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: 135
Total Amount Awarded: $89,290,721

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2015	Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S.Forensic Practice	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Idaho State University	ID	2015-DN-BX-K009	$510,409	Closed
2015	Forensic Investigation of Bloodstains Using Raman Spectroscopy and Chemometrics: species differentiation, kinetic changes, donor age, and potential false positives	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany	NY	2015-R2-CX-0021	$49,795	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	NIJ FY15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2015-DN-BX-K070	$2,238,750	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	Skeletal Age Estimation in Modern U.S. Adults: The Effects of Activity, Body Mass, and Osteoarthritis on Age-Related Changes in the Acetabulum	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Florida Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-0009	$42,671	Closed
2015	Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2015-DN-BX-K040	$277,667	Closed
2014	Adult Age Estimated From New Skeletal Traits And Enhanced Computer-Based Transition Analysis	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK	PA	2014-DN-BX-K007	$501,047	Closed
2014	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program	FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2011-MU-BX-K063	$3,750,000	Closed
2014	Evaluation of high density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information from Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-K035	$264,722	Open
2014	The Evaluation and Refinement of Nonmetric Sex and Ancestry Assessment Methods in Japanese and Thai Individuals	NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	The University of Tennessee	TN	2014-DN-BX-0002	$16,490	Closed
2014	Three-Dimensional Craniofacial Variation of Modern Americans: A Visual Reference to Supplement Facial Approximation Methods	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	2014-DN-BX-K005	$238,863	Closed
2014	Transcriptome Sequencing of Forensically Relevant Biological Fluids and Tissues to Obtimize Degradation Analysis for Sample Age Estimation	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences	OK	2014-DN-BX-K025	$241,352	Closed
2013	Anthropological Methods for DNA Analysis of the Missing and Unidentified Children Located at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida	NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing	University of South Florida	FL	2013-DN-BX-K002	$423,528	Closed
2013	Citrate Content of Bone: A Potential Measure of Post Mortem Interval	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Research Foundation for SUNY at The College at Brockport	NY	2013-DN-BX-K031	$208,491	Closed
2013	Evaluation of Osteometric Measurements in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Lincoln Memorial University	TN	2013-DN-BX-K038	$207,624	Closed
2013	Forensic Anthropology Fellowship Training Program	NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Harris County	TX	2013-CD-BX-0071	$74,147	Closed
2012	A Multi-Modal Method for Determining the Postmortem Interval in Juvenile Remains and Assessing Skeletal Health	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	North Carolina State University	NC	2012-DN-BX-K049	$270,877	Closed
2012	Graphical User Interface for a Multi-Factorial Age-At-Death Estimation Method Using Fuzzy Integrals	NIJ FY 12 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Texas State University San Marcos	TX	2011-DN-BX-K838	$417,595	Closed
2011	Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains for Purposes of Extracting Osteometric Measurements and Estimating MNI	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Tennessee	TN	2011-DN-BX-K537	$514,495	Closed
2011	Graphical User Interface for a Multi-Factorial Age-At-Death Estimation Method Using Fuzzy Integrals	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University	FL	2011-DN-BX-K538	$417,595	Closed
2011	Pediatric Fracture Printing: Creating a Science of Statistical Fracture Signature Analysis	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Michigan State University	MI	2011-DN-BX-K540	$681,147	Closed
2011	UNTHSC Proposal for the Management and Support of the National Missing and Unidentified Person System	NIJ FY 11 The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Program	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2011-MU-BX-K063	$2,600,000	Closed
2010	Estimation of Age at Death using Cortical Bone Histomorphometry	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations	City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner	NY	2010-DN-BX-K035	$114,263	Closed
2010	Independent Validation Test of Microscopic Analysis of Saw Marks in Bone	NIJ FY 10 Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines	County of Hrris, Texas	TX	2010-DN-BX-K235	$26,409	Closed