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Magneto-Optical Sensors Bring Obliterated Serial Numbers Back to Life

Date Published

May 1, 2015

A sensor technology first developed for medical use is being adapted to detect and visualize destroyed serial numbers in firearms.

FY13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program

2013-DN-BX-4109

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$304,412

The Impact of Forensic Science Research and Development

Date Published

April 2015

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Issue Overview

FY 2014 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program

2014-DN-BX-4052

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$292,368

Guns and Youth Violence: An Examination of Crime Guns in One City

Date Published

1999

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Funding for Fiscal Year 2013: DNA Analysis, Capacity Enhancement, and Other Forensic Activities

Date Published

February 2015

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic), Grants and Funding

Strengthening Forensic Science Services through the DNA Capacity Enhancement & Backlog Reduction Program and Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants, Final Report

Date Published

October 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Conference Material

Opening the Black Box of NIBIN

Event Dates

July 15, 2014, 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Seminar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

Research for the Real World

Forensic Evidence and Criminal Justice Outcomes in a Statewide Sample of Sexual Assault Cases

Date Published

July 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Study Identifies Ways to Improve ATF Ballistic Evidence Program

FY 2014 Indianapolis Solving Cold Cases with DNA

2014-DN-BX-K084

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$255,869

Massachusetts Evidence Inventory and Innocence Case Review Project

2014-DY-BX-K003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$391,345

Solving Cold Cases with DNA - New Orleans Police Department

2014-DN-BX-K069

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$269,987

Transcriptome Sequencing of Forensically Relevant Biological Fluids and Tissues to Obtimize Degradation Analysis for Sample Age Estimation

2014-DN-BX-K025

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$241,352

City of Omaha, Nebraska - Omaha Police DepartmentFY2014 NIJ Solving Cold Cases With DNAOmaha Cold Case Squad Intensive Case Review and DNA Analysis Program

2014-DN-BX-K085

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$269,846

Piedmont Triad Cold Case Initiative: A collaborative effort between the cities of Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High Point.

2014-DN-BX-K076

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$246,444

Anne Arundel County - Solving Cold Cases with DNA Review and Analysis

2014-DN-BX-K071

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$143,539

Robust STR calling from High-throughput Sequencing Technologies

2014-DN-BX-K089

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$673,087

MicroXRF Equipment to Improve the Quality of Kansas City Police Crime Laboratory Services

2014-CD-BX-0070

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$174,650

FY14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory

2014-CD-BX-0013

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$63,029

Montana State Crime Laboratory

2014-CD-BX-0046

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$63,029

Improving Crime Laboratory services through training

2014-CD-BX-0061

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$66,276

Minneapolis Crime Lab Portable Equipment Upgrades

2014-CD-BX-0022

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$93,888

Covington Police Crime Lab Improvement- Cyanoacrylate Fuming Project

2014-CD-BX-0071

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$7,900

Development of Heated Headspace Solid Phase Microextraction-Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry for Chemical Profiling of Marjuana

2014-R2-CX-K005

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$166,347