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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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Subtopic: Investigations

Number of Awards: 315
Total Amount Awarded: $139,905,300

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Sort descending Status
2005 Ysa Aly Homicide Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Burlingame California CA 2005-DN-BX-K038 $11,365 Closed
2013 Using Behavioral Patterns to Link Serial Rape Offenses:A Multidimensional Approach NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2013-IJ-CX-0009 $18,000 Closed
2012 Understanding rapport-building in investigative interviews: Does rapport''s effect on witness memory and suggestibility depend on the interviewer? NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program The Florida International University FL 2012-IJ-CX-0007 $24,999 Closed
2012 Countermeasure Mechanisms and Ecological Validity of P300-Based Concealed Information Tests NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Northwestern University IL 2012-IJ-CX-0022 $25,000 Closed
2014 Clearwater Cold Case Team Project 2014 NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Clearwater FL 2014-DN-BX-K086 $30,671 Closed
2017 Stop Snitching or Keep Talking? Civilian Information Provision to the Baltimore Police NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 2017-IJ-CX-0011 $32,000 Closed
2011 Multnomah County Sheriff's Office: Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 11 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Multnomah County OR 2011-DN-BX-K520 $34,749 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
2010 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Converse County Sheriff's Office. NIJ FY 10 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Converse County Wyoming WY 2010-DN-BX-K020 $35,658 Closed
2015 An Investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA, using a globally distributed panel of individuals from the US and Europe. NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $37,788 Closed
2015 Cross-Jurisdictional Comparison of Sexual Assault Kit Backlogs and their Criminal Justice Consequences NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program Baylor College of Medicine TX 2015-R2-CX-0040 $39,999 Closed
2010 Using DNA to Identify the Missing in Palm Beach County NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Village of Royal Palm Beach FL 2010-DN-BX-K143 $40,058 Closed
2017 Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC IN 2017-IJ-CX-0003 $40,780 Closed
2005 NLRPD: Resolving Cold Cases Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of North Little Rock Arkansas AR 2005-DN-BX-K015 $48,175 Closed
2010 Solving Cold Cases With DNA - Violent Crime Cold Case Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 10 Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Ventura CA 2010-DN-BX-K014 $49,343 Closed
2005 Uniting Yesterday's Cases with Today's Technology: The YCTT Initiative Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Muncie IN 2005-DN-BX-K036 $60,500 Closed
2010 "Bones in Boxes": Unidentified Human Remains Project NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Charleston County SC 2010-DN-BX-K129 $62,176 Closed
2005 Westchester County DNA Cold Case Initiative Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Westchester NY 2005-DN-BX-K004 $64,929 Closed
2005 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Albuquerque NM 2005-DN-BX-K014 $75,014 Closed
2008 Johnson County Cold Case Project NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Johnson County Kansas KS 2008-DN-BX-K214 $80,000 Closed
2014 2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Orlando FL 2014-DN-BX-K078 $81,446 Closed
2012 Ocala Police Department Cold Case Homicide Project NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Ocala FL 2012-DN-BX-K015 $81,939 Closed
2019 Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 Georgia Tech Research Corporation GA 2019-R2-CX-0042 $86,428 Closed
2012 Solving Cold Cases with DNA U.S. Department of Justice1/1/13 - 6/30/14 NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Torrance CA 2012-DN-BX-K011 $93,175 Closed
2005 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Solving Cold Cases with DNA St. Louis County MO 2005-DN-BX-K027 $97,385 Closed