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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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State: VA,
District: 4

Number of Awards: 86
Total Amount Awarded: $42,354,988

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2012 FY 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Virginia Department of Forensic Science NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2012-DN-BX-0021 $1,165,649 Closed
2010 2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Criminal Justice Services VA 2010-CD-BX-0038 $581,519 Closed
2013 2013 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Virginia Dept of Criminal Justice Services VA 2013-CD-BX-0055 $170,371 Closed
2014 Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Sustainability of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in Increasing School Safety for Urban Low-Income Middle Schools NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-CK-BX-0009 $2,660,933 Closed
2014 Three-Dimensional Craniofacial Variation of Modern Americans: A Visual Reference to Supplement Facial Approximation Methods NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-DN-BX-K005 $238,863 Closed
2014 Methods for obtaining STR???quality touch DNA from archived fingerprints NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-DN-BX-K013 $255,047 Closed
2014 Characterization and Abuse of Electronic Cigarettes: The Efficacy of a Personal Vaporizer as an Illicit Drug Delivery System NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-R2-CX-K010 $339,126 Closed
2011 Cold Case Anaylsis Training for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors (CCAT-LEP)
Continuation Project 		NIJ FY 11 Forensic Science Training Delivery and Research Program Virginia Center for Policing Innovation VA 2011-DN-BX-K566 $373,169 Closed
2013 DNA Profiling of Complex Biological Mixtures using HLA-Antibody Probes and Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2013-DN-BX-K033 $385,496 Closed
2008 Development of a Thin Layer Chromatography Method for the Separation of Enantiomers Using Chiral Mobile Phase Additives NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Analysis of Controlled Substances: Invited Full Proposals Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2008-DN-BX-K140 $49,774 Closed
2009 SOLVING COLD CASES FROM DFS SEROLOGY CASE FILES -- 1973-1988 NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2009-DN-BX-K046 $490,960 Closed
2011 FY11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Virginia Department of Forensic Science NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2011-DN-BX-K421 $1,447,358 Closed
2015 Development and Validation of Two Innovative Quantitative Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Methods for Forensic Toxicology Laboratories NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence Department of Forensic Science VA 2015-DN-BX-K008 $149,504 Closed
2010 Identifying the Missing in Virginia 2010 NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2010-DN-BX-K130 $468,640 Closed
2008 FY 08 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing - Virginia Department of Forensic Science NIJ FY 08 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2008-DN-BX-K154 $443,682 Closed
2009 FY 2009 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - VA Department of Forensic Science NIJ FY 09 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2009-DN-BX-K020 $171,579 Closed
2008 Governor-mandated Post-Conviction DNA Testing of Biological Evidence in Case Files NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2008-DN-BX-K128 $4,520,295 Closed
2015 qPCR Genotype Determination and Mixture Detection Using High Resolution Melting Curve Analysis of STR Loci NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2015-MU-MU-K026 $321,328 Closed
2015 Front End Separation of Compromised Blood Mixtures for Single Source DNA Profiling NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2015-DN-BX-K024 $295,236 Closed
2015 The Implementation of a Forensic Workstation Increases the Timeliness and Efficiency of Evidence Processing in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program County of Dinwiddie VA 2015-CD-BX-0050 $23,183 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Criminal Justice Services VA 2015-CD-BX-0068 $197,409 Closed
2015 FY 2015 Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction - Virginia DFS NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2015-DN-BX-0046 $913,390 Closed
2015 Developing Empirically-Driven Public Corruption Prevention Strategies NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on White-Collar Crime and Public Corruption Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2015-IJ-CX-0007 $412,108 Closed
2016 Chasing the Electronic Cigarette Dragon - Characterizing the Evolution and Impact of Design and Content Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2016-DN-BX-0150 $139,233 Closed
2016 A rotational platform-driven microdevice for differential separation, purification, & amplification of sexual assault forensic samples Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2016-NE-BX-0002 $676,460 Closed