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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: IA,
District: 4

Number of Awards: 30
Total Amount Awarded: $15,555,335

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 FUSE: Fast Unbiased Small-area Estimation for Timely Measurement of Community Perceptions of Policing and Public Safety NIJ FY24 Measurement of Community Perceptions IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-24-GG-02841-RESS $499,658 Open
2024 Intergenerational Legal System Involvement Among Juvenile Justice-Involved Females and Their Offspring: Opportunities for Prevention NIJ FY24 Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-24-GG-00871-TITL $1,001,902 Open
2024 Semi-empirical Kinetics Model for Fingerprint Aging NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-24-GG-03855-MUMU $399,437 Open
2023 Beyond Suspect Identification: Fingerprint Aging with Machine Learning and Multidimensional Chemical Analysis NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01950-RESS $111,000 Open
2021 Physics and Mathematical Models for Error Quantifications in Comparative 3D Microscopy for Physical Match Analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-21-GG-04141-RESS $742,590 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Predictive tools and experiments for blood backspatter: incorporating tissue simulants and muzzle gas interactions Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 15PNIJ-21-GG-04195-RESS $713,519 Open
2019 A Randomized Controlled Trial of ACTV versus T4C for Community Reentry: Differential Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, FY 2019 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2019-R2-CX-0013 $641,386 Open
2019 Automatic Acquisition and Identification of Footwear Class Characteristics Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2019-MU-MU-0096 $380,405 Closed
2019 Fluid Dynamic Studies of Bloody Fingermarks Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2019-75-CX-0018 $159,122 Closed
2019 Forensic Evidence from Chemical Imaging of Triacylglycerols in Latent Fingerprints Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2019-DU-BX-0134 $516,836 Closed
2018 Building Drug Intelligence Networks to Combat the Opioid Crisis in Rural Communities: A Collaborative Intelligence-led Policing Strategy NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2018-AR-BX-0004 $725,018 Closed
2018 Nanoparticles for Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint NIJ FY18 Continuations Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2016-DN-BX-0008 $50,000 Closed
2018 Physics and Statistical Models for Physical Match Analysis Utilizing 3D Microscopy of Fracture Surfaces NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2018-R2-CX-0034 $681,664 Closed
2017 Nanoparticles for Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2016-DN-BX-0008 $50,000 Closed
2017 Ultrafast 3D visualization and fluid dynamic mechanisms of blood atomization NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2017-DN-BX-0171 $591,895 Closed
2016 Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint for Forensic Evidence Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IA 2016-DN-BX-0190 $362,037 Closed
2016 Nanoparticles for Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2016-DN-BX-0008 $50,000 Closed
2015 Quantitative Tools for Examination of Microscopic Fracture Surface Topology and Degradation for Physical Match Analysis of Evidence NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2015-DN-BX-K056 $445,341 Closed
2014 Finding the Region of Origin of Bloodspatters in Complex Situations: Novel Physics-Based Methods and Tools NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2014-DN-BX-K036 $719,015 Closed
2013 Detection of Gunshot Residue in Blowfly Larvae, Decomposing Porcine Tissue, and Porcine Bone Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2013-IJ-CX-0012 $30,000 Closed
2013 Pre-feedback eyewitness statements: Proposed inoculant and antidote for feedback effects on evaluations of eyewitness testimony NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2013-IJ-CX-0010 $25,000 Closed
2012 Development of a Science Base and Open Source Software for
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis 		NIJ FY 12 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2010-DN-BX-K403 $476,187 Closed
2011 Area 1: Evaluating Reentry in Iowa: Context, Treatment Provision, Individual Propensity and Recidivism NIJ FY 11 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2011-DJ-BX-0505 $225,428 Closed
2010 Development of a Forensic Science Testing and Evaluation Laboratory NIJ FY 10 Congressionally Directed Awards Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2009-D1-BX-K206 $1,400,000 Closed
2009 Development of a Forensic Science Testing and Evaluation Laboratory NIJ FY09 Office of Science and Technology Congressionally Directed Awards Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2009-D1-BX-K206 $3,000,000 Closed