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: 2,251
Total Amount Awarded: $772,139,027

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2017	Optimization and Statistical Testing of Experimental and Computer Methodologies for Evaluation of the LIT-MIA Thermal Imaging Method for Recovery of Defaced Serial Numbers	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY	ID	2017-DN-BX-0173	$199,688	Closed
2017	Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-IJ-CX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2017	Optimizing Bone Loss Across the Lifespan: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Porosity in the Human Femoral Neck and Rib As a Metric of Bone Fragility	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	The Ohio State University	OH	2017-MU-CX-0009	$50,000	Closed
2017	Pasco Sheriff's Evidence Tracking Automation	NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR)	Pasco County Sheriff''s Office	FL	2017-AK-BX-0008	$238,608	Open
2017	Physical and Chemical Trace Evidence from 3D-Printed Firearms	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	The University of Mississippi	MS	2017-IJ-CX-0001	$50,000	Closed
2017	Population Genetic Issues for Forensic DNA Profiles	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	WA	2017-DN-BX-0136	$903,440	Closed
2017	Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY	TN	2017-DN-BX-0146	$377,535	Closed
2017	Pressure factors in cartridge case comparisons	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2017-DN-BX-0161	$378,501	Closed
2017	Prevalence of Novel Psychoactive Substances in Oral Fluid	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2017-R2-CX-0019	$311,221	Closed
2017	Quantifying and Qualifying the Influence of Standard Laboratory Procedures on Aged, Degraded, and/or Low Copy Number DNA	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	OK	2017-DN-BX-0139	$997,831	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	Closed
2017	Quantitative Measures for Footwear Impression Comparisons	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	$598,315		DJO-NIJ-17-RO-0202	$598,315	Closed
2017	Raman spectroscopy for analyzing body fluid traces: Universal method development	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-DN-BX-0135	$681,275	Closed
2017	Rapid Forensic Acquisition of Large Media with Sifting Collectors	NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications	Grier Forensics, LLC	MD	2014-IJ-CX-K401	$146,593	Closed
2017	Retrospective Identification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Forensic Toxicology Casework using Archived High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Fredric Rieders Family Foundation: CFSRE	PA	2017-R2-CX-0021	$494,695	Closed
2017	SAFE Evidence Tracker	NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR)	City of Lake Mary	FL	2017-AK-BX-0011	$6,130	Open
2017	Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2017-R2-CX-0004	$50,000	Closed
2017	Security Crystals: NIR-To-NIR Upconverting Nanoparticles for Fingerprint Identification and DNA Extraction	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY	SD	2017-IJ-CX-0026	$841,307	Closed
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	Closed
2017	Sexual Assault and Forensic Evidence Program	NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR)	HIGHLANDS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS	FL	2017-AK-BX-0010	$58,771	Closed
2017	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2017	Statistical Error Estimation for an Objective Measure of Similarity to a Latent Image	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	George Mason University	VA	2017-IJ-CX-0029	$470,372	Closed
2017	Testing the Accuracy and Reliability of Palmar Friction Ridge Comparisons: A Black Box Study	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2017-DN-BX-0170	$370,454	Closed
2017	The development of objective approach to the characterization and interpretation of paint evidence by SEM/EDS	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MICROTRACE LLC	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0027	$594,920	Closed
2017	The Fluid Dynamics of Forensic Bloodstain Analysis: Droplet Impact on Inclined Surfaces	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION	GA	2017-IJ-CX-0028	$683,619	Closed