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! