Opportunity ID
NIJ-2019-15683
Solicitation Status
Closed
Fiscal Year
2019
Closing Date
Posting Date
Description
The Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (GRF-STEM) program provides grants to accredited academic institutions to support graduate research leading to doctoral degrees in topic areas that are relevant to preventing and controlling crime, and ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States. Applicant academic institutions sponsoring doctoral students are eligible to apply only if the doctoral student's degree program is a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline; and the student's proposed dissertation research has demonstrable implications for addressing the challenges of crime and/or the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States.
Awards are anticipated to be made to successful applicant institutions in the form of grants to cover fellowships for the sponsored doctoral students. GRF-STEM fellowships allow up to 3 years of support usable over a 5-year period. For each year of support, NIJ provides the degree-granting institution a stipend of $35,000 usable toward the student's salary and related costs, and up to $15,000 to cover the student's tuition and fees, administrative expenses, research expenses, and related costs.
Initial awards were made for the first year of funding only, but it was anticipated that up to two additional annual funding increments would be available, pending demonstration of: 1) Continued active enrollment in the doctoral degree program, and 2) Verification (in the form of a signed letter from the dissertation committee chair) that the doctoral student is actively carrying out research and making satisfactory progress toward the dissertation topic originally proposed (or substantively similar to that originally proposed).
This GRF-STEM Continuations solicitation allows previously awarded GRF-STEM fellows from FY 2017 and earlier, who have not yet received 3 years of funding and who are not otherwise ineligible, to request an additional annual funding supplement. Program parameters were changed in FY 2018, such that those and later fellows will no longer be required to request annual supplements through a continuations solicitation process.
Awards
Number of Awards: 12
Total Amount Awarded: $581,863
A New Analytical Technique To Identify Surface Treatments of a Single Fiber
2017-R2-CX-0007
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$49,950
Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence
2017-IJ-CX-0003
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
Cybersecurity and Safety Challenges in Autonomous Vehicles: Threats Identification and Countermeasures Development
2017-R2-CX-0001
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$47,131
Extended Development, Verification, and Validation of a Blast Dynamics Simulator for Post-Blast Forensic Investigations
2017-R2-CX-0009
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$45,256
Identification and Analysis of Body Fluid Traces Using ATR FR-IR Spectroscopy
2017-R2-CX-0006
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$49,997
Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks
2017-R2-CX-0005
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
Optimization of Pretreatment Parameters in Hair Analysis for Drugs of Abuse and Understanding Protein-Drug Physicochemical Interactions
2017-IJ-CX-0005
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
Regulation of Synthetically Engineered Organisms as Sources of Bio-Hacking and Bio-Terrorism
2016-R2-CX-0023
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization
2017-R2-CX-0004
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$48,599
Sex and Ancestry Estimation Methods in Modern Filipino Crania
2017-IJ-CX-0008
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$40,932
Soil Fungal and Nematode Community Changes as a Methodology for Determining Long-Term Postmortem Interval after Cadaver Mass Loss
2017-R2-CX-0008
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression
2017-IJ-CX-0007
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$49,998
Date Created: May 22, 2019