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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2011, $5,994,631)
RTI International (RTI) and its FEPAC-accredited partners, the University of North Texas Health Science Center Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics and the Center for Human Identification (UNT), Duquesne University Center for Forensic Science and Law (Duquesne), and Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Forensic Science (VCU), propose to bring an array of capabilities and resources in operating as the Center of Excellence. The applicants believe that such an opportunity will allow them to) serve as a trusted partner for the criminal justice community and for NIJ, 2) raise the level of functioning of forensic science, 3) quickly identify the changing needs and capabilities of the criminal justice community with respect to the forensic sciences, 4) bridge the disconnect between criminal justice practitioners and the available technology, and 5) prevent unproven technologies from being used in the field and presented in court.
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Grant-Funded Events
- Best Practices in Sexual Assault Cases
- Shooting Reconstruction: The 4 Elements of Trajectory
- Familial DNA Searching: Current Approaches - Session 1
- The Crime Scene Is Fluid: From Land to Water-Based Scenes
- Familial DNA Searching: Current Approaches - Session 2
- Organizing and Transferring SANE/SAFE/SART Knowledge and Best Practices Practitioner Stakeholder Meeting
- Familial DNA Searching: Current Approaches - Session 3
- Understanding Basic Statistical Concepts: Fingerprints
- Familial DNA Searching: Current Approaches - Session 4
- Magneto-Optical Sensor Roundtable
- A Guide to Latent Print Testimony
- Best Practices: Sexual Assault Investigations
- Straight to the Bone: Advances in Forensic Anthropology
- Case Acceptance Policies and Guidelines
- How to Increase your Staff without Increasing Budget
- Developing a Statewide Approach to Backlog Management
- Managing Customer Expectations and Education
- Efficiency Improvements
- Evaluating Transfers of Materials and their Significance
- Taking on the Challenge of Unsubmitted Sexual Assault Kits
- Interpretation of Lubricant Evidence
- Rapid DNA, Course 2
- Demystifying Vacuum Metal Deposition
- Special Topics in Gunshot Residue
- The Critical Role of SNPs in the Future of Forensics
- Emerging Technologies for Human Remains Identification
- False-Positive and False-Negative Error Rates in Cartridge Case Comparisons
- Utility of 3D Scanning Technologies Workshop
- Investigating Sexual Violence - Policy Forum: Emerging Solutions and Best Practices
- Crime Laboratory Backlogs: The Impact on Justice
- Latent Fingerprints: Reducing Erroneous Exclusions
- Controlled Substances and Toxicology
- Massively Parallel Sequencing: Understanding the Basic Technology
- Massively Parallel Sequencing: The Genetic Marker Potential
- Massively Parallel Sequencing: Bioinformatics
- FBI Allele Frequency Amendments - Managers and Legal Overview
- Massively Parallel Sequencing: Validation and Applications
- Familial DNA Database Search System: Hardware/Software Integration
- Regioisomer Differentiation for Substances Using GC-IR
- Firearms
- Toxicology Discipline
- Controlled Substances
- Digital Multimedia Evidence
- Latent Prints
- DNA Discipline
- Forensic Biology & DNA
- Impression, Pattern & Trace Evidence
- Controlled Substances & Toxicology
- Anthropology & Microbial Forensics
- Learning about Microbial Forensics
- Basics of Microbiology as Applied to Microbial Forensics
- Expansion of Microbial Forensics
- Automotive Paint Forensics
- Removing PCR Artifacts in Forensic DNA Analysis
- The Abuse of E-Cigarettes, Their Impact On Criminal Justice
- Development of a Dynamic Model of the DNA Laboratory Process
- Using Forensics and Biometrics to Combat Human Trafficking
- DNA RADAR™: Innovations in Human Identification Using NGS
- U-XRF of Glass: A Practical Explanation of ASTM E2926
- ASCLD DNA Mixtures Webinar Series: Managers Overview
- Error and Uncertainty in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
- Impression, Pattern, & Trace Evidence
- Anthropology & Microbial Forensics
- Forensic Biology & DNA
- Controlled Substances & Toxicology
- Development of a Probe Capture NGS System for Forensics
- DNA Standards and Guidelines
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