MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Friday, September 29, 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

09/22/2006 

Upward Bound Program (84.047A) Regular Upward Bound Program  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-092206-001 

09/22/2006 

Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) Program (84.047M)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-092206-002 

09/22/2006 

Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) Program (84.047V)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-092206-003 

09/25/2006 

Superfund Basic Research and Training Program (P42)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-ES-06-003 

09/25/2006 

Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization Project  

CSREES

USDA-CSREES-OP-000161 

09/26/2006 

The Future Leaders Exchange Program: Host Family and School Placement  

Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs

ECA-PE-C-PY-07-06 

09/26/2006 

Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities Program (84.327W)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-092606-002 

09/26/2006 

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (84.022A)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-092606-004 

09/26/2006 

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program (84.019A)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-092606-005 

09/26/2006 

Secondary Analysis of Existing Alcohol Epidemiology Data (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-557 

09/26/2006 

Secondary Analysis of Existing Alcohol Epidemilogy Data (R03)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-06-558 

09/26/2006 

Special Topic Course: Exploring Auditory and Vestibular Biology (R25)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DC-07-006 

09/28/2006 

Near-Term Technology Development for Genome Sequencing (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-HG-06-015 

09/28/2006 

Near-Term Technology Development for Genome Sequencing (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-HG-06-016 

09/28/2006 

Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies  The $1000 Genome (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-HG-06-020 

09/28/2006 

Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies - The $1000 Genome (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-HG-06-021 

NOTE:

A search is conducted for opportunities which mention colleges or universities in the “Additional Information on Eligibility” field of the announcement. Only those items and 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.