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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
2014 2014 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Program for Louisiana NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement LA 2014-CD-BX-0011 $103,589 Closed
2014 2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Orlando FL 2014-DN-BX-K078 $81,446 Closed
2014 2014 Virginia Paul Coverdell Grant NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Department of Criminal Justice Services VA 2014-CD-BX-0055 $184,994 Closed
2014 3D Laser Scanning Equipment for Crime Scene Analysis NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of New Orleans LA 2014-CD-BX-0024 $171,362 Closed
2014 A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for DNA Mixture Interpretation NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Syracuse University NY 2014-DN-BX-K029 $213,372 Closed
2014 A New Forensic Super-Resolution Tool to Enhance Extreme Low Resolution, Pose Correct Off-Angle and Occluded Face Images for Investigative Lead Generation Using Commercial Face Matchers FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Carnegie Mellon Univeristy PA 2013-IJ-CX-K005 $492,903 Closed
2014 A Plan for the State of Wisconsin to Improve Forensic Science and medical Examiner Quality Services NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Wisconsin Department of Justice WI 2014-CD-BX-0012 $128,610 Closed
2014 A Systematic Evaluation of the Analysis of Drug Microcrystals Using Infrared Microspectroscopy NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Chester University of Pennsylvania PA 2014-R2-CX-K008 $53,481 Closed
2014 Accelerating Digital Evidence Analysis Using Recent Advances In Parallel Processing NIJ FY 14 New Approaches to Digital Evidence Processing and Storage RAND Corporation CA 2014-IJ-CX-K102 $677,668 Closed
2014 ACEware Latent Fingerprint Identification Research and Software Development FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Noblis, Inc. VA 2013-R2-CX-K011 $999,906 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 Advanced statistical population genetics methods for forensic DNA identification. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2014-DN-BX-K015 $589,868 Closed
2014 Advancing audio forensics of gunshot acoustics. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Montana State University MT 2014-DN-BX-K034 $184,957 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 Anne Arundel County - Solving Cold Cases with DNA Review and Analysis NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Anne Arundel County, Maryland MD 2014-DN-BX-K071 $143,539 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 Application of Infrared Imaging and Chemometrics to Facilitate the Forensic Examination of Automotive Paints NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Oklahoma State University OK 2014-DN-BX-K087 $442,953 Closed
2014 Applied Research, Development, and Method Validation for a Statistically Based Comparison of Tool Marks using GelSight-Based 3D Imaging and Novel Comparison Algorithms for Firearm Forensics NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC IL 2014-DN-BX-K012 $190,400 Closed
2014 Arizona DNA Advocacy Project NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2014-DY-BX-K001 $934,003 Closed
2014 Assessment of rapid, robust and efficient postmortem DNA sampling method for DVI and missing persons identification NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2014-DN-BX-K037 $187,518 Closed
2014 Body fluid analysis by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic applications NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University MA 2014-DN-BX-K021 $403,397 Closed
2014 BPD's Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Project NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Boston MA 2014-CD-BX-0019 $175,000 Closed
2014 California DNA Assistance Program (CADNAP) NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent California Governor''s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) CA 2014-DY-BX-K002 $1,310,522 Closed
2014 Characterization and Abuse of Electronic Cigarettes: The Efficacy of a Personal Vaporizer as an Illicit Drug Delivery System NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-R2-CX-K010 $339,126 Closed
2014 Chicago Police Department Forensics Laboratory Equipment Upgrade NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Chicago, City of IL 2014-CD-BX-0027 $160,325 Closed