MEMORANDUM:

TO:                Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:          Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE:           Monday, August 08, 2011

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
08/01/2011	Digital Humanities Implementation Grants	National Endowment for the Humanities	20120124-HK
08/01/2011	National Spherical Torus Experiment: Diagnostic Measurements of Spherical Torus Plasmas	Chicago Service Center	DE-FOA-0000576
08/01/2011	Organizational Interest and Capacity Questionnaire	Middle East Partnership Initiative	NEAPI-11-AW-036-MENA-080111
08/01/2011	FY2012 NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Hawaii Program	Department of Commerce	NOAA-NOS-CSC-2012-2003040
08/01/2011	FY12 Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training Program	Department of Commerce	NOAA-NOS-NMS-2012-2003052
08/01/2011	Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) (P20)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-286
08/01/2011	Planning Grants for Clinical Trials of High Relevance to the NIGMS Mission (R34)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-287
08/01/2011	Paul B. Beeson Clinical Scientist Development Award in Aging (K08)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AG-12-003
08/01/2011	Paul B. Beeson Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award in Aging (K23)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AG-12-004
08/01/2011	Functional Restoration of Salivary Glands (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DE-12-004
08/01/2011	Functional Restoration of Salivary Glands (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DE-12-005
08/01/2011	Diabetes Research Centers (P30)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DK-11-015
08/01/2011	Benet Laboratories Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research for Fiscal Years 2011 through 2016	Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command	W15QKN-11-R-D002
08/02/2011	Building an Integrated Data Harvester and Analysis Software for the Methow Basin	Bureau of Reclamation - Pacific Northwest Region	11SS10003
08/02/2011	Conservation Project Support	Institute of Museum and Library Services	CPS-FY12
08/02/2011	Health Promotion for Children With Physical Disabilities Through Physical Activity and Diet: Developing An Evidence Base (R21)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-284
08/02/2011	Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program (R25)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-285
08/02/2011	Health Promotion for Children With Physical Disabilities Through Physical Activity and Diet: Developing An Evidence Base (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-288
08/03/2011	FY 2011 National Fire Academy Educational Program	Department of Homeland Security - FEMA	DHS-11-USFA-019-000-01
08/03/2011	Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) CFDA Number 84.120A	Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-080311-001
08/03/2011	FY 2012 Border Enforcement Grant Opportunity	DOT/Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration	FM-BEG-12-001
08/03/2011	ROSES 2011: Space Archaeology	NASA Headquarters	NNH11ZDA001N-SAP
08/03/2011	NIDCR Institutional Career Development Award for Enhancing Research Capacity in Temporomandibular Joint Disorders and Orofacial Pain (K12)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-289
08/03/2011	NIDCD Phase I/II Preliminary Clinical Trials in Communication Disorders (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-290
08/03/2011	Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-291
08/03/2011	Educational Programs for Demography and Population Science, Family Planning and Contraception, and Reproductive Research (R25)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-292
08/03/2011	Secondary Analyses and Archiving of Social and Behavioral Datasets in Aging (R03)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AG-12-005
08/03/2011	Human Cell Reprogramming for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AG-12-008
08/04/2011	NEA Research: Art Works, FY 2012	National Endowment for the Arts	2012NEAORA
08/04/2011	Regional Agricultural IPM Grants	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-OPP-11-003
08/05/2011	FY 2012 High Priority Grant Opportunity	DOT/Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration	FM-MHP-12-001
08/05/2011	Demonstration Projects for Systems Biology of Aging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AG-12-011
08/05/2011	2012 NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program (DP1)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-11-004
08/05/2011	FY11 Vision Research Program Hypothesis Development Award	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	W81XWH-11-VRP-HDA
08/05/2011	FY11 Vision Research Program Investigator-Initiated Research Award	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	W81XWH-11-VRP-IIRA
08/08/2011	NINDS Exploratory/Developmental Projects in Translational Research (R21)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-11-293
08/08/2011	Science of Organizations	National Science Foundation	PD-11-8031

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.