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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.
Description

This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Subtopic: Research and development OR DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)

Number of Awards: 5,455
Total Amount Awarded: $3,132,242,549

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Use of Genetically Variant Peptides to Statistically Estimate the Genetic Background of Hair Shafts NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2015-DN-BX-K065 $397,337 Closed
2015 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC. VA 2015-DN-BX-K038 $320,561 Closed
2015 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K040 $277,667 Closed
2015 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing: Identifying the Missing of Minnesota NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing MN Dept. of Public Safety - Bureau of Criminal Apprehension MN 2015-DN-BX-K039 $133,434 Closed
2015 Validation of a Probe Capture Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Whole Mitochondrial Genome Analysis NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Children''s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland CA 2015-DN-BX-K053 $758,184 Closed
2015 Validation of Illumina's MiSeq FGx NGS Platform for Transition to Casework NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K005 $150,000 Closed
2015 Valuating Law Enforcement Data in the 21st Century: An Adaptive Mixed Methods Approach NIJ FY 15 Developing a Method to Valuate Law Enforcement Data Research Triangle Institute NC 2015-IJ-CX-K005 $494,976 Closed
2015 Viable, Affordable, and Meaningful Integration of Organic and Inorganic Analysis of Firearms Discharge Residue NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2015-DN-BX-K048 $212,875 Closed
2015 West Virginia's FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Grant NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program West Virginia Division of Administrative Services, Justice and Community Services WV 2015-CD-BX-0051 $63,705 Closed
2015 When does Rejection Trigger Aggression? A Multi-method Examination of the Multimotive Model NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Mississippi State University of Agriculture &Applied Science MS 2015-CK-BX-0004 $1,619,644 Closed
2015 Wide-scale, Agentless, and Rapid collection of Digital Evidence from Networks (WARDEN) NIJ FY 15 Collecting Digital Evidence from Large-Scale Computer Systems and Networks Assured Information Security, Inc. NY 2015-IJ-CX-K003 $276,431 Closed
2015 WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project: Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent in Michigan NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University MI 2015-DY-BX-K008 $418,099 Closed
2015 Young Adults in Jails NIJ FY 15 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Vera Institute of Justice NY 2015-IJ-CX-0012 $500,407 Closed
2015 Young Men of Color''s Help-Seeking Following Violent Victimization NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime Vera Institute of Justice NY 2015-VF-GX-0112 $578,816 Closed
2014 2014 Denver Cold Case Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City and County of Denver CO 2014-DN-BX-K073 $125,000 Closed
2014 2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Orlando FL 2014-DN-BX-K078 $81,446 Closed
2014 A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism University of Maryland MD 2014-ZA-BX-0002 $639,736 Closed
2014 A Group Randomized Trial of Restorative Justice Programming to Address the School to Prison Pipeline, Reduce Aggression and Violence, and Enhance School Safety in Middle and High School Students NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Columbus County Schools LEA, NC NC 2014-CK-BX-0104 $1,499,019 Open
2014 A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for DNA Mixture Interpretation NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Syracuse University NY 2014-DN-BX-K029 $213,372 Closed
2014 A National Impact Study on the Effectiveness of School-based Youth Courts NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WestEd CA 2014-CK-BX-0010 $1,836,976 Closed
2014 A New Forensic Super-Resolution Tool to Enhance Extreme Low Resolution, Pose Correct Off-Angle and Occluded Face Images for Investigative Lead Generation Using Commercial Face Matchers FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Carnegie Mellon Univeristy PA 2013-IJ-CX-K005 $492,903 Closed
2014 A Process and Impact Evaluation of The Veterans Moving Forward Program: Best Practices, Outcomes, and Cost-Effectiveness NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships San Diego Association of Governments CA 2014-IJ-CX-0103 $334,360 Closed
2014 A Randomized Impact Evaluation of the No Bully System NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative WestEd CA 2014-CK-BX-0007 $1,497,696 Closed
2014 A Sentinel Events Approach to Addressing Suicide and Self-Harm in Jail NIJ FY 14 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors Vera Institute of Justice NY 2014-IJ-CX-0030 $399,861 Closed
2014 A Systematic Evaluation of the Analysis of Drug Microcrystals Using Infrared Microspectroscopy NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Chester University of Pennsylvania PA 2014-R2-CX-K008 $53,481 Closed