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
$599,977 (continuing, $2,811,316). Melody Patterson Zoch, Teacher Education and Higher Education; Ye He, Jamie Schissel, Bryan Hutchins, Tiffany Tovey. Project IGNITE: Innovation to Grow, Nurture, and Inspire Teachers of English-learners. Sponsor: Office of English Language Acquisition.
$271,056 (continuing, $1,073,799). Regina McCoy, Undergraduate Student Success. UNCG McNair Program. Sponsor: US Department of Education.
$42,163. Michael Kane, Psychology; Paul Silvia. A Multipronged Approach to Small-Teaching Interventions for Reducing Academic Procrastination: A Randomized Control Study via Terracotta. Sponsor: University of Colorado Boulder.
$36,000 (continuing, $465,997). Julia Smith, Psychology; Danielle Crosby. Center for Research on Hispanic Children and Families (2023-2028). Sponsor: Child Trends.
$25,000 (continuing, $250,405). Robert Wiley, Psychology. The Cognitive and Neural Bases of Word Learning in Aging, Stroke and Developmental Language Impairment. Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University.
$16,355 (continuing, $81,775). Jeremy Bray, Economics. Carolina Center for Excellence in Workforce Health and Well-being. Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
New Funding Opportunities 10/17/2025
Find your next funding opportunity here. Below is an October 17, 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
11/3/25, New Directions Fellowship, Mellon Foundation.
11/19/25, Collaborative Research, National Endowment for the Humanities.
12/3/25, Scholarly Editions and Translations, National Endowment for the Humanities.
3/1/26, Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund, CAS Office of Research.
Continuous, Arts and Culture, Mellon Foundation.
Continuous, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Community Engagement and Social Sciences
10/29/25, Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context, Russell Sage Foundation.
10/29/25, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Russell Sage Foundation.
11/10/25, Grant Program, Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation.
11/17/25, Independent Evaluation of the Insurance Supplement Program for Inclusive Recovery, Institute of Consumer Money Management.
Continuous, Grants Program, W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Continuous, Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS), NSF.
Health and Human Sciences
12/3/25, Flash Grants, North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
1/15/26, Grants Program, Allen Foundation.
1/30/26, NIDDK Education Program Grants (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.
3/1/26, Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund, CAS Office of Research.
5/7/27, Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH.
1/7/28, NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), NIH. Continuous, Continuing, Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring, and Sustaining (CHEERS), Department of Defense.
Science, Technology, and Mathematics
10/29/25, Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, Simons Foundation.
11/1/25, Edward B. and Phyllis E. Reed Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution.
11/17/25, Mountains to Sea Graduate Fellowship, NC State University’s Water Resources Research Institute.
11/17/25, NC Sea Grant-Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership Fellowship, Sea Grant North Carolina.
12/3/25, Flash Grants, North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
1/16/26, Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS), NSF.
1/20/26, Young Faculty Award 2026, Department of Defense.
2/5/26, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Resoning, NSF.
3/1/26, Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund, CAS Office of Research.
6/15/26, Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Consortia Grant Program (CGP), Department of Energy.
7/30/26, FY25 Office of Naval Research: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Workforce Program, Department of Defense.
12/31/26, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program – Foundational and Applied Science Program, Department of Agriculture.
8/7/28, Defense Security Cooperation University- Research Grants, Department of Defense.
7/18/29, Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (DR) University Assistance Instruments, Department of Defense.
Continuous, Automated Processes for Knowledge Discover and Information Retrieval, Department of Defense.
Continuous, Department of Defense Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI), Department of Defense.
Continuous, Mathematical Biology, NSF.
Continuous, Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (Rd) University Assistance Instruments, Department of Defense.
Continuous, NDEP STEM Open NFO, Department of Defense.
Continuous, NSF STEM K-12, NSF.
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