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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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State: TN

Number of Awards: 80
Total Amount Awarded: $34,340,161

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2023 Evaluating the reliability and accuracy of multiple geophysical methods in the search for clandestine graves NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04226-SLFO $351,078 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 Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003) NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS $99,818 Open
2022 Application of Analytical Chemistry to Test the Accuracy of Human Residual Odor Detection by Cadaver Dogs NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-22-GG-04412-SLFO $395,516 Open
2021 Deep Learning Methods for Post Mortem Interval Estimation Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-21-GG-04161-SLFO $406,468 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Detection of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris by Using Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY TN 2020-DQ-BX-0003 $285,229 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Identification of Blunt Force Traumatic Fractures in Burned Bone Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2019-75-CX-0019 $212,738 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Implementing NAGPRA: Connecting Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices to Tribal Partners Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2019-75-CX-0015 $114,540 Closed
2019 Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2017-R2-CX-0008 $50,000 Closed
2019 The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE TN 2017-IJ-CX-0007 $49,998 Closed
2018 Automation-Supported Curation of Large Forensic Image Databases NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2018-DU-BX-0181 $354,751 Closed
2018 Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2017-R2-CX-0008 $50,000 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 The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression NIJ FY18 Continuations VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE TN 2017-IJ-CX-0007 $49,616 Closed
2017 Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY TN 2017-DN-BX-0146 $377,535 Closed
2017 Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 2017-R2-CX-0008 $50,000 Closed
2017 The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE TN 2017-IJ-CX-0007 $49,898 Closed
2016 Establishing a Rank Order for Skeletal Element Sampling: Examining Differential DNA Yield Rates Among and Between Buried Human Skeletal Elements as Compared to Surface Recovered Skeletal Elements Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2016-DN-BX-0178 $270,616 Closed
2016 ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2016-DN-BX-0179 $327,372 Closed
2016 Implications of Three-Dimensional Laser Scanned Images for the Criminal Justice System Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2016-DN-BX-0177 $160,300 Closed
2015 Combined Temperature and Humidity Control to Tune Latent Fingermark Development by Superglue Fuming NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2015-IJ-CX-K015 $264,842 Closed
2015 Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2015-DN-BX-K019 $250,024 Closed
2015 FFY 2015 State of Tennessee Forensic Science Improvement Application NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Tennessee TN 2015-CD-BX-0030 $155,243 Closed
2015 Tennessee's FFY 2015 DBRG Program NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Tennessee Bureau of Investigations TN 2015-DN-BX-0116 $2,162,375 Closed
2014 Assessment of rapid, robust and efficient postmortem DNA sampling method for DVI and missing persons identification NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2014-DN-BX-K037 $187,518 Closed