MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, February 29, 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
02/25/2008	Cooperating Technical Partner Program	Region 2	DHS-08-GPD-045-002
02/25/2008	DOD Ovarian Cancer Career Development Award	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	W81XWH-08-OCRP-CAR
02/26/2008	Spin Torque Transfer-Random Access Memory (STT-RAM)	DARPA - Microsystems Technology Office	BAA08-16
02/26/2008	Abandoned Infants Assistance: Comprehensive Support Services for Families Affected by Substance Abuse and/or HIV/AIDS	Administration for Children and Families	HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CB-0045
02/26/2008	International Research on Venue-Based Interventions for HIV/AIDS and Alcohol Use (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AA-08-011
02/26/2008	International Research on Venue-Based Interventions for HIV/AIDS and Alcohol Use (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AA-08-012
02/26/2008	Innovations in Lower Limb Prostheses Attachment (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HD-08-012
02/26/2008	Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) - Kansas State Component	Kansas State Office	USDA-NRCS-KS-08-01
02/26/2008	Montana NRCS 2008 Conservation Innovation Grants	Montana State Office	USDA-NRCS-MT-08-01
02/27/2008	Identifying Critical Areas and Targeting Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Water Quality in Region 7 Priority Watersheds	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-R7WWPD-08-001
02/27/2008	ROSES 2008: Heliophysics Guest Investigators	NASA Headquarters	NNH08ZDA001N-HGI
02/27/2008	Grants for Injury Control Research Centers(R49)	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	RFA-CE-09-001
02/27/2008	Conservation Innovation Grants - FY-2008 Florida State Component	Florida State Office	USDA-NRCS-FL-08-01
02/28/2008	CubeSat-based Science Missions for Space Weather and Atmospheric Research	National Science Foundation	08-549
02/28/2008	Compact Power Conversion Technologies	Office of Naval Research	ONRBAA08-005
02/28/2008	Limited Competition for Data Deposition and Analyses of Genome Wide Association Studies of Mental Disorders (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-MH-08-120
02/28/2008	Limited Competition for Data Deposition and Analyses of Genome Wide Association Studies of Mental Disorders (Collaborative R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-MH-08-121
02/28/2008	ARO Young Investigator Program (YIP)	Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command	W911NF-08-R-0002
02/29/2008	Fellowships	National Endowment for the Humanities	20080501-FA
02/29/2008	Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan	National Endowment for the Humanities	20080501-FO
02/29/2008	Faculty Research Awards	National Endowment for the Humanities	20080501-HR
02/29/2008	CAM Practitioner Research Education Project Grant Partnership Competitive Renewal (R25)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-095
02/29/2008	Extramural Associates Research Development Award (EARDA) (G11)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-096

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.