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Making A Big Campus Smaller

Making A Big Campus Smaller

The UNC Office of Foundation Relations and Industry Engagement works with campus partners, including the UNC Office of Research Development, Office of Sponsored Programs, and Office of Technology Commercialization, to help faculty members secure funding for their research. For additional information about research at UNC-Chapel Hill, visit UNC Research, Innovate Carolina, or Endeavors.

Illustrative Examples

  • ENRICH Carolinas: In 2019, The Duke Endowment provided awards totaling $5 million to the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute at the Gillings School of Global Public Health for ENRICH Carolinas, to improve maternity practices for mothers and babies in hospitals across North and South Carolina.
  • Clare Boothe Luce: In 2017, the Henry Luce Foundation provided a $300,000 grant for UNC’s Clare Boothe Luce graduate fellowships program, which supports four outstanding women students in Chemistry.
  • Humanities for the Public Good: In 2017, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invested $1.5 million in Humanities for the Public Good, which supports humanities and humanistic scholarship that is closely engaged with publics across the state and nation.
  • Eastman Chemical and UNC have entered into a collaborative chemistry and material sciences research agreement with Eastman, who is providing a minimum of $1.5 million in support over the course of six years. This partnership was renewed in August 2019.
  • BASF Corporation and UNC developed a partnership in May 2020. This partnership will facilitate easier collaboration between industry and academia on the journey to jointly address global challenges such as climate change, food security, and scarcity of resources.
  • HanesBrands Inc. invested $1 million to establish the Champion Sustainability Fund at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The new fund will support innovative programs that integrate sustainability practices into the university’s research, education and service activities.

UNC’s research touches people’s lives in every part of North Carolina. From Alamance to Yancey, our researchers study the issues impacting people in their county.

Our office is part of a community of partners that has resulted in more than 100 startups and 800 new patents since 1994.

For more information, contact the Office of Foundation Relations and Industry Engagement at frie@unc.edu or 919-962-9600.