MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:   Friday, February 20, 2009

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 February 17.  To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

Open Date	Opportunity Title	Agency	Funding Number
02/17/2009	Microsystems Technology Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement	DARPA	DARPA-BAA-09-25
02/17/2009	Program to Support Legal Socialization of Juveniles in Georgia	International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affair	INL-09-GR-04-EUR-02-17-2009
02/18/2009	Space Electronics Open 5 Year Broad Agency Announcement	Air Force -- Research Lab	BAA-VS-06-05
02/18/2009	High Energy Laser Educational Initiative	Air Force -- Research Lab	FA9451-09-1-0347
02/18/2009	Understanding the Role of Nonchemical Stressors and Developing Analytic Methods for Cumulative Risk Assessments	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-G2009-STAR-E1
02/18/2009	Understanding the Role of Nonchemical Stressors and Developing Analytic Methods for Cumulative Risk Assessments	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-G2009-STAR-E2
02/19/2009	Special Improvement Project (SIP) -- Using New Methods to Improve Collection Rates	Administration for Children and Families	HHS-2009-ACF-OCSE-FI-0014
02/19/2009	Special Improvement Project (SIP) -- Improving Child Support Enforcement (CSE) and Court Collaboration	Administration for Children and Families	HHS-2009-ACF-OCSE-FI-0018
02/19/2009	FY2009 IPP SEED FUND CALL ANNOUNCEMENT	NASA Headquarters	NNH09IPP001O
02/19/2009	ROSES 2009: Atmospheric Composition: Modeling and Analysis	NASA Headquarters	NNH09ZDA001N-ACMA
02/19/2009	ROSES 2009: Cosmochemistry	NASA Headquarters	NNH09ZDA001N-COS
02/19/2009	ROSES 2009: Heliophysics Guest Investigators	NASA Headquarters	NNH09ZDA001N-HGI
02/19/2009	Challenge Grants	National Endowment for the Humanities	20090505-CH
02/19/2009	Testing Tobacco Products Promoted to Reduce Harm (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-09-046
02/19/2009	Testing Tobacco Products Promoted to Reduce Harm (R21)	National Institutes of Health	PA-09-047
02/19/2009	Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) (R25)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-104
02/19/2009	Basic Research Challenge (BRC) Program	Office of Naval Research	ONRBAA09-017
02/20/2009	Resident Instruction Grants Program for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (RIIA)	CSREES	USDA-CSREES-RIGP-002074

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.