MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, September 19, 2008

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
09/12/2008	Community Teachers for Ghana	Ghana USAID-Accra	641-08-024
09/12/2008	USAID/Madagascar’s Water And Sanitation Program	South Africa USAID-Pretoria	674-08-0050-APS
09/12/2008	American Burying Beetle Mitigation Project	Bureau of Land Management	NM-NOI08-0008
09/12/2008	The Interaction of HIV, Drug Use, and the Criminal Justice System (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-09-007
09/12/2008	Exploratory Centers for Translational Research on the Clinical Neurobiology of Drug Addiction (P20)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-09-012
09/15/2008	Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering	National Science Foundation	08-606
09/15/2008	Giant Salvinia Control	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	FWS-FY2008-AZFWCO
09/15/2008	Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-09-103
09/15/2008	Marine Turtle Conservation Fund	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	MTCF09
09/15/2008	Mohave Ground Squirrel Base-Wide Surveys at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California	NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND	N62473-08-2-MGS
09/15/2008	Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants Program Announcement	Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Adminis.	OA-08-002
09/15/2008	Wildlife Without Borders - Latin America & the Caribbean	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	WWBLAC09
09/15/2008	Wildlife Without Borders - Mexico	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	WWBMX09
09/16/2008	Plant Genome Research Program	National Science Foundation	08-607
09/16/2008	Transit Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management Compendium	DOT/Federal Transit Administration	D2008-GHG-TRI
09/16/2008	Office of Nuclear Physics Outstanding Junior Investigator Program	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-08ER08-33
09/16/2008	Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program	Institute of Museum and Library Services	L21-FY09
09/16/2008	Assessment of the Recently Burned Monarch Butterfly Roost Site and Reparation of Monarch Butterfly Restoration Plan on Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California	NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND	N62473-08-R-MONARCH
09/16/2008	Invertebrate Species Survey at Naval Base Point Loma San Diego, California	NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND	N62473-08-R-NBPL
09/17/2008	Advanced Detector Research Program	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-08ER08-31
09/17/2008	Airway Smooth Muscle Function and Targeted Therapeutics in Human Asthma (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HL-09-007
09/18/2008	Photon-Trap Structures for Quantum Advanced Detectors (PT-SQUAD)	DARPA - Microsystems Technology Office	DARPA-BAA-08-64
09/18/2008	Annual Notice For Continuation of Availability Of Grants and Cooperative Agreements For Nuclear Physics	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-08ER08-32
09/18/2008	Alzheimers Disease Drug Development Program (U01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-266
09/18/2008	Studies of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of Human Microbiome Research (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-08-030

NOTE:

The searches include eligibility categories of : “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.