Dr. Gabriela L. Stein (Psychology) received new funding from the National Institute of Mental Health for the project “Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care.” Dr. Kari Eddington, Dr. Stephanie Coard, and Dr. Andrew Supple are co-principal investigators on the project. Despite the promise of accountable care organizations… Continue reading…
Dr. Shanmugathasan Suthaharan (Computer Science) received new funding from the University of Pittsburgh for the project “Research Collaboration – Graduate Student Workers at UNCG.” The main goal of this project is to study multimodal longitudinal ophthalmic images and develop feature learning models that can be integrated into Deep Temporal Networks… Continue reading…
Dr. Carrie Morris (Counseling and Educational Development) received new funding from Rockingham County Schools, Prime: U.S. Department of Education for the project “ACTIVATE Plus: Advancing Coordinated and Timely Interventions through Awareness, Training & Education – a PipeLine Uplifting Students.” Dr. DiAnne Borders is co-principal investigator on the project. The ACTIVATE-PLUS… Continue reading…
Dr. Stephen Sills (Center for Housing and Community Studies) received new funding from Mid City Redevelopment Alliance, Inc. for the project “CHCS Consulting Services: Market Segmentation Analysis, Neighborhood Housing Assessments, Affordable Housing Strategies, & Community Engagement Plan.” This proposal was developed by the Center for Housing and Community Studies (CHCS)… Continue reading…
Dr. Diya Abdo (Center for New North Carolinians) received new funding from the New Arrivals Institute for the project “Refugee After School Program.” Many newly arrived refugee children need additional support and tutoring to achieve success in school. They also need the opportunity to experience activities that they might not… Continue reading…
Dr. Mathieu Despard (Social Work) received new funding from Washington University in St. Louis for the project “Common Cents Lab.” The purpose of the overall project is to plan and implement a total of nine (9) field experiments to test behavioral interventions aimed at improving the financial health of low-… Continue reading…
Dr. Stacy Sechrist (NC Network for Safe Communities) received new funding from the North Carolina Gang Investigators Association for the project “Research Partners: 2018 PSN Eastern District of NC.” Dr. John Weil is co-principal investigator on the project. North Carolina Network for Safe Communities (NCNSC) will serve as the research… Continue reading…
Dr. Jeffrey Patton (Geography, Environment, and Sustainability) received a continuation of funding from Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. for the project “GIS Research Internships with Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.”
Dr. Insa Lawler (Philosophy) received new funding from the University of Iceland for the project “Understanding Progress, in Science and Beyond.” The main objectives of this project are (i) to develop and evaluate a novel understanding-based account of scientific progress – the noetic account – and (ii) to explore the… Continue reading…
Dr. Qibin Zhang (Center for Translational Biomedical Research) received new funding from the National Institutes of Health for the project “Lipidome Remodeling During Development of T1D.” Lipids are essential cellular components and act as mediators in cell signaling. The function of lipids is determined by their structures. Dysregulated lipid metabolism… Continue reading…
