MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Friday, October 13, 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

10/06/2006 

Dissertation Grant Awards for Doctoral Candidates for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research in Minority Communities  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC-RFA-CE07-009 

10/06/2006 

Resource Conservation Challenge Program: 2006 Solicitation  

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA-REG4-RCRAPB-09-06 

10/06/2006 

Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-07-005 

10/06/2006 

Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (R03)  

National Institutes of Health

PA-07-006 

10/06/2006 

Community-Based Participatory Research at NIMH (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

PAR-07-004 

10/06/2006 

Membrane Associated Signaling Defects in Immune Cells with Aging (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AG-07-006 

10/10/2006 

Research for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC-RFA-CE07-010 

10/10/2006 

Developing Integrated Economic Models of Health and Retirement (R01)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-AG-07-007 

10/11/2006 

Business and International Education Program (84.153A)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-101106-001 

10/11/2006 

2007 NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program (DP1)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-RM-07-005 

10/12/2006 

Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program  

Bureau of Justice Assistance

BJA-2007-1449 

10/12/2006 

Mechanisms of Drug Abuse Interactions with HIV Neuropathogenesis (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DA-07-003 

10/12/2006 

Regional Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program - Southern Region  

CSREES

USDA-CSREES-RIPM-000221 

10/12/2006 

Special Research Grants Program - Potato Research  

CSREES

USDA-CSREES-SRGP-000224 

10/13/2006 

Interpreting America's Historic Places: Implementation Grants  

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH-BR-01232007 

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.