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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 North Texas

Number of Awards: 67
Total Amount Awarded: $85,546,195

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Enhancing Mixture Interpretation with Highly Informative STRs NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-DN-BX-K067 $585,415 Closed
2015 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2015-DN-BX-0057 $507,165 Closed
2015 Human Microbiome Species and Genes for Human Identification NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-NE-BX-K006 $589,701 Closed
2015 NIJ FY15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2015-DN-BX-K070 $2,238,750 Closed
2014 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $3,750,000 Closed
2014 Development of a brief elder abuse and neglect screener for Emergency Medical Services: Detection of Elder abuse Through Emergency Care Technicians (DETECT) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2014-MU-CX-0102 $369,039 Closed
2014 Novel Collection Device for Enhanced DNA Recovery and Release from Biological Stain Samples NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2014-DN-BX-K033 $487,884 Closed
2013 Application for Continuation Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 13 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $2,250,000 Closed
2013 Development of improved insertion-deletion assays for human and ancestral identifications from degraded samples NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2013-DN-BX-K036 $329,233 Closed
2013 FY 2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction for the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2013-DN-BX-0062 $518,302 Closed
2013 Microscopy with Direct Analyte Probe Nanoextraction (DAPNe)-Coupled to Nanospray Mass Spectrometry for Localized Chemical Analysis of Document Inks NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas TX 2013-R2-CX-K007 $380,986 Closed
2013 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing, Fiscal Year 2013 NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2013-DN-BX-K012 $800,000 Closed
2012 "Development of an Analytical Approach for a Robust Probability Model for LCN DNA Profile Interpretation" NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2012-IJ-CX-0016 $24,988 Closed
2012 Development of Reference Sample DNA Profiling for Databases Using Next Generation Sequencing Technologies NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2012-DN-BX-K033 $747,797 Closed
2012 FY 2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction for the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2012-DN-BX-0050 $548,144 Closed
2012 NIJ FY 12 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 12 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2012-DN-BX-K057 $1,925,000 Closed
2012 Support for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 12 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $2,700,000 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-DN-BX-K408 $654,539 Closed
2011 UNTHSC Proposal for the Management and Support of the National Missing and Unidentified Person System NIJ FY 11 The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Program University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $2,600,000 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Forensic DNA Backlog Redution Program for the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2010-DN-BX-K119 $785,138 Closed
2010 The University of North Texas Center for Human Identifcation Project: Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing, FY 2010 NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2010-DN-BX-K206 $2,808,508 Closed
2009 Development of an Expert System for Automated Forensic mtDNA Data Analysis NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K171 $265,393 Closed
2009 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fiscal Year 2009 NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K058 $573,781 Closed
2009 The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project: Using DNATechnology to Identify the Missing. Fiscal Year 2009 NIJ FY 09 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K164 $2,505,389 Closed
2008 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fiscal Year 2008 NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2008-DN-BX-K059 $495,826 Closed