NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship
Offers students and early career scholars with mentoring support for NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, offers an annual Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) to support doctoral dissertation research relevant to criminal justice. The FY25 solicitation (O-NIJ-2025-172575) covers NIJ's six research portfolios, which include crime and crime prevention, law enforcement, adjudication…
Doctoral dissertation research relevant to criminal justice across NIJ's six research portfolios, with universities applying on behalf of doctoral candidates.
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