MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Monday, October 26, 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 in the last week.To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

NEW JERSEY GRANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:
The New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice has announced the notice of available funds for the YouthBuild Programs.The purpose, in concert with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and New Jersey's Recovery Act: Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Act Grant Program (JAG Recovery), funding is being made available to implement new YouthBuild programs.  http://nj.gov/oag/crimeplan/pdfs/NOAF-41-NJR-3855-d.pdf

Open Date	Opportunity Title	Agency	Funding Number
10/20/2009	Track II Dialogue on Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula	Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs	20091019EAP
10/20/2009	Multi-Vehicle Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sense And Avoid (MUSAA)	Air Force -- Research Lab	BAA-10-01-PKV
10/20/2009	FY 2010 Training Workshop Support Activities for the Section 303(d) and Water Quality Monitoring Programs	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-OW-OWOW-10-01
10/20/2009	ROA 2009: C.3 NextGen-Airportal Project (AP1R) (Recovery Act)	NASA Headquarters	NNH09ZEA001N-AP1R
10/20/2009	ROA 2009: C.4 NextGen-Airspace Project (AS2R) (Recovery Act)	NASA Headquarters	NNH09ZEA001N-AS2R
10/22/2009	Global Human Rights Defenders Fund	Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor	DRL-09-HRDEFENDERS-102209
10/22/2009	Office of Postsecondary Education; Overview Information Student Support Services (SSS) Program cfda 84.042A	Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-102209-001
10/22/2009	Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative - For Proposal Submission to the Army	Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command	ONRBAA10-002
10/23/2009	Metagenomic Evaluation of Oral Polymicrobial Disease (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DE-10-003
10/23/2009	Roadmap Transformative Research Projects Program (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-09-022
10/23/2009	Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program	National Institute of Food and Agriculture	USDA-NIFA-CGP-002644
10/23/2009	State and Regional AgrAbility Program	National Institute of Food and Agriculture	USDA-NIFA-SLBCD-002651
10/26/2009	Innovative and Early-Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Biospecimen Science (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-10-001
10/26/2009	Validation and Advanced Development of Emerging Technologies in Biospecimen Science (R33)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-10-002
10/26/2009	Application and Early Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-10-003
10/26/2009	Validation and Advanced Development of Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research (R33)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-10-004
10/26/2009	Innovative Technology Development for Cancer Research (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-CA-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.