MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, November 16, 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
11/09/2007	Request for Information:Industry and Stakeholder Input for Strategies to Advance Clean Energy Technologies in Hawaii	Golden Field Office	DE-PS36-08GO38001
11/09/2007	Future Leaders Exchange Civic Education Workshop	Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs	ECA-PE-C-PY-08-03
11/09/2007	MEPI Student Leaders Program	Middle East Partnership Initiative	NEAPI-08-AW-008-MENA-110907
11/09/2007	ROSES 2007: Solar and Heliospheric Physics	NASA Headquarters	NNH07ZDA001N-SHP
11/09/2007	Assay Development for High Throughput Molecular Screening (R21)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-024
11/09/2007	2008 NIDA Avant-Garde Award Program for HIV/AIDS Research (DP1)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-08-003
11/09/2007	Development and Application of Nanotechnology-based Tools to Understand Mechanisms of Bioremediation (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-ES-07-007
11/14/2007	Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for DHS Science & Technology	Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division	BAA08-01
11/14/2007	Rapid Technology Application Program (RTAP) - Communications & Maritime Safety	Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division	BAA08-02
11/14/2007	Rapid Technology Application Program (RTAP) - Explosives Detection	Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division	BAA08-03
11/14/2007	ROSES 2007: Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development and Mission Concept Studies, including Concept Studies for Small Payloads and Satellites	NASA Headquarters	NNH07ZDA001N-ASTID
11/15/2007	Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-016
11/15/2007	Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships	Health Resources & Services Administration	HRSA-08-017
11/15/2007	Development and Implementation of Innovative Ultrasound Therapy Technologies (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-EB-07-004
11/15/2007	Technology Development in Epigenetics (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-07-011
11/15/2007	Technology Development in Epigenetics (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-07-012
11/15/2007	Discovery of Novel Epigenetic Marks in Mammalian Cells (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-07-015
11/15/2007	Pilot-Scale Libraries (PSL) for High-Throughput Screening (P41)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-08-003
11/15/2007	Studies of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of Human Microbiome Research (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-08-006
11/15/2007	Integrated Organic Program	CSREES	USDA-CSREES-ICGP-001150
11/16/2007	Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program Notice of Interest	Bureau of Reclamation-Upper Colorado Region	08-SF-40-2731
11/16/2007	Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Research Advancement Award (SC1)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-026
11/16/2007	Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award (SC2)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-08-027
11/16/2007	Research on HIV/AIDS and Drug Use in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) (R03)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-DA-08-008
11/16/2007	Discovery of Novel Epigenetic Marks in Mammalian Cells (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-07-016
11/16/2007	New Methodologies for Natural Products Chemistry (R01)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RM-08-004
11/16/2007	Technology Development for Biomedical Applications (R21)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-RR-08-001

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.