MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, September 18, 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 September 8.  To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

Open Date	Opportunity Title	Agency	Funding Number
09/08/2009	Children, Youth & Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects	CSREES	USDA-CSREES-SLBCD-002524
09/09/2009	National Planning Grants and Indian Tribes Planning Grants	Corporation for National and Community Service	CNCS-GRANTS-09092009-001
09/09/2009	Traumatic Brain Injury States Grant Program, Implementation Partnership Grants	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-10-022
09/10/2009	Central Valley Project Conservation Program and Central Valley Project Improvement Act Habitat Restoration Program	Bureau of Reclamation - Mid-Pacific Region	R10AF20001
09/11/2009	DoD Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Career Development Award	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	W81XWH-09-PRORP-CDA
09/11/2009	FY09 DOD Lung Cancer Biospecimen Resource Network Award	Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA	W81XWH-09-LCRP-LCBRNA
09/14/2009	Computational Biology and Bioinformatic Methods to Enable a Systems Biology Knowledgebase	Chicago Service Center	DE-FOA-0000143
09/15/2009	2010 Academic Year EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-F2009U-GRO-P1
09/15/2009	2010 Academic Year EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-F2009U-GRO-P2
09/15/2009	2010 Academic Year EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-F2009U-GRO-P4
09/15/2009	2010 Academic Year EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-F2009U-GRO-Q2
09/15/2009	2010 Academic Year EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-F2009U-GRO-Q1
09/15/2009	2010 Academic Year EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-F2009U-GRO-P3
09/17/2009	Ancillary Studies in Clinical Trials of CNS/PNS Disorders NINDS Accelerated Awards Program (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-263
09/17/2009	Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-GM-10-009
09/17/2009	Hazardous Fuels Woody Biomass Utilization Grants	Forest Service	USDA-FS-TMU-2010
09/17/2009	Targeted Library Synthesis and Screening at Novel Targets for Potential Drug Addiction Treatments and Research Tools (R21/R33)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-10-005

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.