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Addressing the Challenges of Detecting Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault

Date Published

September 12, 2024

NIJ has funded research to address the challenges of detecting DFSA for several years. This research includes projects that examine ways to improve forensic hair testing and how drugs modify blood proteins.

Detecting Drugs in Hair: Is It Drug Use or Environmental Contamination?

A National Snapshot of Publicly Funded Crime Laboratory Operations

Event Dates

April 2, 2024, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

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Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Series

ASCLD Train The Director Webinar Series

FBI Laboratory Decision Analysis Studies in Pattern Evidence Examinations

Event Dates

March 19, 2024, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

ASCLD Train The Director Webinar Series

Transcript: Graduate Research Fellowship Solicitation Webinar, 2023

FY 2023 Awards Made!

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STACY LEE: Good morning and welcome to today's webinar, “Graduate Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Justice,” hosted by the National Institute of Justice.  

At this time, it's my pleasure to introduce Dr. Gregory Dutton, Program Manager with the National Institute of Justice. Greg.  

GREGORY DUTTON: Thank you. Welcome. Thank you for attending. ...

NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes

Closing Date

April 26, 2023

Grants.gov Deadline

April 19, 2023

Application JustGrants Deadline

April 26, 2023

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous basic or applied research and development projects. An NIJ forensic science research and development grant supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed project that will 1) increase the body of knowledge to guide and inform forensic science policy and practice; or 2) lead to the production of useful material(s), device(s), system(s), or method(s) that have the potential for forensic...

Early-Career Forensic Toxicologists Take Home Top Awards for NIJ-Funded Research

Date Published

December 13, 2022

Sara Walton, Laerissa Reveil, Tyson Baird, and Bailey Jones won prestigious awards at the Society of Forensic Toxicologists 2022 meeting.

NIST Footwear Impression Comparison System

Date Published

November 2020

Publication Type

Presentation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

2021 Forensic Science Research Federal Stakeholders Public Meeting

Event Dates

November 8, 2021, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Federal Forensic Science Research and Development Programs – A 2021 Update

Date Published

June 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Impact of NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development

Date Published

April 2021

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ

Investigation of a novel approach to forensic analysis using neutron imaging techniques

2008-IJ-R-134-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2010

$499,261

Enhancing the Capacity, Capabilities, and Validity of U.S. Forensic Laboratories

2013-DNR-5042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$492,500

Enhancing the Capacity, Capabilities, and Validity of U.S. Forensic Laboratories

2013-DNR-5042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$344,000

Enhancing the Capacity, Capabilities, and Validity of U.S. Forensic Laboratories

2013-DNR-5042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$625,000

Interagency Collaboration to Support Forensic Science Research

2014-DNR-4918

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$1,000,000

Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

June 10, 2021

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous basic or applied research and development projects. An NIJ forensic science research and development grant supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed project that will 1) Increase the body of knowledge to guide and inform forensic science policy and practice; or 2) Lead to the production of useful material(s), device(s), system(s), or method(s) that have the potential for forensic...

Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone

2020-75-CX-0015

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$462,240

Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation

2020-75-CX-0012

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$530,242

GIS Application for Building a Nationally Representative Forensic Taphonomy Database

2020-DQ-BX-0025

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$457,536

Forensic tool to identify fall characteristics in infant skull fracture

2020-75-CX-0014

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$557,607

Research and Development of a Rapid Approach for Identification of Calliphoridae Species Entomological Forensic Evidence Based on DART-HRMS-derived Chemical Signatures and Chemometrics

2020-MU-MU-0016

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$731,306

Body mass estimation using bone micro- and macro-structure: a practical approach using CT imaging and computer analysis

2020-R2-CX-0048

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$683,542

Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Composition to Cause of Death in Medicolegal Investigations

2017-MU-MU-4042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$393,503

Sequential Processing of Documents for Fingerprints - A Technology Transition Workshop

Date Published

2010

Publication Type

Training (Aid/Material)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored