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
2015	Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Colorado Seminary, owns & operates the University of Denver	CO	2015-R2-CX-0024	$49,799	Closed
2015	Improving the Sexual Assault Workflow - Efficient Sample Selection and Data Interpretation	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence	Sacramento, County of	CA	2015-NE-BX-K004	$148,282	Closed
2015	Improving the Timeliness and Accuracy of Forensic Firearms Examinations at the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	County of Cumberland	NC	2015-CD-BX-0074	$175,000	Closed
2015	Low-cost Handheld Spectrometer and Cloud-Based Data Analysis for Improved Identification of Substances of Abuse	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Central Florida	FL	2015-R2-CX-0035	$50,000	Closed
2015	Measuring desiccation: A system using bioelectrical impedance analysis	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Colorado Mesa University	CO	2015-DN-BX-K015	$256,951	Closed
2015	Metabolism and Analysis of Desomorphine	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Sam Houston State University	TX	2015-R2-CX-0031	$46,008	Closed
2015	Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Regents of the University of Colorado	CO	2015-DN-BX-K016	$863,485	Closed
2015	MODELING SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF THE PUBIC SYMPHYSIS: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools for the Objective Estimation of Age-at-Death for Modern Populations	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida State University	FL	2015-DN-BX-K010	$610,111	Closed
2015	Monitoring Changes in the Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Market through Enhanced Identification of Emerging Drugs and their Metabolites in Biological Samples	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation	PA	2015-IJ-CX-K012	$378,153	Closed
2015	Nanotrace: Applications of subvisible to nanoscale particles in trace evidence	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Microtrace LLC	IL	2015-DN-BX-K033	$378,701	Closed
2015	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Suffolk County NY	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	County of Suffolk	NY	2015-DN-BX-0082	$247,092	Closed
2015	Novel Blood Protein Modification Assay for Retrospective Detection of Drug Exposure	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-NE-BX-K001	$195,710	Closed
2015	One Pot Effluent Characterization and Standoff Detection Feasibility	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Savannah River National Laboratory (DOE)		2015-DNR-4789	$1,002,765	Closed
2015	Optimal Extraction Methods of THC from Infused Products (Denver PD)	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence	City and County of Denver - Denver Police Department	CO	2015-DN-BX-K028	$138,466	Closed
2015	Optimized, Semi-Automated Differential DNA Extraction (Denver PD Crime Laboratory)	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence	City and County of Denver - Denver Police Department	CO	2015-NE-BX-K005	$51,699	Closed
2015	Orange County Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	County of Orange	CA	2015-DY-BX-K003	$250,000	Closed
2015	Population Genetic Issues for Forensic Y-chromosome Markers	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Washington	WA	2015-R2-CX-0020	$48,922	Closed
2015	Powerful Forensic Markers Optimized for Massively Parallel Sequencing	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Yale University	CT	2015-DN-BX-K023	$1,146,143	Closed
2015	Prediction of Drug Interactions with Methadone, Buprenorphine and Oxycodone from in vitro Inhibition of Metabolism: A Continuation	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Utah	UT	2015-IJ-CX-K009	$1,276,160	Closed
2015	Preventing Hydrolytic and Oxidative Damage to Biological Evidence with Antioxidants and Chelators	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC.	VA	2015-R2-CX-K037	$292,331	Closed
2015	Proteomic and microRNA markers of fly development: Stable correlates of insect age to improve forensic entomology casework	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Texas A&M AgriLife Research	TX	2015-DN-BX-K020	$546,742	Open
2015	qPCR Genotype Determination and Mixture Detection Using High Resolution Melting Curve Analysis of STR Loci	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2015-MU-MU-K026	$321,328	Closed
2015	Quantitative Tools for Examination of Microscopic Fracture Surface Topology and Degradation for Physical Match Analysis of Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	IA	2015-DN-BX-K056	$445,341	Closed
2015	RECOVERY OF DEFACED SERIAL NUMBERS USING INFRARED THERMAL IMAGING	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Idaho State University	ID	2015-R2-CX-0017	$50,000	Closed
2015	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes (DVI)	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Sam Houston State University	TX	2015-DN-BX-K066	$724,799	Closed