FY22 First Quarter Awards and Submissions

• New Awards FY22 1st Quarter
• Continuing Awards FY22 1st Quarter
• Submissions FY22 1st Quarter

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

• $775,990.00 – Murphy, Arthur – Recipe for Success – US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
• $642,892.00 – McLean, Bryan – MRI: Acquisition of Micro-computed Tomography and 3D Imaging Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary STEM Research in North Carolina – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $524,421.00 – Koerner, Sarah – Collaborative Proposal: Integrating trait diversity across hierarchical scales to predict biological resilience in an era of extreme environmental change – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $224,591.00 – McLean, Bryan – Collaborative Proposal: STEPP-NET: Steppe Parasite Networks – NSF BIO Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
• $210,975.00 – Cech, Nadja – The Center for High Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products – University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC)
• $198,561.00 – Kopper, Regis; Grandi, Jeronimo – Validation and Demonstration of a Customizable Virtual Reality-Based Traffic Stop Simulation for Training and Practice with the Hillsborough Police Department – DOC National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• $42,000.00 – Gao, Xiaoli – Robust Penalized Regression for Complex Big Data Analysis – Simons Foundation
• $42,000.00 – Yasaki, Dan – Voronoi Theory over Number Fields and Applications to Arithmetic Groups – Simons Foundation
• $39,756.00 – Kiss, John – Novel explorations into the interactions between light and gravity sensing in plants – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• $37,430.00 – Zhang, Yi – Novel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization Problems with Inequality Constraints – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $36,579.00 – Wisco, Blair – The Interplay Between Negative Emotion Differentiation and Emotion Regulation Problems in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $91,170.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – P.O. from Procter & Gamble – Procter and Gamble
• $25,000.00 – Wasserberg, Gideon – NC DHHS Contract to Survey Tick Distribution in NW NC 2021-2022 – NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services
• $17,322.00 – Reggio, Patricia – Molecular Determinants of GPR55 Activity – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $13,048.00 – Kim, Min Jeong – Chromatin mobility in response to DNA damage – Wake Forest University
• $8,015.99 – Kopper, Regis – Evaluation of Public Safety Virtual Reality Physical Interfaces – Nextgen Interactions
• $4,000.00 – Chekan, Jonathan – Deciphering the Biosynthesis of An Abundant Class of Plant Natural Products – American Society of Pharmacognosy
• $3,630.00 – Wasserberg, Gideon – NC DHHS Contract to Survey Tick Distribution in NW NC 2021-2022 – NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services
• $2,555.00 – Wagoner, Kaira – Unhealthy Brood Odor Assay Trials on Saskatraz Breeding Stock – Meadow Ridge Enterprises, Ltd.
• $2,400.00 – Broache, Michael – Understanding the Gap Between Public and Scholarly Concepts of Political Violence – American Political Science Association
• $2,060.00 – Davis, Benjamin; Aksin, Jocelyn; Stewart, Anna – Campus Weeks 2021: “Time to Act: Politics and Activism in Germany” – German Embassy

Division of Academic Affairs

• $2,000.00 – Kennedy-Malone, Laurie – GAPNA Research Grant – Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA)

Division of Enrollment Management

• $358,765.00 – Baldwin, Kara – Student Support Services Program – US Department of Education (DOED)
• $261,888.00 – Baldwin, Kara – Student Support Services STEM-H Program – US Department of Education (DOED)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

• $422,400.00 – Rathnayake, Hemali – NIFA EGP: Acquisition of an Analytical Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for Nanotechnology Research at the Interface of the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus – USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
• $45,691.00 – Rathnayake, Hemali – SBIR: A Point-Of-Use Nano Mosaic Filter Technology for Lithium – Minerva Lithium, LLC

Office of Research and Engagement

• $1,999,856.00 – Murray, Christine – The North Carolina Tiered Care Coordination Pilot Project, Year 5 – NCDHHS Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS)
• $1,734,592.00 – Hancock, George – North Carolina Federal Program Monitoring and Support – Year 14 – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $1,586,187.00 – Hancock, George – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of HomelessChildren and Youth (NTACHE) – US Department of Education (DOED)
• $548,554.00 – Sills, Stephen; Gruber, Kenneth; Rich, Bruce – Increasing Housing Stability Among Vulnerable Households in Guilford County:A Countywide Program for Eviction Mediation, Housing Resource Navigation, and Tenant Capacity Building – Guilford County
• $452,454.00 – Murray, Christine – Bringing Out the Best: FY 2021-2022 and FY 2022-2023 – Guilford County Partnership for Children
• $411,145.00 – Zhou, Zhanxiang – Lipotoxicity in Alcoholic Liver Disease – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $360,000.00 – Shelton, Terri; Cook, Mina – NC Preventing Underage Drinking Initiative – NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services
• $261,697.00 – Abdo, Diya – AmeriCorps ACCESS Project (2021-2022) – North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
• $253,800.00 – Shelton, Terri – Senior Advisor for Public Access – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $165,712.00 – McColskey, Wendy – Extended Learning and Integrated Student Supports Competitive Grant Program (ELISS 2021-2023) – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $163,276.00 – Sills, Stephen; Rich, Bruce – Needs Assessment & Analysis for Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina – Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina
• $100,000.00 – Abdo, Diya – Thriving at Three (2019-21) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
• $70,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – South Carolina Legal Needs Assessment 2021-2022; SC Equal Access to Justice – South Carolina Access to Justice
• $70,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – South Carolina Legal Needs Assessment 2021-2022; SC Equal Access to Justice – South Carolina Access to Justice
• $57,391.00 – Abdo, Diya – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project Covid Relief Program – New Arrivals Institute
• $38,632.00 – Abdo, Diya – Triad Vaccine Education and Access Project – New Arrivals Institute
• $35,950.00 – Murray, Christine – Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Initiatives – Supplement – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
• $35,850.00 – Murray, Christine – Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Initiatives – Supplement – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
• $33,932.00 – Abdo, Diya – Immigrant Health ACCESS Project Support – United Way of Greater Greensboro
• $25,799.00 – Payton, Erica – Project Resilience: A community empowerment approach to support victims of community violence. – Foundation for a Healthy High Point
• $14,800.00 – Sills, Stephen – Needs Assessment & Technical Assistance to the Foundation for a Healthy High Point (FHHP) – Foundation for a Healthy High Point
• $12,500.00 – Grebing, Eric – Data Visualization Consulting for Westat’s Support of Texas ACE/TX21st – Westat, Inc.
• $7,000.00 – Gruber, Kenneth – Guilford Health/Guilford Community Care Network Evaluation – Guilford Adult Health, Inc.
• $4,000.00 – Abdo, Diya – Reversing Learning Loss Among Refugee and Immigrant Elementary School Children in At-Risk Neighborhoods – Dollar General Literacy Foundation
• $3,000.00 – Sills, Stephen – CHCS Vaccine Outreach – Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP)

School of Education

• $621,176.00 – Tan, Edna – STEM-based Making for Youth, Families, and Communities – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $304,557.00 – Tan, Edna – STEM-based Making for Youth, Families, and Communities – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $177,964.00 – Wilson, Peter – Collaborative Research: Co-Designing for Statewide Alignment of a Vision for High Quality Mathematics Instruction [VISIONS] – NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
• $40,495.00 – Wilson, Peter – Guilford County Schools Math Tutoring Services 2021-2022 – Guilford County Schools
• $34,595.00 – Kim, Kyung Yong – Accountability Support with Guilford County Schools 2021-2022 – Guilford County Schools
• $19,996.00 – Lenstra, Noah – South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare Contract – South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare
• $19,820.00 – Kim, Kyung Yong – Experiential Measurement Training with American Board of Pediatrics (2021-2022) – American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
• $19,424.00 – Heredia, Sara – The Phenomenal Genome: Evolving Public Understanding of Genetics in the Post-Mendelian Era – Exploratorium
• $19,171.08 – Reid, Aileen – Building Capacity to Support Career Acceleration and STEM Workforce Development – National Science Foundation (NSF)

