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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.
Description

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 Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2014 City of Omaha, Nebraska - Omaha Police DepartmentFY2014 NIJ Solving Cold Cases With DNAOmaha Cold Case Squad Intensive Case Review and DNA Analysis Program NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Ciy of Omaha, Nebraska NE 2014-DN-BX-K085 $269,846 Closed
2014 City of Phoenix Police Department''s Solving Cold Cases with DNA 2014 grant program. NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Phoenix Police Department AZ 2014-DN-BX-K070 $269,987 Closed
2014 City of Phoenix Police Department, FY 2014 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Phoenix Police Department AZ 2014-CD-BX-0068 $174,996 Closed
2014 Clearwater Cold Case Team Project 2014 NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Clearwater FL 2014-DN-BX-K086 $30,671 Closed
2014 Cobb County Cold Case Unit NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Cobb County Board of Commissioners GA 2014-DN-BX-K081 $246,814 Closed
2014 Cold Case Squad and DNA Analysis Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Montgomery County Ohio OH 2014-DN-BX-K067 $167,323 Closed
2014 Colorado's 2014 Coverdell Project NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Division of Criminal Justice CO 2014-CD-BX-0041 $117,987 Closed
2014 Computational methods for the interpretation of forensic DNA samples NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Camden Campus NJ 2014-DN-BX-0001 $34,999 Closed
2014 Continued Development of FROG-kb: A Forensic Resource/Reference on Genetics knowledge base NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Yale University CT 2014-DN-BX-K030 $314,468 Closed
2014 Coverdale Fort Wayne Police Department Digital Forensic Lab Quality Improvement and Backlog Reduction Project NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Fort Wayne IN 2014-CD-BX-0072 $68,500 Closed
2014 Covington Police Crime Lab Improvement- Cyanoacrylate Fuming Project NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Covington KY 2014-CD-BX-0071 $7,900 Closed
2014 CPD FY2014 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes NIJ FY 14 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes Chicago, City of IL 2014-R2-CX-K002 $528,957 Closed
2014 CT Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection -- Division of Scientific Services and the CT Division of Criminal Justice 2014 DNA Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA CT Division of Criminal Justice CT 2014-DN-BX-K080 $269,973 Closed
2014 Data mining PCC annual reports NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Utah UT 2014-R2-CX-K012 $176,030 Closed
2014 Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases: Multi-site Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition in the U.S. FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2012-IJ-CX-0052 $490,422 Closed
2014 Decrease the Controlled Substance Analysis Backlog Utilizing Overtime NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Oregon State Police OR 2014-CD-BX-0063 $88,015 Closed
2014 Developing Effective Methods for Addressing Contextual Bias in Forensic Science NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of California CA 2014-DN-BX-K032 $355,705 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 Development of Heated Headspace Solid Phase Microextraction-Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry for Chemical Profiling of Marjuana NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Sam Houston State University TX 2014-R2-CX-K005 $166,347 Closed
2014 Differential Sampling of Footwear to Separate Relevant Evidentiary Particles from Background Noise NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Stoney Forensic, Inc. VA 2014-DN-BX-K011 $390,208 Closed
2014 DNA Test Results Quality Improvement Program NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office OH 2014-CD-BX-0003 $175,000 Closed
2014 Drug screening in postmortem blood: a faster approach using GC/MS NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Miami Dade County FL 2014-CD-BX-0028 $174,634 Closed
2014 Enhancement of New Hampshire's forensic laboratories, to provide training for forensic laboratory technicians, and to assist the Chief Medical Examiner with staffing, travel, equipment and related act NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of New Hampshire NH 2014-CD-BX-0047 $63,029 Closed
2014 Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion: Developing Tools for the Interpretation of Complex DNA Mixtures NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-DN-BX-K026 $813,843 Closed
2014 Evaluating the Skin Microbiome as Trace Evidence NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Colorado CO 2014-R2-CX-K011 $637,942 Closed