Independent Research Forensic

Catalog description

Opportunity for selected Forensic Science Students to work in a research laboratory under the direction of a faculty mentor. Examples include the Forensic Chemistry Lab where students work on several ongoing research projects, learning experiment development, problem solving and instrumental methods; and the Forensic DNA Laboratory where students are responsible for sample processing, performing extractions on a variety of source material (bone, tissue, etc), quantification, PCR and genotyping, including database construction.