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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Number of Awards: 81
Total Amount Awarded: $39,256,866

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation Sort descending	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2010	Developing an Empirically-Based Ranking Order for Bone Sampling: Examining the Differential DNA Yield Rates between Human Skeletal Elements over Increasing Post Mortem Intervals	NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development	The University of Tennessee	TN	2010-DN-BX-K229	$200,316	Closed
2013	State of Tennessee 2013 Coverdell Application - Formula and Competitive.	NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2013-CD-BX-0028	$134,373	Closed
2014	Rehabilitation Programs for Adult Offenders: Meta-Analysis in Support of Guidelines for Effective Practice	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems-Related Topical Areas	Vanderbilt University	TN	2014-IJ-CX-0021	$456,230	Closed
2014	Postmortem Interval Determination: A Metabolomics / Lipidomics Approach	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Lincoln Memorial University	TN	2014-DN-BX-K010	$193,079	Closed
2014	Evaluation of high density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information from Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K035	$264,722	Open
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
2014	The Effectiveness of School Resource Officers in Tennessee High Schools	NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	Vanderbilt University	TN	2014-IJ-CX-0017	$32,000	Closed
2011	Specialized Crime Scene Investigator Training in Forensic Digital Photography, Crime Scene Mapping, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Shooting Scene Reconstruction	NIJ FY 11 Forensic Science Training Delivery and Research Program	The University of Tennessee	TN	2011-DN-BX-K567	$450,000	Closed
2013	Evaluation of Osteometric Measurements in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Lincoln Memorial University	TN	2013-DN-BX-K038	$207,624	Closed
2009	The Knox County Sheriff''s Office seeks funding to expand its Cold Case Unit to use DNA technology to solve their violent cold cases, utilizing funds for overtime, two new positions and four part time	NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	Knox County Sheriff''s Office	TN	2009-DN-BX-K166	$267,584	Closed
2011	FY2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Tennessee Bureau of Investigation	NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Tennessee Bureau of Investigations	TN	2011-DN-BX-K459	$2,346,924	Closed
2011	Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains for Purposes of Extracting Osteometric Measurements and Estimating MNI	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Tennessee	TN	2011-DN-BX-K537	$514,495	Closed
2006	Evaluation of the processing of habeas corpus cases in US District Courts, Crime and Justice Research, National Institute of Justice.	NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research	Vanderbilt University	TN	2006-IJ-CX-0020	$257,747	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
2014	The Evaluation and Refinement of Nonmetric Sex and Ancestry Assessment Methods in Japanese and Thai Individuals	NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-0002	$16,490	Closed
2006	Cultivating Methods to Enhance the Quality of Aged Fingerprints Developed by Cyanoacrylate Fuming	NIJ FY06 Research and Development on Impression Evidence Solicitation: Invited Full Applications	The University of Tennessee	TN	2006-DN-BX-K031	$126,505	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
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