Research & Engagement > Scholar Support & Project Admin

Scholar Support & Project Admin

connect to critical resources

We amplify our scholars’ efforts by providing essential infrastructure and unique expertise related to research, creative activity, and community and economic engagement.

By connecting you to critical resources and partners, we support you as you make your mark.

The Office of Sponsored Programs:

helps you identify sources of funding
coordinates proposal and budget preparation and submission
supports post-award activities in collaboration with Contract and Grant Accounting

The Office of Research Integrity provides oversight, education, and guidance on:

ethical conduct of human and animal research
responsible conduct of research
biosafety
federal and state regulations
export control and international travel or collaboration policies
external professional activities for pay
conflicts of interest and commitment

Innovate UNCG (formerly LaunchUNCG) is an umbrella initiative housing the NC Entrepreneurship Center and the Innovation Partnership Services Office.

Innovate UNCG offers:

guidance on protecting your intellectual property
review of external agreements and commercialization activities
free one-on-one idea, nonprofit, and business consultations
connections to regional companies, support organizations, funders, and other resources
access to the startup ecosystem

Intramural support is available in the form of competitive awards to initiate or enhance research, scholarship, and creative activity.

Funds also exist to support scholar travel, publications, media development, and exhibitions.

Explore your internal funding options

List your community partnerships in the Collaboratory, a showcase where UNCG faculty, staff, and community partners share their projects and impact.

In addition to UNCG’s University Communications staff, area-specific media specialists are available through our schools and units, while research communication staff assist with the promotion of UNCG research stories and project-specific needs.

UNCG University Libraries offer many research support initiatives and services for faculty, including:

library liaisons for each department and program
data services and data management
large scale digitization projects
NC DOCKS for faculty publications and research
research support services
over 300 online research databases, 40,000 journals, and a million books and ebooks
scholarly communication
journal publishing support
open access publishing support fund
open educational resources
Zotero and other citation management tools
web support (contact your library liaison)
reservable spaces
grants resource guide

Our technical facilities and partnerships include:

the Center for Translational Biomedical Research at the NC Research Campus
the UNCG NC A&T Gateway Research Park, which houses several ventures led or co-led by UNCG, including the Gateway UNCG MRI Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging and the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
several core labs

A number of UNCG networks and coalitions foster interdisciplinary research and scholarly activities.

The Research Advisory Council brings the primary research administrators from each UNCG academic unit together, with representatives from our campus-wide centers and other groups crucial to the support of research activities

Our National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity membership provides access to online career development and mentoring resources for you, your postdocs, and your graduate students.

The Research Information Technology group assists the offices, centers, and special project teams reporting directly to the Office of Research and Engagement, and provides support to researchers when projects require specialized technical expertise.