MEMORANDUM:

TO:                   Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, August 17, 2007

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
08/10/2007	Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP)	NASA Headquarters	NNJ07198752C
08/10/2007	OJJDP FY 2007 Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program	Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention	OJJDP-2007-1606
08/10/2007	Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers 2008 (P30)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HD-07-012
08/13/2007	AmeriCorps State and National Grant Competition	Corporation for National and Community Service	CNCS-GRANTS-081307-001
08/13/2007	Ancillary Studies in Clinical Trials (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-HL-08-001
08/14/2007	Connecting to Collections - State Planning Grants	Institute of Museum and Library Services	CTC-FY08
08/14/2007	Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grants	National Park Service	DOI-GRANTS-100405-001
08/15/2007	Research and Development For Rare Isotope Beam Capabilities	Chicago Service Center	DE-PS02-07ER07-30
08/15/2007	Virtual Observatories for Heliophysics Data	NASA Headquarters	NNH07ZDA001N-VXO
08/16/2007	Modeling and Monitoring of Water Quality for the williamson river Delta Restoration Project	Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Regional Office	07SF200081
08/16/2007	Challenge Grants	National Endowment for the Humanities	20071101-CH
08/16/2007	NIGMS Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) [R25]	National Institutes of Health	PAR-07-432
08/17/2007	Silvio O. Conte Centers for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders (P50)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-07-433
08/17/2007	Silvio O. Conte Centers to Develop Collaborative Research in the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders (P20)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-07-434
08/17/2007	Microbicide Innovation Program (MIP III) (R21/R33)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AI-07-034
08/17/2007	Assistance to High Energy Cost Rural Communities	Utilities Programs	USDA-RD-HECG07

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.