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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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State: MA,
City: Boston

Number of Awards: 101
Total Amount Awarded: $52,334,074

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2008 TRAINING COURSES FOR THE FORENSIC PRACTITIONER: LABORATORY EXPERIENCE WITH BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2008-DN-BX-K158 $900,000 Closed
2009 Boston Police Department FY09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program City of Boston MA 2009-CD-BX-0099 $125,000 Closed
2009 Boston Police Department Predictive Policing Project NIJ FY09 Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Program City of Boston MA 2009-DE-BX-K219 $200,000 Closed
2009 FY2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City Of Boston NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Program City of Boston MA 2009-DN-BX-K154 $312,794 Closed
2009 FY2009 Solving Boston''s Cold Case Homicides with DNA NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City Of Boston MA 2009-DN-BX-K253 $491,265 Closed
2009 Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Northeastern University MA 2009-IJ-CX-0015 $501,352 Closed
2010 Boston Police Department Firearms Analysis Section Improvement Project FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Boston MA 2010-CD-BX-0074 $172,574 Closed
2010 Boston Police Department FY10 DNA Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Boston MA 2010-DN-BX-K122 $307,967 Closed
2011 An Examination of the "Marriage Effect" on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program University of Massachusetts Boston MA 2011-IJ-CX-0002 $99,149 Closed
2011 Dating Violence Among Latino Adolescent - II (DAVILA - II) NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Northeastern University MA 2011-WG-BX-0021 $555,896 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Boston Police Department NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Boston MA 2011-DN-BX-K424 $371,006 Closed
2011 Low-template DNA mixture interpretation: Determining the number of contributors NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2011-DN-BX-K558 $464,617 Closed
2012 Boston Police Department Forensic Group Improvement Project NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Boston MA 2012-CD-BX-0073 $63,546 Closed
2012 Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion for Complex Low-Template DNA Mixtures NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2012-DN-BX-K050 $598,765 Closed
2012 FY12 Solving Boston''s Cold Case Homicides with DNA NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Boston MA 2012-DN-BX-K005 $314,372 Closed
2012 FY2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Boston Police Department NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Boston MA 2012-DN-BX-0092 $312,244 Closed
2012 Understanding Pathways to and away from Violent Radicalization among Resettled Somali Refugees NIJ FY 12 Research on Domestic Radicalization Children''s Hospital Corporation MA 2012-ZA-BX-0004 $593,894 Closed
2013 A Brief Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2013-VA-CX-0001 $741,630 Closed
2013 FY2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Boston Police Department NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Boston MA 2013-DN-BX-0027 $311,809 Closed
2013 Massachusetts Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Committee for Public Counsel Services MA 2013-DY-BX-K006 $613,205 Closed
2013 The Dynamic Context of Teen Dating Violence Within Adolescent Relationships NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Boston Medical Center Corporation MA 2013-VA-CX-0003 $787,595 Closed
2014 Body fluid analysis by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic applications NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University MA 2014-DN-BX-K021 $403,397 Closed
2014 BPD's Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Project NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Boston MA 2014-CD-BX-0019 $175,000 Closed
2014 Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion: Developing Tools for the Interpretation of Complex DNA Mixtures NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-DN-BX-K026 $813,843 Closed
2014 Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-R2-CX-0005 $247,093 Closed