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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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Topic: Forensic sciences,
Subtopic: Forensic sciences

Number of Awards: 4,921
Total Amount Awarded: $2,228,422,575

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 A PLan for the State of Wisconsin to reduce DNA backlogs-Wisconsin Department of Justice, Crime Laboratory Bureau NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Wisconsin Department of Justice WI 2015-DN-BX-0081 $899,637 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 Accelerating Digital Evidence Analysis Using Recent Advances In Parallel Processing NIJ FY 15 Office of Science and Technology Continuations RAND Corporation CA 2014-IJ-CX-K102 $119,345 Closed
2015 Achieving Justice in Wisconsin''s Hispanic Community: Post-conviction DNA testing for the Hispanic community NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System WI 2015-DY-BX-K006 $633,170 Closed
2015 Acquisition of new equipment for Digital Forensics Lab NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Saco ME 2015-CD-BX-0019 $57,217 Closed
2015 Addition of Forensic Capacities in the Colorado Springs Metro Crime Laboratory NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Colorado Springs CO 2015-CD-BX-0014 $174,882 Closed
2015 An automated dielectrophoretic-based single cell separation technique to improve laboratory efficiency, mixture deconvolution and combat sample inhibition NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Syracuse University NY 2015-NE-BX-K002 $155,189 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 Analytical Validation and Impact Assessment of On-Site Evidence Screening via Ambient Sampling, Portable Mass Spectrometry NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Illinois State University IL 2015-IJ-CX-K011 $299,753 Closed
2015 Analyzing evidential material associated with criminal investigations for the City of Oakland, California NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Oakland - Oakland Police Department CA 2015-DN-BX-0106 $474,282 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
2015 Applied Research, Development, and Method Validation of Toolmark Imaging, Virtual Casing Comparison, and In-Lab Verification for Firearms Forensics NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC IL 2015-DN-BX-K032 $217,450 Closed
2015 Assessing the Effects of DNA Damage on Next Generation mtDNA Sequencing NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK PA 2015-DN-BX-K025 $654,662 Closed
2015 Assessing the Quality of 3-Dimensional Imaging on the BrassTrax HD3D System and Validating an In-Silico Solution to Confirm NIBIN Hits NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City and County of Denver - Police Department CO 2015-DN-BX-K034 $79,150 Closed
2015 Automated Derivatization and Identification of Controlled Substances via Total Vaporization Solid Phase Microextraction (TV-SPME) and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-DN-BX-K058 $190,223 Closed
2015 Automation of Differential Extraction with Sperm Quantitation usingMicrofluidic-Integrated Shadow Imaging System for Forensic Applications NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2015-DN-BX-K037 $614,499 Closed
2015 Backlog Reduction/Quality Improvement Project NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Indiana Criminal Justice Institute IN 2015-CD-BX-0021 $157,033 Closed
2015 Benefits and Limitations of the Statistical Methodology in Determining Evidentiary Value of Latent Print Identification: A Prospective Evaluation 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-K027 $140,949 Closed
2015 Biomechanical Investigation of the Effect of Bone Disorders on Pediatric Femur Fracture Potential NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. KY 2015-DN-BX-K018 $533,978 Closed
2015 Boston Police Department-DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program City of Boston MA 2015-DN-BX-0099 $283,811 Closed
2015 Building a Science of Adult Cranial Fracture NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2015-DN-BX-K013 $564,875 Closed
2015 Case Completion Time Improvement and Backlog Reduction Program for The Monroe County Office of the Medical Examiner NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Monroe County NY 2015-CD-BX-0018 $174,968 Closed
2015 Characterization and comparison of tape evidence using elemental profiling methods and chemometric analyses NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-DN-BX-K050 $244,072 Closed
2015 Cognitive Human Factors and Forensic Document Examiner Methods and Procedures NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Kentucky State University KY 2015-DN-BX-K069 $728,615 Open