MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, August 24, 2007

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
08/20/2007	Speed Agile Concept Demonstration	Air Force -- Research Lab	BAA-07-07-PKV
08/20/2007	Volunteer Management	Corporation for National and Community Service	CNCS-GRANTS-071307-001
08/20/2007	Cooperative Agreement Notice	NASA Headquarters	NNH07ZDA002C
08/20/2007	Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (SBIR [R43/R44])	National Institutes of Health	PA-07-435
08/20/2007	Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (STTR [R41/R42])	National Institutes of Health	PA-07-436
08/21/2007	National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) and Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and Resource Management Integration (ICOSRMI)	Office of Naval Research	ONRBAA07-040
08/21/2007	Research on Interventions for Child Abuse and Neglect (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-07-437
08/22/2007	Collaborative Riparian Research	Bureau of Reclamation-Upper Colorado Region	07SF402690
08/22/2007	Revolution in Fiber Lasers (RIFL)	DARPA - Microsystems Technology Office	BAA07-34
08/22/2007	Small Business Innovative Research Program CFDA 84.133S-1	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-082207-001
08/22/2007	Prod Test 20070822-01	IV&V Test Agency	IVV-20070822-01
08/23/2007	Head Start University Partnership Research Grants: Strategies for Developing Teacher Effectiveness	Administration for Children and Families	HHS-2008-ACF-OPRE-YR-0060
08/23/2007	Academic Administrative Units in Primary Care	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-032
08/23/2007	Faculty Development in Primary Care	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-035
08/23/2007	Pre-Doctoral Training in Primary Care	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-037
08/23/2007	Physician Assistant Training in Primary Care	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-039
08/23/2007	Residency Training in Primary Care	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-042
08/23/2007	Residency Training in General and Pediatric Dentistry	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-044
08/23/2007	Exploratory Investigations in Food Allergy (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AI-07-032
08/24/2007	Collaborative Research on Tinnitus (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DC-08-002

Open Date	Opportunity Title	Agency	Funding Number
The following were each listed under the first title and have been broken out for easier screening….
08/22/2007	Fall 2008 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships For Graduate Environmental Study	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-F2008-GRO- ….
Environmental Engineering (limited to pollution prevention; includes sustainability)			-A6
Environmental Engineering (limited to treatment and remediation)			-A7
Atmospheric Sciences			-B6
Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Materials Science			-B7
Hydrogeology			-B8
Economics (includes market incentives and health and ecosystem valuation)			-C6
Environmental Decision-Making Research (limited to projects in community-based participatory research, intervention strategies, environmental behavior modification, environmental education, and environmental justice)			-C7
Urban/Regional Planning and Geography (includes GIS, demography)			-C8
Microbiology			-D6
Molecular Biology (includes genomics, proteomics, toxicodynamics, toxicology, and bioinformatics)			-D7
Public Health Sciences (includes environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, and health physics)			-D8
Human Health Risk Assessment			-D9
Aquatic Systems Ecology – focusing on freshwater endpoints			-E6
Coastal and Estuarine Processes (limited to pollution research such as harmful algal blooms)			-E7
Terrestrial Systems Ecology (limited to soils and plants that can serve as a medium for contaminant transport)			-F6
Terrestrial Systems Ecology (work should relate to pollutant effects on animals and/or habitat)			-F7

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.