MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:             Friday, November 17, 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

11/13/2006 

Targeted Grants to Reduce Childhood Lead Poisoning: Request for Proposals 2006  

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA-OPPT-06-19 

11/13/2006 

ROSES2006: Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry  

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NNH06ZDA001N-OBB 

11/14/2006 

Teacher Incentive Fund (84.374A)  

U.S. Department of Education

ED-GRANTS-111406-001 

11/14/2006 

Bootstrapped Learning (BL)  

DARPA - Information Processing Technology Office

BAA07-04 

11/14/2006 

Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT)  

National Science Foundation

07-523 

11/15/2006 

NAWCACANADA  

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

NAWCASGC-07-03 

11/15/2006 

Mind-Body Interactions and Health: Restricted Competition for Research Infrastructure Programs (R24)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-OD-06-005 

11/15/2006 

Medical Free Electron Laser-Related Biomedical Research  

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AFOSR-BAA-2007-4 

11/15/2006 

NIJ FY07 Evidence-Based Model Programs for Cold Case Units  

National Institute of Justice

2007-NIJ-1416 

11/15/2006 

Museum Grants for African American History and Culture  

Institute of Museum and Library Services

AAHC-FY07 

11/17/2006 

Brain Imaging Drug Use Prevention Messages (R21)  

National Institutes of Health

RFA-DA-07-007 

NOTE:

The scope of searches has been expanded to include “Unrestricted”, “Individuals”, and “Others” as well as Private and Public Institutions of higher education.  For broader or more focused searches, visit http://www.grants.gov/search/advanced.do.