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: 141
Total Amount Awarded: $51,560,441

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	Effects of insects and soils on the assembly of universal microbial decomposers and prediction of postmortem interval	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	15PNIJ-24-GG-03839-RESD	$481,616	Open
2024	Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Microscopic Characteristics of Skeletal Trauma	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	15PNIJ-24-GG-03844-MUMU	$691,362	Open
2024	MOSAIC: Unifying Methods of Sex, Stature, Affinity, & Age for Identification through Computational Standardization	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	15PNIJ-24-GG-03840-NIJB	$2,062,069	Open
2024	Spatial analysis of social vulnerability and crime disparities through interpretable machine learning	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-24-GG-01573-RESS	$180,000	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024	Statistical Foundations of Score-Based Methods in Forensic Identification of Source Problems”	NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program	SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY	SD	15PNIJ-23-GG-04232-MUMU	$303,714	Open
2023	Accurate THC Determinations in Seized Cannabis-derived Finished Products for Forensic Laboratories	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0002	$400,000	Open
2023	Audio Deepfake Detection for Forensics and Security	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER	NY	15PNIJ-23-GG-01933-RESS	$64,003	Open
2023	Developing and Validating Standards for Dental Cementum Age-at-Death and Season-of-Death Estimation	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04229-SLFO	$467,325	Open
2023	Operationalizing the Individual versus Group Fairness Dichotomy for Recidivism Risk Assessment: US Legal Challenges and Technical Proposals	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	15PNIJ-23-GG-01932-RESS	$166,500	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
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
2023	Regulating Data Bias in Intelligent Decision Making	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY	MA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01934-RESS	$55,500	Closed
2023	Statistical Foundations of Score-Based Methods in Forensic Identification of Source Problems”	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY	SD	15PNIJ-23-GG-04232-MUMU	$612,286	Open
2022	Accurate THC Determinations in Seized Cannabis-derived Finished Products for Forensic Laboratories	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0002	$463,932	Open
2022	DENTAGE: A multi-component subadult dental age estimation method	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04433-RESS	$567,920	Open
2022	DNA Typing Strategies for Identification of Human Remains via Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-04414-MUMU	$650,390	Open
2022	Enhanced Ignitable Liquid and Substrate Database Functionality for Improved Casework and Research.	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04421-SLFO	$289,496	Open
2022	Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU	$834,503	Open
2022	FIRE DEBRIS INTERPRETATION USING QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN MEDIUM RANGE IGNITABLE LIQUIDS AND THE USE OF GRAPHICAL DISPLAY TO DEMONSTRATE DATA SUFFICIENCY	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-03577-SLFO	$141,921	Open
2022	Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS	$306,271	Open
2022	Investigating the Impacts of Architectural Finishes on Fire Patterns in Support of Developing Data-driven Tools for Pattern Analysis	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	15PNIJ-22-GG-04442-RESS	$531,257	Open
2022	Marijuana Intoxication: Roadside Tool for Law Enforcement to Measure Impaired Peripheral Vision	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	VALENTI, DENISE A	MA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04417-RESS	$595,000	Open
2022	Measuring rarity of combined features in palm versus finger impressions and evaluating examiner perceptions	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-22-GG-04404-SLFO	$489,524	Open
2022	Optimization of Microhaplotypes for Advanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC.	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04393-DNAX	$607,799	Open
2022	The Adaptation and Evaluation of the Fourth R Youth Dating Violence Curriculum for Indigenous Communities	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women	ICF INCORPORATED, L.L.C.	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-01623-NIJB	$1,099,393	Open