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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.

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

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Topic: Forensic sciences,
Subtopic: Forensic sciences

Number of Awards: 4,921
Total Amount Awarded: $2,228,422,575

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2009 FY2009 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Instituto de Ciencias Forenses PR 2009-CD-BX-0045 $206,098 Closed
2009 FY2009 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Marion Superior Court IN 2009-CD-BX-0066 $124,150 Closed
2009 FY2009 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program North Dakota ND 2009-CD-BX-0027 $140,397 Closed
2009 FY2009 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program St Croix County WI 2009-CD-BX-0064 $49,036 Closed
2009 FY2009 Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant Program - Miami-Dade Police Department NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Miami Dade County FL 2009-CD-BX-0069 $125,000 Closed
2009 FY2009 Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Program-Base & Competitive Massachusetts NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Massachusetts State Police MA 2009-CD-BX-0028 $338,696 Closed
2009 FY2009 Solving Boston''s Cold Case Homicides with DNA NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City Of Boston MA 2009-DN-BX-K253 $491,265 Closed
2009 Grant funds shall be used to to address "open" cases of violent crimes in which there exists physical evidence with a substantial potential of biological applications. NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Chicago IL 2009-DN-BX-K194 $743,000 Closed
2009 Harris County Fellowship Program NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Harris County TX 2009-CD-BX-0089 $99,686 Closed
2009 Hiring of Civilian Staff in Policing: An Assessment of the 2009 Byrne Program Recovery Act: Research and Evaluation of Recovery Act State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM DC 2009-SC-B9-0001 $549,878 Closed
2009 Identification and Separation of Evidence Mixtures Using SNP-Based FISH Techniques and Laser Microdissection NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals Bode Cellmark Forensics, Inc. VA 2009-DN-BX-K250 $320,021 Closed
2009 Identification of Forensically Relevant Fluids and Tissues by Small RNA Profiling NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals University of Central Florida FL 2009-DN-BX-K255 $328,962 Closed
2009 IDFSC Digital Evidence Collection Training, Proficiency Test and Certificate Based on the NIJ Publication Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program International Data Forensic Solutions Center NJ 2009-DN-BX-K183 $135,996 Closed
2009 Implementation of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) - Web-Based Case Reporting System NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program County of Kern CA 2009-CD-BX-0062 $125,000 Closed
2009 Implementation of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Practitioner Evaluation Toolkit NIJ FY09 Research and Evaluation on Sexual and Teen Dating Violence Michigan State University MI 2009-MU-MU-0002 $413,467 Closed
2009 Improve the Quality of Forensic Science and Medical Examiner Services NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration AR 2009-CD-BX-0003 $148,833 Closed
2009 Improved Tools and Interpretation Guidelines for Examining Limited Low Copy Number DNA Obtained from Degraded Single Source Samples: Bones, Teeth, and Hairs NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth TX 2009-DN-BX-K188 $935,992 Closed
2009 Improvement of forensic science analysis capacity NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Washington Department of Commerce WA 2009-CD-BX-0011 $341,368 Closed
2009 Improvements to Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry for Quantitative Forensic Analysis Using a Short Pulse (100 Femtosecond) Ultraviolet Laser NIJ FY 09 Research and Development in Forensis Analysis of Trace Evidence: Invited Full Proposals Ames Laboratory (DOE) 2009-DN-R-112 $237,977 Closed
2009 Improving Forensic Science in Vermont, 2009 NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Vermont Department of Public Safety VT 2009-CD-BX-0022 $140,397 Closed
2009 IMPROVING SEX ESTIMATION FROM CRANIA USING 3-DIMENSIONAL CT SCANS NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations The University of Tennessee TN 2008-DN-BX-K182 $167,278 Closed
2009 Improving the Quality of Analysis in Forensic Science NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Nevada Department of Public Safety NV 2009-CD-BX-0021 $140,397 Closed
2009 Indianapolis Metropolitan Police - Cold Case Initiative NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS IN 2009-DN-BX-K045 $500,000 Closed
2009 Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern Donated Collections NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations The University of Tennessee TN 2008-DN-BX-K193 $240,750 Closed
2009 LBPD Solving Cold Cases with DNA 09 NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Long Beach Police Department CA 2009-DN-BX-K044 $286,402 Closed