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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.

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

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Subtopic: Forensic anthropology

Number of Awards: 151
Total Amount Awarded: $99,941,637

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2024 A Multi-Method Genetic, Craniometric, and Isotopic Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Unidentified Latinx Remains NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-01578-RESS $180,000 Open
2024 Enhancing Equitable Forensic Identification: An Evaluation of Pelvic Morphology for Parity Detection and Age Estimation in Unidentified Skeletal Remains NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-24-GG-01579-RESS $180,000 Open
2024 Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Microscopic Characteristics of Skeletal Trauma NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA AZ 15PNIJ-24-GG-03844-MUMU $691,362 Open
2024 MOSAIC: Unifying Methods of Sex, Stature, Affinity, & Age for Identification through Computational Standardization NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 15PNIJ-24-GG-03840-NIJB $2,062,069 Open
2023 Developing and Validating Standards for Dental Cementum Age-at-Death and Season-of-Death Estimation NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY TX 15PNIJ-23-GG-04229-SLFO $467,325 Open
2023 Empirical Analysis of Saw Mark Characteristics in Human Bone: Meeting Forensic Standards in Dismemberment Cases NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER IA 15PNIJ-23-GG-04215-SLFO $495,637 Open
2023 Evaluating the reliability and accuracy of multiple geophysical methods in the search for clandestine graves NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04226-SLFO $351,078 Open
2023 Evaluation of Target Enrichment for SNP Genotyping of Skeletal Remains NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC. VA 15PNIJ-23-GG-04224-RESS $659,287 Open
2023 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 Open
2023 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 Open
2023 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 Open
2022 Application of Analytical Chemistry to Test the Accuracy of Human Residual Odor Detection by Cadaver Dogs NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TN 15PNIJ-22-GG-04412-SLFO $395,516 Open
2022 DENTAGE: A multi-component subadult dental age estimation method NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 15PNIJ-22-GG-04433-RESS $567,920 Open
2022 Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO $1,087,985 Open
2022 Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO $139,905 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
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
2022 The Effectiveness of Forensic Genetic Genealogy Techniques for Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 15PNIJ-22-GG-04394-RESS $556,300 Open
2021 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2016-MU-BX-K007 $3,341,165 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Improving Age-at-Death Estimates from Human Skeletal Remains Through Spatial Analysis of Intracortical Remodeling Using Geographic Information Systems Software Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-04136-SLFO $349,970 Open
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 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Reliability and Validity of Radiographic Comparisons for Positive Identification Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 15PNIJ-21-GG-04165-SLFO $567,682 Open
2020 A Multi-Methodological Approach to Estimating Ancestry and Sex in Asian Groups for Forensic Casework Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION NV 2020-R2-CX-0020 $100,000 Closed
2020 A Virtual Anthropological Approach to the Study of Commingled Human Remains Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2020-R2-CX-0025 $138,704 Closed
2020 An examination of musculoskeletal markers in modern populations for forensic analysis and identification purposes Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2020-R2-CX-0042 $150,000 Closed