School of Health and Human Sciences

• $523,110.00 – Perrin, Maryanne – Investigating Donor Human Milk Composition Globally to Develop Effective Strategies for the Nutritional Care of Preterm Infants – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $436,712.00 – Bailey, Harriette – Education, Quality Improvement and Professional Development (EQuIPD) – Guilford County Partnership for Children
• $433,143.16 – Smith, Paige – NC LGBTQ Domestic Violence Response Initiative – 2020 – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)
• $252,937.00 – Chen, Ang – The Science of Essential Balance – HHS NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
• $142,035.00 – Cheeks, Bridget – Collaborative Research: Black Parents’ Racial Socialization Competencies and Youth Outcomes in Response to Racial Violence: A Mixed Methods Approach – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $104,995.05 – Flynn, Perry – Exceptional Children State Speech-Language Consultant (2021-2022) – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $93,426.14 – Lundgren, Kristine – Exceptional Children State Deaf/Hard of Hearing Research Consultant (2021-2022) – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $40,000.00 – Smith Lee, Jocelyn – Disrupting Dehumanizing Narratives of Black Men in Poverty: Supplemental Gates Grand Challenge Funding Application – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• $25,000.00 – McGuirt, Jared – Engaging low-income African American adolescents in a virtual avatar-based nutrition education program – HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• $23,155.00 – Scott-Little, Mary; Coleman, Heather – On-line Leadership in Infant and Toddler Learning (LITL) Post-Baccalaureate Certificate – NCDHHS Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE)
• $16,660.00 – Hale, Marcia – Focused CoPe: Supporting Environmental Justice in Connected Coastal Communities through a Regional Approach to Collaborative Community Science – East Carolina University (ECU)
• $16,160.00 – Schleien, Stuart – Supporting Adapted and Inclusive Recreation Program in Greensboro Parks and Recreation – City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department

School of Nursing

• $1,520.00 – McGovern, Colleen; Hall, Tammy – INTOUCH – International Nursing Technological Outreach Uniting for Community Health – Matson Halverson Christiansen Foundation
• $1,500.00 – Snyder, Audrey – Advances in Emergency Nursing Practice: A Historical Perspective – University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing

Student Services

• $55,000.00 – Carter, Brett – Collegiate Recovery Community – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
• $10,000.00 – Hall, Nicole – Spartan Ready Professional Development Program & The North Carolina Sales Institute – Enterprise Foundation
• $9,830.00 – Carter, Brett – Collegiate Recovery Community – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

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

• $82,052.00 – Bray, Jeremy – Alcohol consumption and related comorbid conditions: health state utilities for economic evaluation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic – HHS NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

College of Arts and Sciences

• $274,714.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Anticancer agents from Diverse Natural products sources – Ohio State University
• $353,216.00 – Praskiewicz, Sarah – Large woody debris in low-gradient floodplain rivers: Spatial distribution, physical controls, and geomorphic effects – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $69,840.00 – Oberlies, Nicholas – TUMOR SPECIFIC DELIVERY OF VERTICILLIN A OVERCOMES EPIGENETIC SILENCING RESPONSIBLE FOR DRUG RESISTANCE – Boston University Board of Trustees
• $67,000.00 – Goldstein, Evan; Mohanty, Sonya – PCMSC Coop Hurricanes – United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• $55,938.00 – Praskiewicz, Sarah – Post-wildlife debris-flow runout and inundation mapping using geospatial analysis – University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
• $30,260.00 – Chung, Yu-Min – Multiparameter persistence: an algebraic topological framework for analyzing microstructure in porous media – College of William and Mary
• $18,500.00 – Kopper, Regis – Augmented Reality Landscapes: African American Urbanism – Johnson C Smith University
• $16,605.00 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – Distinguishing normal aging from age-related macular degeneration at the level of single cells in the living human eye – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
• $10,176.00 – DeJesus, Jasmine – The Development of Eating Behavior in Infancy: Associations with Behavior, Diet, and Growth to Age 6 years – University of Michigan (UMICH)
• $6,470.00 – Brady, Ashlyn – A Scientific Approach to Living in Love: A Framework for the Future – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

Division of Enrollment Management

• $260,631.00 – Green, Joseph – The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (UNCG-McNair) – ED Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

• $343,516.00 – Josephs, Eric – Complex Mechanisms of Mutation and Mutation Avoidance in Living Cells – HHS NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
• $152,267.00 – Herr, Daniel; Kalcounis-Ruppell, Matina – UNC Greensboro MARC USTAR Engage, Sustain, and Prepare – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $21,639.00 – Kepley, Christopher – A role for glycolipids and unconventional T cell subsets in alpha-gal allergy – UNC-CH School of Medicine

