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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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Subtopic: Evidence analysis and processing

Number of Awards: 2,455
Total Amount Awarded: $913,878,476

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2017 The Human Virome as Trace Evidence in Forensic Investigation NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2017-IJ-CX-0025 $698,382 Closed
2017 The Use of Gas Chromatography with Tandem Ultra Violet and Mass Spectrometric Detection for the Analysis of Emerging Drugs. Application to Synthetic Cathinones and Fentanyl Analogs. NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The George Washington University DC 2017-R2-CX-0028 $275,221 Closed
2017 Tracking Sexual Assault Kits in Iowa NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) Iowa Department of Justice IA 2017-MU-BX-0133 $796,985 Open
2017 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2017-IJ-CX-0010 $46,155 Closed