MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, November 14, 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
11/07/2008	Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants Program	U. S. Geological Survey	09HQPA0010
11/10/2008	Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) Request for Global Proposals	Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor	DRL-08-GLOBAL-111008
11/10/2008	ROSES 2008: Solar and Heliospheric Physics	NASA Headquarters	NNH08ZDA001N-SHP
11/10/2008	Humanities Initiatives at Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment	National Endowment for the Humanities	20090115-AC
11/12/2008	Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy: A Joint Research FOA USDA, DOE	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-09ER09-03
11/12/2008	National Cancer Institute Program Project (P01) Applications	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-025
11/12/2008	Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)	National Science Foundation	09-505
11/12/2008	FWS ECON ACES 2008	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	ECON-09-01
11/13/2008	Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-09-127
11/13/2008	Exploratory Studies in the Neurobiology of Pain in Sickle Cell Disease (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HL-09-008
11/13/2008	Education Programs of Excellence in Scientifically Validated Behavioral Treatment (R25)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-MH-09-110
11/13/2008	Special Focus Competition: U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program CFDA 84.116M	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-111308-001
11/13/2008	Transition to Teaching Grant Program: Local Projects CFDA 84.350A	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-111308-002
11/13/2008	Transition to Teaching Grant Program: Statewide Projects CFDA 84.350B	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-111308-003
11/13/2008	Transition to Teaching Grant Program: National/Regional Projects CFDA 84.350C	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-111308-004
11/14/2008	FY 2009 National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship Program	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-EED-09-01
11/14/2008	National Institutes of Health Rapid Access to Interventional Development (NIH-RAID) Program (X01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-027

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.