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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.

This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Subtopic: Medicolegal death investigations

Number of Awards: 267
Total Amount Awarded: $160,055,527

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 A Focused Deterrence Program for Juveniles with Firearm Offenses: a Randomized Controlled Trial and Process Evaluation NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-24-GG-03092-MUMU $1,255,241 Open
2024 A Multi-Method Genetic, Craniometric, and Isotopic Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Unidentified Latinx Remains NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-01578-RESS $180,000 Open
2024 Age estimation from epigenetic features of hair DNA NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ CA 15PNIJ-24-GG-03843-SLFO $640,358 Open
2024 Defining the Properties of Osseointegrated and Ingrowth Bone Around Orthopedic Medical Devices and Their Effect on Fracture Risk in Elderly Populations: A Forensic Anthropological Perspective NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-01583-RESS $180,000 Open
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 Investigations Toward Development of a Technique for Rapid Identification of Forensically Relevant Necrophagous Beetle Species for Postmortem Interval Determination NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 15PNIJ-24-GG-01567-RESS $111,822 Open
2024 The Impact of Processing and Sampling Procedures on the Integrity of Forensically Relevant Biomolecules in Bones NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-03841-SLFO $823,669 Open
2023 A Micro-and Macro Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Extreme Risk Protection Orders in Colorado NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence and Mass Shootings THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF COLORADO CO 15PNIJ-23-GG-02401-MUMU $1,456,274 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 Developmental Validation of a Novel Multi-analyte Recovery Method for Trace Biological Samples NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-23-GG-04207-DNAX $494,268 Open
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 FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS $300,000 Open
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
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
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 FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS $300,000 Open
2022 Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO $1,087,985 Open
2022 Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO $139,905 Open
2021 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2016-MU-BX-K007 $3,341,165 Past Project Period End Date
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 Past Project Period End Date
2021 FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS $300,000 Open
2021 The University of Alabama System and the Alabama Department of Forensics National Center on Forensics National Center on Forensics, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AL 15PNIJ-21-GK-02982-MUMU $4,000,000 Open
2020 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2016-MU-BX-K007 $4,288,461 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Body mass estimation using bone micro- and macro-structure: a practical approach using CT imaging and computer analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2020-R2-CX-0048 $683,542 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 2020-R2-CX-0024 $100,000 Closed