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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.
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State: TX

Number of Awards: 404
Total Amount Awarded: $259,331,321

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2012 Genomic tools to reduce error in PMI estimates derived from entomological evidence NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Texas A&M AgriLife Research TX 2012-DN-BX-K024 $496,661 Closed
2012 Graphical User Interface for a Multi-Factorial Age-At-Death Estimation Method Using Fuzzy Integrals NIJ FY 12 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Texas State University San Marcos TX 2011-DN-BX-K838 $417,595 Closed
2012 Human decomposition: A mosaic model for community succession and implications for future forensic research NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Sam Houston State University TX 2012-DN-BX-K023 $304,961 Closed
2012 Improved Detection of Synthetic Cathinones ("Bath Salts")in Forensic Toxicology Samples NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Sam Houston State University TX 2012-R2-CX-K003 $190,227 Closed
2012 NIJ FY 12 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 12 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2012-DN-BX-K057 $1,925,000 Closed
2012 NIJ FY12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations NIJ FY 12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations City of Houston Police Department TX 2011-DN-BX-0002 $515,000 Closed
2012 Physical and Biochemical Factors Affecting the Recovery and Analysis of DNA from Human Skeletal Remains NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth TX 2012-IJ-CX-0017 $25,000 Closed
2012 Support for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 12 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $2,700,000 Closed
2011 Action Research to Enhance Investigations and Prosecutions of Sexual Assaults in Houston NIJ FY 11 Strategic Approaches to Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Evidence: An Action Research Project City of Houston TX 2011-DN-BX-0002 $178,076 Closed
2011 Advancing Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Technology-Evaluation of Low-Cost Aviation Options for Law Enforcement NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Sheriffs Association of Texas TX 2009-IJ-CX-K017 $150,000 Closed
2011 City of Austin Police Department Forensic Science Improvement Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Austin TX 2011-CD-BX-0099 $175,000 Closed
2011 City of Fort Worth's FY11 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Fort Worth TX 2011-CD-BX-0100 $121,342 Closed
2011 Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Texas TX 2011-CD-BX-0015 $1,541,427 Closed
2011 Extending the Microbial Forensic Toolkit Through Whole Genome Sequencing and Statistical Phylogenomics NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Baylor College of Medicine TX 2011-DN-BX-K534 $581,213 Closed
2011 Forensic Identification of an Individual in Complex Mixtures Utilizing SNP Technology NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Orchid Cellmark TX 2011-DN-BX-K555 $224,968 Closed
2011 FY 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Austin NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Austin TX 2011-DN-BX-K409 $240,532 Closed
2011 FY 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Tarrant County Medical Examiner Crime Laboratory NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Tarrant County TX 2011-DN-BX-K406 $314,879 Closed
2011 FY 2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Houston Police Department NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Houston Police Department TX 2011-DN-BX-K427 $1,532,118 Closed
2011 FY 2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction ProgramState of Texas NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program State of Texas TX 2011-DN-BX-K407 $3,304,246 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Bexar County NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program County of Bexar TX 2011-DN-BX-K412 $335,751 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Dallas County NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Dallas County TX 2011-DN-BX-K415 $849,881 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Harris County TX 2011-DN-BX-K422 $690,850 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program for the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-DN-BX-K408 $654,539 Closed
2011 Learning Models for Predictive Behavioral Intent and Activity Analysis in Wide Area Video Surveillance NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations University of Houston TX 2009-MU-MU-K004 $249,711 Closed
2011 Strategic Approaches to Sexual Assault Evidence: Phase II NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations City of Houston Police Department TX 2011-DN-BX-0002 $821,814 Closed