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 Sort ascending	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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
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
2018	The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression	NIJ FY18 Continuations	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE	TN	2017-IJ-CX-0007	$49,616	Closed
2019	The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE	TN	2017-IJ-CX-0007	$49,998	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
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	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
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
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
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
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	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
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	State of Tennessee - FFY 2014 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant - Formula and Competitive	NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2014-CD-BX-0058	$145,479	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
2017	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2018	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2019	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	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
2023	Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003)	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY	TN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS	$99,818	Open
2017	Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY	TN	2017-DN-BX-0146	$377,535	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
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
2003	Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grants (FY 2003 Formula Grant Program). National Institute of Justice, 7/1/03 - 6/30/04	Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grants (FY 2003 Formula Grant Program)	State of Tennessee	TN	2003-DN-BX-0064	$70,496	Closed
2007	Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grant FY 07-08	NIJ FY 07 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	State of Tennessee	TN	2007-CD-BX-0085	$228,734	Closed