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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: Crime scene investigation

Number of Awards: 340
Total Amount Awarded: $158,634,037

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program St Lucie County FL 2015-CD-BX-0028 $118,357 Closed
2015 FY2015 Paul Coverdell National Forensic Science (PCNFS) Improvement Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Missouri Department of Public Safety MO 2015-CD-BX-0022 $144,445 Closed
2015 Improving the Quality and Timeliness of Forensic Science in Massachusetts NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Massachusetts State Police MA 2015-CD-BX-0059 $159,947 Closed
2015 Improving the Timeliness and Accuracy of Forensic Firearms Examinations at the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program County of Cumberland NC 2015-CD-BX-0074 $175,000 Closed
2015 Jefferson County Regional Crime Lab DNA Capactiy Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Jefferson County CO 2015-DN-BX-0064 $100,000 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 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 Minnesota 2015 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant, Base NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Minnesota Department of Public Safety MN 2015-CD-BX-0011 $129,538 Closed
2015 Montana State Crime Laboratory NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Montana Board of Crime Control MT 2015-CD-BX-0032 $63,705 Closed
2015 Nevada Forensic Science Improving Quality through Education NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Nevada Department of Public Safety NV 2015-CD-BX-0058 $66,679 Closed
2015 Orlando Police Department ForensicLaboratory Equipment Upgrade NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Orlando FL 2015-CD-BX-0033 $174,963 Closed
2015 Postconviction DNA Program NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent Cook County State''s Attorney''s Office IL 2015-DY-BX-K007 $400,701 Closed
2015 Preventing Hydrolytic and Oxidative Damage to Biological Evidence with Antioxidants and Chelators NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC. VA 2015-R2-CX-K037 $292,331 Closed
2015 Substrate Pyrolysis Database Expansion, Evaluation and Use NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2015-DN-BX-K051 $396,719 Closed
2015 Suffolk County Forensic Analysis Improvement Program 2015 NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program County of Suffolk NY 2015-CD-BX-0070 $95,585 Closed
2015 Temperature Sensors Embedded in Paint for Fire Debris Analysis and Arson Scene Investigations NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Washington State University WA 2015-DN-BX-K073 $517,243 Closed
2015 The Implementation of a Forensic Workstation Increases the Timeliness and Efficiency of Evidence Processing in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program County of Dinwiddie VA 2015-CD-BX-0050 $23,183 Closed
2015 Ultrahigh speed Direct PCR. A method for obtaining STR based genotypes in under 6 minutes NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2015-R2-CX-K038 $400,265 Closed
2015 Use of Genetically Variant Peptides to Statistically Estimate the Genetic Background of Hair Shafts NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2015-DN-BX-K065 $397,337 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 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 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 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 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 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