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: 243
Total Amount Awarded: $124,679,212

Funded Awards
FY Sort descending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2014	Space-time study of youth and school violence	NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	PA	2014-CK-BX-0008	$3,082,625	Closed
2015	2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Allegheny County Pennsylvania	PA	2015-DN-BX-0110	$271,948	Closed
2015	A Different Method of Predicting Risk: Unpacking the Potential of a Statewide Sentencing Risk Assessment	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK	PA	2015-IJ-CX-0002	$32,000	Closed
2015	A Simultaneous Low Resolution and Off-Pose Angle Face Matching Algorithm as an Investigative Lead Generative Tool for Law Enforcement	NIJ FY 15 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	Carnegie Mellon Univeristy	PA	2013-IJ-CX-K005	$499,230	Closed
2015	Adaptive Expert System that Learns to Detect and Track Patterns of Crime in Internet Advertisements	NIJ FY 15 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	Carnegie Mellon University	PA	2013-IJ-CX-K007	$239,670	Closed
2015	An Interactive Morphological Database for Estimating Sex in Modern Adults	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Mercyhurst University	PA	2015-DN-BX-K014	$126,871	Closed
2015	Assessing the Effects of DNA Damage on Next Generation mtDNA Sequencing	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK	PA	2015-DN-BX-K025	$654,662	Closed
2015	Evaluation and Optimization of DNA Recovery and Amplification from Bullet Cartridge Cases	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation	PA	2015-DN-BX-K059	$494,630	Open
2015	Forensic Services Accreditation and Certification Continuum	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Pennsylvania Commission On Crime And Delinquency	PA	2015-CD-BX-0015	$305,272	Closed
2015	FY 2015 DNA Capacity and Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Pennsylvania State Police	PA	2015-DN-BX-0091	$1,177,154	Closed
2015	Instilling a Culture of Continuous Learning From Criminal Justice System Errors: A Multi-Stakeholder Sentinel Event Review of Process in Philadelphia	NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2015-R2-CX-K040	$351,052	Open
2015	Monitoring Changes in the Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Market through Enhanced Identification of Emerging Drugs and their Metabolites in Biological Samples	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation	PA	2015-IJ-CX-K012	$378,153	Closed
2015	Suspension Practices in the Context of PBIS: Implications for K-8 Students in the School District of Philadelphia	NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2015-CK-BX-0013	$883,519	Closed
2015	The Philadelphia Police Department, Office of Forensic Science, Criminalistics Unit Reduction of Forensic Biology and DNA Case Backlog Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2015-DN-BX-0033	$966,068	Closed
2016	Applying Promising Evidence to New Settings: An Experimental Evaluation of Summer Jobs in Philadelphia	New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2016-R2-CX-0049	$147,210	Closed
2016	High-throughput DNA Sequencing of Environmentally Insulted Latent and Partial Bloody Fingerprints After Visualization with the Nanoscale Columnar-Thin-Film Technique	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	PA	2016-DN-BX-0153	$397,643	Closed
2016	Measuring Rates of mtDNA Heteroplasmy in Different Population Groups	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK	PA	2016-DN-BX-0171	$295,249	Closed
2016	Point process modeling with spatiotemporal covariates for predicting crime	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Carnegie Mellon University	PA	2016-R2-CX-0021	$49,548	Closed
2016	Recommendation System for Statutory Interpretation in Cybercrime	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh	PA	2016-R2-CX-0010	$49,356	Closed
2016	The Victim-Offender Overlap: Examining Police and Service System Networks of Response among Violent Conflicts	Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime	TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	PA	2016-V3-GX-0009	$579,558	Closed
2016	Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women''s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)	Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	PA	2016-MU-MU-0011	$685,857	Closed
2017	A More Timely Process for Identifying and Analyzing Trends of Emerging Novel Psychoactive Substances in the United States	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	PA	2017-R2-CX-0002	$49,994	Closed
2017	A Point Process Model with Spatiotemporal Covariates for Predicting Crime	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Carnegie Mellon University	PA	2016-R2-CX-0021	$49,548	Closed
2017	ABCD Social Development (ABCD-SD)	NIJ FY17 ABCD Sub-Study on Social Development	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	PA	2017-MU-CX-0044	$2,020,000	Open
2017	Assessing automated image analysis and stable isotope signatures for small arms propellant differentiation and brand identification	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	PA	2017-MU-CX-0043	$404,510	Closed