It’s new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through our Office of Sponsored Programs.

$1,178,567 (continuing award, $2,661,098). Lisa Phillips, SERVE. “American Rescue Plan for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (Y3).” Sponsor: NC Department of Public Instruction.

$810,000. Shabnam Hematian, Chemistry and Biochemistry. “Nature Inspired Collaborative Energy Research (NICER).” Sponsor: The University of North Carolina System.

$584,740. Sherine Obare, Office of Research and Engagement. “Next Generation Protective Materials for Soldier Empowerment (NEXGEN ProMiSE).” Sponsor: The University of North Carolina System.

$551,049 (continuing award, $2,195,163). Audrey Snyder, Nursing. “Transforming Primary Advanced Practice (TPAC): Serving Medically Underserved Communities (MCUs).” Sponsor: HHS Health Resources and Services Administration.

$477,330. Levi Baker-Russell, Psychology; Michael Kane, Robert Wiley. “Basic Cognitive Abilities and Problem Solving in Close Relationships.” Sponsor: NSF SBE Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.

$422,556 (continuing award, $1,699,825). Julie Edmunds, SERVE. “The Transfer of College Credits Earned In High School.” Sponsor: United States Department of Education.

$411,145 (continuing award, $2,055,725). Zhanxiang Zhou, Center for Translational Biomedical Research. “Lipotoxicity in Alcoholic Liver Disease.” Sponsor: NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

$404,999. Hemali Rathnayake, Nanoscience. “Lithium Purification.” Sponsor: NCInnovation.

$296,120. Kyung Yong Kim, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. “Special Projects in Development and Maintenance of Statewide Assessments.” Sponsor: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

$202,402 (continuing award, $409,045). Shabnam Hematian, Chemistry and Biochemistry. “Nature-Derived Materials for Redox Flow Batteries.” Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

$103,083. Richard L. Cox, University Libraries. “LSTA People Not Property – Slave Deeds Expansion.” Sponsor: State Library of North Carolina, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

$89,976. Karla Strong, SERVE. “Durham Public Schools Foundation – Evaluation and Technical Support for the Whole School Initiative.” Sponsor: Durham Public Schools Foundation.

$80,169 (continuing award, $302,420). Paul Davis, Kinesiology. “BELT Program 2024-2025.” Sponsor: Cone Health System.

$79,655 (continuing award, $196,298). Susan Johnson, Political Sciences. “Analyzing Language in Comparative Courts: A Multi-User Database of Judgment Texts in the Top Appellate Courts of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.” Sponsor: National Science Foundation.

$54,509 (continuing award, $1,218,424). Esther M. Leerkes, Human Development and Family Studies. “Food and Non-Food Self-Regulation in Children’s Obesity Risk: A Biopsychosocial Perspective.” Sponsor: DHHS NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.

$50,628 (continuing award, $1,245,434). Jessica McNeil, Kinesiology. “Linking insufficient sleep with body weight in Black emerging adults.” Sponsor: NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

$50,000. Tammy Hall, School of Nursing. “Enhance access, Telehealth, Rural, and Public Health Competencies for Nurses.” Sponsor: North Carolina Area Health Education Center Program.

$47,012 (continuing award, $98,930). Susan Letvak, School of Nursing. “Nursing Faculty Loan Program.” Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services.

$40,000. Janet Howard, Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships. “Bringing Out the Best Programmatic Support.” Sponsor: The Edward M. Armfield Sr. Foundation.

$28,786. Jason Reddick, Chemistry and Biochemistry. “Follow on research involving a Radio Frequency Quadrupole Stark Decelerator to identify isomers and conformers and measure their effective dipole moments.” Sponsor: Moires Instruments, LLC.

$27,500. Kerui Wu, Nanoscience. “Engineering a SMART Nanovesicle for Dendritic Cell-Deficient Cancer Treatment.” Sponsor: North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

$26,497. Kyung Yong Kim, Information, Library, and Research Sciences. “Experiential Measurement Training with Meazure Learning (2024-2025).” Sponsor: Meazure Learning.

$23,166 (continuing award, $100,674). Clinton Allred, Nutrition. “Evidence-based Nutrition Education and Research Guidance (ENER-G).” Sponsor: National University of Natural Medicine.

$20,000. Autumn Henson, School of Nursing. “AHEC CSD 2024-2025.” Sponsor: North Carolina Area Health Education Center Program.

$15,000. Harriette Bailey, Human Development and Family Studies. “Farm to Early Care and Education Collaborative.” Sponsor: NC State University-NC Department of Health and Human Services.

$14,550 (continuing award, $427,800). Ayalew Osena, Biology. “Identification of bioactive compounds from tef (Eragrostis tef) seed extracts for antioxidant properties.” Sponsor: NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

$14,432 (continuing award, $28,864). Justin Harmon, Community and Therapeutic Recreation. “Arts and Economic Prosperity Study with Creative Greensboro.” Sponsor: City of Greensboro.

$7,530 (continuing award, $551,535). Nadja Cech, Chemistry and Biochemistry. “Predoctoral Training: Innovative Technologies for Natural Products and Integrative Medicine Research.” Sponsor: National Institutes of Health.

$4,912. Eric Drollette, Kinesiology. “Sports-Related Concussions and Repetitive Head Impacts Using EEG and Machine Learning in Female Athletes.” Sponsor: Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

$3,421. Sherita House, Dean’s Office, School of Nursing. “Exploring how team familiarity and spatial topology influence surgical team performance in a military medical center.” Sponsor: Geneva Foundation.

$1,000. Erin Reifsteck, Kinesiology; YJ Seo. “The Athletic Identity Measurement Scale Beyond Western Context: A Psychometric Evaluation of its Factor Structure and Gender Invariance in South Korea.” Sponsor: Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

In our main photo by Martin W. Kane, Dr. Robert Wiley demonstrates Arabic writing for a UNCG Research Magazine story on how writing by hand can improve our learning of new languages. Lately, though, he’s focusing more on the language of love: His new NSF project with PIs Dr. Levi Baker-Russell and Dr. Michael Kane is on “Basic Cognitive Abilities and Problem Solving in Close Relationships.”