How To Talk To Your Friends And Family About The COVID-19 Pandemic
As scientists, we often find ourselves fielding questions about events in the news that may or may not be related to our area of expertise. Especially during the ongoing pandemic, it can often be difficult to share accurate information without either sparking panic or understating the severity. Nonetheless, we want to support our friends and […]
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! Police Lifted DNA from Her Trash and Charged Her with a […]
How Practicing Mindfulness Can Help Ease Stress
Amy Jeanguenat, founder of Mindgen, LLC, has shared how practicing mindfulness can help ease stress to a number of you at previous ISHI conferences, but we know not all of you were able to watch her presentations. During these uncertain times, it is important to find ways to manage stress, so we’ve compiled some of […]
Your Work Matters
Not all heroes wear capes, and we know that the work of people behind the bench and in the lab impacts countless lives. We would like to acknowledge the people that have made this meeting successful – you! We know that it takes a special kind of person to do forensics work, and wondered, what […]
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door! Genealogy Websites Help to Solve Crimes, Raise Questions About Ethics (NPR […]
Has Dinosaur DNA Been Found? An Expert Explains What We Really Know.
Researchers in China and the US have found material in a dinosaur fossil that they claim looks like DNA. In a new paper in National Science Review, Alida Bailleul and colleagues report on their discovery of remarkably well-preserved cartilage from a Late Cretaceous dinosaur, Hypacrosaurus, from North America, dated at between 74 million and […]
How to Choose a Research Thesis Topic
For a Ph.D. student, one of the most challenging, yet underrated key steps, is choosing a research topic. We often invest in choosing a university and/or a mentor neglecting potential projects that would shape our future career. Written by Mirna Ghemrawi, Florida International University A simple google search on “how to choose […]
Human Skin Microbiome: Selecting Informative SNPs for Human Identification
ISHI Ambassador, Allison Sherier of UNTHSC, describes her PhD thesis work, in which she hopes to use the human skin microbiome as an alternative source of DNA to identify evidence from crime scenes. Transcript: Travis: Good morning, Allison. How are we doing today? Allison: I’m doing great. How are you? […]
I’ve Got 99 Problems from Public Perception
The television show, CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), was first introduced to viewers in 2000, and for 15 years, viewers followed Gil Grissom and, later, D.B. Russell and their team of criminologists as they used physical evidence to solve crime in Sin City. According to Entertainment Weekly, crime drama television shows accounted for 13 of […]
