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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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Awardee Name: University of Central Florida

Number of Awards: 90
Total Amount Awarded: $33,433,768

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 A Combined Molecular Analysis of Pollen Utilizing Lipid Profiling & DNA Barcoding for Plant Species Identification: A Forensic Application NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-24-GG-01571-RESS $120,000 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024 Attribution of tire marks via their elemental profile NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-24-GG-03849-NIJB $299,344 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024 Enhancing the evidentiary value of textile fibers with a combination of fluorescence microscopy and micro spectrophotometry NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-24-GG-03850-NIJB $412,786 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023 Development of a Stable Matrix-Matched Standard for Molecular and Elemental Analysis of Hair in Forensic Toxicology NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-23-GG-01945-RESS $110,966 Open
2022 Enhanced Ignitable Liquid and Substrate Database Functionality for Improved Casework and Research. NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-22-GG-04421-SLFO $289,496 Open
2021 Pre-grouping of commingled human skeletal remains by elemental analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-21-GG-04151-SLFO $240,594 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Transfer, Persistence and DNA Source Attribution of Trace Biological Material in Digital Penetration Assault Cases Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 15PNIJ-21-GG-04147-RESS $550,440 Open
2020 Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 2019-DU-BX-4011 $495,056 Closed
2020 Statistical Infrastructure for the Use of Error Rate Studies in the Interpretation of Forensic Evidence NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2018-DU-BX-4228 $87,206 Closed
2019 Design and Testing of a Computational Aid for Fire Debris Data Interpretation Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 2019-DU-BX-0016 $321,025 Closed
2019 Forensic Application of Pollen DNA Barcoding Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2019-R2-CX-0039 $150,000 Closed
2019 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2018 Analysis and Characterization of Smokeless Powders and Smokeless Powder Residues NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2018-R2-CX-0008 $150,000 Closed
2018 Autosomal DNA-STR Profiling of Directly Captured Spermatozoa from Post-Coital (3-10 Days) Cervico-Vaginal Samples NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2018-NE-BX-0001 $600,704 Closed
2018 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2018 Characterization of Personal and Condom Lubricants using DART-TOFMS and Comprehensive GC-MS NIJ FY18 Continuations University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2018 Classification Procedure for Lubricant Stains and Samples Collected from Sexual Assaults NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2018-MU-BX-0002 $354,195 Closed
2018 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2017 Development and Implementation of a Fire Debris Inference Validation Database: Moving to Probabilistic Statements of the Strength of the Evidence NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES FL 2017-IJ-CX-0023 $496,976 Closed
2017 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2016 Characterization and Classification of Sexual Assault Lubricants using Direct Analysis in Real Time at Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2016-NE-BX-0001 $324,082 Closed
2016 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2016 Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed