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                            Funding & Awards
 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

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**Number of Awards:** 3,256**Total Amount Awarded:** $1,966,898,553
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                                                  Title
                                                  Original Solicitation
                                                  Recipient
                                                  State
                                                  Award Number
                                                  Amount
                                                  Status2023
                                                                                        NIJ Community Violence Intervention Research and Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support
                                                                                        THE URBAN INSTITUTE
                                                                                        DC
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04264-CVIP
                                                                                        $5,000,000
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults
                                                                                        WESTAT, INC.
                                                                                        MD
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GK-02236-MUMU
                                                                                        $1,000,000
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        NIJ LEADS
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Support for the Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Scholars Program
                                                                                        POLICE FOUNDATION
                                                                                        VA
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GK-04221-NIJB
                                                                                        $1,000,000
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        NIJ Multisite Impact and Cost-Efficiency Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts
                                                                                        
                                                                                        AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        DC
                                                                                        15PNIJ-22-GK-00035-VTCX
                                                                                        $1,500,000
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship
                                                                                        BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER ED
                                                                                        NV
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01940-RESS
                                                                                        $111,000
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Optimizing Analytical Parameters for Detection of Chronic and Single Dose Drug Exposure in Forensic Hair Analysis
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        FL
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04208-MUMU
                                                                                        $431,892
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Optimizing New STRs for Enhanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH
                                                                                        TX
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04214-RESS
                                                                                        $513,529
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Pivoting Headspace Ethanol Analysis to Accommodate Modern Day Scenarios
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories
                                                                                        VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE
                                                                                        VA
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01424-MUMU
                                                                                        $371,593
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Police Supervision Redux: Examining Police Supervision in the 21st Century
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives
                                                                                        POLICE FOUNDATION
                                                                                        VA
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-05488-RESS
                                                                                        $1,000,000
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Policing Leadership and Accountability: Harnessing Big Data and Causal Inference for Evaluating Police Reform Practices
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
                                                                                        UT
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-05487-RESS
                                                                                        $972,083
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Positive Adolescent Interpersonal Relationships (PAIR): A Community-Based STRiV Study
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women
                                                                                        NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
                                                                                        IL
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01380-REVA
                                                                                        $1,996,357
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        PRISONERS ON THE MOVE: EXAMINING THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF PRISON TRANSIENCY ON INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
                                                                                        OH
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01936-RESS
                                                                                        $105,000
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Quantification of psychotropic cannabinoids in newly emerging hemp-derived products and evaluation of their stability and interconversion during storage
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY INC
                                                                                        IL
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04234-RESS
                                                                                        $251,505
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Quantifying the accuracy of low quality DNA sample analysis from genotyping to genealogical searching and integration as a bioinformatic pipeline
                                                                                        NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
                                                                                        OR
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-AG-04262-DNAX
                                                                                        $266,406
                                                                                        Awarded, but not yet accepted2023
                                                                                        Quantifying the strength of support in fingerprint casework comparisons
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        IN
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04227-SLFO
                                                                                        $609,185
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Quantitative and visual prediction of eye, hair and skin color from DNA
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        IN
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04206-RESS
                                                                                        $980,527
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Quantitative Assessment of Fracture Characteristics in Blunt Force Skeletal Trauma for Forensic Interpretations
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
                                                                                        OH
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04219-SLFO
                                                                                        $818,054
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Rapid screening and identification of fentanyl in drug mixtures using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        FL
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04230-RESS
                                                                                        $190,662
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003)
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS
                                                                                        $99,818
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Regulating Data Bias in Intelligent Decision Making
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship
                                                                                        BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01934-RESS
                                                                                        $55,500
                                                                                        Closed2023
                                                                                        Research & Evaluation of Boston's Community Violence Intervention & Prevention Initiative
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support
                                                                                        SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04265-CVIP
                                                                                        $328,407
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Research and Development of an Approach for Non-invasive Determination of Cannabis Ingestion for Forensic Science Purposes
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE
                                                                                        NY
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04236-RESS
                                                                                        $291,801
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Sampling and Selection Bias in Research using Documented Skeletal Collections
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship
                                                                                        MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        MI
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01939-RESS
                                                                                        $78,656
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Statistical Foundations of Score-Based Methods in Forensic Identification of Source Problems”
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        SD
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04232-MUMU
                                                                                        $612,286
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Strengthening Scientific Foundations for Advancing Best Practices in the Collection, Storage, Analysis, and Interpretation of Organic and Inorganic Gunshot Residues
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
                                                                                        WV
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-04218-SLFO
                                                                                        $564,733
                                                                                        Open
  
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