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: 130
Total Amount Awarded: $44,390,076

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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	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	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	Regulating Data Bias in Intelligent Decision Making	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY	MA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01934-RESS	$55,500	Awarded, but not yet accepted
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	Awarded, but not yet accepted
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	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	VA 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	Understanding and Responding to Domestic Extremism Financing	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	15PNIJ-22-GG-01119-DOMR	$749,087	Open
2021	A Universal Method for the Detection of Organic and Inorganic Gunshot Residue based on Fast Fluorescence Mapping and Raman Spectroscopic Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	15PNIJ-21-GG-04153-RESS	$632,138	Open
2021	Advanced Microfluidic Technology for Automated, Rapid, and Objective Laboratory Screening of Seized Drugs	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-21-GG-04176-COAP	$327,558	Open
2021	Amino Acid Specific Stable Isotope Ratios in Human Keratin Tissue for Region-of-Origin and Residency Determination	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, THE	NM	15PNIJ-21-GG-04157-SLFO	$320,732	Open
2021	Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Platform for Bruise Age Analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY	VA	15PNIJ-21-GG-04145-SLFO	$988,559	Open
2021	Data fusion from infrared elemental, MSP and Raman analysis techniques to the maximization of the efficiency of the analytical sequence for the forensic examination of paint evidence	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-21-GG-04163-RESS	$338,823	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
2021	Deep Learning to Enhance Investigative Lead Information for Automotive Clear Coats	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY	OK	15PNIJ-21-GG-04182-RESS	$196,373	Open
2021	Detection and identification of hair dyes directly at a crime scene by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH	TX	15PNIJ-21-GG-04169-RESS	$368,745	Open