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
2017	Extended Development, Verification, and Validation of a Blast Dynamics Simulator for Post-Blast Forensic Investigations	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE, THE	NC	2017-R2-CX-0009	$46,094	Closed
2017	Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2017-R2-CX-0005	$50,000	Closed
2017	Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Chicago	IL	2017-MU-MU-0042	$532,286	Closed
2017	Nanoscale Imaging and Chemical Analysis of Extracellular DNA in Trace Evidence Samples	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2017-DN-BX-0186	$311,609	Closed
2017	Non-destructive, enhanced collection and recovery from difficult forensic samples, improving the "front end" processes of DNA typing	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-DN-BX-0137	$286,931	Closed
2017	Physical and Chemical Trace Evidence from 3D-Printed Firearms	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	The University of Mississippi	MS	2017-IJ-CX-0001	$50,000	Closed
2017	Security Crystals: NIR-To-NIR Upconverting Nanoparticles for Fingerprint Identification and DNA Extraction	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY	SD	2017-IJ-CX-0026	$841,307	Closed
2017	The development of objective approach to the characterization and interpretation of paint evidence by SEM/EDS	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MICROTRACE LLC	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0027	$594,920	Closed
2017	The Human Virome as Trace Evidence in Forensic Investigation	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2017-IJ-CX-0025	$698,382	Closed
2016	A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics	Non-solicited Applications	The University of Chicago	IL	2015-DN-BX-K430	$564,735	Closed
2016	Characterization and Classification of Sexual Assault Lubricants using Direct Analysis in Real Time at Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-NE-BX-0001	$324,082	Closed
2016	Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-DN-BX-0004	$50,000	Closed
2016	Differential Quantitative Analysis of Particles from the Contact Surfaces and Recessed Areas of Footwear	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Stoney Forensic, Inc.	VA	2016-DN-BX-0146	$380,323	Closed
2016	Investigation of a time-effective approach to the discrimination and interpretation of inkjet printer inks using micro Raman spectroscopy	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Sam Houston State University	TX	2016-DN-BX-0164	$246,838	Closed
2016	Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY	GA	2016-DN-BX-0196	$637,735	Closed
2016	The Effect of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Microspectrophotometry (MSP) of Dyed Fibers	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	McCrone Research Institute	IL	2016-DN-BX-0145	$289,126	Closed
2015	A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UChicago Argonne, LLC	IL	2015-DN-BX-K030	$564,735	Closed
2015	Characterization and comparison of tape evidence using elemental profiling methods and chemometric analyses	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University Board of Trustees	FL	2015-DN-BX-K050	$244,072	Closed
2015	Combined Genetic and Micro-chemical Analysis of Household Dust as a Definitive Trace Identifier of a Room and its Occupants	NIJ FY 15 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	University of Central Florida	FL	2013-DN-BX-K025	$188,198	Closed
2015	Construction of the Forensic Microbiome Database with Enhanced GeoSourcing	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	J. Craig Venter Institute	MD	2015-R2-CX-K036	$962,800	Closed
2015	Crime Lab Accreditation and Certification	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	City of Culver City	CA	2015-CD-BX-0071	$17,245	Closed
2015	Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soil Evidence: Collection, Contamination, Storage, and Analysis	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Michigan State University	MI	2015-DN-BX-K031	$219,127	Closed
2015	Development and Properties of Kernel-Based Methods for the Interpretation and Presentation of Forensic Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	South Dakota State University	SD	2015-R2-CX-0028	$33,513	Closed
2015	Encapsulated phase change nanoparticles as thermally-readable covert taggants	NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications	Northeastern University	MA	2012-DN-BX-K821	$305,965	Closed
2015	Evaluating the Skin Microbiome ad Trace Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications	The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego	CA	2014-R2-CX-K411	$637,942	Closed