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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: UT

Number of Awards: 54
Total Amount Awarded: $16,717,913

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 The Ecology of Resilience: Examining Impacts of Service Engagement, Facility Safety, and Trauma History on Positive Life Trajectories in Justice-Involved Youth NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 15PNIJ-24-GG-01580-RESS $88,304 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024 What about us? Formative evaluation of forensic nursing program delivery of intimate partner violence medical forensic examinations NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 15PNIJ-24-GG-01741-NONF $575,200 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023 Mechanics of Retinal Hemmorhage in Abusive Head Trauma NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 15PNIJ-23-GG-04211-SLFO $604,409 Open
2023 Policing Leadership and Accountability: Harnessing Big Data and Causal Inference for Evaluating Police Reform Practices NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 15PNIJ-23-GG-05487-RESS $972,083 Open
2020 Forensic tool to identify fall characteristics in infant skull fracture Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 2020-75-CX-0014 $557,607 Open
2019 Assessment of Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Evidence Selection Leading to Development of SAK Evidence Machine-Learning Model (SAK-ML Model) Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE UTAH UT 2019-NE-BX-0001 $250,000 Closed
2016 A Comprehensive Test of the Methods and Models Used to Assign Geographic Origin to Human Skeletal Remains With Stable Isotope Data Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IsoForensics, Inc. UT 2016-DN-BX-0157 $268,648 Closed
2016 Skull fracture patterns from head impact in infants Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 2016-DN-BX-0160 $590,938 Closed
2015 FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancment and Backlog Reduction Program - Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2015-DN-BX-0024 $366,258 Closed
2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant FY 2015- Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2015-CD-BX-0024 $69,326 Closed
2015 Prediction of Drug Interactions with Methadone, Buprenorphine and Oxycodone from in vitro Inhibition of Metabolism: A Continuation NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Utah UT 2015-IJ-CX-K009 $1,276,160 Closed
2014 Data mining PCC annual reports NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Utah UT 2014-R2-CX-K012 $176,030 Closed
2014 Factors Promoting Risk or Resilience Among Polyvictimized Youth in the Juvenile Justice System NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence University of Utah UT 2014-R2-CX-0020 $816,031 Closed
2014 Fingernails as Recorders of Region-of-Origin and Travel History NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Utah UT 2014-DN-BX-0003 $35,000 Closed
2014 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant FY 2014- Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2014-CD-BX-0038 $64,966 Closed
2014 Salt Lake City Police Department Solving Homicide and Forcible Rape Cold Cases with DNA Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Salt Lake City Corporation UT 2014-DN-BX-K075 $270,000 Closed
2013 FY 2013 DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2013-DN-BX-0115 $374,634 Closed
2013 Isotope Analyses of Hair as a Trace Evidence Tool to Reconstruct Human Movements: Establishing the Effects of the "Human Ecosystem" On Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Ratios NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes IsoForensics, Inc. UT 2013-DN-BX-K009 $367,399 Closed
2013 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program FY 2013 - Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2013-CD-BX-0032 $59,427 Closed
2012 FY 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2012-DN-BX-0110 $372,125 Closed
2012 FY12 Solving Cold Cases With DNA-Unified Police of Greater Salt Lake NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Unified Police of Greater Salt Lake UT 2012-DN-BX-K029 $303,645 Closed
2012 Genome-Wide Forensic DNA Analysis NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Utah UT 2012-DN-BX-K037 $541,266 Closed
2012 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program FY 2012- Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2012-CD-BX-0055 $64,474 Closed
2011 FY 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program- Utah Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Utah Department of Public Safety UT 2011-DN-BX-K455 $417,873 Closed
2011 FY2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Utah County Government UT 2011-CD-BX-0093 $116,775 Closed