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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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Subtopic: Evidence analysis and processing

Number of Awards: 2,248
Total Amount Awarded: $771,593,149

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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 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
2019 Application of Particle-Correlated Raman Spectroscopy for the Forensic Examination of Soils Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN, INCORPORATED CT 2019-DU-BX-0017 $686,336 Open
2019 Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 George Mason University VA 2019-DU-BX-0011 $495,056 Closed
2019 Human Identification from Computed Tomography Derived 3D Models using Part-to-Part Comparison Analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FL 2019-DU-BX-0031 $536,181 Past Project Period End Date
2019 A DNA Barcoding Strategy for Blow and Flesh Flies Encountered During Medicolegal Casework Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 HARRIS COUNTY TX 2019-DU-BX-0022 $20,685 Closed
2019 Development of an Interactive Database of Contemporary Material Properties for Computer Fire Modeling Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC IL 2019-DU-BX-0018 $583,545 Closed
2019 Detecting and Processing Clandestine Human Remains with Unmanned Aerial Systems and Multispectral Remote Sensing Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2019-DU-BX-0027 $286,468 Closed
2019 Fast On-site Screening of Seized Drugs by Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Tools: Identification of Fentanyl and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2019-DU-BX-0030 $267,438 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Optimizing the Analysis of DNA From Burned Bone Using Ancient DNA Techniques Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2019-DU-BX-0044 $783,744 Open
2019 Development of a Probability Model to Predict Head Injury Risk in Pediatric Falls Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KY 2019-DU-BX-0029 $636,419 Closed
2019 Electrochemical Aptamer-Based Sensor for Rapid Opioid Detection in Seized Substances Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2019-DU-BX-0024 $365,101 Closed
2019 Identification of Blunt Force Traumatic Fractures in Burned Bone Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2019-75-CX-0019 $212,738 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Phase II Metabolites of Drugs in Hair: A Potential Solution for Environmental Contamination Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-DU-BX-0021 $295,625 Closed
2019 Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-75-CX-0017 $443,931 Closed
2019 Fluid Dynamic Studies of Bloody Fingermarks Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2019-75-CX-0018 $159,122 Closed
2019 Probabilistic Genotyping for Microhaplotypes Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE) DC 2019-DU-BX-0023 $192,764 Closed
2019 Development of a Baseline Survey of Random Presence of Glass and Paint for the Interpretation of Evidence in the U.S. Courts Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2019-DU-BX-0015 $326,820 Closed
2019 Subadult Ancestry Estimation Using Craniometrics, Macromorphoscopics, Odontometrics, and Dental Morphology Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 2019-DU-BX-0039 $785,847 Past Project Period End Date