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: 151
Total Amount Awarded: $99,941,637

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2020	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$4,288,461	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Body mass estimation using bone micro- and macro-structure: a practical approach using CT imaging and computer analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0048	$683,542	Open
2020	Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	2020-75-CX-0015	$462,240	Closed
2020	Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2020-R2-CX-0024	$100,000	Closed
2020	Finding the Missing and Unidentified: The Application of Predictive Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Small Unmanned Aircraft-Mounted Infrared Imagery for the Detection of Unmarked Graves	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0043	$150,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	GIS Application for Building a Nationally Representative Forensic Taphonomy Database	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY	SC	2020-DQ-BX-0025	$457,536	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Positive identification using frontal sinus comparisons: Developing empirically-based guidelines	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2020-75-CX-0013	$357,871	Closed
2020	Skeletal Blast Trauma: determining the effect of known and experimental blast events on trauma patterns, fracture behavior, and blast scene recovery approaches	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0041	$150,000	Open
2019	A Multifactorial Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Hispanics Using Cranial and Dental Data	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-R2-CX-0050	$150,000	Closed
2019	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ FY19 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$5,500,000	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Blunt Force Trauma to the Ribs: Creating Predictive Models	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER ED	NV	2019-R2-CX-0047	$100,000	Closed
2019	Detecting and Processing Clandestine Human Remains with Unmanned Aerial Systems and Multispectral Remote Sensing	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0027	$286,468	Closed
2019	Detection and Diagnosis of Mobility Impairment via Cortical and Trabecular Bone Properties to Aid in the Identification of Human Remains in a Medicolegal Context	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-R2-CX-0052	$150,000	Closed
2019	Estimating the postmortem interval of human skeletal remains using rapid, inexpensive microbiome tools	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2019-DU-BX-0010	$390,748	Closed
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
2019	Human Identification from Computed Tomography Derived 3D Models using Part-to-Part Comparison Analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	2019-DU-BX-0031	$536,181	Past Project Period End Date
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	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Optimizing the Analysis of DNA From Burned Bone Using Ancient DNA Techniques	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2019-DU-BX-0044	$783,744	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Skeletal Trauma in Forensic Anthropology: Improving the Accuracy of Trauma Analysis and Expert Testimony	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	OH	2019-DU-BX-0040	$782,183	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Subadult Ancestry Estimation Using Craniometrics, Macromorphoscopics, Odontometrics, and Dental Morphology	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER ED	NV	2019-DU-BX-0039	$785,847	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$5,000,000	Past Project Period End Date
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	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	Closed
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	Closed