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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:** 146**Total Amount Awarded:** $96,717,206
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                                                  Title
                                                  Original Solicitation
                                                  Recipient
                                                  StateSort descending
                                                  Award Number
                                                  Amount
                                                  Status2008
                                                                                        Recovery and Interpretation of Burned Human Remains
                                                                                        NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
                                                                                        Mercyhurst College
                                                                                        PA
                                                                                        2008-DN-BX-K131
                                                                                        $399,240
                                                                                        Closed2014
                                                                                        Adult Age Estimated From New Skeletal Traits And Enhanced Computer-Based Transition Analysis
                                                                                        NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK
                                                                                        PA
                                                                                        2014-DN-BX-K007
                                                                                        $501,047
                                                                                        Closed2008
                                                                                        Enhancing Scene Processing Protocols to Improve Victim Identification and Field Detection of Human Remains at Mass Fatality Scenes
                                                                                        NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
                                                                                        Mercyhurst College
                                                                                        PA
                                                                                        2008-DN-BX-K133
                                                                                        $282,540
                                                                                        Closed2008
                                                                                        A Radiographic Database for Estimating Biological Parameters in Modern Subadults
                                                                                        NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
                                                                                        Mercyhurst College
                                                                                        PA
                                                                                        2008-DN-BX-K152
                                                                                        $293,924
                                                                                        Closed2015
                                                                                        An Interactive Morphological Database for Estimating Sex in Modern Adults
                                                                                        NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        Mercyhurst University
                                                                                        PA
                                                                                        2015-DN-BX-K014
                                                                                        $126,871
                                                                                        Closed2005
                                                                                        Knife and Saw Tool mark Analysis in Bone: Research Designed for the Examination and Interpretation of Criminal Mutilation and Dismemberment
                                                                                        General Forensics Research and Development Full Applications
                                                                                        Mercyhurst College
                                                                                        PA
                                                                                        2005-IJ-CX-K016
                                                                                        $201,853
                                                                                        Closed2004
                                                                                        Improvement of Forensic Dental Identification Services in the Office of the Medical Examiner, Greenville, SC
                                                                                        PAUL COVERDELL FORENSIC SCIENCE IMPROVEMENT GRANTS GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT FISCAL YEAR 2004
                                                                                        Greenville County Medical Examiner
                                                                                        SC
                                                                                        2004-DN-BX-0208
                                                                                        $35,233
                                                                                        Closed2020
                                                                                        GIS Application for Building a Nationally Representative Forensic Taphonomy Database
                                                                                        Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020
                                                                                        CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        SC
                                                                                        2020-DQ-BX-0025
                                                                                        $457,536
                                                                                        Open2008
                                                                                        Improving Sex Estimation from Craian Using 3-Dimensional CT Scans
                                                                                        NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2008-DN-BX-K182
                                                                                        $171,215
                                                                                        Closed2014
                                                                                        The Evaluation and Refinement of Nonmetric Sex and Ancestry Assessment Methods in Japanese and Thai Individuals
                                                                                        NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2014-DN-BX-0002
                                                                                        $16,490
                                                                                        Closed2014
                                                                                        Postmortem Interval Determination: A Metabolomics / Lipidomics Approach
                                                                                        NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        Lincoln Memorial University
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2014-DN-BX-K010
                                                                                        $193,079
                                                                                        Closed2011
                                                                                        Computerized Reconstruction of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains for Purposes of Extracting Osteometric Measurements and Estimating MNI
                                                                                        NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2011-DN-BX-K537
                                                                                        $514,495
                                                                                        Closed2008
                                                                                        Improving Facial Reproduction Using Empericial Modeling
                                                                                        NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
                                                                                        University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2008-DN-BX-K183
                                                                                        $107,099
                                                                                        Closed2008
                                                                                        ISOTOPIC AND ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE WILLIAM BASS DONATED SKELETAL COLLECTION AND OTHER MODERN DONATED COLLECTIONS
                                                                                        NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
                                                                                        Unversity of Tennesse
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2008-DN-BX-K193
                                                                                        $237,750
                                                                                        Closed2013
                                                                                        Evaluation of Osteometric Measurements in Forensic Anthropology
                                                                                        NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        Lincoln Memorial University
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2013-DN-BX-K038
                                                                                        $207,624
                                                                                        Closed2014
                                                                                        Evaluation of high density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information from Skeletal Remains
                                                                                        NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2014-DN-BX-K035
                                                                                        $264,722
                                                                                        Open2013
                                                                                        A Multidisciplinary Validation Study of Non-human Animal Models for Forensic Decomposition Research
                                                                                        NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2013-DN-BX-K037
                                                                                        $226,382
                                                                                        Closed2006
                                                                                        Determination of Age and Sex from the Human Clavicle: A Geometric Morphometric Approach
                                                                                        Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2007-DN-BX-0004
                                                                                        $20,000
                                                                                        Closed2006
                                                                                        Biomechanical and Morphometric Body Mass Estimation from the Human Skeleton Employing High Resolution CTs, DEXA Bone Density Scans, Radiographs and Osteological Covariates
                                                                                        Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2007-DN-BX-0013
                                                                                        $20,000
                                                                                        Closed2015
                                                                                        Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
                                                                                        NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2015-DN-BX-K019
                                                                                        $250,024
                                                                                        Closed2016
                                                                                        ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition
                                                                                        Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        The University of Tennessee
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2016-DN-BX-0179
                                                                                        $327,372
                                                                                        Closed2018
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2018
                                                                                        Automation-Supported Curation of Large Forensic Image Databases
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2018-DU-BX-0181
                                                                                        $354,751
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2019
                                                                                        Identification of Blunt Force Traumatic Fractures in Burned Bone
                                                                                        Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019
                                                                                        UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
                                                                                        TN
                                                                                        2019-75-CX-0019
                                                                                        $212,738
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