Explore Funds

Provides flexible, unrestricted financial support for the Department of Applied Physical Sciences, helping the department address immediate needs, support student and faculty research, and fund educational priorities.

Provides support for faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, including travel grants, departmental support, moving/recruitment/ retention, and seed money for new teaching and scholarship projects, teaching grants and new course development funds.

Provides support for the College’s highest priorities — recruiting and retaining faculty, enhancing student engagement, deepening academic excellence and achieving global impact.

Provides support for a network of campus makerspaces where UNC faculty, students and staff utilize state-of-the-art equipment and emerging technologies to design and make physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation.

Provides flexible financial support for the department to address immediate needs, strategic priorities and departmental growth.

Provides support for expanding study abroad opportunities to enable all Carolina students to have a meaningful global experience during their studies.

Provides support for merit-based scholarships, access to cutting-edge research opportunities, professional development, leadership training, mentorship and programming designed for academic and future success.

Supports faculty committed to groundbreaking basic research and the translational work needed to move discoveries into the world through translational excellence.

Provides support for a scholarship in honor of Professor O.B. Hardison, a renowned scholar of English literature who impacted a generation of Carolina students, providing them with an intellectual awakening.

Provides support for a six-week program that helps incoming students, many from underserved backgrounds, transition to college life.