MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, November 09, 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
11/02/2007	Infrastructure Support Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI)	Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command	W911NF-08-R-0001
11/02/2007	NIAMS Building Interdisciplinary Research Team (BIRT) Revision Awards (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AR-08-001
11/02/2007	AHRQ Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)	Agency for Health Care Research and Quality	PAR-08-022
11/05/2007	Tagging of 420 late-fall salmon with VEMCO ultraosonic tags.	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	IEP0803
11/05/2007	Business and International Education Program CFDA 84.153A	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-110507-003
11/05/2007	Humanitarian Demining & Weapons Removal	PM Weapons Removal and Abatement	PMWRA-08-GR-001-WHA-110507
11/05/2007	Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs CFDA 84.334A (Partnership Grants)	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-110507-001
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GEAR UP OPPORTUNITY
11/05/2007	Predictive Multiscale Models of the Physiome in Health and Disease (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-023
11/06/2007	Campus Suicide Prevention Grants	Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Adminis.	SM-08-002
11/06/2007	Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change	National Science Foundation	08-505
11/06/2007	General Social Survey (GSS) Competition	National Science Foundation	08-506
11/07/2007	Environmental Education Grants -- Solicitation Notice for 2008	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-EE-08-02
11/07/2007	We the People Challenge Grants in United States History, Institutions, and Culture	National Endowment for the Humanities	20080205-CH
11/07/2007	Analog-to-Information Receiver Development Program (A-to-I)	DARPA - Microsystems Technology Office	BAA08-03
11/09/2007	Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research II (CECCR II) (P50)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-08-004
11/09/2007	2008 NIH Director s New Innovator Award Program (DP2)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-08-014

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.