MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, October 24, 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
10/17/2008	Research on the Design of Policies for Pollution Control Using Market Mechanisms, and Data Gathering for Dissertation and Early Career Research on the Pollution Control Aspects of Environmental Economics	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-OPEI-NCEE-08-02
10/17/2008	Interactions between Physical Activity and Drug Abuse (R03)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-09-014
10/17/2008	Characterizing the Blood Stem Cell Niche (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HL-09-010
10/20/2008	Basic and Preclinical Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-09-010
10/20/2008	The Mouse Gene Development Initiative (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-09-015
10/20/2008	Clinical Pharmacotherapy for PTSD: Single and Collaborative Studies (R34)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-MH-09-090
10/21/2008	Broad Agency Announcment	Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command	07-09
10/21/2008	Photovoltaic Supply Chain and Cross-Cutting Technologies	Golden Field Office	DE-PS36-09GO99003
10/21/2008	Region 10 – Request for Initial Proposals (RFIP) for EPA Dedicated Water Quality Program Funding	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-R10-09-OWW-WU
10/21/2008	Diversity-promoting Institutions Drug Abuse Research Program (DIDARP) (R24)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-011
10/21/2008	Unintentional Poisoning from Prescription Drug Overdoses in Adults (R21)	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	RFA-CE-09-004
10/21/2008	Research Priorities in Acute Injury Care (R01)	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	RFA-CE-09-005
10/22/2008	Public Telecommunications Facilities Program Notice of Application Closing Date	Department of Commerce	009-001
10/22/2008	Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) Fellowship Program CFDA 84.019A	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-102208-001
10/22/2008	Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury (R01)	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	RFA-CE-09-007
10/22/2008	Cardiac Translational Research Implementation Program (C-TRIP) (P20)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HL-10-001
10/23/2008	USAID/Sri Lanka Annual Program Statement (APS) - Partnership for Eastern Economic Revitalization (PEER)	Sri Lanka USAID-Colombo	383-09-500
10/23/2008	Pre-Application for the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program (X02)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-012
10/23/2008	Pre-Application for the 2009 NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program (X02)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-013
10/24/2008	Cross Sector Approach to Community Based Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Protection in Malawi	Malawi USAID-Lilongwe	674-09-002
10/24/2008	Russia Media Programs	Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor	DRL-08-RUSSIA-102408
10/24/2008	DOD Breast Cancer Research Program Postdoctoral Award	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	W81XWH-08-BCRP-POSTDOC

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.