Fiscal Year 2020 Awards
We continue to post awards related to 2020 solicitations. The lists of awards below will continue to be updated until all awards made under this solicitation are listed.
The Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program provides grants to accredited academic institutions to support outstanding doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to criminal justice. Applicant academic institutions are eligible to apply only if:
- The student is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the sciences or engineering; and
- The student’s proposed dissertation research has demonstrable relevance to preventing and controlling crime and/or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States.
In recent years, NIJ posted separate solicitations for applicants in the social and behavioral sciences (GRF-SBS) and for those in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (GRF-STEM). All eligible applicants are now invited to apply under this single funding opportunity, without distinction between SBS and STEM.
Learn more about the Graduate Research Fellowship Program and see FAQs.
Awards
Number of Awards: 26
Total Amount Awarded: $2,850,786
Utilizing eDNA from Four Biological Taxa Associated with Geologic Evidence for Sample-to-Sample Comparisons and Study Site Separation
Information regarding designation of the grant point of contact (POC) was added to page 6.
On February 4, 2020, NIJ hosted a webinar that provided an overview and discussion of the program. The slides and transcript from this webinar have been added to the end of the funding opportunity document.
Information regarding the allowability of indirect costs was revised throughout the funding opportunity document. See Section B. Federal Award Information for details.
Additional information regarding the budgeting of funds from the $12,000 Cost of Education Allowance to supplement expenses under the $3,000 Research Expenses category has been added. See Section B. Federal Award Information for details.
A hyperlink error on page 18 was fixed. The link (https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/participant-support-costs-and-incentives-social-science-research) now works as intended.