Office of Research and Engagement

• $3,253,571.00 – Hancock, George – Region Center 6 at SERVE (RC6) – US Department of Education (DOED)
• $1,019,630.00 – Edmunds, Julie – The Evaluation of Career and College Promise – ED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• $295,006.14 – 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)
• $265,574.00 – Murray, Christine – NC Healthy Transitions for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Mental Disorders – NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services
• $166,521.00 – Hancock, George – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of HomelessChildren and Youth (NTACHE) – US Department of Education (DOED)
• $60,000.00 – Murray, Christine – Randolph County Comprehensive Gang Assessment – Randolph County
• $56,725.00 – Abdo, Diya – Helping Immigrants and Refugees with Employment (HIRE) – United Way of Greater Greensboro
• $56,224.00 – Murray, Christine – NC Healthy Transitions for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Mental Disorders – NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services
• $24,140.00 – Gruber, Kenneth; Andersen, Martin; Shelton, Terri – Evaluation of NC Promoting Integration and Primary and Behavioral Health Care (PIPBHC) – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
• $10,000.00 – Abdo, Diya – WOMEN: Women’s Opportunities for Mentorship and Empowerment Network – Womens Professional Forum Foundation
• $8,500.00 – Grebing, Eric – NEAAAT Standards-Based Grading Dashboard and Progress Reports – Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies
• $5,000.00 – Littlefield, Kimberly – Accelerating Public Access to Research Data in North Carolina – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)

School of Education

• $779,394.00 – 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)
• $472,263.00 – He, Ye; Alarcon, Jeannette; Howerton, Walter; Patterson Zoch, Melody; Schissel, Jamie – Engaging and Advancing Community-centered Teacher Development (EnACTeD) – US Department of Education (DOED)
• $187,794.00 – 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)
• $67,209.00 – 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
• $30,000.00 – 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)
• $25,980.00 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Cyber Platform – Purdue University
• $25,334.00 – Reid, Aileen – BD Hubs: Collaborative Proposal: Midwest: Midwest Big Data Hub: Building Communities to Harness the Data Revolution – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
• $19,982.00 – Boyce, Ayesha – Network for Computational Nanotechnology – Hierarchical nanoMFG Node (subcontract) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

School of Health and Human Sciences

• $2,585,222.00 – Hestenes, Linda; Hestenes, Steve; Mims, Sharon – North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project – NCDHHS Division of Child Development
• $433,143.16 – Smith, Paige – NC LGBTQ Domestic Violence Response Initiative – 2020 – Governors Crime Commission (GCC)
• $99,999.25 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – Proposal for Health Department Hepatitis C Bridge Counselor/Care and Linkage Coordinator – Guilford County Department of Public Health
• $69,574.00 – Davis, Paul – BELT Program (2020-2021) – Cone Health System
• $48,029.00 – 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)
• $47,893.00 – Tanner, Amanda – Harnessing the power of peer navigation and mHealth to reduce health disparities in Appalachia – Wake Forest University
• $37,916.68 – Poole, Kelly; Gruber, Kenneth – Harm Reduction Clinics – Cone Health Foundation
• $35,583.00 – Despard, Mathieu – Building on Benefits for Frontline Workers – Washington University in Saint Louis
• $34,322.00 – Mendez, Lucia – More PEAS Please Building a Partnership for Science Education with Teachers and Underrepresented Minority Preschool Children – East Carolina University (ECU)
• $23,060.00 – Despard, Mathieu – Research to Rebuild from the COVID-19 Crisis – Washington University in Saint Louis
• $17,052.00 – Floyd-Pickard, Melissa – 2019 GC DPH Post-Overdose Response Team Staffing Sustainment Funding – Guilford County Department of Public Health
• $2,000.00 – Vance, Jarod; Etnier, Jennifer – Doctoral Student Grant NSAPSPA – Jarod Vance – North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA)
• $1,490.00 – Coakley, Tanya – Journey to a successful career as an academic and funded researcher – California State University – Long Beach

Weatherspoon Art Museum

• $75,000.00 – Bianco, Juliette – Leading with Objects: Engaging the Community in Institutional Change – The UNCG Excellence Foundation, Inc

Submissions

Bryan School of Business

• $715,561 – Taras, Vasyl; Dissanayake, Indika; Maksimov, Vladislav; Memili, Esra – Crowd As A New Form Of Organization: (How) Can Large Loosely-Coupled Workgroups Improve Organizational Performance? – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $13,320 – Karpova, Elena – Sustainability and Sourcing Decisions: Assessment of Student Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intention to Produce Cotton vs. Polyester Apparel – Cotton Incorporated

