Project Grant 0540335

The Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753), awarded a $608,000 Project Grant to Cedar Crest College to support the creation of an Expert Witness Training Center and Crime Scene Lab. This initiative will significantly increase the institution's capacity to train forensic science, law enforcement, and first-responder professionals, addressing a critical need across Pennsylvania. The Expert Witness Training Center is being developed in...

This Project Grant award, valued at $349,864 and funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will support research that leverages recently linked criminal justice data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) to study how involvement in the justice system shapes the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. The research aims to answer questions about: 1) changes in the risk of criminal...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awarded a $119,999 Project Grant to the University of Baltimore, a minority-serving institution, and Florida A&M University, an HBCU, to develop tailored educational materials for digital forensics professionals and students. The project aims to harness the capabilities of large language models to create visually informative representations of the digital forensic investigation process,...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.742 - Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program) will enable the Tucson Police Department Crime Laboratory (TPDCL) to hire two entry-level digital forensic examiners to focus on the increasing volume of mobile device extraction requests. This will allow the existing TPDCL staff to complete active training programs and address the current backlog of analytical casework,...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $520,048 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Exploratorium, a renowned science museum in San Francisco. The grant supports the development of museum exhibits designed to promote artificial intelligence (AI) literacy among young female-identifying audiences aged 8-18. Using the Exploratorium's established exhibit design principles for engaging girls, the project will create interactive,...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a $963,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) to establish a Regional Innovative Forensic Technology Laboratory. The laboratory will have the capability to assist with cybercrimes, dark web investigations, mobile device forensics, and ballistic identification through specialized computing equipment, high-definition monitors, forensic lab tables, and critical software....

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Boston University (BU), in collaboration with the WestEd Justice and Prevention Research Center, will utilize a $440,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), under the Economic, High-Tech, and Cyber Crime Prevention program (CFDA 16.752), to develop innovative training methodologies for law enforcement investigations involving Internet of Things (IoT) devices and systems. The program will deliver multi-level training...

The National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), a Virginia-based non-profit organization, was awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The funding will be used to create a community awareness toolkit with training curricula, videos, handouts, and other resources for law enforcement to educate the public on topics such as...

The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $501,818 was provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The Sciencenter Discovery Museum in Ithaca, New York will partner with regional libraries to expand equitable access to hands-on STEM learning by supporting public libraries as trusted community spaces. The project will use input from prior collaborations to co-create STEM activity kits and establish a learning...

This Project Grant award of $160,000.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to support an early career scientist investigating moral curiosity. The project, conducted under the sponsorship of Drs. Liane Young and Gregg Sparkman at Boston College, seeks to develop a foundational understanding of moral curiosity, including its function in daily life, what makes it a unique motivating force, and whether it supports...