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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.
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Subtopic: Medicolegal death investigations

Number of Awards: 196
Total Amount Awarded: $78,637,636

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Florida Department of Law Enforcement FL 2015-CD-BX-0048 $467,279 Closed
2015 2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Criminal Justice Services VA 2015-CD-BX-0068 $197,409 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 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 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 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 Development and Validation of Two Innovative Quantitative Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Methods for Forensic Toxicology Laboratories NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence Department of Forensic Science VA 2015-DN-BX-K008 $149,504 Closed
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 Enhancing Molecular Autopsies through High Throughout Function Assays and Family Studies of Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Variants in Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K017 $712,168 Closed
2015 Evaluating the effectiveness of liquid chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) as a replacement screening tool. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence Washington State Patrol WA 2015-DN-BX-K055 $150,000 Closed
2015 Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2015-DN-BX-K019 $250,024 Closed
2015 FY15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Alaska Dept of Public Safety AK 2015-CD-BX-0064 $63,705 Closed
2015 FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants DC 2015-CD-BX-0027 $63,705 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 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 Toxicology laboratory improvement for quality and timeliness of services in El Paso County, specifically related to death cases involving forensic alcohol analysis. NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program El Paso County CO 2015-CD-BX-0046 $63,753 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 Advancing Molecular Diagnostics in Sudden Unexplained Deaths NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2014-DN-BX-K001 $540,178 Closed
2014 Development of a Computer Simulation Model to Predict Potential Bruising Patterns Associated with Common Childhood Falls NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Louisville Research Foundation KY 2014-DN-BX-K006 $377,187 Closed
2014 Forensic Death Investigation Improvement NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Greene County Medical Examiners Office MO 2014-CD-BX-0067 $174,500 Closed
2014 Isotopic Taphonomy of Human Remains NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2014-DN-BX-K002 $462,226 Closed