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Advancing Justice for the Missing and Unidentified Through Research - 2024 NIJ Research Conference

September 2024

Forensic science research is developing essential knowledge to fill in the holes in death investigations, creating new ways to identify challenging skeletal remains. These methods inform cause of death, time of death, and familial relationships to guide investigations, identify suspects, support prosecutions, and bring justice to families.

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Enhancing Equitable Forensic Identification: An Evaluation of Pelvic Morphology for Parity Detection and Age Estimation in Unidentified Skeletal Remains

15PNIJ-24-GG-01579-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$180,000

A Multi-Method Genetic, Craniometric, and Isotopic Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Unidentified Latinx Remains

15PNIJ-24-GG-01578-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$180,000

Forensic Use of GPR and LiDAR Technology for Clandestine Grave Detection

Event Dates

April 18, 2024, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Highlighting Significant NIJ Forensic Science Investments: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Site Visit

Date Published

February 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Issue Overview

OsteoID: A New Forensic Tool to Help Identify the Species of Skeletal Remains

Date Published

November 2023

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Advances in Chemical Sorting of Commingled Remains

Event Dates

November 30, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

2023 NIJ Forensic Science R&D Webinar Series

Evaluation of Target Enrichment for SNP Genotyping of Skeletal Remains

15PNIJ-23-GG-04224-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$659,287

Developing and Validating Standards for Dental Cementum Age-at-Death and Season-of-Death Estimation

15PNIJ-23-GG-04229-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$467,325

Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation

15PNIJ-23-GG-01940-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$111,000

Design and operation of a portable scanner for high performance microchip capillary array electrophoresis

Date Published

2010

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Fuzzy Choquet integration of homogeneous possibility and probability distributions

Journal

Information Sciences

Date Published

2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Intra- and Inter-Element Variability in Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA from Fresh and Environmentally Exposed Skeletal Remains

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Fluvial Transport of Human Remains Forensic Application of a HECRAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA

Date Published

December 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Identifying forensically relevant urban scavengers in Johannesburg, South Africa

Journal

Science & Justice

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

NSF co-funded project - Sex Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: Taking a Legally-lnformed Approach to Method Development

DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0007

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$100,000

Just Science Podcast: Just Managing Mass Fatality Incidents

Date Published

February 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Just Science Podcast: Just Investigative Support for Indigenous Communities

Date Published

February 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Just Science Podcast: Just DNA Results in Rapid Time

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Date Published

February 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Just Science Podcast: Just Teeth and Technology

Date Published

January 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods

15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$306,271

The Effectiveness of Forensic Genetic Genealogy Techniques for Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color

15PNIJ-22-GG-04394-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$556,300

How Prevalent is Violence in Missing and Unidentified Persons Cases?

Global mtDNA Databasing Project

2005-DN-R-086-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2005

$1,891,390

Global mtDNA Databasing Project

2005-DN-R-086-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2004

$180,000