College of Arts and Sciences

• $1,698,377 – Schallhorn, Suzanne; Fletcher, Anne; Jensen, Michaeline – Pathways from Life Adversity to College Retention and Success: Risk and Resilience among First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Students – ED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• $1,427,833 – Wahlheim, Christopher – Establishing Individual Profiles of Age-Related Episodic Memory Deficits: A Combined Computational and Latent Variable Modeling Approach – Michigan State University (MSU)
• $848,957 – Popova, Maia – Collaborative Research: Broadening Instructional Innovation in the Chemistry Laboratory through Cross-Course Laboratory Experiences – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $757,706 – Nancekivell, Shaylene – CAREER:Young Children’s Understanding of The Ownership of Digital Information. – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $755,356 – Hematian, Shabnam – CAREER: Synthetic Designs Toward Wavelength-Tunable Production of Reactive Intermediates for Selective Photooxidation – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $582,745 – Croatt, Mitchell – Study of the Internal Base Directed Regioselective Aromatic Claisen Rearrangements – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $526,611 – Stein, Gabriela – SER Comunidad: A Multilevel Intervention Addressing Acculturation Stress, Resilience, and Syndemic Outcomes Among Latino Immigrants – Duke University School of Nursing
• $500,014 – Wahlheim, Christopher – “Retrieval and comparison networks supporting memory acuity across the adult lifespan and in prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease”. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• $443,814 – Nile, Terence – REU Site: Chemistry for a Sustainable Future – an International Research Experience in the UK – NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
• $399,865 – Oberlies, Nicholas – STTR: Scaled Melanin Production to Enable Advanced Materials – Luna Innovations Incorporated
• $399,531 – Stehlin, John – Highway Removal and Urban Development in the United States and Spain – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $398,297 – Mohanty, Somya; Manda, Prashanti – Sequence Learning Neural Architectures for Multi-Disciplinary Analytics – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $391,784 – Zell, Ethan – Curtailing the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $363,750 – Reggio, Patricia – Development of non-opioid, non-addictive analgesics for treating chronic and neuropathic pain – Northeastern University
• $299,160 – Popova, Maia – Collaborative Research: Exploring Connections Between Instructional Practice and Student Learning in Inorganic Chemistry Learning Environments – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $283,431 – Shivaji, Ratnasingham – Collaborative Research: Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Competitive and Predator-Prey Models: Conditional Dispersal on Patches to Landscapes – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $273,931 – Suthaharan, Shanmugathasan – Multi-Modal and Multi-Scale Ophthalmology Data Generation to Expand AI in Clinical Care – University of Pittsburgh
• $237,843 – Reggio, Patricia – Molecular Determinants of GPR55 Activity – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $225,701 – Oberlies, Nicholas – Natural product-based antiaging drug discovery by transcription factor activity profiling – Attagene Inc.
• $172,200 – Kim, Min Jeong; Deng, Jing; Mohanty, Somya; Zhu, Chunjiang – High-performance Computing Platform for AI-based Neuroscience Research – US Department of Defense (DOD)
• $170,512 – McLean, Bryan; Bobay, Louis-Marie; Raymann, Kasie; Wasserberg, Gideon – Acquisition of Nanopore Sequencing Capacity for Research and Training in Global Disease Ecology and Pathogen Evolution – US Department of Defense (DOD)
• $164,104 – Stein, Gabriela – Succumbing, Surviving, and Thriving: The Development of Low-Income Students in the Long Shadow of COVID-19. – Georgetown University
• $149,999 – Green, Tara; Hunter, Andrea – Connecting to the Humanities in Black Family Studies at UNCG – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• $124,994 – Wisco, Blair – “Primals & Trauma: How do primal world beliefs promote or impede post-traumatic adjustment?” – University of Pennsylvania
• $115,383 – Wahlheim, Christopher – Cortical-hippocampal subfield connectivity mediating mnemonic discrimination differences across the adult lifespan using ultra-high resolution MRI – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• $100,733 – Silvia, Paul – Disentangling Parent-Child Aggression: The “What, When, and Who” of a Socio-Emotional Information Processing Model – University of Alabama at Birmingham
• $93,471 – Yasaki, Dan – Math Pathways for African American Collegiate Transformation – University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)
• $78,000 – Krueger, Derek – Monastic Desires: Masculinity and Longing for God in Byzantium – Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• $63,500 – Krueger, Derek – Monastic Desires: Masculinity and Longing for God in Byzantium – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• $63,431 – Krueger, Derek – Monastic Desires: Masculinity and Longing for God in Byzantium – Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
• $60,000 – Park, Jennifer – Race and the Recipe Imaginary in Early Modern England – ACLS Fellowship Program
• $60,000 – Qadir, Neelofer – Afrasian Imaginaries: Global Capitalism in Indian Ocean Worlds (monograph) – American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
• $46,739 – Wagoner, Kaira – Pollinator driven intercropping: enhance yield and services for vegetable growers – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
• $34,999 – Oberlies, Nicholas – P.O. from Procter & Gamble, item 4. – Procter and Gamble
• $28,084 – Oberlies, Nicholas – P.O. from Procter & Gamble, items 1 and half of 3. – Procter and Gamble
• $28,004 – Oberlies, Nicholas – P.O. from Procter & Gamble, items 2 and half of 3. – Procter and Gamble
• $25,000 – Wasserberg, Gideon – NC DHHS Contract to Survey Tick Distribution in NW NC 2021-2022 – NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services
• $20,000 – Levenstein, Lisa – Collegeland Podcast Season 2 – North Carolina Humanities Council
• $13,048 – Kim, Min Jeong – Chromatin mobility in response to DNA damage – Wake Forest University
• $8,733 – Wagoner, Kaira – Enhancing selection and breeding for hygienic behavior and mite resistance in commercial queen breeding operations – Bee Informed Partnership, Inc.
• $8,015 – Kopper, Regis – Evaluation of Public Safety Virtual Reality Physical Interfaces – Nextgen Interactions
• $6,058 – Bhandari, Ramji – The effects of plasticizer exposure from commercial queen cell cups on queen health – Mississippi State University
• $6,000 – Bender, Jill – Assisted Emigrants: Irish Female Migration Projects and the British Empire – National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• $4,724 – Wagoner, Kaira – An independent assessment of the Unhealthy Brood Odor (UBO) Assay in Saskatchewan Bees – Saskatchewan Beekeepers Development Commission (SBDC)
• $2,555 – Wagoner, Kaira – Wagoner Meadow Ridge Enterprises, LTD Contract – Meadow Ridge Ent. Ltd.
• $2,500 – Terui, Akira – Examination of individual-level microhabitat preference of the aquatic snail Pleurocera proxima – Alongside Wildlife Foundation
• $2,400 – Broache, Michael – Understanding the Gap Between Public and Scholarly Concepts of Political Violence – American Political Science Association
• $2,060 – Davis, Benjamin; Aksin, Jocelyn; Stewart, Anna – Campus Weeks 2021: “Time to Act” – German Embassy

