – Barret, Mary – Women of Note Composition Competition and Women’s Wind Ensemble Performance – Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies

Division of Student Affairs

  • $50,000 – Hall, Nicole – UNCG SECU Public Fellows Proposal – State Employee Credit Union Foundation (SECU)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

  • $1,748,486 – Obare, Sherine – Collaborative Research: NRT-FW-HTF:Biomass Refinery Inter-Institutional Graduate student Hub for education and Training (BRIGHT) – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $1,406,643 – Lajeunesse, Dennis – NRT: Synthetic Biology Entrepreneurship training – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
  • $825,000 – Obare, Sherine – NNCI: Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC) – Georgia Institute of Technology
  • $748,309 – Lajeunesse, Dennis – Collaborative Research: DNA Mutation-oscillator Storage: DMoS – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
  • $663,894 – Obare, Sherine – Science and Technology for Emerging Phosphorus Sustainability – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $654,408 – Kepley, Christopher – Tumor targeted human mast cells; new strategy for cancer immunotherapy – Department of Defense (DOD)
  • $436,500 – Kepley, Christopher – Investigating a therapeutic for multiple sclerosis with remyelinating properties on human mast cells – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $422,850 – Lajeunesse, Dennis – Mechanism of Candida albicans rupture on biomimetic NSS – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $330,000 – Kepley, Christopher – investigating a therapeutic for multiple sclerosis with remyelinating properties on human mast cells – National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS)
  • $291,000 – Josephs, Eric – A Molecular Grammar for Guide RNAs (gRNAs) with Engineered Secondary Structures – NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
  • $259,726 – Wei, Jianjun – A Dual Signal Amplification in Biosensing for Visual Detection of Biomarkers – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $249,879 – Rathnayake, Hemali – PFI-TT – A novel Nano-Framework for Lithium – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $75,000 – Obare, Sherine – AccelNet: International Convergence Network for Environmental Nanotechnology (ICNEN) – Duke University

