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: 7,390
Total Amount Awarded: $3,904,827,360

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
2013	A Multidisciplinary Validation Study of Non-human Animal Models for Forensic Decomposition Research	NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2013-DN-BX-K037	$226,382	Closed
2008	DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS SYSTEM (NAMUS)	NIJ FY 08 Geospatial Technology: Invited Full Proposals	University of Tennessee	TN	2008-IJ-CX-K406	$165,509	Closed
2006	Determination of Age and Sex from the Human Clavicle: A Geometric Morphometric Approach	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007	The University of Tennessee	TN	2007-DN-BX-0004	$20,000	Closed
2006	Biomechanical and Morphometric Body Mass Estimation from the Human Skeleton Employing High Resolution CTs, DEXA Bone Density Scans, Radiographs and Osteological Covariates	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007	The University of Tennessee	TN	2007-DN-BX-0013	$20,000	Closed
2014	Assessment of rapid, robust and efficient postmortem DNA sampling method for DVI and missing persons identification	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K037	$187,518	Closed
2010	Tennessee's Activities under the Paul Coverdell National Science Forensic Sciences Improvement Act for Fiscal Year 2010.	FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2010-CD-BX-0014	$464,491	Closed
2015	Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2015-DN-BX-K019	$250,024	Closed
2015	Combined Temperature and Humidity Control to Tune Latent Fingermark Development by Superglue Fuming	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2015-IJ-CX-K015	$264,842	Closed
2015	FFY 2015 State of Tennessee Forensic Science Improvement Application	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2015-CD-BX-0030	$155,243	Closed
2015	Tennessee's FFY 2015 DBRG Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Tennessee Bureau of Investigations	TN	2015-DN-BX-0116	$2,162,375	Closed
2016	Establishing a Rank Order for Skeletal Element Sampling: Examining Differential DNA Yield Rates Among and Between Buried Human Skeletal Elements as Compared to Surface Recovered Skeletal Elements	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0178	$270,616	Closed
2016	Implications of Three-Dimensional Laser Scanned Images for the Criminal Justice System	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0177	$160,300	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	Nashville Longitudinal Study of Youth Safety and Wellbeing	Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	TN	2016-CK-BX-K002	$4,916,705	Closed
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	Closed
2018	Automation-Supported Curation of Large Forensic Image Databases	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0181	$354,751	Closed
2017	The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE	TN	2017-IJ-CX-0007	$49,898	Closed
2017	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2017	Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY	TN	2017-DN-BX-0146	$377,535	Closed
2018	The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression	NIJ FY18 Continuations	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE	TN	2017-IJ-CX-0007	$49,616	Closed
2018	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2019	Identification of Blunt Force Traumatic Fractures in Burned Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2019-75-CX-0019	$212,738	Past Project Period End Date
2009	IMPROVING SEX ESTIMATION FROM CRANIA USING 3-DIMENSIONAL CT SCANS	NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	The University of Tennessee	TN	2008-DN-BX-K182	$167,278	Closed
2009	Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern Donated Collections	NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	The University of Tennessee	TN	2008-DN-BX-K193	$240,750	Closed
2003	National Forensic Science Institute	National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards	University of Tennessee	TN	2002-LP-CX-K006	$745,125	Closed