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 support to the department to advance methods to analyze health data and improve public health research and decision-making.

Provides support for the greatest operational needs.

Provides support for immersive student learning in environmental, energy, and climate law through research collaboration, policy analysis, and experiential opportunities that connect legal study to real‑world challenges at UNC School of Law.

Supports a network of field sites through semester-long, immersive experiences in North Carolina and abroad where students live and learn in diverse ecosystems — from mountains to coasts to urban environments while advancing education, research, and community engagement.

The Weiss Urban Livability Program supports talented graduate students who seek to improve urban livability.

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