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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:** 1,090**Total Amount Awarded:** $261,810,156
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                                                  Title
                                                  Original Solicitation
                                                  Recipient
                                                  State
                                                  Award Number
                                                  Amount
                                                  Status2018
                                                                                        Exploration of RNA degradation in dried body fluid stains as a means of estimating the age of the samples
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        OK
                                                                                        2018-DU-BX-0206
                                                                                        $487,647
                                                                                        Past Project Period End Date2018
                                                                                        Improving Machine Learning Methods for Predicting the Postmortem Interval Using Microbiome Data
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
                                                                                        COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        CO
                                                                                        2018-R2-CX-0017
                                                                                        $150,000
                                                                                        Closed2018
                                                                                        Software tool and methodology for enhancement of unidentified decedent systems with postmortem automatic iris recognition
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
                                                                                        IN
                                                                                        2018-DU-BX-0215
                                                                                        $642,979
                                                                                        Closed2018
                                                                                        Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        NEW YORK, CITY OF
                                                                                        NY
                                                                                        2018-DU-BX-0204
                                                                                        $450,243
                                                                                        Closed2018
                                                                                        The Effect of Altitude on Decomposition: Toward an Understanding of the Postmortem Interval in the Rocky Mountain Region.
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
                                                                                        BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        IL
                                                                                        2018-R2-CX-0014
                                                                                        $106,701
                                                                                        Past Project Period End Date2018
                                                                                        The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2018-DU-BX-0180
                                                                                        $726,629
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations
                                                                                        Northeastern University
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0002
                                                                                        $48,818
                                                                                        Open2017
                                                                                        Biomechanical Characterization of Video Recorded Short Distance Falls In Children
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
                                                                                        KY
                                                                                        2017-DN-BX-0158
                                                                                        $599,878
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Heroin and Crime Initiative: Informing the investigation and prosecution of heroin-related overdose
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime 2017
                                                                                        CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        OH
                                                                                        2017-DN-BX-0168
                                                                                        $975,401
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S. Forensic Practice
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications
                                                                                        Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada Reno
                                                                                        NV
                                                                                        2015-DN-BX-K409
                                                                                        $404,255
                                                                                        Open2017
                                                                                        Increasing identifications of deceased border crossers: investigating spatial and skeletal attributes of migrant deaths
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
                                                                                        Michigan State University
                                                                                        MI
                                                                                        2017-IJ-CX-0002
                                                                                        $36,148
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Investigations on the Cellular and Morphologic Characteristics of Cranial Vault Fracture: Research and Development of a Time Since Fracture Protocol and Database
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
                                                                                        MI
                                                                                        2017-DN-BX-0166
                                                                                        $576,060
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        The University of Chicago
                                                                                        IL
                                                                                        2017-MU-MU-0042
                                                                                        $532,286
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Optimizing Bone Loss Across the Lifespan: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Porosity in the Human Femoral Neck and Rib As a Metric of Bone Fragility
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
                                                                                        The Ohio State University
                                                                                        OH
                                                                                        2017-MU-CX-0009
                                                                                        $50,000
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2017-DN-BX-0146
                                                                                        $377,535
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
                                                                                        CA
                                                                                        2017-R2-CX-0004
                                                                                        $50,000
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2017-R2-CX-0008
                                                                                        $50,000
                                                                                        Closed2017
                                                                                        Understanding the Pathology of Homicidal Pediatric Blunt Neurotrauma through Correlation of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Images with Histopathology
                                                                                        NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
                                                                                        NM
                                                                                        2017-DN-BX-0145
                                                                                        $598,632
                                                                                        Closed2016
                                                                                        A Comprehensive Test of the Methods and Models Used to Assign Geographic Origin to Human Skeletal Remains With Stable Isotope Data
                                                                                        Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        IsoForensics, Inc.
                                                                                        UT
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0157
                                                                                        $268,648
                                                                                        Closed2016
                                                                                        A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine
                                                                                        NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
                                                                                        Northeastern University
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0002
                                                                                        $47,833
                                                                                        Open2016
                                                                                        Analysis of Alternative Light in the Detection and Visibility of Cutaneous Bruises
                                                                                        Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        VA
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0147
                                                                                        $449,437
                                                                                        Closed2016
                                                                                        Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
                                                                                        National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH
                                                                                        TX
                                                                                        2016-MU-BX-K007
                                                                                        $4,700,000
                                                                                        Past Project Period End Date2016
                                                                                        Development and Evaluation of miRNA Panels for Body Fluid Identification Using Capillary Electrophoresis and Massively Parallel Sequencing Methods
                                                                                        NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
                                                                                        Sam Houston State University
                                                                                        TX
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0001
                                                                                        $47,186
                                                                                        Open2016
                                                                                        DNA from Burned Bone: The application of ancient DNA methods to forensic DNA recovery
                                                                                        Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        AZ
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0158
                                                                                        $657,544
                                                                                        Closed2016
                                                                                        Establishing a Rank Order for Skeletal Element Sampling:  Examining Differential DNA Yield Rates Among and Between Buried Human Skeletal Elements as Compared to Surface Recovered Skeletal Elements
                                                                                        Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0178
                                                                                        $270,616
                                                                                        Closed
  
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