MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Tuesday, July 11, 2006

SUBJECT:     FEDERAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

The table below lists federal agency grant funding opportunities open to public and/or private higher education institutions which have been announced since June 23, 2006.  To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

Open Date

Opportunity Title

Agency

Funding Number

06/23/2006 

IDEA General Supervision Enhancement Grants (84.326X)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-062306-001 

06/26/2006 

Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training Grant Opportunity  

DOT/Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

CMVOST-2006-001 

06/26/2006 

Research on Research Integrity (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-NR-07-001 

06/28/2006 

Interpretation of Biomarkers Using Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling  

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA-G2006-STAR-N1 

06/28/2006 

FY 2006 Assessment and Watershed Protection Program Grants (AWPPGs)  

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA-OW-OWOW-06-05 

06/29/2006 

Fiscal Year 2007 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) - For Proposal Submission to Air Force  

Air Force Office of Scientific Research DURIP

AFOSR-BAA-2006-4 

06/29/2006 

Information and Intelligent Systems: Advancing Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, and Robust Intelligence  

National Science Foundation

06-572 

06/29/2006 

Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR)  

National Science Foundation

06-579 

07/03/2006 

Career Development Program in the Genetics and Genomics of Lung Diseases (K12)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-HL-07-004 

07/03/2006 

Diabetes Research Centers (P30, P60)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DK-06-014 

07/03/2006 

Fiscal Year 2007 DefenseUniversity Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) - For Proposal Submission to the Army  

Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command

AFOSR-BAA-2006-4-ARMY 

07/03/2006 

Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for Community-Based Job Training Grants (SGA/DFA PY 05-11)  

Employment and Training Administration

SGA-DFA-PY-05-11 

07/06/2006 

Fiscal Year 2007 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)-For Proposal Submission to Navy  

Office of Naval Research

BAA06-028 

07/06/2006 

NEA American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring  

National Endowment for the Arts

2006NEA01AMVISAT 

07/06/2006 

Fiscal Year 2007 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) - For Proposal Submission to Navy  

Office of Naval Research

AFOSR-BAA-2006-4 

07/06/2006 

NEA American Masterpieces: Musical Theater  

National Endowment for the Arts

2006NEA01AMMTH 

07/06/2006 

NEA American Masterpieces: Choral Music  

National Endowment for the Arts

2006NEA01AMCHM 

07/07/2006 

Establishing Exploratory NCMHD Research Centers of Excellence (P20)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-MD-06-003 

07/07/2006 

Research on Rural Mental Health and Drug Abuse Disorders (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-478 

07/07/2006 

Targeting Calcium Regulatory Molecules for Arrhythmia Prevention (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-477 

07/07/2006 

Fiscal Year 2007 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) - For Proposal Submission to Air Force  

Air Force Office of Scientific Research MURI

BAA06-028 

07/07/2006 

Establishing Exploratory NCMHD Research Centers of Excellence (P20)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-MD-06-003 

07/07/2006 

U.S. Army Research Office Broad Agency Announcement for Experimental and Theoretical Development of Quantum Information Science-July 2006  

Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command

W911NF-06-R-0010 

07/07/2006 

NIGMS National Centers for Systems Biology (P50)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-GM-07-004 

07/10/2006 

Mechanisms of Immune Modulation (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AT-06-004 

07/10/2006 

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine(R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-475 

07/10/2006 

New Models of Pain Relevant to the Trigeminal System (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DE-07-007 

07/10/2006 

Translational Research on the Relationship of Anxiety and Depression (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-473 

07/10/2006 

Mechanisms of Immune Modulation (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AT-06-005

07/10/2006 

The Role of Nuclear Receptors in Tissue and Organismal Aging (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PAS-06-466 

07/10/2006 

Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, Services, and Women and Sex/Gender Differences (R36)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-476 

07/11/2006 

Collaborative Research on Tinnitus (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DC-07-004 

NOTE:

Only those opportunities characterized as “grants”, in which the eligibility field specifically includes “Public and State controlled institutions of higher education” and/or “Private institutions of higher education” are included in this report.  For broader or more focused searches, visit http://www.grants.gov/search/advanced.do.