What Forensic Science Is and How to Become a Forensic Scientist

Forensic science is a growing field that offers scientists opportunities to specialize in different techniques.
The Penn

IUP expands STEM opportunities with addition of forensic science major

This fall, IUP’s Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences introduced the new forensic science major. The program focuses on three specializations: applied crime scene investigation, l ...
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SETAF-AF forensic team deploys expertise at sea, protects US and allied assets

VICENZA, Italy – When U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) identified a need to gather evidence, the U.S. Army’s Joint Theater Forensic Analysis Center (JTFAC) answered the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why Nobody Remembers the Forefather of Forensic Science

He used aliases and ruses. His notebooks are filled with careful forensic analyses of ransom notes and other pieces of evidence. While you probably have never heard the name Wilmer Souder, he helped ...
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Army's Defense Forensic Science Center works on pandemic's front line

WASHINGTON -- As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States, the Army made mission adjustments to focus on protecting the force, posturing for global operational readiness and supporting ...
The Boston Globe

The heiress at Harvard who helped revolutionize murder investigations — and the case she couldn’t forget

Frances Glessner Lee didn’t want to be known as a “rich woman who didn’t have enough to do.” In her 60s, she became a pioneer of forensic science. On an afternoon in July 1940, several day laborers ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Queensland DNA lab at 'point of critical failure' with victims of crime waiting years for testing, report finds

A report by Dr Kirsty Wright has found widespread issues at Forensic Science Queensland. The beleaguered lab was at the heart of two commissions of inquiry in 2022 and 2023. Victims of serious crimes ...