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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.
Description

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

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Sort descending Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2018 Validating Conclusion Scales in the Forensic Sciences NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-DU-BX-0212 $249,206 Closed
2018 Multi-spectral Tunable Detection (MultiTuDe) Lens for Rapid In-situ Forensic Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC CA 2018-75-CX-0042 $271,226 Closed
2018 Better Forensic Markers: Microhaplotypes and Ancestry SNPs NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes YALE UNIVERSITY CT 2018-75-CX-0041 $1,083,499 Closed
2018 Evaluation of Terrestrial and Aerial Remote Sensing with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) for Forensic Crime-Scene Reconstruction NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Kansas State University KS 2018-R2-CX-0031 $91,416 Closed
2018 Testing new methods for degraded DNA recovery and next-generation sequencing NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2018-DU-BX-0218 $669,898 Closed
2018 Exploration of RNA degradation in dried body fluid stains as a means of estimating the age of the samples NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY OK 2018-DU-BX-0206 $487,647 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Development of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome and Nuclear STR and SNP Markers NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND CA 2018-DU-BX-0183 $696,362 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Investigation of subadult dental age-at-death estimation using transition analysis and machine learning methods NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2018-DU-BX-0182 $898,550 Closed
2018 Physics and Statistical Models for Physical Match Analysis Utilizing 3D Microscopy of Fracture Surfaces NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2018-R2-CX-0034 $681,664 Closed
2018 Physical Characteristics of Spatter Stains on Textiles: Influence of Impact Surface Texture, Blood Drop Volume and Blood Drop Velocity NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY NC 2018-R2-CX-0033 $272,463 Closed
2018 DNA Typing Strategies via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing for Forensic Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2018-DU-BX-0179 $634,973 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Identification of Minor Dye Components of Fibers via Integrating-Cavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY WA 2018-DU-BX-0178 $580,622 Closed
2018 Characterization and Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Signatures and Debris NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN TX 2018-MU-BX-0004 $635,430 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2018-DU-BX-0217 $570,624 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Investigating Kinetic and Thermodynamic Approaches to Predict Evaporation of Gasoline at Elevated Temperatures for Fire Debris Applications NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2018-DU-BX-0225 $466,769 Closed
2018 Software tool and methodology for enhancement of unidentified decedent systems with postmortem automatic iris recognition NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC IN 2018-DU-BX-0215 $642,979 Closed
2018 Longitudinal Effects of Prolonged Opioid Use on Cortical Bone Remodeling in a Rabbit Model NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON OH 2018-DU-BX-0188 $323,392 Closed
2018 Coping with Close Non-Matches in Latent Print Comparison (re-)Training NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2018-DU-BX-0227 $616,407 Closed
2018 Ensuring standards and enhancing the field of predictive biometrics using a globally-diverse genotype-phenotype database NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-DU-BX-0219 $651,242 Closed
2018 Classification Procedure for Lubricant Stains and Samples Collected from Sexual Assaults NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2018-MU-BX-0002 $354,195 Closed
2018 Post-Blast Explosives Attribution NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIT Lincoln Laboratory DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-2 $599,738 Closed
2018 Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIT Lincoln Laboratory DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-1 $649,938 Closed
2018 Establishing a National Firearms and Toolmark Statistical Background Population for Calculation of Error Rates NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes National Institute of Standards and Technology 2016-DNR-6257-3 $550,615 Open
2018 The Final Stage Reentry Project: An RCT of Expungement and its Effect on Recidivism, Housing, and Employment NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE MA 2019-RY-BX-0001 $1,129,918 Open
2018 Cognitive Behavioral Interventions to Promote Successful Reentry: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Process Evaluation, and Cost-Benefit Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI OH 2019-RY-BX-0003 $2,503,344 Open