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	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
2008	FY 2008 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Bexar County	NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	County of Bexar	TX	2008-DN-BX-K032	$162,427	Closed
2005	Solving Cold Cases With DNA	Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Houston	TX	2005-DN-BX-K035	$179,364	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
2004	Crime Laboratory Improvement Project	National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards - Office of Science and Technology	Williamson County Texas	TX	2004-RC-CX-K021	$29,805	Closed
2004	Enhancement of DPS DNA Laboratories	DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04	State of Texas	TX	2004-DN-BX-K198	$787,606	Closed
2007	FY 2007 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Texas Department of Public Safety	NIJ FY 07 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	State of Texas	TX	2007-DN-BX-K058	$1,539,340	Closed
2007	Pasadena Crime Lab Forensic Science Improvement Grant	NIJ FY 07 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	City of Pasadena	TX	2007-CD-BX-0010	$45,543	Closed
2006	2006 DNA Casework Backlog Reduction Project	NIJ FY06 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program Grant Announcement	Dallas County	TX	2006-DN-BX-K084	$210,910	Closed
2008	FY2008 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Dallas County Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences	NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	Dallas County	TX	2008-DN-BX-K037	$822,502	Closed
2008	Forensic Technology Improvements	NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	City of Abilene	TX	2008-CD-BX-0082	$65,890	Closed
2008	FY2008 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Harris Co.	NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	Harris County	TX	2008-DN-BX-K040	$803,108	Closed
2019	Crime and Victimization on the US-Mexico Border: A Comparison of Legal Residents, Illegal Residents and Native-Born Citizens	Research on Immigration and Crime, FY 2019	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO	TX	2019-R2-CX-0054	$521,702	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective	Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-75-CX-0009	$435,020	Closed
2020	Violence against Teachers in the 50 Largest U.S. School Districts: Predictors, Consequences, and School Responses	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO, THE	TX	2020-CK-BX-0004	$579,041	Open
2020	Life course and intergenerational effects of criminal justice involvement: Identifying risks, the search for resilience, and the impact of rise in opioid misuse and the Covid-19 pandemic	Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO, THE	TX	2020-MU-MU-0017	$1,881,736	Closed
2020	Skeletal Blast Trauma: determining the effect of known and experimental blast events on trauma patterns, fracture behavior, and blast scene recovery approaches	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0041	$150,000	Open
2020	An examination of musculoskeletal markers in modern populations for forensic analysis and identification purposes	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0042	$150,000	Open
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
2020	Neurofeedback-Enhanced Trauma Treatment for Adolescents in Residential Treatment	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM	TX	2020-R2-CX-0045	$98,575	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-R2-CX-0046	$81,058	Closed
2020	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$4,288,461	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Body mass estimation using bone micro- and macro-structure: a practical approach using CT imaging and computer analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0048	$683,542	Open
2020	Interpretation of Y chromosome STRs for missing persons cases	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0018	$198,362	Closed
2020	Efficient and Effective SNP System for Analysis of Highly Degraded DNA Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0005	$444,723	Past Project Period End Date
2020	The Cumulative Financial Costs of Victimization among College Students at Minority Serving Institutions	Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO, THE	TX	2020-V3-GX-0075	$745,679	Past Project Period End Date