Office of Research and Engagement

  • $2,358,555 – Zhong, Wei; Zhou, Zhanxiang – Intestinal aryl hydrocarbon receptor and stem cell dyshomeostasis in alcoholic liver disease – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $1,544,104 – Frison, Sonja; Bray, Jeremy; Murray, Christine; Sills, Stephen – The North Carolina Tiered Care Coordination Pilot Project, Year 4 – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
  • $590,010 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – Building Capacity to Identify and Serve Victims of Human Trafficking in Underserved Areas of Eastern North Carolina- 2020 – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)
  • $501,218 – Gruber, Kenneth; Murray, Christine – Reconnecting Justice Served Fathers With Their Minor Children – Guilford County Sheriffs Office
  • $379,709 – Murray, Christine – Sesame Street in Communities Community Partnerships: Evaluation and Research to Maximize the Impact on Early Childhood Development and Education – Spencer Foundation
  • $350,000 – Sills, Stephen; Echeverria, Sandra – Investigating Community Social Action to Identify, Remediate, Evaluate, and Sustain an Environmental Justice Initiative – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
  • $290,280 – Lewis, Karla – National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (evaluation) – University of Texas at San Antonio
  • $250,000 – Gruber, Kenneth; Ivey, Melinda; Sills, Stephen – UNCG Evaluation Plan for the Duke Endowment Rural Church SLP Initiative – Duke Endowment
  • $157,006 – Abdo, Diya – Helping Immigrants and Refugees with Employment (HIRE) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $141,671 – Murray, Christine – Subcontract from ECU: See the Triumph: Moving from Victim to Survivor in Rural North Carolina – US Department of Justice (DOJ)
  • $133,000 – Abdo, Diya – Refugee and Immigrant Social Work Education (RISE) Program – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $100,000 – Sills, Stephen – Building Capacity in the Greensboro Healthy-Homes Referral System: UNCG Health Impact Team – 2020-2021 – United Way of Greater Greensboro
  • $77,435 – Coyle, Victoria – Nature in the Classroom – Nature in the Classroom, Inc.
  • $71,935 – Sills, Stephen – Consulting Services for a Comprehensive Plan Update and Future Land Use Map Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina – Town of Wake Forest
  • $59,846 – Sills, Stephen – Consulting Services for a Comprehensive Housing and Public Opinion Study for New Hanover County NC – New Hanover County
  • $57,172 – Sills, Stephen – High Point Healthy Housing Program: Expansion of the UNCG CHCS Health Impact Team in High Point, NC – Foundation for a Healthy High Point
  • $56,782 – Sills, Stephen – Consulting Services for an Affordable Housing Plan for the Town of Apex – Town of Apex
  • $55,603 – Sills, Stephen – CHCS Consulting Services: Market Segmentation Analysis, Neighborhood Housing Assessments, Affordable Housing Strategies, & Community Engagement Plan – Mid City Redevelopment Alliance, Inc.
  • $45,000 – Sills, Stephen – Center for Housing and Community Studies Tenant Leadership Academy (Greensboro) – City of Greensboro
  • $43,006 – Sills, Stephen – Tenant Leadership Academy: A Program to Empower Tenants with Information and Resources to Reduce Evictions and Improve Housing Conditions in Winston-Salem – City of Winston-Salem
  • $39,764 – Sills, Stephen – Consulting Services Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Proposal Submitted to City of Goldsboro – City of Goldsboro
  • $31,891 – Sills, Stephen – Consulting Services for a Small Community Plan Update for the Northeast Community Town of Wake Forest, North Carolina – Town of Wake Forest
  • $30,000 – Mazade, Noel – Consultation and Planning Assistance to Develop New Leadership Fellows Academy in Texas – Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
  • $20,343 – Endres, Christina – McKinney Vento Liaison Certification – Indiana Department of Education (IDOE)
  • $20,084 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – 2020 COPS HPPD Microgrant – City of High Point Police Department
  • $20,000 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – 2019 PSN Eastern District of NC – North Carolina Gang Investigators Association
  • $15,580 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – Support of Lexington Police Department’s Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative-Year 2020-2021 – City of Lexington Police Department
  • $15,499 – Sechrist, Stacy; Weil, John – EKG 1 Evaluation and EKG 2 Planning – City of Fayetteville Police Department
  • $10,800 – Abdo, Diya – Refugee After School Program – New Arrivals Institute
  • $5,000 – Abdo, Diya – Interpreter ACCESS Project Capacity Building – Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
  • $4,943 – Grebing, Eric – Tableau Training and Support for RTI Center for Education Services – Research Triangle Institute (RTI International)
  • $4,000 – Littlefield, Kimberly – Accelerating Public Access to Research Data in North Carolina – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)

Office of the Chancellor

  • $812,423 – Chappell, Murphie – Campus Violence Response Center 2020 – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)

School of Education

  • $498,749 – Boyce, Ayesha – BII-Implementation: GEMS: Genomics and eco-evolution of multi-scale symbioses – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $175,972 – Tan, Edna – Beyond Equity as Inclusion: Co-designing for Rightful Presence in STEM Education – University of Michigan (UMICH)
  • $166,157 – Ryndak, Diane – Factors Contributing to Academic, Social, and Behavioral Outcomes for Elementary Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities – University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (KUCR)
  • $145,491 – Reid, Aileen – Collaborative Research: Transfer Student STEM L.E.A.R.N.ing success through a public/private university partnership and undergraduate research community – Western Carolina University (WCU)
  • $119,710 – Jacobs, Victoria – Theorizing and Advancing Teachers’ Responsive Decision Making in the Domain of Rational Numbers: Expansion and Dissemination Supplement – University of Missouri at Columbia
  • $92,278 – Lenstra, Noah – Increasing naloxone availability and use in high-risk settings: public libraries as partners for reducing opioid overdose mortality – University of Pennsylvania
  • $49,823 – Rodriguez, Sophia – Promoting education equity for immigrant students: Examining the influence of school social workers and school-based personnel – William T Grant Foundation
  • $40,001 – Smith, Tiffany – Evaluation of NCSU S-STEM program: Graduate scholarships in Biochemistry applied to agriculture and human health – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
  • $34,404 – Journell, Allen – How do secondary teacher education programmes support new teachers in delivering excellent democratic citizenship education in a global context? – University of York
  • $12,645 – Boyce, Ayesha – AI Institute: Planning: Advancing Discovery in Genomic Biology and Foundational Machine Learning – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • $9,807 – Cooper, Jewell; Patterson Zoch, Melody – Real World English for English Language Learners – Dollar General Literacy Foundation
  • $2,500 – Chestnut, Catina – State of the Arts Report for Reidsville’s Public Schools – Reidsville Area Foundation

