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 Sort descending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2009	FY 2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Tennessee Bureau of Investigation	NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2009-DN-BX-K077	$465,570	Closed
2009	IMPROVING SEX ESTIMATION FROM CRANIA USING 3-DIMENSIONAL CT SCANS	NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	The University of Tennessee	TN	2008-DN-BX-K182	$167,278	Closed
2009	Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern Donated Collections	NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	The University of Tennessee	TN	2008-DN-BX-K193	$240,750	Closed
2009	National DNA Training Initiative	NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program	University of Tennessee	TN	2009-DN-BX-K191	$647,802	Closed
2009	Post Coital DNA Recovery	NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research	The University of Tennessee	TN	2009-DN-BX-0023	$763,428	Closed
2009	Tennessee's Activities Under The Paul Coverdell National Science Forensic Sciences Improvement Act FY 09-10	NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2009-CD-BX-0017	$323,941	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
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
2010	Developing Methods to Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Latent Fingermark Development by Superglue Fuming	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Pattern and Impression Evidence	The University of Tennessee	TN	2010-DN-BX-K202	$258,816	Closed
2010	Evaluating the Use of DNA and RNA Degradation for Estimating the Post-Mortem Interval	NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development	The University of Tennessee	TN	2010-DN-BX-K228	$167,414	Closed
2010	FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Tennessee Bureau of Investigation	NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Tennessee Bureau of Investigations	TN	2010-DN-BX-K029	$506,527	Closed
2010	FY 2010 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Tennessee Bureau of Investigation	NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Tennessee Bureau of Investigations	TN	2010-DN-BX-K098	$2,069,661	Closed
2010	Knox County Forensics Enhancement Program	FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Knox County Sheriff''s Office	TN	2010-CD-BX-0084	$174,828	Closed
2010	Tennessee's Activities under the Paul Coverdell National Science Forensic Sciences Improvement Act for Fiscal Year 2010.	FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2010-CD-BX-0014	$464,491	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
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	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
2011	Tennessee's Activities under the Paul Coverdell National Science Forensic Sciences Improvement Act for Federal Fiscal Year 2011.	NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2011-CD-BX-0031	$387,481	Closed
2012	FY2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Tennessee Bureau of Investigation	NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Tennessee Bureau of Investigations	TN	2012-DN-BX-0106	$2,190,753	Closed
2012	The State of Tennessee's Activities under the Paul Coverdell National Forensic Science Improvement Act for Federal Fiscal Year 2012.	NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2012-CD-BX-0010	$146,546	Closed
2013	A Multidisciplinary Validation Study of Non-human Animal Models for Forensic Decomposition Research	NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2013-DN-BX-K037	$226,382	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
2013	FY 2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - State of Tennessee	NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Tennessee Bureau of Investigations	TN	2013-DN-BX-0113	$2,351,154	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	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