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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Number of Awards: 41
Total Amount Awarded: $11,249,836

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2022	Application of Analytical Chemistry to Test the Accuracy of Human Residual Odor Detection by Cadaver Dogs	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	15PNIJ-22-GG-04412-SLFO	$395,516	Open
2021	Deep Learning Methods for Post Mortem Interval Estimation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	15PNIJ-21-GG-04161-SLFO	$406,468	Open
2019	Identification of Blunt Force Traumatic Fractures in Burned Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2019-75-CX-0019	$212,738	Open
2019	Implementing NAGPRA: Connecting Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices to Tribal Partners	Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2019-75-CX-0015	$114,540	Closed
2018	Automation-Supported Curation of Large Forensic Image Databases	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0181	$354,751	Closed
2018	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	Closed
2017	Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY	TN	2017-DN-BX-0146	$377,535	Closed
2017	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2017	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$150,000	Closed
2016	Establishing a Rank Order for Skeletal Element Sampling: Examining Differential DNA Yield Rates Among and Between Buried Human Skeletal Elements as Compared to Surface Recovered Skeletal Elements	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0178	$270,616	Closed
2016	ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0179	$327,372	Closed
2016	Implications of Three-Dimensional Laser Scanned Images for the Criminal Justice System	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0177	$160,300	Closed
2015	Combined Temperature and Humidity Control to Tune Latent Fingermark Development by Superglue Fuming	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2015-IJ-CX-K015	$264,842	Closed
2015	Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2015-DN-BX-K019	$250,024	Closed
2014	Assessment of rapid, robust and efficient postmortem DNA sampling method for DVI and missing persons identification	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K037	$187,518	Closed
2014	Evaluation of high density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information from Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K035	$264,722	Open
2014	Postmortem Interval Determination: A Metabolomics / Lipidomics Approach	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Lincoln Memorial University	TN	2014-DN-BX-K010	$193,079	Closed
2014	The Evaluation and Refinement of Nonmetric Sex and Ancestry Assessment Methods in Japanese and Thai Individuals	NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-0002	$16,490	Closed
2013	A Multidisciplinary Validation Study of Non-human Animal Models for Forensic Decomposition Research	NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2013-DN-BX-K037	$226,382	Closed
2013	Evaluation of Osteometric Measurements in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Lincoln Memorial University	TN	2013-DN-BX-K038	$207,624	Closed
2011	Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains for Purposes of Extracting Osteometric Measurements and Estimating MNI	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Tennessee	TN	2011-DN-BX-K537	$514,495	Closed
2010	Developing an Empirically-Based Ranking Order for Bone Sampling: Examining the Differential DNA Yield Rates between Human Skeletal Elements over Increasing Post Mortem Intervals	NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development	The University of Tennessee	TN	2010-DN-BX-K229	$200,316	Closed
2010	Developing Methods to Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Latent Fingermark Development by Superglue Fuming	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Pattern and Impression Evidence	The University of Tennessee	TN	2010-DN-BX-K202	$258,816	Closed
2010	Evaluating the Use of DNA and RNA Degradation for Estimating the Post-Mortem Interval	NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development	The University of Tennessee	TN	2010-DN-BX-K228	$167,414	Closed