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: 80
Total Amount Awarded: $30,450,664

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2019	Developing, Visualization, and Reporting a Combined 2D+3D Automated Dental Biometrics Identification System for Forensic Odontology	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE INC	MA	2019-R2-CX-0036	$100,000	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	Subadult Ancestry Estimation Using Craniometrics, Macromorphoscopics, Odontometrics, and Dental Morphology	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2019-DU-BX-0039	$785,847	Open
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	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Bone Mineral Density and Adult Age Estimation in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of South Florida Board of Trustees	FL	2018-DU-BX-0197	$130,242	Closed
2018	Investigation of subadult dental age-at-death estimation using transition analysis and machine learning methods	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2018-DU-BX-0182	$898,550	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Learning from Our Casework: The Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy (FADAMA)	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2018-DU-BX-0213	$267,117	Open
2018	Longitudinal Effects of Prolonged Opioid Use on Cortical Bone Remodeling in a Rabbit Model	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON	OH	2018-DU-BX-0188	$323,392	Past Project Period End Date
2018	OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2018-DU-BX-0229	$185,453	Past Project Period End Date
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	Past Project Period End Date
2017	A Dental Anthropological Databank for Use in the Statistical Estimation of Ancestry and Sex in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2017-DN-BX-0143	$422,514	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics	NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2016-DN-BX-4194	$684,273	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Increasing identifications of deceased border crossers: investigating spatial and skeletal attributes of migrant deaths	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	Michigan State University	MI	2017-IJ-CX-0002	$36,148	Closed
2017	Quantifying the Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors to Improve Juvenile Age Estimation	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2017-DN-BX-0144	$561,528	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Sex and Ancestry Estimation Methods in Modern Filipino Crania	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0008	$47,451	Open
2016	A Comprehensive Test of the Methods and Models Used to Assign Geographic Origin to Human Skeletal Remains With Stable Isotope Data	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	IsoForensics, Inc.	UT	2016-DN-BX-0157	$268,648	Closed
2016	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	National Missing and Unidentified Persons System	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$4,700,000	Past Project Period End Date
2016	Assessing Cognitive Bias, Method Validation, and Equipment Performance for theForensic Anthropology Laboratory	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	Harris County, Texas	TX	2016-DN-BX-K003	$114,106	Closed
2016	Developing forensic epigenomic age-estimation tools for diverse populations	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The Research Foundation for the State University of New York	NY	2016-DN-BX-0011	$49,653	Closed
2016	Evaluation of Sample Preparation Techniques for Matrix Effects and Absolute Recovery Using UPLC-MS/MS Using Opiates and Liver Tissue Specimens as the Model and Application to Post-Mortem Toxicology	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2016-DN-BX-0148	$91,017	Closed
2016	Fluvial Transport of Human Remains: Forensic Application of a HEC-RAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES	CA	2016-DN-BX-0159	$866,896	Open
2016	Human Organ Tissue Identification by Targeted RNA Deep Sequencing to Aid in the Investigation of Shooting and Other Traumatic Bodily Injury Incidents	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-DN-BX-0165	$424,799	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	Initiation of a Gunshot Wound Trauma Atlas From Cranial Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Research Foundation for the State University of New York	NY	2016-DN-BX-0155	$316,473	Closed
2016	Skull fracture patterns from head impact in infants	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE	UT	2016-DN-BX-0160	$590,938	Closed