College of Visual and Performing Arts

• $150,000 – Pfister, Brigette – Community Reengagement: Restarting Safely in Greensboro, North Carolina – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• $150,000 – Pfister, Brigette – Community Reengagement: Restarting Safely in Greensboro, North Carolina – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Division of Academic Affairs

• $7,700 – Cox, Richard – DLAS/National Museum of African American History and Culture Summer Internship – Smithsonian Institution (SI)

Division of Student Affairs

• $97,660 – Still, George – Peer Support Mental Health Expansion Project – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

• $726,192 – Kepley, Christopher – A novel strategy for lymphoma treatment using autologous cytotoxic mast cells – US Department of Defense (DOD)
• $495,000 – Ignatova, Tetyana; Rathnayake, Hemali – DoD HBCU/MI Equipment/Instrumentation: Acquisition of a Confocal Raman Microscope for Intensifying Advanced Materials Research and Training New Generation of Researchers – US Department of Defense (DOD)
• $448,588 – Mo, Yirong – Unravelling the Activation Mechanisms of Small Molecules (CO2, N2 and CO) by Catalysts Based on Main Group Elements – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $250,000 – Obare, Sherine – NC-VVIRAL: An Academic-Industrial Partnership in the Research Triangle to Forge the Next-Generation Biomanufacturing of Gene Therapy Products – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
• $150,000 – Ignatova, Tetyana – Artificial neuron device by vertical stack of two-dimensional materials – Johnson and Johnson
• $110,000 – Rathnayake, Hemali – Biophotonic Charge Storage Cell from Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria – North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC)
• $50,001 – Obare, Sherine – AccelNet Implementation: International Network For Researching, Advancing and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability (INFRAMES) – Duke University
• $20,000 – Herr, Daniel – Nano-Technology to Inspire the Next Generation of Skilled BioIndustry Workforce – BioMADE

