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 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 support for high-impact courses and experiential learning opportunities in the Shuford Program.

Support Innovation for all Carolina faculty and students. Provides funding for priority entrepreneurial and early-stage initiatives at the discretion of UNC’s Chief Innovation Officer.

Provides support for experiential legal education through UNC School of Law’s Institute for Innovation, where students work alongside faculty to serve startups, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs and strengthen North Carolina’s innovation economy.

Provides essential resources to connect public health research with real-world practice by training professionals and partnering with communities to improve population health.

Provides discretionary support for the Energy Center at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy Center promotes achieving an effective, consensus national energy policy that addresses the dual energy challenge — providing plentiful, affordable and secure energy while materially reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions and educating students in all sectors of the energy industry.