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: 109
Total Amount Awarded: $38,260,727

Funded Awards
FY Sort descending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2011	Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program FY2011 - Miami-Dade Police Department	NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2011-CD-BX-0071	$175,000	Closed
2011	Rapid and selective extraction of male DNA from rape kits and other forensic evidence using pressure cycling	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida International University	FL	2011-NE-BX-K550	$349,130	Closed
2011	Separation and Identification of Drugs of Abuse Using ESI-IMS-MS	NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida International University	FL	2011-DN-BX-K531	$241,447	Closed
2012	Body fluid Identification using epigenetic methylation markers and pyrosequencing	NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida International University	FL	2012-DN-BX-K018	$316,850	Closed
2012	Detection of Designer Drugs and Potent Complex Pharmaceuticals in Death Investigations	NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2012-CD-BX-0024	$175,000	Closed
2012	FY2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Miami-Dade Police Department	NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2012-DN-BX-0045	$996,026	Closed
2012	Miami-Dade Police Department/Solving Cold Cases with DNA	NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	Miami-Dade County	FL	2012-DN-BX-K006	$500,000	Closed
2012	Paper microfluidic systems for rapid and inexpensive presumptive detection of drugs and explosives	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University	FL	2012-DN-BX-K048	$180,224	Closed
2012	The MPD seeks to review, prioritize, examine and evaluate its existing cold cases in an effort to identify physical evidence with the potential to yield DNA that can be submitted for testing.	NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Miami, Florida	FL	2012-DN-BX-K016	$500,000	Closed
2012	Understanding rapport-building in investigative interviews: Does rapport''s effect on witness memory and suggestibility depend on the interviewer?	NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program	The Florida International University	FL	2012-IJ-CX-0007	$24,999	Closed
2013	Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Paper Device for Point of Collection Screening of Cocaine and Methamphetamine in Oral Fluid	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida International University	FL	2013-DN-BX-K032	$352,223	Closed
2013	FY 2013 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Miami-Dade Police Department	NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2013-DN-BX-0073	$1,082,739	Closed
2014	Drug screening in postmortem blood: a faster approach using GC/MS	NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2014-CD-BX-0028	$174,634	Closed
2014	Enhancing School Safety Through Digital Intelligence: Evaluating Campus Shield	NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe	The School Board of Miami-Dade, FL	FL	2014-CK-BX-0019	$4,273,799	Open
2014	Forensic Toxicological Screening/Confirmation of 500+ Designer Drugs by LC-QTOF-MS and LC-QqQ-MS Analysis	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2014-R2-CX-K006	$396,970	Closed
2014	Miami-Dade Police Department Solving Cold Cases with DNA	NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	Miami-Dade County	FL	2014-DN-BX-K074	$125,000	Closed
2015	Characterization and comparison of tape evidence using elemental profiling methods and chemometric analyses	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-DN-BX-K050	$244,072	Closed
2015	DNA methylation analysis using High Resolution Melt for body fluid identification in forensic sciences	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-0012	$49,994	Closed
2015	Electrochemical and Colorimetric Aptamer-Based Sensors for Rapid On-site Screening of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Seized Substances and Biological samples.	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-0034	$50,000	Open
2015	FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Miami-Dade Police Department	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2015-DN-BX-0051	$974,669	Closed
2015	Novel Blood Protein Modification Assay for Retrospective Detection of Drug Exposure	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-NE-BX-K001	$195,710	Closed
2015	Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant to replace a Scanning Electron Microscope/Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Miami Dade County	FL	2015-CD-BX-0020	$175,000	Closed
2015	Strengthening the evaluation and interpretation of glass evidence using statistical analysis of collection sets and databases of refractive index and elemental data (uXRF, ICP-MS and LA-ICP-MS)	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-DN-BX-K049	$230,471	Closed
2015	The Application of Gold Nanoparticles for the Trace Detection of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Saliva and Urine by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-IJ-CX-K006	$333,582	Closed
2015	Ultrahigh speed Direct PCR. A method for obtaining STR based genotypes in under 6 minutes	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-K038	$400,265	Closed