MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Wednesday, December 31, 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 since the last report on December 19, 2008.To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

Open Date	Opportunity Title	Agency	Funding Number
12/19/2008	Space Components Technology Open 5 Year Broad Agency Announcement: Call 0017 Control Techniques for Responsive Space & Uncertain Systems	Air Force -- Research Lab	BAA-VS-07-03-0017
12/19/2008	ROSES 2008: Moon and Mars Analog Mission Activities	NASA Headquarters	NNH08ZDA001N-MMAMA
12/19/2008	Improving Intervention Possibilities for Communication Disorders (R21/R33)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-056
12/19/2008	Improving Interventions for Communication Disorders (R21/R33)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-057
12/19/2008	NIAAA Career Transition Award (K22)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-059
12/19/2008	NIDDK Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-060
12/22/2008	Program to Support Legal Socialization of Juveniles in Armenia	International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affair	INLEC-09-GR-003-EUR-12222008
12/22/2008	Research to Action: Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-ES-09-001
12/22/2008	Assembling the Tree of Life	National Science Foundation	09-522
12/22/2008	CubeSat-based Science Missions for Space Weather and Atmospheric Research	National Science Foundation	09-523
12/22/2008	George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research	National Science Foundation	09-524
12/22/2008	Office of Postsecondary Education; Overview Information; Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)--Special Focus Competition: European Union-United States Atlantis Program CFDA 84.116J	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-122208-001
12/22/2008	Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; Overview Information; Partnerships in Character Education Program; CFDA 84.215S	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-122208-002
12/23/2008	ROSES 2008: Ocean Salinity Science Team	NASA Headquarters	NNH08ZDA001N-OSST
12/23/2008	Summer Seminars and Institutes	National Endowment for the Humanities	20090303-FS
12/23/2008	Pre-application for a Biomedical Technology Research Resource (X02)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-260
12/23/2008	Teaching American History Grant Program CFDA 84.215X	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-122308-002
12/23/2008	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Education Grant Funding Announcement of Opportunity, Fiscal Year 2009	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission	HR-FN-1208-NED01
12/23/2008	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Education Program Trade School and Community College Scholarship Grant Funding Announcement of Opportunity, Fiscal Year 2009.	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission	HR-FN1208-NED03
12/24/2008	Informatics Training for Global Health (ITGH) (D43)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-TW-09-001
12/24/2008	High School Equivalency Program (HEP) CFDA 84.141A	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-122308-003
12/24/2008	Research and Technical Assistance Center on Vocational Rehabilitation Program Management CFDA 84.133A-3	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-122408-001
12/24/2008	Center on the Effective Delivery of Rehabilitation Technology by State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies to Improve Employment Outcomes CFDA 84.133A-4	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-122408-002
12/24/2008	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Faculty Development Grant Funding Announcement of Opportunity, Fiscal Year 2009.	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission	HR-FN-1208-NED02
12/29/2008	NIH-Supported Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) (P50)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-09-001
12/30/2008	Career Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (K01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-065
12/30/2008	Partnerships for Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) Clinical Translational Research (PCCTR) (U19)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-066
12/30/2008	NINR Career Transition Award (K22)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-067
12/30/2008	NIAID Research Scholar Development Award (K22)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-068
12/30/2008	Optimization of Small Molecule Probes for the Nervous System (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-NS-09-003
12/30/2008	Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Overview Information; College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) CFDA 84.149A	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-123008-002
12/31/2008	Quick-Trials for Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions: Exploratory Grants (R21)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-147

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.