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: 196
Total Amount Awarded: $78,637,636

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2018	Automation-Supported Curation of Large Forensic Image Databases	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0181	$354,751	Closed
2018	Bone Mineral Density and Adult Age Estimation in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of South Florida Board of Trustees	FL	2018-DU-BX-0197	$130,242	Closed
2018	Development of a Comprehensive Workflow for Postmortem Insulin Testing in Cases of Suspected Insulin Homicide	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2018-75-CX-0039	$299,529	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Investigation of subadult dental age-at-death estimation using transition analysis and machine learning methods	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2018-DU-BX-0182	$898,550	Closed
2018	Learning from Our Casework: The Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy (FADAMA)	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2018-DU-BX-0213	$267,117	Closed
2018	Longitudinal Effects of Prolonged Opioid Use on Cortical Bone Remodeling in a Rabbit Model	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON	OH	2018-DU-BX-0188	$323,392	Closed
2018	OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2018-DU-BX-0229	$185,453	Closed
2018	Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2017-R2-CX-0004	$48,630	Closed
2018	Software tool and methodology for enhancement of unidentified decedent systems with postmortem automatic iris recognition	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC	IN	2018-DU-BX-0215	$642,979	Closed
2018	Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	2018-DU-BX-0204	$450,243	Closed
2018	Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0217	$570,624	Past Project Period End Date
2018	The Effect of Altitude on Decomposition: Toward an Understanding of the Postmortem Interval in the Rocky Mountain Region.	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY	IL	2018-R2-CX-0014	$106,701	Closed
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	A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Northeastern University	MA	2016-DN-BX-0002	$48,818	Open
2017	Biomechanical Characterization of Video Recorded Short Distance Falls In Children	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE	KY	2017-DN-BX-0158	$599,878	Closed
2017	Chemometric Processing of DART-HRMS-derived Dark Matter for the Identification of New Psychoactive Substances	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-R2-CX-0020	$558,282	Closed
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	Evaluation of Acute Cell Toxicity of Pyrolytic Products of Synthetic Cannabinoids	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	West Virginia University	WV	2015-R2-CX-0032	$47,916	Closed
2017	Improved Detection of Kratom Alkaloids in Forensic Toxicology	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Sam Houston State University	TX	2016-DN-BX-0006	$49,987	Closed
2017	Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics	NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2016-DN-BX-4194	$684,273	Closed
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	Investigations on the Cellular and Morphologic Characteristics of Cranial Vault Fracture: Research and Development of a Time Since Fracture Protocol and Database	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE	MI	2017-DN-BX-0166	$576,060	Closed
2017	Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Chicago	IL	2017-MU-MU-0042	$532,286	Closed