Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

Number of Awards: 7,429
Total Amount Awarded: $3,933,755,780

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2016	Examining the Short and Long-term Impact of Mass Violence in Communities	Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	The Regents of the University of California	CA	2015-VF-GX-K113	$1,750,000	Closed
2016	Examining the Use and Impact of Restrictive Housing	Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections	CINCINNATI UNIV OF	OH	2016-IJ-CX-0013	$452,452	Closed
2016	Exploring Life-Course and Day-to-Day Experiences of Military Veterans in the Criminal Justice System	New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	Illinois State University	IL	2016-R2-CX-0053	$95,831	Closed
2016	Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Restrictive Housing in America's Prisons and Jails	Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections	VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE, INC.	NY	2016-IJ-CX-0016	$1,410,096	Closed
2016	Facilitating Forensic Research in Multiple Fields Using a Unique Computed Tomography Dataset	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, THE	NM	2016-DN-BX-0144	$702,654	Closed
2016	File Toolkit for Selective Analysis & Reconstruction (File TSAR) for Large Scale Computer Networks	Developing Improved Means to Collect Digital Evidence Program	Purdue University	IN	2016-MU-MU-K091	$487,440	Closed
2016	Firearm Involvement in Delinquent Youth and Collateral Consequences in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Longitudinal Study	Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	Northwestern University	IL	2016-R2-CX-0039	$425,000	Open
2016	Firearm Toolmark Population Statistics for Objective Identification and Error Rate Estimation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	National Institute of Standards and Technology		2016-DNR-6257-1	$367,863	Closed
2016	Fluvial Transport of Human Remains: Forensic Application of a HEC-RAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES	CA	2016-DN-BX-0159	$866,896	Past Project Period End Date
2016	Forensic Body Fluid Identification Using Microbiome Signature Attribution	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2016-DN-BX-0151	$443,598	Closed
2016	Forensic Chemistry of Substituted N-Benzylmethoxy (N-BOMe) Phenethylamines: Isomeric Designer Drugs Related to 25I-N-BOMe	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Auburn University	AL	2016-DN-BX-0175	$215,000	Closed
2016	Forensic Investigation of Bloodstains Using Raman Spectroscopy and Chemometrics: species differentiation, kinetic changes, donor age, and potential false positives	Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany	NY	2015-R2-CX-0021	$49,993	Closed
2016	Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCOE) FY17	Forensic Technology Center of Excellence	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2016-MU-BX-K110	$4,999,804	Past Project Period End Date
2016	Funding to support the operation of the Secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics	Office of Science and Technology Continuations	AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE, INCORPORATED	DC	2016-IJ-CX-0112	$50,000	Closed
2016	Further Development of Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluid Investigation: Method Advancement and Validation	Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany	NY	2015-R2-CX-0019	$46,083	Closed
2016	Furthering Understanding of Forensic Units: A Detailed Examination of Louisville Metro Police Dept.'s CSU	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	University of Louisville Research Foundation	KY	2016-R2-CX-0006	$32,000	Closed
2016	FY16 Visiting Fellows Program: Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women	Visiting Fellows Program (original)	University of Alaska Anchorage	AK	2016-R2-CX-K002	$236,958	Closed
2016	Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities	Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Children''s Hospital Corporation	MA	2014-ZA-BX-0001	$376,904	Closed
2016	Graduate Research Fellowship: Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid OnsiteScreening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biologicalsamples	Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-0034	$50,000	Open
2016	Graduate Research Fellowship: Low-cost Handheld Spectrometer and Cloud- Based Data Analysis for Improved Identification of Substances of Abuse	Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	University of Central Florida	FL	2015-R2-CX-0035	$50,000	Closed
2016	Habitat Specialization and the Evolution of Dispersal	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Regents of the University of Colorado	CO	2016-DN-BX-0194	$684,273	Closed
2016	High-throughput DNA Sequencing of Environmentally Insulted Latent and Partial Bloody Fingerprints After Visualization with the Nanoscale Columnar-Thin-Film Technique	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	PA	2016-DN-BX-0153	$397,643	Closed
2016	Human Organ Tissue Identification by Targeted RNA Deep Sequencing to Aid in the Investigation of Shooting and Other Traumatic Bodily Injury Incidents	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-DN-BX-0165	$424,799	Closed
2016	ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0179	$327,372	Closed
2016	Identification of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin as a novel candidate trigger for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY	NY	2016-DN-BX-0176	$546,721	Closed