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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: NE,
District: 1

Number of Awards: 50
Total Amount Awarded: $11,889,578

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2021 Identifying the Feasibility and Acceptability of Conducting Longitudinal Outcome Evaluation Research with Adult Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Perceptions of a Comprehensive Service Model Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2021 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 15PNIJ-21-GG-00994-NONF $600,000 Closed
2021 Incidence of ideologically influenced threatening and violent activity in rural communities Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2021 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 15PNIJ-21-GG-02722-DOMR $772,955 Open
2021 Indigenous-led Research on Sex Trafficking among Native Americans in the Northern Great Plains Research and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2021 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 15PNIJ-21-GG-03633-MUMU $1,000,000 Closed
2020 Automatic Acquisition and Identification of Footwear Class Characteristics NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-MU-MU-4096 $380,405 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-75-CX-0017 $443,931 Closed
2019 Development of a Human Virome Based Microarray as a Forensic Tool Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-R2-CX-0048 $146,805 Closed
2019 Regulation of Synthetically Engineered Organisms as Sources of Bio-Hacking and Bio-Terrorism GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2016-R2-CX-0023 $50,000 Closed
2018 Regulation of Synthetically Engineered Organisms as Sources of Bio-Hacking and Bio-Terrorism NIJ FY18 Continuations BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2016-R2-CX-0023 $50,000 Closed
2017 The Human Virome as Trace Evidence in Forensic Investigation NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2017-IJ-CX-0025 $698,382 Closed
2016 Regulation of Synthetically Engineered Organisms as Sources of Bio-Hacking and Bio-Terrorism NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2016-R2-CX-0023 $50,000 Closed
2016 The Influence of Subjective and Objective Rural School Security on Law Enforcement Engagement Models: A Mixed Methods Study Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2016-CK-BX-0019 $645,952 Closed
2015 Nebraska State Patrol - Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program - FY15 NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Nebraska NE 2015-CD-BX-0035 $63,705 Closed
2015 State of Nebraska - DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program State of Nebraska NE 2015-DN-BX-0102 $276,018 Closed
2014 Nebraska State Patrol - Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2014-CD-BX-0052 $63,029 Closed
2014 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Probationer Decision Making: A Social Cognitive Model NIJ FY 14 Research on Offender Decision Making and Desistance from Crime Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2014-MU-CX-0006 $641,614 Closed
2013 FY2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reducation Program - Nebraska State Patrol NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2013-DN-BX-0016 $325,649 Closed
2013 FY2013 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2013-CD-BX-0023 $58,186 Closed
2012 FY2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Nebraska State Patrol NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2012-DN-BX-0003 $324,535 Closed
2012 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Nebraska State Patrol NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2012-CD-BX-0057 $63,517 Closed
2011 "FY2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program" - Nebraska State Patrol NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2011-DN-BX-K496 $353,073 Closed
2011 Evaluation of location-based services for police: GPS-enabled cell phones and laptops for applications of law enforcement patrol NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Board of Regents, University of Nebraska - Lincoln NE 2010-DE-BX-K001 $200,000 Closed
2011 Paul Coverdell FY11 Forensic Science Improvement Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2011-CD-BX-0035 $166,108 Closed
2010 Establishing Blow Fly Development and Sampling Procedures to Estimate Postmortem Intervals NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations Board of Regents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2010-DN-BX-K231 $483,323 Closed
2010 Evaluation of location-based services for police: GPS-enabled cell phones and laptops for applications of law enforcement patrol NIJ FY 10 Geospatial Technology Board of Regents, University of Nebraska - Lincoln NE 2010-DE-BX-K001 $294,516 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Nebraska State Patrol NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2010-DN-BX-K140 $52,500 Closed