MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, September 28, 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
09/24/2007	ROSES 2007: EarthScope: The InSAR and Geodetic Imaging Component	NASA Headquarters	NNH07ZDA001N-ESGIC
09/24/2007	ROSES 2007: Discovery and Scout Mission Capabilities Expansion	NASA Headquarters	NNH07ZDA001N-DSMCE
09/25/2007	EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships	National Science Foundation	07-596
09/25/2007	Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems	National Science Foundation	07-598
09/25/2007	Secondary and Two-Year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants Program	CSREES	USDA-CSREES-SAECP-001053
09/25/2007	George M. O Brien Urology Research Centers (P50)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DK-07-004
09/25/2007	Critical Issues: Emerging and New Plant and Animal Pests and Diseases	CSREES	USDA-CSREES-OP-001054
09/25/2007	NINDS Diversity Research Education Grants in Neuroscience (R25)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-07-456
09/26/2007	6th Edition of Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-OPP-07-003
09/26/2007	Women’s Issues Fund	Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs	EAPRSP-07-GR-001-EAP-092607
09/27/2007	West Coast Estuaries Initiative for the California Coast	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-R9-WTR3-07-006
09/27/2007	Medical Countermeasures to Enhance Platelet Regeneration and Increase Survival Following Radiation Exposure (RC1)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AI-07-036
09/27/2007	Radiation Combined Injury: Radiation Exposure in Combination with Burn, Wound, Trauma or Infection(Phased Innovation Award [R21/R33])	National Institutes of Health	RFA-AI-07-038
09/28/2007	Software for Real-World Systems	National Science Foundation	07-599
09/28/2007	Technology and Methods Development for Genomics, Population Genomics and ELSI (R01)	National Institutes of Health	PA-07-458
09/28/2007	Genetic and Genomic Resources for Emerging Non-Mammalian Model Organisms (R24)	National Institutes of Health	PA-07-457
09/28/2007	Feasibility Studies to Develop Technology and Methods for Genomics, Population Genomics and ELSI (R21)	National Institutes of Health	PA-07-459

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.