Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

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Number of Awards: 147
Total Amount Awarded: $96,828,206

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
2022	NSF co-funded project - Sex Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: Taking a Legally-lnformed Approach to Method Development	National Science Foundation Law and Science Funding Opportunity	National Science Foundation		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0007	$100,000	Open
2014	Isotopic Taphonomy of Human Remains	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2014-DN-BX-K002	$462,226	Closed
2018	Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0217	$570,624	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Optimizing the Analysis of DNA From Burned Bone Using Ancient DNA Techniques	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2019-DU-BX-0044	$783,744	Open
2005	Measuring atomic bomb-derived 14C levels in human remains to determine the Year of Birth and/or Year of Death	General Forensics Research and Development Full Applications	Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona	AZ	2005-IJ-CX-K013	$147,391	Closed
2020	Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	2020-75-CX-0015	$462,240	Past Project Period End Date
2016	Fluvial Transport of Human Remains: Forensic Application of a HEC-RAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES	CA	2016-DN-BX-0159	$866,896	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics	NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2016-DN-BX-4194	$684,273	Past Project Period End Date
2015	Measuring desiccation: A system using bioelectrical impedance analysis	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Colorado Mesa University	CO	2015-DN-BX-K015	$256,951	Closed
2015	Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Regents of the University of Colorado	CO	2015-DN-BX-K016	$863,485	Closed
2019	Estimating the postmortem interval of human skeletal remains using rapid, inexpensive microbiome tools	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	2019-DU-BX-0010	$390,748	Closed
2018	Bone Mineral Density and Adult Age Estimation in Forensic Anthropology	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of South Florida Board of Trustees	FL	2018-DU-BX-0197	$130,242	Closed
2008	Project IDENTIFICATION: Developing Accurate Identification Criteria for Hispanic Individuals	NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals	University of West Florida	FL	2008-DN-BX-K164	$77,583	Closed
2011	Graphical User Interface for a Multi-Factorial Age-At-Death Estimation Method Using Fuzzy Integrals	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The Florida International University	FL	2011-DN-BX-K538	$417,595	Closed
2010	National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) - FY 10 Continuation Funding	NIJ FY 10 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	National Forensic Science Technology Center	FL	2007-IJ-CX-K023	$2,200,000	Closed
2008	Detecting Buried Remains Using Ground Penetrating Radar	NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals	University of Central Florida	FL	2008-DN-BX-K132	$231,258	Closed
2015	MODELING SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF THE PUBIC SYMPHYSIS: Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools for the Objective Estimation of Age-at-Death for Modern Populations	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Florida State University	FL	2015-DN-BX-K010	$610,111	Closed
2015	Skeletal Age Estimation in Modern U.S. Adults: The Effects of Activity, Body Mass, and Osteoarthritis on Age-Related Changes in the Acetabulum	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Florida Board of Trustees	FL	2015-R2-CX-0009	$42,671	Closed
2016	Human Organ Tissue Identification by Targeted RNA Deep Sequencing to Aid in the Investigation of Shooting and Other Traumatic Bodily Injury Incidents	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	University of Central Florida	FL	2016-DN-BX-0165	$424,799	Closed
2019	Human Identification from Computed Tomography Derived 3D Models using Part-to-Part Comparison Analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	2019-DU-BX-0031	$536,181	Past Project Period End Date
2009	FY09 NamUs Continuation Funding	NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	National Forensic Science Technology Center	FL	2007-IJ-CX-K023	$1,677,000	Closed
2008	FY2008 NamUs Project	NIJ Office of Science and Technology Continuations	National Forensic Science Technology Center	FL	2007-IJ-CX-K023	$1,780,000	Closed
2021	Pre-grouping of commingled human skeletal remains by elemental analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04151-SLFO	$240,594	Open
2022	Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS	$306,271	Open
2018	OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2018-DU-BX-0229	$185,453	Closed