Ukraine’s Missing: What It Takes to Build DNA Infrastructure During an Ongoing War
Sara Huston, Co-founder and President of DNA Bridge and researcher at Northwestern University’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, sat down at ISHI 36 to discuss one of the most complex humanitarian forensics challenges in the world: the missing persons crisis created by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Scale of the Problem Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in […]
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! Oregon State Police Identify Missing Man Mark Smith 50 Years After He Vanished (KATU2 […]
When You Know You Know: A Conversation with the ISHI Advisory Committee
Four members of the ISHI Advisory Committee were asked whether there was a moment they knew forensic science was the right career. The answers they gave weren’t the polished kind you rehearse for a job interview. They were the kind you only arrive at after years of doing the work. Dawn Romano knew at a […]
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! SEMO Partners with Missouri Highway Patrol to Build Regional Forensic Lab on Campus (KRCU […]
The Cold Case Is the Point: A Conversation with Cristina Servidio
Some careers look linear from the outside. From the inside, they’re a sequence of puzzles — each one harder than the last, most of them decades old, and all of them connected to people whose names you’ll probably never know. Cristina Servidio, Chief Operating Officer and Technical Leader at DNA Labs International, describes her job […]
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! New York State Police and the FBI Leverage Othram’s Identity Inference Platform to Identify […]
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! Battling Investigator Burnout in the Age of Infinite Digital Evidence (Forensic – 3/09/2026) Digital […]
Solving a Cold Case After 58 Years
Written by Eric Schubert, ES Genealogy. Reposted from the ISHI Report with permission. Eric Schubert, ES Genealogy, is an internationally recognized genealogist and genetic genealogist. A graduate of Elizabethtown College where he is employed as a Public History Research & Teaching Assistant, Schubert is a current History M.A. candidate at Millersville University. His journey helping […]
The Central California Forensic Fire Death Investigation Academy (CCFFDIA)
Reposted from the ISHI Report with permission. Fatal fires along the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are becoming a common part of existence in the western U.S. For 2025, the Cal Fire incident archive reported over 2,353 wildfires, 30 fatalities, 16,253 structures destroyed and 76,292 acres burned (Cal Fire, 2025). Not only are WUI events deadly, but […]