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: 80
Total Amount Awarded: $35,887,053

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	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	Open
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
2016	Nashville Longitudinal Study of Youth Safety and Wellbeing	Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	TN	2016-CK-BX-K002	$4,916,705	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