Project Grant SLMAQM08GR596

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice under the Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program (CFDA 16.044) funds a two-year research project to examine the forensic accuracy and reliability of three geophysical methods - ground penetrating radar (GPR), electromagnetic conductivity (EM), and magnetometry - in the search for clandestine burials. The project, conducted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, aims to provide law enforcement agencies with...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560) to Texas State University provides $166,500.00 to develop innovative mapping technology that enhances the search for clandestine body disposal sites. The primary activities include: 1) Investigating the spatial patterns of known body disposal sites using GIS mapping, 2) Analyzing the temporal factors impacting the type of disposal locations through statistical regression, and 3) Developing predictive maps to aid law...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) to the County of Broward, Florida to train two full-time forensic pathology fellows. This funding aims to help address the critical nationwide shortage of board-certified forensic pathologists by providing a comprehensive educational experience at the Broward County Office of Medical Examiner & Trauma Services...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $823,669, was provided by the National Institute of Justice under the Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program (CFDA 16.044). The grant aims to conduct research to optimize sample collection and processing strategies for forensically relevant biomolecules in bone, in order to improve human identification, post-mortem interval estimation, age-at-death determination, and ancestry estimation. Key project activities include identifying the...

The Ohio State University was awarded a $818,054 Project Grant from the National Institute of Justice under the Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program (CFDA 16.044) to conduct experimental research on skeletal trauma and fracture characteristics. The research aims to quantify the effects of tissue quality, loading rates, and other variables on bone fracture patterns to improve forensic interpretations and event reconstruction within the criminal justice system. The award will...

The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME) received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The grant funds will support the NYC OCME's expansion of its forensic pathology fellowship training program by adding two additional fellowship positions for the 2022-2023 training class. The NYC...

The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), under a $111,000 award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560), will conduct a detailed analysis of human pelvic growth and development. The research aims to provide new knowledge and analytical tools to improve age and sex estimation from subadult skeletal remains, a critical capability for forensic anthropologists. UNR will leverage two virtual anthropology databases, the...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.037 - Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System) provides $145,054 to the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMED) to develop a high-quality forensic pathology fellowship program. The funding will support training additional qualified forensic pathologists and providing resources for WMED's medical examiner's office, which serves 13 counties in Michigan, to...

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) received a $467,325 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice under the Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program (CFDA 16.044). The grant supports the development of objective, quantitative, and user-friendly AI-based methods that merge histological analysis and machine learning algorithms to significantly improve age-at-death and season-of-death estimation in forensic sciences. This project aims to address the...

The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program (CFDA 16.050) to enhance identification efforts for long-term unidentified persons (UP) cases in New York City. The funding will enable the NYC OCME to compile case information, update relevant databases, employ advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic...