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: 2,455
Total Amount Awarded: $913,878,476

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2020	Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	2020-75-CX-0015	$462,240	Closed
2020	Develop non-PCR-based target enrichment reagents and methods for MPS analysis of forensic DNA	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	2020-R2-CX-0029	$100,000	Closed
2020	Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2020-R2-CX-0024	$100,000	Closed
2020	Development of an Open Source Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) Search Software and Library Building Tool for the Analysis of Complex Drug Mixtures	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0012	$198,290	Closed
2020	Developmental evaluation of a combinatorial qPCR multiplex for forensic body fluid identification	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-R2-CX-0031	$49,994	Closed
2020	Efficient and Effective SNP System for Analysis of Highly Degraded DNA Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0005	$444,723	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Evaluation of Digital Evidence Processing Efficiencies in Publicly Funded Crime Laboratories	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2020-DQ-BX-0016	$348,052	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Finding the Missing and Unidentified: The Application of Predictive Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Small Unmanned Aircraft-Mounted Infrared Imagery for the Detection of Unmarked Graves	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0043	$150,000	Closed
2020	Genetic distance to improve human identification from the skin microbiome	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-R2-CX-0046	$81,058	Closed
2020	GIS Application for Building a Nationally Representative Forensic Taphonomy Database	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY	SC	2020-DQ-BX-0025	$457,536	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Interoperability of 3D Impressed Firearm Toolmarks Measurements	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0011	$497,293	Closed
2020	Interpretation of Y chromosome STRs for missing persons cases	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0018	$198,362	Closed
2020	Positive identification using frontal sinus comparisons: Developing empirically-based guidelines	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2020-75-CX-0013	$357,871	Closed
2020	Quantitative Evaluation of Footwear Evidence: Advancing the Footwear Impression Comparison System (FICS) towards Casework Application	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0010	$609,700	Closed
2020	Real-Time Sample-Mining and Data-Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0007	$555,401	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Research and Development of a Rapid Approach for Identification of Calliphoridae Species Entomological Forensic Evidence Based on DART-HRMS-derived Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2020-MU-MU-0016	$731,306	Open
2020	Research on Forensic Toxicological Laboratory Testing and Reporting Practices	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	Federal Bureau of Investigation		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0008	$562,700	Open
2020	Selectively analyzing and interpreting DNA from multiple donors with a full Single-Cell strategy	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY	NJ	2020-R2-CX-0032	$142,986	Closed
2020	Sex-Based Targeted Recovery of Cells in a Heterogeneous Mixture: Separating Male and Female Like Cells	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY	NY	2020-DQ-BX-0019	$153,333	Closed
2020	Skeletal Blast Trauma: determining the effect of known and experimental blast events on trauma patterns, fracture behavior, and blast scene recovery approaches	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0041	$150,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Statistical evaluation of forensic sequencing profiles	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	WA	2020-R2-CX-0040	$107,205	Closed
2020	Statistical Infrastructure for the Use of Error Rate Studies in the Interpretation of Forensic Evidence	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-DU-BX-4228	$87,206	Closed
2020	Study of the Reliability of Fire Pattern Indicators Used in Wildland Fire Investigation (Subaward to grant 2020-R2-CX-0047)	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0005	$27,287	Closed
2019	A DNA Barcoding Strategy for Blow and Flesh Flies Encountered During Medicolegal Casework	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	HARRIS COUNTY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0022	$20,685	Closed
2019	A Multifactorial Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Hispanics Using Cranial and Dental Data	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-R2-CX-0050	$150,000	Closed