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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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Subtopic: Research and development OR DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)

Number of Awards: 5,444
Total Amount Awarded: $3,128,202,510

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2023 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU $2,200,000 Open
2023 Funding Support for the Operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply – Funding Support for the Operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DC 15PNIJ-23-GG-03573-NIJB $250,000 Open
2023 Impact of Relic DNA on Forensic Microbiome Applications in Criminal Investigations NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04205-RESS $229,454 Open
2023 Implementation Evaluation of Hate Crime Task Forces NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 15PNIJ-23-GG-05489-HATE $995,936 Open
2023 Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU $492,810 Past Project Period End Date
2023 Internal Affairs Complaint Investigations: A Multi-Site Comparison NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL MA 15PNIJ-23-GG-05497-RESS $907,011 Open
2023 Losing Sleep and Losing Control: The Impact of Subjective and Objective Sleep on the Problem Behavior and Mental Health of Justice-Involved Young Adults NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE CA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01946-RESS $166,500 Open
2023 Mapping the Continuum of Support for Violent Extremism in the United States NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 15PNIJ-23-GG-01383-DOMR $1,192,220 Open
2023 Measuring the Impact of Victim Services RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-MU-MU-K026 $99,900 Past Project Period End Date
2023 Mechanics of Retinal Hemmorhage in Abusive Head Trauma NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 15PNIJ-23-GG-04211-SLFO $604,409 Open
2023 Meeting the Ongoing, Urgent, Unmet Needs of Uvalde Residents After the Robb Elementary School Shooting NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - University of Texas at Austin Developing More Effective Services and Programs for Victims of Mass Shootings UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN TX 15PNIJ-23-GG-04105-AERX $1,000,000 Open
2023 Military Sexual Trauma Experiences of Female Veterans in Michigan NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 15PNIJ-23-GG-01953-NONF $116,692 Open
2023 Mitigating demographic bias in forensic speaker identification NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SRI INTERNATIONAL CA 15PNIJ-23-GG-04220-RESS $553,851 Open
2023 Nanoparticle-Decorated Micropillars As Integrated Raman Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Substrates for Quantitative and High-Throughput Toxicology Drug Analysis NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04235-RESS $199,676 Open
2023 Networks and Pathways of Violent Extremism: Effectiveness of Dis/Misinformation Campaigns NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism CLEMSON UNIVERSITY SC 15PNIJ-23-GG-01381-DOMR $953,203 Open
2023 New Age Therapeutics: Development and Validation of an Analytical Workflow for the Analysis of Psychedelics in Biological Matrices NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01426-RESS $441,886 Open
2023 NIJ co-sponsorship of the Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science (CARFS) NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2023 National Science Foundation GOJPNIJ23000040 $600,000 Open
2023 NIJ Community Violence Intervention Research and Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 15PNIJ-23-GG-04264-CVIP $5,000,000 Open
2023 NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults WESTAT, INC. MD 15PNIJ-23-GK-02236-MUMU $1,000,000 Open
2023 NIJ LEADS NIJ FY23 Support for the Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Scholars Program NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE VA 15PNIJ-23-GK-04221-NIJB $1,000,000 Open
2023 NIJ Multisite Impact and Cost-Efficiency Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts AMERICAN UNIVERSITY DC 15PNIJ-22-GK-00035-VTCX $1,500,000 Open
2023 Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER ED NV 15PNIJ-23-GG-01940-RESS $111,000 Open
2023 Optimizing Analytical Parameters for Detection of Chronic and Single Dose Drug Exposure in Forensic Hair Analysis NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-23-GG-04208-MUMU $431,892 Open
2023 Optimizing New STRs for Enhanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 15PNIJ-23-GG-04214-RESS $513,529 Open
2023 Pivoting Headspace Ethanol Analysis to Accommodate Modern Day Scenarios NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01424-MUMU $371,593 Open