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: 1,088
Total Amount Awarded: $250,671,899

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2019	Forensic Application of Pollen DNA Barcoding	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2019-R2-CX-0039	$150,000	Closed
2019	Human Decomposition: Effect of Indoor Versus Outdoor Decomposition on the Microbiome of Human Cadavers and Implications for Future Forensic Research	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2019-DU-BX-0025	$808,296	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Validation of a Single Instrument, Single Sample Protocol for the Detection of the Inorganicand Organic Constituents of Firearms Discharge Residue	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2019-R2-CX-0044	$100,000	Closed
2019	Virbrational Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue: Detection, Identification and Characterization	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2019-R2-CX-0035	$150,000	Closed
2018	A FOUNDATIONAL STUDY OF FIRE DEBRIS INTERPRETATION USING QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC FEATURES WITH THE APPLICATION OF ACE-V METHODOLOGY	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	2018-DU-BX-0174	$176,490	Closed
2018	Analysis and Characterization of Smokeless Powders and Smokeless Powder Residues	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-R2-CX-0008	$150,000	Closed
2018	Characterization of Modern Ammunition and Background Profiles: A Novel Approach and Probabilistic Interpretation of Inorganic Gunshot Residue	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY	WV	2018-R2-CX-0009	$100,000	Closed
2018	Classification Procedure for Lubricant Stains and Samples Collected from Sexual Assaults	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-MU-BX-0002	$354,195	Closed
2018	Development of a probabilistic multiclass model selection algorithm for high-dimension and complex data encountered in forensic pattern and trace evidence.	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY	SD	2018-R2-CX-0010	$149,942	Closed
2018	Fast Screening of Firearm Discharge Residues by Laser-based Spectrochemical Methods, Electrochemical Sensors, and Chemometrics	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-DU-BX-0186	$379,394	Closed
2018	IDENTIFICATION OF LOW EXPLOSIVES AND THEIR POST-BLAST RESIDUES VIA GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC) COUPLED WITH VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET (VUV) SPECTROSCOPY	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2018-R2-CX-0015	$150,000	Closed
2018	Identification of Minor Dye Components of Fibers via Integrating-Cavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	WA	2018-DU-BX-0178	$580,622	Closed
2018	Multi-spectral Tunable Detection (MultiTuDe) Lens for Rapid In-situ Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC	CA	2018-75-CX-0042	$271,226	Closed
2018	Physical and chemical trace evidence from 3D-Printed firearms (Year 2)	NIJ FY18 Continuations	The University of Mississippi	MS	2017-IJ-CX-0001	$50,000	Closed
2018	Post-Blast Explosives Attribution	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory		DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-2	$599,738	Closed
2018	Validation of Novel Statistical Approaches for the Interpretation of Trace Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-DU-BX-0194	$499,318	Closed
2017	A New Analytical Technique to Identify Surface Treatments of a Single Fiber	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	DC	2017-R2-CX-0007	$50,000	Closed
2017	Application of Raman and Infrared Microscopy for the Forensic Examination of Automotive Clear Coats and Paint Smears	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY	OK	2017-IJ-CX-0022	$484,163	Closed
2017	Assessing automated image analysis and stable isotope signatures for small arms propellant differentiation and brand identification	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	PA	2017-MU-CX-0043	$404,510	Closed
2017	Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-DN-BX-0004	$50,000	Closed
2017	Coupling Raman Spectroscopy with Ambient Sampling, Portable Mass Spectrometry for On-site, High-Throughput Evidence Confirmation on a Single Instrumental Platform	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Illinois State University	IL	2017-R2-CX-0022	$298,100	Closed
2017	Determination of Key Factors in Particle Combination Analysis to Enable Systematic Improvement, Optimization and Transition to Practice	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	STONEY FORENSIC, INC.	VA	2017-IJ-CX-0030	$951,264	Closed
2017	Development and Application of Small-molecule Spatial Distribution Imaging: Laser Ablation Direct Analysis in Real Time Imaging-Mass Spectrometry (LADI-MS)	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	The State University of New York, University at Albany	NY	2017-R2-CX-0003	$50,000	Closed
2017	Development and Implementation of a Fire Debris Inference Validation Database: Moving to Probabilistic Statements of the Strength of the Evidence	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	2017-IJ-CX-0023	$496,976	Closed
2017	Electrochemical Paper-based Sensors for the Trace Detection of Explosives Compounds in a Crime Scene	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2017-DN-BX-0172	$229,923	Past Project Period End Date