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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Number of Awards: 2,251
Total Amount Awarded: $772,139,027

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2018	OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2018-DU-BX-0229	$185,453	Closed
2018	Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory		DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-1	$649,938	Closed
2018	Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory	MA	2018-DU-BX-0192	$649,938	Closed
2018	Physical Characteristics of Spatter Stains on Textiles: Influence of Impact Surface Texture, Blood Drop Volume and Blood Drop Velocity	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	NC	2018-R2-CX-0033	$272,463	Closed
2018	Physics and Statistical Models for Physical Match Analysis Utilizing 3D Microscopy of Fracture Surfaces	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	IA	2018-R2-CX-0034	$681,664	Closed
2018	Poisson Processes and Randomly Acquired Characteristics: Are Wear Features on Footwear Randomly Distributed?	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-MU-MU-0003	$178,080	Closed
2018	Population distribution and factors affecting individual DNA shedding propensity	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	NY	2018-DU-BX-0203	$332,893	Closed
2018	Post-Blast Explosives Attribution	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	MA	2018-DU-BX-0193	$599,738	Declined
2018	Post-Blast Explosives Attribution	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory		DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-2	$599,738	Closed
2018	Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluid Investigation	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2018-R2-CX-0019	$97,328	Closed
2018	Resolving the Forensic DNA Mixture Problem through the Development of End-to-End Single-Cell Pipelines	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	NJ	2018-DU-BX-0185	$546,727	Closed
2018	Software tool and methodology for enhancement of unidentified decedent systems with postmortem automatic iris recognition	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC	IN	2018-DU-BX-0215	$642,979	Closed
2018	Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	2018-DU-BX-0204	$450,243	Closed
2018	Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0217	$570,624	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Statistical Infrastructure for the Use of Error Rate Studies in the Interpretation of Forensic Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	George Mason University	VA	2018-DU-BX-0228	$197,669	Closed
2018	Structural Characterization of Emerging Synthetic Drugs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-75-CX-0033	$368,415	Closed
2018	Testing new methods for degraded DNA recovery and next-generation sequencing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0218	$669,898	Closed
2018	The Effect of Altitude on Decomposition: Toward an Understanding of the Postmortem Interval in the Rocky Mountain Region.	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY	IL	2018-R2-CX-0014	$106,701	Closed
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	Closed
2018	Through the E-Cigarette Looking Glass: The Impact of Vaping Ethanol on DUI Investigations	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2018-75-CX-0036	$517,961	Closed
2018	Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment	NIJ FY18 Continuations	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2017-IJ-CX-0010	$43,039	Closed
2018	Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies to Expose Darknet Opioid Traffickers	NIJ FY18 Artificial Intelligence Technology Applied Research and Development for Law Enforcement Applications	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-75-CX-0032	$985,950	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Validating Conclusion Scales in the Forensic Sciences	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2018-DU-BX-0212	$249,206	Closed
2018	Validation of Novel Statistical Approaches for the Interpretation of Trace Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-DU-BX-0194	$499,318	Closed
2017	A Confirmatory Test for Sperm in Sexual Assault Samples using a Microfluidic-Integrated Cell Phone Imaging System	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE	CA	2017-NE-BX-0004	$369,224	Closed