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: 404
Total Amount Awarded: $259,331,321

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	A Multi-Method Genetic, Craniometric, and Isotopic Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Unidentified Latinx Remains	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-24-GG-01578-RESS	$180,000	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024	Defining the Properties of Osseointegrated and Ingrowth Bone Around Orthopedic Medical Devices and Their Effect on Fracture Risk in Elderly Populations: A Forensic Anthropological Perspective	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-24-GG-01583-RESS	$180,000	Awarded, but not yet accepted
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	Enhancing Equitable Forensic Identification: An Evaluation of Pelvic Morphology for Parity Detection and Age Estimation in Unidentified Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-24-GG-01579-RESS	$180,000	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024	Jury Deliberations of Child Witnesses with Autism Spectrum Disorder	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO	TX	15PNIJ-24-GG-01572-RESS	$180,000	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	Safe Transitions for Teens	NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Safe Transitions for Teens: Assessing the Impact of Intimate Partner Transitional Housing on Adolescent Residents Study	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON	TX	15PNIJ-24-AG-00117-REVA	$842,337	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	Building Better Indigent Defense Systems	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon	SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-02234-RESS	$800,000	Open
2023	California: A Decade of Decarceration	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-01938-RESS	$32,203	Past Project Period End Date
2023	Democratizing investigative genetic genealogy	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04213-DNAX	$759,008	Open
2023	Developing and Validating Standards for Dental Cementum Age-at-Death and Season-of-Death Estimation	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04229-SLFO	$467,325	Open
2023	Meeting the Ongoing, Urgent, Unmet Needs of Uvalde Residents After the Robb Elementary School Shooting	NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - University of Texas at Austin Developing More Effective Services and Programs for Victims of Mass Shootings	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04105-AERX	$1,000,000	Open
2023	Optimizing New STRs for Enhanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04214-RESS	$513,529	Open
2023	The Mortal Tragedy: Analyzing Body Disposal Patterns in Homicide Cases	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-01947-RESS	$166,500	Open
2023	Violence and aggression toward teachers among 50 largest school districts: A longitudinal examination of risk factors, negative consequences, and school responses	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on School Safety	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-02606-STOP	$697,718	Open
2022	DNA Typing Strategies for Identification of Human Remains via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-04414-MUMU	$650,390	Open
2022	Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO	$1,087,985	Open
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
2022	Human Trafficking Project	NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply — Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program	SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-22-GK-00246-BRND	$1,187,000	Past Project Period End Date
2022	Safe Transitions for Teens: Assessing the Impact of Intimate Partner Transitional Housing on Adolescent Residents	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-01615-REVA	$940,754	Closed
2021	Advancing the Understanding of 3D Imaging for Firearms Identification	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021	HOUSTON FORENSIC SCIENCE CENTER INC	TX	15PNIJ-21-GG-02714-MUMU	$303,471	Open
2021	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)		UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$3,341,165	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
2021	Detection and identification of hair dyes directly at a crime scene by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH	TX	15PNIJ-21-GG-04169-RESS	$368,745	Open