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: 397
Total Amount Awarded: $258,822,555

Funded Awards
FY	Title Sort descending	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2004	Enhancement of Firearms Analysis Services	PAUL COVERDELL FORENSIC SCIENCE IMPROVEMENT GRANTS GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT FISCAL YEAR 2004	Dallas County	TX	2004-DN-BX-0202	$80,233	Closed
2004	Enhancement of Forensic DNA Testing Capabilities	DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04	Dallas County	TX	2004-DN-BX-K187	$479,806	Closed
2012	Enhancement of Local Crime Lab and Medical Examiner Services	NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Dallas County	TX	2012-CD-BX-0072	$174,410	Closed
2015	Enhancing Mixture Interpretation with Highly Informative STRs	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2015-DN-BX-K067	$585,415	Closed
2018	Establishing Sufficiency Thresholds for Assessing the Quality of Mass Spectral Data	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	HOUSTON FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTER, INC.	TX	2018-DU-BX-0184	$282,703	Closed
2018	ETA: Evaluation of Technology-based Advocacy Services	NIJ FY18 Programs and Services for Victims of Crime: Phased Evaluation Research	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	TX	2018-ZD-CX-0004	$485,244	Closed
2016	Evaluating and improving practices employed by U.S. forensic scientists to locate critical literature for use in investigations	New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	Texas A&M University	TX	2016-R2-CX-0054	$149,634	Closed
2016	Evaluation and Implementation of High Throughput Second Generation Sequencing for Mitochondrial DNA Testing in Missing Persons and Forensic Casework at the UNT Center for Human Identification.	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2016-DN-BX-K001	$727,072	Closed
2015	Evaluation of an Intensive Truancy Reduction Program (CISDRXT) within Communities In Schools (CIS) of the Dallas Region	NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	EDVANCE RESEARCH, INC.	TX	2015-CK-BX-0015	$4,609,701	Closed
2016	Evaluation of The Use of A Contactless, Three-Dimensional Scanner for Collecting Postmortem Fingerprints from Unidentified Human Remains	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FlashScan3D, LLC	TX	2016-DN-BX-0180	$591,262	Closed
2014	Evaluation of The Use of A Non-Contact, 3D Scanner for Collecting Postmortem Fingerprints	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FlashScan3D, LLC	TX	2014-IJ-CX-K003	$364,830	Closed
2015	Examining Prosecutorial Discretion in Federal Criminal Cases	NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program	The University of Texas at San Antonio	TX	2015-R2-CX-0041	$39,823	Closed
2016	Examining Race and Gender Disparities in Restricted Housing Placements	W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime	Sam Houston State University	TX	2016-R2-CX-0043	$100,000	Closed
2004	Expansion and improvement of quality and timliness of Forensic Pathology services for the University of Texas Medical Branch	PAUL COVERDELL FORENSIC SCIENCE IMPROVEMENT GRANTS GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT FISCAL YEAR 2004	County Of Galveston Texas And University of Texas Medical Branch	TX	2004-DN-BX-0212	$80,233	Closed
2011	Extending the Microbial Forensic Toolkit Through Whole Genome Sequencing and Statistical Phylogenomics	NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Baylor College of Medicine	TX	2011-DN-BX-K534	$581,213	Closed
2018	Eyewitness Identification: A Systematic Investigation of Lineup Composition and Fairness	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	TX A & M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE	TX	2018-R2-CX-0027	$344,515	Closed
2003	Factors That Impact The Determination By Medical Examiners Of Elder Mistreatment As A Cause Of Death In Older Persons	National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards	Baylor College of Medicine	TX	2003-IJ-CX-K015	$290,315	Closed
2014	Family Instability and Exposure to Violence in Childhood and Adolescence	NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data	The University of Texas at Austin	TX	2014-IJ-CX-0025	$39,517	Closed
2004	Field test of current technology used in the identification of unidentified remains.	National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards - Office of Research and Evaluation	University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth	TX	2004-DN-BX-K214	$249,902	Closed
2020	Finding the Missing and Unidentified: The Application of Predictive Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Small Unmanned Aircraft-Mounted Infrared Imagery for the Detection of Unmarked Graves	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0043	$150,000	Open
2009	Firearms Examiner Training for the Jefferson County Regional Crime Laboratory	NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	Jefferson County	TX	2009-CD-BX-0057	$80,104	Closed
2013	Forensic Anthropology Fellowship Training Program	NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Harris County	TX	2013-CD-BX-0071	$74,147	Closed
2005	Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program FY2005 - Harris County Medical Examiners Office	Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program	Harris County	TX	2005-DN-BX-K122	$399,379	Closed
2006	Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Scienc Center, Fiscal Year 2006	NIJ FY06 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program Grant Announcement	University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth	TX	2006-DN-BX-K056	$155,314	Closed
2008	Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fiscal Year 2008	NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth	TX	2008-DN-BX-K059	$495,826	Closed