This lecture will explore the role of the forensic chemist and where chemistry comes into it. It will be illustrated by various case studies which will show why chemists are needed in this profession.

Step aside, Dirty Harry. These days, scientists are getting the bad guys and the glory. And thanks to television and two passionate Purdue teachers whose courses have captured students’ imaginations, ...

The Saint Louis University Forensic Science program offers courses with hands-on learning opportunities. FRSC 2600 - Survey of Forensic Science 3 credits Students learn scientific methodology, its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Forensic audio/video analyst Bruce E. Koenig will give the Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture ...

This week marks a chance to curb the misuse of crime-scene evidence in US courts and spare innocent people from going to jail, says Robin Mejia. Wrongful convictions occur with shocking frequency in ...

On a Saturday night in October 1977, Lorna Dawson was studying in her dormitory at the University of Edinburgh, UK, when two 17-year-old girls disappeared off a nearby street. The teenagers had been ...

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

The new technique uses a machine learning tool to match prints from different digits belonging to the same person, but forensic scientists disagree on its utility. When you purchase through links on ...

The work of Angie Ambers, Ph.D., helped exonerate Lydell Grant. Angie Ambers, Ph.D., is passionate about teaching her students the importance of letting evidence “speak” for itself, as well as the ...