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.

This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Number of Awards: 267
Total Amount Awarded: $160,055,527

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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	Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	CA	2017-MU-MU-4042	$393,503	Closed
2020	Methyl-PrepDisc: A Centrifugal Microfluidic Device for Forensic DNA Methylation Sample Preparation	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-R2-CX-0030	$147,766	Past Project Period End Date
2020	NIJ National Center on Forensics	NIJ National Center on Forensics, Fiscal Year 2020	GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-MU-CX-0001	$2,000,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2020-75-CX-0012	$530,242	Closed
2020	Research and Development of a Rapid Approach for Identification of Calliphoridae Species Entomological Forensic Evidence Based on DART-HRMS-derived Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2020-MU-MU-0016	$731,306	Open
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	Past Project Period End Date
2019	A DNA Barcoding Strategy for Blow and Flesh Flies Encountered During Medicolegal Casework	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	HARRIS COUNTY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0022	$20,685	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	Assessing Methods to Enhance and Preserve Proteinaceous Impressions from the Skin of Decedents during the Early Stages of Decomposition while Examining Environmental Variations across Seasons	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	MADONNA UNIVERSITY	MI	2019-R2-CX-0070	$253,010	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	Combining LC-MS/MS Product-Ion Scan Technology with GC-MS Analysis to Identify Drugs and Poisons in Postmortem Fluidsand Tissues	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019	MIAMI-DADE COUNTY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0002	$372,438	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	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	Closed
2019	Development of Dual-Resolution 3D Imaging Device and Software Tools for Shoe and Tire Impression Evidence Collection, Visualization, and Recognition	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	PURDUE UNIVERSITY	IN	2019-R2-CX-0069	$823,804	Past Project Period End Date
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	Extended Development, Verification, and Validation of a Blast Dynamics Simulator for Post-Blast Forensic Investigations	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE, THE	NC	2017-R2-CX-0009	$45,256	Closed
2019	Extraction and Quantification of Fentanyl and Metabolites from Complex Biological Matrices to Support Medicolegal Death Investigations	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2019-R2-CX-0037	$100,000	Closed
2019	Germ-Line Transformation of Forensically Important Flies	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-DU-BX-0013	$279,983	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	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
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