Office of Research and Engagement

• $3,731,449 – Edmunds, Julie – Efficacy of The Feeling Friends at School – ED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• $1,734,593 – Hancock, George – North Carolina Federal Program Monitoring and Support – Year 14 – NCDPI Department of Public Instruction
• $1,699,825 – Edmunds, Julie – The Transfer of College Credits Earned in High School – ED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• $399,822 – Edmunds, Julie – Advancing Innovation in New Jersey – Pleasantville Public Schools
• $360,000 – Shelton, Terri; Cook, Mina – NC Preventing Underage Drinking Initiative – NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services
• $236,525 – Lewis, Karla – National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program – University of Texas at San Antonio
• $150,000 – Arshavsky, Nina – DTI: Cultural Flows: Using citizen science to determine the impact of 1,4-dioxane on water quality, agriculture, and diverse cultures in the Cape Fear and Lumber River Basins – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
• $114,462 – Sills, Stephen; Rich, Bruce – Holly Springs Housing Affordability Study 2021-2022 – Town of Holly Springs
• $111,993 – Weil, John; Sechrist, Stacy – Greensboro Police Department SPI Grant – City of Greensboro Police Department
• $100,800 – Mazade, Noel – Indiana Leadership Fellows Academies – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
• $68,303 – Abdo, Diya – ARP Supplement to AmeriCorps ACCESS Project 2021-2022 – North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
• $60,000 – Hutchins, Bryan – Collaborative Research: IUSE: HER: Using Affordable Hardware and Student-Centered Personalized Learning Pedagogy to Advance Undergraduate Robotics Education – East Carolina University (ECU)
• $39,999 – Goldstein, Evan – Process-Guided Deep Learning for Informing Selection of Monitoring Locations in Priority Watersheds – Colorado State University
• $35,850 – Murray, Christine – Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Initiatives – Supplement – Sandhills Center Local Management Entity
• $33,922 – Sills, Stephen – Evaluation of the OOTGP Urban Teaching Farm Project – Out of the Garden Project
• $33,000 – Mazade, Noel – Rhode Island Leadership Fellows Academy – Full Program – North Carolina State University (NCSU)
• $22,444 – Gruber, Kenneth – Research and Technical Assistance Project (2021-2022) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT)
• $18,590 – Edmunds, Julie – CTE Research Network (2021-2022) – American Institutes for Research (AIR)
• $14,800 – Sills, Stephen – Needs Assessment & Technical Assistance to the Foundation for a Healthy High Point (FHHP) – Foundation for a Healthy High Point
• $11,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Access to Integrated Care by the Uninsured in Greater Greensboro – Cone Health Foundation
• $7,000 – Gruber, Kenneth – Guilford Health/Guilford Community Care Network Evaluation – Guilford Adult Health, Inc.
• $5,500 – Gruber, Kenneth – Addressing Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders – Cone Health Foundation
• $3,000 – Sills, Stephen – CHCS Vaccine Outreach – Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP)

Office of Undergraduate Studies

• $2,145,348 – Hamilton, Andrew – Intensifying Degree Engagement and Academic Success (IDEAS) – US Department of Education (DOED)

School of Education

• $2,178,899 – Deaton, Jennifer – Project Trauma Informed and Resilient Organizations (TIRO) – HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• $2,176,989 – Coleman, Heather – Supporting EI Providers in Virtual Coaching with Caregivers of Children with Autism – ED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• $1,289,239 – Lenstra, Noah – Network of the National Library of Medicine All of Us Program Center – University of North Texas Health Science Center at Forth Worth
• $498,533 – Dawkins, April; Moorefield Lang, Heather – DELTA Scholars Lifelong Learning Program – Institute of Museum and Library Services
• $226,139 – Penfield, Randall – Lens on Science: Extension of a Validated Technology Based, Adaptive Preschool Science Assessment for Assessing Technology and Engineering – University of Miami (UM)
• $148,189 – Lenstra, Noah – Public Libraries Build Communities Around Food Education: A Planning Grant – Institute of Museum and Library Services
• $137,580 – Wilson, Peter – Guilford County Schools Math Tutoring Services 2021-2022 – Guilford County Schools
• $127,630 – Henson, Robert – Fostering and Supporting Diverse Middle School Students’ Three?dimensional Science Abilities: Examining the Initial Efficacy of the ONPAR Classroom Assessment System – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER)
• $72,704 – Henner, Jonathan – Center for Advancing Trauma Informed Care for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children – Gallaudet University
• $58,860 – Henner, Jonathan – Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on reading development of deaf and hard of hearing students in Grades K-12: who is resilient and who is at risk – Georgia State University
• $49,897 – Luecht, Richard – Item Difficulty Modeling: Engineering Secure, High Quality Assessment Tasks to Meet Large-Scale Assessment Demands – The UNCG Excellence Foundation, Inc
• $40,000 – Coleman, Heather – Project V-iCOPA: Virtual Coaching to increase Communication Outcomes using Parents of Children with Autism – Organization for Autism Research (OAR)
• $19,996 – Lenstra, Noah – South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare Contract – South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare

School of Health and Human Sciences

• $1,692,996 – Coffman, Jennifer – Teachers’ Cognitive Processing Language and Student Learning: The Interplay of Child-, Home-, and Classroom-level factors – ED Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
• $496,285 – Coffman, Jennifer – An examination of factors that support language learning, cognitive development, and academic performance in bilingual education classrooms – Clark University
• $447,925 – Erausquin, Jennifer – Latent class analysis of syndemic factors associated with HIV care outcomes among women living with HIV in the South – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $408,577 – Milroy, Jeffrey – SBIR: Development of an Opioid Misuse Prevention Program for Young Adult Workers in the Construction Industry – Prevention Strategies
• $250,001 – Leitch, Judith – Transforming Mental Health Providers’ Practices With Sexual and Gender Minority People – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
• $249,522 – 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)
• $238,847 – Page, Thomas – Pandemic Related Challenges and Supports for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• $199,885 – Dyson, Benedict; Swick, Danielle – RAPID: Social and Emotional Learning on a Nature Trail at a High-Needs Elementary School – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• $155,031 – Scott-Little, Mary; Hestenes, Linda; Laparo, Karen – Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) Renewal Grant State-wide Birth to 3 Program Feasibility and Cost Study – Child Trends
• $132,975 – Poole, Kelly – Partnership to Address Co Occurring Disorders 2021-2022 – Cone Health Foundation
• $117,695 – Pearson, Anne; Poole, Kelly – Congregational Social Work Education Initiative (CSWEI 2021-22) – Cone Health Foundation
• $73,715 – Davis, Paul – BELT Program (2021-2022) – Cone Health System
• $67,360 – Poole, Kelly – Addressing the Opiate Crisis through Harm Reduction – Cone Health Foundation
• $55,188 – Milroy, Jeffrey – Addressing Risk in the New Frontier of Athletics: Design and Development of an Online Substance Use Prevention for Esports Athletes – Prevention Strategies
• $53,575 – Despard, Mathieu – AIM-AHEAD – Washington University in Saint Louis
• $50,000 – Echeverria, Sandra – Feasibility of community-based digital tools to promote physical activity among Latinos with diabetes – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• $43,800 – McNeil, Jessica – The Influence of Bed Temperature on Sleep Quality in Warm Conditions: A Feasibility Study – Bedgear
• $40,000 – Smith Lee, Jocelyn – Disrupting Dehumanizing Narratives of Black Men in Poverty: Supplemental Gates Grand Challenge Funding Application – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• $35,583 – Despard, Mathieu – Building on Benefits for Frontline Workers – Washington University in Saint Louis
• $30,000 – Smith, Paige; Sechrist, Stacy – NC LGBTQ Domestic Violence Response Initiative Statewide Community Voices Project – Laughing Gull Foundation
• $23,060 – Despard, Mathieu – Research to Rebuild from the COVID-19 Crisis – Washington University in Saint Louis
• $8,640 – Schleien, Stuart – Supporting Adapted and Inclusive Recreation Program in Greensboro Parks and Recreation – City of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department
• $4,219 – Rinker, Jeremy – Graduate Assistant and Practice Coordinator, Landlord Tenant Dispute Program – City of Greensboro Human Relation Department

School of Nursing

• $1,042,663 – Avorgbedor, Forgive – The role of structural racism in maternal cardiovascular disease risk and possible intervention points in pregnancy and the postpartum period – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $25,000 – Dickens, Zaneta – Professional Practice Time Innovation in Nursing Skills Education – American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
• $24,990 – Kennedy-Malone, Laurie – Enhancing Nurse Practitioner Competency- Based Education and Assessment with Innovative Video Simulations – American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
• $12,690 – Avorgbedor, Forgive – DNA Methylation, Discrimination, and Structural racism, and Cardiometabolic Complications in pregnancy – SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• $1,520 – McGovern, Colleen; Hall, Tammy – INTOUCH – International Nursing Technological Outreach Uniting for Community Health – Matson Halverson Christiansen Foundation

Student Services

• $55,000 – Carter, Brett – Collegiate Recovery Community – University of North Carolina System Office (UNC SysOff)
• $10,000 – Hall, Nicole – Spartan Ready Professional Development Program & The North Carolina Sales Institute – Enterprise Foundation

UNC Greensboro

• $150,000 – Bianco, Juliette – American Rescue Plan: Visitor Services and Security Associate – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• $60,000 – Stamey, Emily – Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value & Worth – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)