School of Health and Human Sciences

  • $3,761,862 – Rhea, Christopher – Behavior and Recovery After head Impact and Neurotrauma (BRAIN): The Female BRAIN Project – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $3,527,887 – Gold, Laurie – Biopsychosocial influences on cardiometabolic risk from adolescence through emerging adulthood – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $2,025,130 – Wyrick, David – Increasing the impact of medical amnesty policies in collegiate athletic settings using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy – Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute
  • $857,086 – Smith, Paige – NC LGBTQ Domestic Violence Response Initiative – 2020 – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)
  • $669,018 – Erikson, Keith – Systems Genetics Analysis of Individual Differences in the Impact of Dietary Induced Obesity on Trace Element Regulation and Neurotoxicity – University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • $589,183 – Shultz, Sandra – Resistive Exercise Program for the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (REP-ACL) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $452,743 – Perrin, Maryanne – Donors and Their Milk (DoTMilk) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $273,489 – Washington, Tyreasa – Reducing Alzheimer’s Risk among African-American Kinship Caregivers – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • $246,417 – Tanner, Amanda – Exploring the consequences of food insecurity and harnessing the power of peer navigation and mHealth to reduce food insecurity and cardiometabolic comorbidities among persons with HIV – Wake Forest University Health Sciences
  • $195,761 – Perrin, Maryanne – Improving Donor Human Milk Nutritional Therapies for the Preterm Infant – Allen Foundation
  • $170,197 – Richardson, Bridget – African American Families Race-Related Experiences and Beliefs on Parenting Practices, Socialization, and Adolescent Outcomes – National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • $117,874 – Wyrick, David – Using Big Data to Model County Level Drug Use Onset among Adolescents – Prevention Strategies
  • $53,531 – Hickerson, Benjamin – Talk to Me: An Examination of the Conversations People with ASD have with Friends – University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • $33,704 – Milroy, Jeffrey – SBIR: Developing an inclusive culture within sport and recreation for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities – Prevention Strategies
  • $31,088 – 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
  • $20,445 – Adams, William – Title Determinants of habitual fluid intake and 24-hour hydration status in collegiate athletes – National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Research and Education Foundation
  • $19,736 – Bailey, Harriette – Equipping Early Care and Education Programs for Success – Cemala Foundation
  • $13,837 – Armah, Seth – Effect of almond consumption on iron regulation in a mouse model of aging – Wake Forest University
  • $10,000 – Adams, William – Influence of female sex hormones on fluid intake and markers of hydration status. – American College of Sports Medicine Foundation (ACSM)
  • $7,700 – McGuirt, Jared – Development and testing of a place-based behavioral “nudge” technology intervention to promote healthier food purchases among military service members at Fort Bragg – DOD DA Fort Bragg Army Base
  • $4,867 – Adams, William; Zaplatosch, Mitchell – Assessing the effect of mild hypohydration on the beverage hydration index of commercially available beverages – American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)

School of Nursing

  • $4,496,495 – Krowchuk, Heidi – HRSA NAT student traineeships for 2020-2023 – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $2,406,000 – Snyder, Audrey – HRSA Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students – DHHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • $100,000 – Hill, Carrie – AHEC Ed Mobility 2020-2021 – Northwest Area Health Education Center (AHEC)

Student Success and Undergraduate Studies

  • $1,733,168 – Baldwin, Kara – Student Support Services Program – US Department of Education (DOED)
  • $1,265,161 – Baldwin, Kara – Student Support Services STEM-H Program – US Department of Education (DOED)

The Graduate School

  • $59,994 – Stufken, John – Collaborative Research: Information-based subdata selection inspired by optimal design of experiments – National Science Foundation (NSF)

University Libraries

  • $245,970 – Lawrimore, Erin; Cox, Richard – Digital Humanities in the Community: Introducing DH Methods and Skills to Community-Engaged and Community-Based Scholars – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  • $87,648 – Halbert, Martin – Conference on Strategies for Transitioning Journals to Sustainability – NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science (SBE)
  • $23,046 – Caldwell, Deborah – Research Data Management in the Humanities Institute – University of Illinois

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