NC State COVID-19 Research Awards
NC State investigators who have received funding for research related to the COVID-19 pandemic are listed by lead college below. The Research Development Office (RDO) aims to continuously share award information and updates to ensure that the research community is aware of key initiatives in this important area.
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Project title: A Collaborative Approach to Managing SARS-CoV-2 with the Food Industry; Filling Data Gaps and Impacting Behaviors
- Sponsor: USDA NIFA
- Investigators: Benjamin Chapman, Matthew Koci, Christopher Gunter, Andrew Binder, Rebecca Goulter
- Abstract: View here
Project title: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plan
- Sponsor: USDA/NC Department of Public Instruction
- Investigators: Benjamin Chapman and Rebecca Goulter
Project title: COVID-19 Rapid Response: Coronavirus Disease 2019, Price Transmission, and the Farm-Retail Price Spread in U.S. Beef and Pork
- Sponsor: USDA/Virginia Tech
- Investigator: Barry Goodwin
Project title: Evaluating Pork Market Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Sponsor: USDA
- Investigator: Barry Goodwin
Project title: Farm to Families Protecting Our Health – De la finca a la familia protegiendo nuestra salud
- Sponsor: USDA/eXtension Foundation
- Investigators: Susan Jakes, Cintia Aguilar, and Lindsey Maslow
Project title: EXCITE – Extension Collaborative on Immunization, Teaching & Engagement
- Sponsor: USDA/eXtension Foundation
- Investigators: Susan Jakes and Cintia Aguilar
Project title: Building Resilient Local Meat Supply Chains in the Face of COVID-19: Enhancing Processing Services, Farm Viability, and Market Capacity
- Sponsor: Golden Leaf Foundation
- Investigators: Sarah Blacklin and Nancy Creamer
Project title: COVID-19 Impacts on the NC Food System and Investment Opportunities to Build Resilience
- Sponsor: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation
- Investigators: Abbey Piner and Nancy Creamer
College of Design
Project title: Behavioral Research and Design to Help North Carolina Counties Fight COVID-19
- Sponsor: University of North Carolina System Office
- Investigator: Tsailu Liu
Project title: COVID-19 Reopening: Using Behavioral Science, Design and Evidence to Help Counties and Municipalities Navigate Reopening in North Carolina
- Sponsor: Duke Unviersity
- Investigator: Tsailu Liu
College of Education
Project title: Whose Home for Home School? Black “Essential Worker” Mothers and their Experiences with Distance Learning During COVID-19
- Sponsor: Spencer Foundation/University of California
- Investigator: Jessica DeCuir-Gunby
Project title: Code.org Virtual Professional Learning Program
- Sponsor: Code.org
- Investigator: Dave Frye
Project title: Learning COVID-19 with Data Visualizations
- Sponsor: NC State Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) Program
- Investigator: Shiyan Jiang
Project title: NC Digital Learning Initiative: Combined FI
- Sponsor: NDPI
- Investigators: Marie Himes, Erin Huggins, Jessica Hunt, Shaun Kellogg, and Hiller Spires
College of Engineering
Project title: Collaborative Research RAPID: Matriculation and Well-Being Under Emergent Events (MWEE): Using Data to Empower Campus Communities in Times of Crisis
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigators: Julie Ivy, Maria Mayorga, and Julie Swann
- Abstract: View here
Project title: Evaluation of Fibrin-Modulating Nanogels for Treatment of DIC in COVID-19
- Sponsor: NC Biotech
- Investigator: Ashley Brown
Project title: Integrated Systems Model to Inform State and Local Level Planning for the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Sponsor: CSTE/CDC
- Investigator: Julie Swann
Project title: RAPID: Defect-Chemistry Design of Titanium Dioxide for Enhanced Virucidal Photodynamic Properties
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigators: Aram Amassian, Milad Abolhasani, Reza Ghiladi, Frank Scholle, and Elizabeth Dickey.
