Closed · NIJ-2018-13638 · CFDA 16.562 · Discretionary

NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Institute of Justice, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $1.5M
Award range
Closed
Status
March 12, 2018
Close date
10
Expected awards

The verdict

NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics is a closed discretionary listing from National Institute of Justice that offered Up to $1,500,000 across 10 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 576 other opportunities from National Institute of Justice.

up to $1.5M
award range
Closed
application status
10
expected awards
16.562
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Scie… is closed (last close March 12, 2018). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Institute of Justice still indexes 576 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed March 12, 2018

Posted Jan 11 Closes Mar 12

Est. Total Funding

$1,500,000

Expected Awards

10

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (GRF-STEM) provides awards to accredited academic institutions to support graduate research leading to doctoral degrees in topic areas that are relevant to ensuring public safety, preventing and controlling crime, and ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States. Applicant academic institutions sponsoring doctoral students are eligible to apply only if the doctoral student's degree program is a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline; and the student's proposed dissertation research has demonstrable implications for addressing the challenges of crime and/or the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States.Awards are anticipated to be made to successful applicant institutions in the form of grants to cover fellowships for the sponsored doctoral students. Awards are made for up to 3 years of support usable over a 5-year period. For each year of support, NIJ provides the degree-granting institution a stipend of $35,000 usable toward the student's salary and related costs, and up to $15,000 to cover the student's tuition and fees, research expenses, and related costs.

Multi-door applicant board · 2 Grants.gov types

Grants.gov prints 2 distinct applicant types for NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Scie… (Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education). Filter fit against the official announcement before drafting. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). Only 15 other National Institute of Justice listings share this exact eligibility-code string (3% of 577).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Code 20
Private institutions of higher education

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Agency Contact

For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Response Center: toll-free at 1-800-851-3420; via TTY at 301-240-6310 (hearing impaired only); email grants@ncjrs.gov; fax to 301-240-5830; or web chat at https://webcontact.ncjrs.gov/ncjchat/chat.jsp. The NCJRS Response Center hours of operation are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, and 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. eastern time on the solicitation close date. General information on applying for NIJ awards can be found at www.nij.gov/funding/Pages/welcome.aspx. Answers to frequently asked questions that may assist applicants are posted at www.nij.gov/funding/Pages/faqs.aspx. grants@ncjrs.gov

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