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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: IA

Number of Awards: 58
Total Amount Awarded: $27,135,499

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2016 Link for Schools: A system to prevent violence and its adverse impacts Comprehensive School Safety Initiative THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IA 2016-CK-BX-0006 $3,675,128 Closed
2009 Development of a Forensic Science Testing and Evaluation Laboratory NIJ FY09 Office of Science and Technology Congressionally Directed Awards Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2009-D1-BX-K206 $3,000,000 Closed
2010 Development of a Forensic Science Testing and Evaluation Laboratory NIJ FY 10 Congressionally Directed Awards Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2009-D1-BX-K206 $1,400,000 Closed
2003 Supplement to and continuation of 2002 RCCX K002 National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards Iowa Department of Public Safety IA 2002-RC-CX-K002 $1,000,000 Closed
2002 National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards Iowa Department of Public Safety IA 2002-RC-CX-K002 $947,910 Closed
2010 The Long-Term Effects of Civil Legal Services on Battered Women NIJ FY 10 ORE Crime and Justice Research and Evaluation: Investigator Initiated University of Iowa IA 2010-WG-BX-0009 $823,822 Closed
2017 Tracking Sexual Assault Kits in Iowa NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) Iowa Department of Justice IA 2017-MU-BX-0133 $796,985 Open
2021 Physics and Mathematical Models for Error Quantifications in Comparative 3D Microscopy for Physical Match Analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-21-GG-04141-RESS $742,590 Open
2018 Building Drug Intelligence Networks to Combat the Opioid Crisis in Rural Communities: A Collaborative Intelligence-led Policing Strategy NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2018-AR-BX-0004 $725,018 Closed
2014 Finding the Region of Origin of Bloodspatters in Complex Situations: Novel Physics-Based Methods and Tools NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2014-DN-BX-K036 $719,015 Closed
2021 Predictive tools and experiments for blood backspatter: incorporating tissue simulants and muzzle gas interactions Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-21-GG-04195-RESS $713,519 Open
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
2019 A Randomized Controlled Trial of ACTV versus T4C for Community Reentry: Differential Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, FY 2019 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2019-R2-CX-0013 $641,386 Open
2017 Ultrafast 3D visualization and fluid dynamic mechanisms of blood atomization NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2017-DN-BX-0171 $591,895 Closed
2019 Forensic Evidence from Chemical Imaging of Triacylglycerols in Latent Fingerprints Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2019-DU-BX-0134 $516,836 Closed
2013 FY2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Iowa Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Iowa Department of Public Safety IA 2013-DN-BX-0014 $512,429 Closed
2008 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Iowa DPS Division of Criminal Investigation IA 2008-DN-BX-K206 $500,000 Closed
2012 FY2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Iowa Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Iowa Department of Public Safety IA 2012-DN-BX-0014 $499,464 Closed
2003 The initiative proposes to create an Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) (pronounced 'ice age') at Iowa State University (previously referred to as the Cyber Protection Lab National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards Iowa State University IA 2003-RD-CX-K006 $496,750 Closed
2023 Empirical Analysis of Saw Mark Characteristics in Human Bone: Meeting Forensic Standards in Dismemberment Cases NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER IA 15PNIJ-23-GG-04215-SLFO $495,637 Open
2012 Development of a Science Base and Open Source Software for
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis 		NIJ FY 12 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2010-DN-BX-K403 $476,187 Closed
2015 FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program-Iowa Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Iowa Department of Public Safety IA 2015-DN-BX-0032 $472,787 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Iowa Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Iowa Department of Public Safety IA 2011-DN-BX-K490 $461,560 Closed
2013 Contents and Contexts of Cyberbullying NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence University of Iowa IA 2013-IJ-CX-0030 $458,246 Closed
2015 Quantitative Tools for Examination of Microscopic Fracture Surface Topology and Degradation for Physical Match Analysis of Evidence NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2015-DN-BX-K056 $445,341 Closed