It’s a new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through our Office of Sponsored Programs AND find your next funding opportunity.
$584,744 (continuing). Sherine Obare, Division of Research and Engagement. Next Generation Protective Materials for Soldier Empowerment (NextGen ProMiSE). Sponsor: University of North Carolina System Office.
$505,875 (continuing, $967,316). Maia Popova, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Mitch Croatt. Collaborative Research: Broadening Instructional Innovation in the Chemistry Laboratory through Excellence in Curriculum Development. Sponsor: NSF.
$111,233 (continuing, $252,043). Aileen Reid, Information, Library, and Research Science. Ensuring Success in Academia for Underrepresented Faculty to Advance Biomedical Science Research. Sponsor: Vanderbilt University.
$10,800. Tom Lewis, Mathematics and Statistics. Narrow-Stencil High-Order Numerical Methods for Approximating Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs. Sponsor: American Mathematical Society.
$3,750. Blair Wisco, Psychology; Shae Nester. A Laboratory and Ambulatory Investigation of Trauma-Related Dissociation, Interoceptive Accuracy, and Interoceptive Attention. Sponsor: American Psychological Association.
$2,436 (continuing, $742,810). Nadja Cech, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Predoctoral Training: Innovative Technologies for Natural Products and Integrative Medicine Research. Sponsor: NIH.
New Funding Opportunities 9/12/2025
Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is a September 12, 2025 roundup of recently announced funding opportunities curated by the Division of Research and Engagement. Interested in having recent funding opportunities come directly to your inbox? Subscribe to our Funding Opportunities @UNCG weekly email.
Arts and Humanities
11/1/25, Howard Fellowships, George & Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation.
11/10/25, Grant Program, Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation.
2/2/26, General Project Funding, Federal Cultural Foundation.
Community Engagement and Social Sciences
10/1/25, Traditional Grants, North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation.
11/30/25, Grants Program, Truist Foundation.
Continuous, Economics Grant Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Continuous, Grants Program, W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Health and Human Sciences
10/1/25, Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
10/3/25, Unlocking Urologic Oncology Innovation QuickFire Challenge, Johnson & Johnson Innovation.
10/7/25, Influenza Transmission Research Consortium, NIH.
10/7/25, Partnerships for Development of Vaccines to Prevent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and/or Disease, NIH.
10/7/25, Tuberculosis Research Units, NIH.
10/20/25, Aging Mammalian Tissues In Vitro, NIH.
10/21/25, Mucosal Immunology Studies Team, NIH.
12/29/25, Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant, NIH.
5/27/26, NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, NIH.
10/14/26, Stimulating Access to Research in Residency, NIH.
Science, Technology, and Mathematics
9/15/25, Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
9/29/25, Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace, NSF.
10/10/25, Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, NSF.
11/17/25, Centers for Chemical Innovation, NSF.
2/5/26, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning, NSF.
3/2/26, Emerging Mathematics in Biology, NSF.
Continuous, Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs, NSF.
Continuous, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Core Programs, NSF.
Continuous, Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research, NSF.
Continuous, Long-term Research in Environmental Biology, NSF.
Continuous, Plant Genome Research Program, NSF.
Continuous, Transitions to Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research, NSF.
About the photo by Martin W. Kane, University Communications: Dr. Tom Lewis works in computational applied mathematics to explore all kinds of scientific problems, from how fast cancer cells can spread and how populations grow and decay, to how metals conduct heat and how gravitational fields affect objects in space.