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.

Number of Awards: 7,391
Total Amount Awarded: $3,904,954,950

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation Sort descending	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2023	New Age Therapeutics: Development and Validation of an Analytical Workflow for the Analysis of Psychedelics in Biological Matrices	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01426-RESS	$441,886	Open
2023	Pivoting Headspace Ethanol Analysis to Accommodate Modern Day Scenarios	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01424-MUMU	$371,593	Open
2023	Evaluation of the Luxon Ion Source for Rapid Screening in Forensic Laboratories	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-23-GG-01419-RESS	$319,172	Open
2023	Mapping the Continuum of Support for Violent Extremism in the United States	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-23-GG-01383-DOMR	$1,192,220	Open
2023	Domestic Terrorism Targeting America’s Political Elites	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01385-DOMR	$751,254	Open
2023	A Frame Analysis of Violence and Accelerationism in Cognitive Radicalization	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY	OH	15PNIJ-23-GG-01382-DOMR	$449,897	Open
2023	The Extremism Sentencing Study: Judicial Outcomes and Recidivism Among Individuals Convicted of International and Domestic Terrorism	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	15PNIJ-23-GG-01384-DOMR	$762,553	Open
2023	Networks and Pathways of Violent Extremism: Effectiveness of Dis/Misinformation Campaigns	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY	SC	15PNIJ-23-GG-01381-DOMR	$953,203	Open
2023	Understanding the Scope and Nature of Forced Criminality in the United States	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	NEW YORK UNIVERSITY	NY	15PNIJ-23-GG-01927-HT	$997,729	Open
2023	Evaluating Processes and Outcomes of Housing Models for Victims of Human Trafficking	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	HARVARD COLLEGE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF	MA	15PNIJ-23-GK-01928-HT	$654,195	Open
2023	Evaluation of the California Human Trafficking Victim Assistance Grant Program	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-23-GG-01926-HT	$799,859	Open
2023	21st Century Criminal Defense Practice: An Examination of the Impact of Holistic Defense in Wayne County, Michigan	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon	JUSTICE INNOVATION INC.	NY	15PNIJ-23-GG-02235-RESS	$829,358	Open
2023	Building Better Indigent Defense Systems	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon	SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-02234-RESS	$800,000	Open
2023	Capturing nuclear DNA from hair shafts	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)	DC	15PNIJ-23-GG-04209-DNAX	$413,504	Open
2023	Mitigating demographic bias in forensic speaker identification	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	SRI INTERNATIONAL	CA	15PNIJ-23-GG-04220-RESS	$553,851	Open
2023	Developing and Validating Standards for Dental Cementum Age-at-Death and Season-of-Death Estimation	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04229-SLFO	$467,325	Open
2023	Use of MicroRNA Expression in DNA extracts to Predict Body Weight Class in Forensic Samples	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-04212-MUMU	$408,987	Open
2023	Democratizing investigative genetic genealogy	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04213-DNAX	$759,008	Open
2023	Developmental Validation of a Novel Multi-analyte Recovery Method for Trace Biological Samples	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	15PNIJ-23-GG-04207-DNAX	$494,268	Open
2023	Time Since Deposition for Touch DNA Evidence	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-04217-MUMU	$389,621	Open
2023	Optimizing New STRs for Enhanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04214-RESS	$513,529	Open
2023	Optimizing Analytical Parameters for Detection of Chronic and Single Dose Drug Exposure in Forensic Hair Analysis	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04208-MUMU	$431,892	Open
2023	Impact of Relic DNA on Forensic Microbiome Applications in Criminal Investigations	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04205-RESS	$229,454	Open
2023	Quantitative and visual prediction of eye, hair and skin color from DNA	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04206-RESS	$980,527	Open
2023	Experimental and numerical investigations for the development and validation of thermo-chemistry models and property databases for selected wall lining materials under fire exposure	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY	KY	15PNIJ-23-GG-04204-RESS	$290,289	Open