MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, October 03, 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
09/29/2008	National Geothermal Database	Golden Field Office	DE-PS36-08GO98020
09/29/2008	Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships	Woodrow Wilson Center	WWICS002
09/30/2008	Demonstration of Electron Beam Technology for SO2 and NOx Reduction	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-08FE68154
09/30/2008	NASA Specialized Centers of Research: Carcinogenesis and Central Nervous System Risks from Space Radiation	NASA Johnson Space Center	NNJ08ZSA003N
09/30/2008	Replication and Fine-Mapping Studies for the Genes Environment and Health Initiative (GEI)(R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-09-003
09/30/2008	Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum and Infrastructure	National Science Foundation	08-610
09/30/2008	Cyber-Physical Systems	National Science Foundation	08-611
09/30/2008	NAWCA Canadian Grants	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	NAWCA-09-CANADA-623
09/30/2008	Neotropical Migrant Grants	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	NAWCA-09-NEOTROP-623
09/30/2008	NAWCA U. S. Small Grants	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	NAWCA-09-USSMALL-623
10/01/2008	Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-09ER09-01
10/01/2008	Annual Notice Submission of Renewal and Supplemental Applications for Office of Science Grants and Cooperative Agreements	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-09ER09-02
10/01/2008	AmeriCorps State and National Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity	Corporation for National and Community Service	CNCS-GRANTS-100108-001
10/01/2008	USA Medical Research and Materiel Command Broad Agency Announcement	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	W81XWH-BAA08-1
10/01/2008	Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training Grant Opportunity	DOT/Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration	USDOT-FMC-CMVOST-2009-001
10/01/2008	Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Opportunity	Economic Development Administration	EDA10012008 DISASTERSUPPLEMENTAL
10/01/2008	Economic Development Assistance Programs	Economic Development Administration	EDA10012008EDAP
10/01/2008	Behavioral Pharmacology and Genetics: Translating and Targeting Individual Differences (R03)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-09-016
10/01/2008	Biosignatures of Chronic Drug Exposure (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-09-022
10/01/2008	Superfund Basic Research and Training Program (P42)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-ES-08-005
10/01/2008	Migratory Bird Joint Ventures Midwest Region FY 2009 Opportunities	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	FWS-R3-JV08-1
10/02/2008	Drug Abuse Epidemiology and Services Research in Cooperation with the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PAS-09-001
10/02/2008	Challenge Cost Share Grant Agreement/s	Region 5	FWS-R5-RW-09-001
10/03/2008	Integrated Design, Modeling, and Monitoring of Geologic Sequestration of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide to Safeguard Sources of Drinking Water	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-G2008-STAR-H1
10/03/2008	Strategic Agricultural Initiative: FY09 Request for Applications	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-R2-DECA-PTSB-08-01
10/03/2008	Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers 2009 (P30)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HD-08-016

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.