- Abstract: View here
Project title: RAPID: Documenting Hospital Surge Operations in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigators: Julie Ivy, Maria Mayorga, and Osman Ozaltin
- Abstract: View here
Project title: RAPID: Monitoring for Sars-CoV-2 in Municipal Wastewater and Sewage to Elucidate Infection Dynamics Across Major Metropolitan Areas of the United States
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigators: Francis de los Reyes and Nadine Kotlarz
- Abstract: View here
Project title: Support for CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS)
- Sponsor: CDC/UNC Chapel Hill
- Investigator: Francis de los Reyes and Angela Harris
Project title: Targeted Treatment of Thrombotic Occlusions using a Dual-Delivery Microgel Therapeutic
- Sponsor: NIH
- Investigators: Ashley Brown and Ke Cheng
Project title: Saliva Sensor for Potential, At-Home Monitoring of COVID-19 Patients and Inflammation, ASSIST Core Research
- Sponsor: NC State Advanced Self Powered Systems of Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) Center
- Investigator: Amay Bandodkar
Project title: RAPID: Collection and Archiving of Vital Data on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigators: Ali Hajbabaie and Julie Swann
Project title: A Breathable Polymer Film for Use in Virus Transmission Reduction Platforms in Non-hospital Settings
- Sponsor: Polyzen
- Investigators: Landon Grace, Scott Ferguson, and Hooman Tafreshi
Project title: RAPID: Supply Chain Portal to Serve Entrepreneurs Producing Critical Items in Response to COVID-19
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigators: Binil Starly and Paul Cohen
Project title: Optimizing Vaccination Incentives to Prevent Disease Outbreak
- Sponsor: NSF/University of Washington
- Investigator: Yunan Liu
Project title: Collaborative Research: RAPID: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Triage and Rehabilitation During Pandemics via Visual Based Patient Physiologic Sensing
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigator: Chau-Wai Wong
Project title: INSPIRE COVID-19 Immunity: Pulsed Electric Field Mediated Intradermal Vaccine Delivery
- Sponsor: NC Biotechnology Center
- Investigator: Michael Sano
Project title: Combinatorial High-throughput Development And Screening Of Biocidal Materials For Response Against Pathogens Including Coronaviruses
- Sponsor: NC State Research and Innovation Seed Funding Program
- Investigators: Aram Amassian, Milad Abolhasani, Reza Ghiladi, Franke Scholle, Behnam Pourdeyhimi, and Elizabeth Dickey
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Project title: Adolescent Well-Being and School Diversity: A Needs-Based Partnership Examining Virtual Learning and Interventions in Light of COVID-19 and Systemic Racism
- Sponsor: American Educational Research Association
- Investigators: Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Jacqueline Cerda-Smith, Steven Asher (Duke), Molly Weeks (Duke), and Paula Yust (Duke)
Project title: RAPID: Effects of Responses to COVID-19 and Social Context on Food Insecurity
- Sponsor: NSF
- Investigators: Sarah Bowen, Annie Hardison-Moody, and Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
College of Natural Resources
Lessons for the Recovery: Evaluating the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Forest-based Rural Economy in the Southern United States
- Sponsor: USDA NIFA
- Investigators: Rajan Parajuli and Erin Sills
College of Sciences
Project title: Genetics and Quantum Chemistry as Tools for Unknown Metabolite Identification
- Sponsor: NIH/University System of Georgia
- Investigator: Erin Baker
Project title: COVID-19 Supplement to NC State Center for Environmental and Health Effects of PFAS
- Sponsor: NIH/NIEHS
- Investigator: Jane Hoppin
Project title: Collaborative Research: Statistical Algorithms for Anomaly Detection and Patterns Recognition in Patient Care and Safety Event Reports
- Sponsor: NIH
- Investigator: Srijan Sengupta
Division of Academic and Student Affairs
Project title: Juntos Program: Focused on Virtual Innovation During Covid
- Sponsor: Triangle Community Foundation
- Investigator: Diana Urieta
Office of External Affairs, Partnerships and Economic Development
Project title: Small Business Development Centers CARES ACT (2020)
- Sponsor: US Small Business Administration
- Investigator: Scott Daugherty
- Abstract: view here
Office of Research and Innovation
Project title: Engaging Western North Carolina in Participatory Disease Surveillance: Innovating Disease Reporting, Monitoring, and Regional Response to COVID-19
- Unit: NC Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS)
- Sponsor: Buncombe County Health and Human Services
- Investigator: Jennifer Runkle
Project title: Design & Validation of Reusable Particulate Respirators with Filter Inserts
- Unit: The Nonwovens Institute (NWI)
- Sponsor: Natick
- Investigators: Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Pierre Grondin, Abhay Joijode, and Hooman Tafreshi
Project title: Production of N95 and Surgical Masks at the Nonwovens Institute
- Unit: The Nonwovens Institute (NWI)
- Sponsor: NIIMBL/NIST
- Investigators: Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Pierre Grondin, and Hooman Tafreshi
Poole College of Management
Project title: Designing a Test Kit Supply Chain in Response to COVID19 (COVID19-1.03)
- Sponsor: NIIMBL
- Investigators: Robert Handfield and Donald Warsing
Project title: Predicting Hidden Vulnerabilities in Complex Supply Chains
- Sponsor: Kairos Research/IARPA
- Investigator: Robert Handfield
Project title: Phase 1: CHAI – COVID-19 Project
- Sponsor: Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
- Investigators: William Rand and Rakesh Ravi
Project title: Phase 2A: CHAI – COVID-19 Project
- Sponsor: Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
- Investigators: William Rand and Rakesh Ravi
Project title: Stage 3: Developing a Newsletter for CHAI Personnel
- Sponsor: Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
- Investigators: William Rand and Rakesh Ravi
Wilson College of Textiles
Project title: Minimal Requirements for Safe and Effective Use of Cloth Masks
- Sponsor: CDC
- Investigators: Emiel DenHartog and Tiegang Fang