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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: IN,
City: INDIANAPOLIS

Number of Awards: 84
Total Amount Awarded: $34,739,341

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2012 FY12 - Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency IN 2012-DN-BX-0094 $438,674 Closed
2010 FY2010 Indiana Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Indiana Criminal Justice Institute IN 2010-CD-BX-0005 $648,850 Closed
2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Project FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency IN 2010-CD-BX-0063 $53,500 Closed
2013 Indiana's base and competitive Coverdell grant proposals seek to reduce the case backlog and improve the quality and completeness of forensic services at the Indiana State Police, Forensic Laboratory NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Indiana Criminal Justice Institute IN 2013-CD-BX-0031 $136,061 Closed
2014 FY 2014 Indianapolis Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Indianapolis IN 2014-DN-BX-K084 $255,869 Closed
2014 Improving the prediction of human quantitative pigmentation traits such as eye, hair and skin color using a worldwide representation panel of US and European individuals NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Indiana University IN 2014-DN-BX-K031 $1,123,404 Closed
2014 Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Drug and Drug Metabolite Screening Directly fromPostmortem Blood Samples NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Indiana University IN 2014-R2-CX-K007 $273,826 Closed
2013 Species and age determination of blow fly pupae based upon headspace analysis NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Indiana University IN 2013-DN-BX-K019 $197,491 Closed
2009 Indianapolis Metropolitan Police - Cold Case Initiative NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS IN 2009-DN-BX-K045 $500,000 Closed
2011 FY 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Indiana State Police NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Indiana State Police IN 2011-DN-BX-K500 $959,314 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency IN 2011-DN-BX-K516 $512,906 Closed
2007 Advanced In-Car Video System NIJ FY 07 Sensors and Surveillance Technologies: Invited Full Proposals Institute for Forensic Imaging IN 2007-DE-BX-K007 $270,000 Closed
2007 Selective Feature Based Quality Measure Plug-in for Iris Recognition System NIJ FY 07 Biometrics Technologies: Invited Full Proposals Indiana University IN 2007-DE-BX-K182 $84,858 Closed
2018 IDENTIFICATION OF LOW EXPLOSIVES AND THEIR POST-BLAST RESIDUES VIA GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC) COUPLED WITH VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET (VUV) SPECTROSCOPY NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-R2-CX-0015 $150,000 Closed
2018 Improving the Accuracy and Fairness of Pretrial Release Decisions: A Multi-Site Study of Risk Assessments Implemented in Four Counties NIJ FY18 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Crime TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-R2-CX-0023 $77,768 Closed
2015 Automated Derivatization and Identification of Controlled Substances via Total Vaporization Solid Phase Microextraction (TV-SPME) and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-DN-BX-K058 $190,223 Closed
2015 Backlog Reduction/Quality Improvement Project NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Indiana Criminal Justice Institute IN 2015-CD-BX-0021 $157,033 Closed
2015 FY15 - Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency IN 2015-DN-BX-0059 $595,727 Closed
2015 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Indiana State Police NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Indiana State Police IN 2015-DN-BX-0030 $728,110 Closed
2015 An Investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA, using a globally distributed panel of individuals from the US and Europe. NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $37,788 Closed
2016 Development of Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Acetyl Fentanyl and Synthetic Cannabinoids NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Trustees of Indiana University IN 2016-DN-BX-0007 $48,406 Closed
2016 An investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA, using a globally distributed panel of individuals from the US and Europe Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $38,683 Closed
2017 Electrochemical Paper-based Sensors for the Trace Detection of Explosives Compounds in a Crime Scene NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2017-DN-BX-0172 $229,923 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Coupling Gas Chromatography (GC) and Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Spectroscopy for Forensic Applications NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2017-R2-CX-0018 $370,180 Closed
2017 Development of Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Acetyl Fentanyl and Synthetic Cannabinoids NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Trustees of Indiana University IN 2016-DN-BX-0007 $48,666 Closed