MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Friday, September 08, 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 in the last week.  To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

Open Date

Opportunity Title

Agency

Funding Number

09/01/2006 

EarthScope National Office (ENO)  

National Science Foundation

06-600 

09/07/2006 

Strategic Agriculture Initiative Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Grant Program  

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA-R4-SAI-06-001 

09/07/2006 

Solicitation of Assays for High Throughput Screening (HTS) in the Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network (R03)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-06-545 

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.