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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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Subtopic: Evidence analysis and processing

Number of Awards: 2,267
Total Amount Awarded: $780,855,203

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2017 A Dental Anthropological Databank for Use in the Statistical Estimation of Ancestry and Sex in Forensic Anthropology NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 2017-DN-BX-0143 $422,514 Closed
2017 A highly sensitive magnetic nanoparticle based method for reliable and efficient screening of forensic evidence samples NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes INNOGENOMICS TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. LA 2017-NE-BX-0007 $350,656 Closed
2017 A Low-Cost Isothermal Amplification Microdevice for Rapid Colorimetric Detection Applied to Body Fluid Identification and Y-screening NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2017-NE-BX-0008 $387,106 Closed
2017 A More Timely Process for Identifying and Analyzing Trends of Emerging Novel Psychoactive Substances in the United States NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2017-R2-CX-0002 $49,994 Closed
2017 A New Analytical Technique to Identify Surface Treatments of a Single Fiber NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY DC 2017-R2-CX-0007 $50,000 Closed
2017 Application of Raman and Infrared Microscopy for the Forensic Examination of Automotive Clear Coats and Paint Smears NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY OK 2017-IJ-CX-0022 $484,163 Closed
2017 Assessing automated image analysis and stable isotope signatures for small arms propellant differentiation and brand identification NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PA 2017-MU-CX-0043 $404,510 Closed
2017 Bioinformatic Analaysis of Big Proteomic Data: A New Forensic Tool to Identify Menstrual Blood & Body Fluid Mixtures NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 2017-NE-BX-0003 $667,774 Closed
2017 Biomechanical Characterization of Video Recorded Short Distance Falls In Children NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KY 2017-DN-BX-0158 $599,878 Closed