Funding instruments
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCOE)
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program
NIJ FY24 Evaluation of BJA Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP): Scan of Practices and Evaluability Assessments
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development: Social Development Sub-study (ABCD-SD)
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply - Funding for Support for the Operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF)
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply - Operation of the Secretariat of SC 37 under JTC 1 of ISO/IEC
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply - Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center
Closing Cases Using Gunshot Residue
Not every crime scene will have definitive evidence, such as DNA, to link an individual to a crime. In those cases, law enforcement relies on other evidence to build the burden of proof. NIJ graduate research fellow Dr. Shelby Khandasammy developed a tool to analyze organic gunshot residue and distinguish between different firearms calibers and manufacturers. She joins Marie Garcia, office director for the Office of Criminal Justice Systems at NIJ, to talk about her work and experience as a research fellow.