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: 15
Total Amount Awarded: $8,708,600

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
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
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
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
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	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
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
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
2016	Development of a New Measure of Adolescent Dating Aggression: National Norms with a Focus on Marginalized Youth	Research on Measurement of Teen Dating Violence	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2016-IJ-CX-0006	$499,988	Closed
2016	The Impact of State-Level Firearms Laws on Homicide Rates by Race/Ethnicity	Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2016-MU-MU-0047	$610,000	Closed
2018	Body fluid analysis detection and identification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic scientists	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-MU-MU-0013	$462,091	Closed
2017	Racial and ethnic differences in non-fatal firearm injuries	NIJ FY17 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2017-IJ-CX-0018	$693,695	Closed
2015	Continuation Funding for 2014-R2-CX-0005	NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2014-R2-CX-0005	$481,374	Closed
2020	Root Causes of Bias-based Harassment in Schools: Risk and Protective Factors across Multiple Levels of the Social Ecology	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2020-CK-BX-0005	$1,290,546	Open
2020	3D morphology of blood stain can provide critical information missed in standard bloodstain analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2020-DQ-BX-0006	$361,656	Past Project Period End Date
2022	Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO	$139,905	Open