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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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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State: TX,
District: 17

Number of Awards: 18
Total Amount Awarded: $6,570,065

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 Differentiation of Hemp and Marijuana Through Ion Complexation with Copper Phosphine Complexes NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-03858-RESD $216,763 Open
2024 On the reliability of the forensic examination of electrical tapes and the influence of alteration sources encountered in casework NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-03853-RESD $216,195 Open
2024 The Impact of Processing and Sampling Procedures on the Integrity of Forensically Relevant Biomolecules in Bones NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-03841-SLFO $823,669 Open
2023 California: A Decade of Decarceration NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-23-GG-01938-RESS $32,203 Closed
2022 Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-22-AG-00266-NIJB $278,976 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Data fusion from infrared elemental, MSP and Raman analysis techniques to the maximization of the efficiency of the analytical sequence for the forensic examination of paint evidence Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-04163-RESS $338,823 Open
2019 Human Decomposition: Effect of Indoor Versus Outdoor Decomposition on the Microbiome of Human Cadavers and Implications for Future Forensic Research Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2019-DU-BX-0025 $808,296 Past Project Period End Date
2018 High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Screening in Forensic Toxicology: Cost Benefit Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2018-75-CX-0040 $306,688 Past Project Period End Date
2016 Assessing the Role of Immigration in the Linkage between School Safety, Education, and Juvenile Justice Contact Comprehensive School Safety Initiative TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY TX 2016-CK-BX-0015 $776,949 Closed
2016 Evaluating and improving practices employed by U.S. forensic scientists to locate critical literature for use in investigations New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Texas A&M University TX 2016-R2-CX-0054 $149,634 Closed
2016 Investigating upper thermal limits of forensically important blow flies to improve testimony in forensic entomology Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH TX 2016-DN-BX-0204 $540,545 Closed
2015 Proteomic and microRNA markers of fly development: Stable correlates of insect age to improve forensic entomology casework NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Texas A&M AgriLife Research TX 2015-DN-BX-K020 $546,742 Open
2012 Genomic tools to reduce error in PMI estimates derived from entomological evidence NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Texas A&M AgriLife Research TX 2012-DN-BX-K024 $496,661 Closed
2010 Development and Validation of Standard Operating Procedures for Measuring Microbial Populations for Estimating a Postmortem Interval NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Applications Texas A and M Research Foundation TX 2010-DN-BX-K243 $476,348 Closed
2007 Advanced Millimeter-Wave Personnel Locating System National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Texas Engineering Experiment Station TX 2007-DE-BX-K102 $242,000 Closed
2005 Detecting, Addressing and Preventing Elder Abuse in Residential Care Facilities Research & Evaluation of Elderly Individuals, Older Women and Residents of Long Term Care Facilities Texas A and M Research Foundation TX 2005-IJ-CX-0054 $208,354 Closed
2005 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement City of Waco TX 2005-DN-BX-0117 $72,486 Closed
2004 The Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program FY 04; U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justic Programs, National Institute of Justice, 10/01/04 - 09/30/05. PAUL COVERDELL FORENSIC SCIENCE IMPROVEMENT GRANTS GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT FISCAL YEAR 2004 City of Waco TX 2004-DN-BX-0200 $38,733 Closed