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: 149
Total Amount Awarded: $96,769,078

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	Closed
2017	A Comparison of Postmortem and Perimortem Rib Fracture Patterns in Articulated and Disarticulated Ribs	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	The Research Foundation for the State University of New York	NY	2017-IJ-CX-0006	$50,000	Closed
2017	A Dental Anthropological Databank for Use in the Statistical Estimation of Ancestry and Sex in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2017-DN-BX-0143	$422,514	Closed
2017	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$7,455,832	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S. Forensic Practice	NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications	Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada Reno	NV	2015-DN-BX-K409	$404,255	Open
2017	Increasing identifications of deceased border crossers: investigating spatial and skeletal attributes of migrant deaths	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	Michigan State University	MI	2017-IJ-CX-0002	$36,148	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	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	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
2016	A Comprehensive Test of the Methods and Models Used to Assign Geographic Origin to Human Skeletal Remains With Stable Isotope Data	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	IsoForensics, Inc.	UT	2016-DN-BX-0157	$268,648	Closed
2016	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	National Missing and Unidentified Persons System	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$4,700,000	Past Project Period End Date
2016	Assessing Cognitive Bias, Method Validation, and Equipment Performance for theForensic Anthropology Laboratory	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	Harris County, Texas	TX	2016-DN-BX-K003	$114,106	Closed
2016	Developing forensic epigenomic age-estimation tools for diverse populations	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The Research Foundation for the State University of New York	NY	2016-DN-BX-0011	$49,653	Closed
2016	Establishing a Rank Order for Skeletal Element Sampling: Examining Differential DNA Yield Rates Among and Between Buried Human Skeletal Elements as Compared to Surface Recovered Skeletal Elements	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0178	$270,616	Closed
2016	Facilitating Forensic Research in Multiple Fields Using a Unique Computed Tomography Dataset	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, THE	NM	2016-DN-BX-0144	$702,654	Closed
2016	Fluvial Transport of Human Remains: Forensic Application of a HEC-RAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES	CA	2016-DN-BX-0159	$866,896	Past Project Period End Date
2016	ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2016-DN-BX-0179	$327,372	Closed
2016	Initiation of a Gunshot Wound Trauma Atlas From Cranial Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Research Foundation for the State University of New York	NY	2016-DN-BX-0155	$316,473	Closed
2016	Skull fracture patterns from head impact in infants	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF UTAH	UT	2016-DN-BX-0160	$590,938	Closed
2016	The Combination of Cranial Morphoscopic and Dental Morphological Methods to Improve the Forensic Estimation of Ancestry	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada, Reno	NV	2016-DN-BX-0003	$31,974	Closed
2015	A Macromorphoscopic Databank: Establishing the Statistical Analysis of Macromorphoscopic Data in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Michigan State University	MI	2015-DN-BX-K012	$423,959	Closed
2015	A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UChicago Argonne, LLC	IL	2015-DN-BX-K030	$564,735	Closed
2015	An Interactive Morphological Database for Estimating Sex in Modern Adults	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Mercyhurst University	PA	2015-DN-BX-K014	$126,871	Closed
2015	An Investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA, using a globally distributed panel of individuals from the US and Europe.	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Trustees of Indiana University	IN	2015-R2-CX-0023	$37,788	Closed
2015	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program	NIJ FY 15 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth	TX	2011-MU-BX-K063	$5,000,000	Closed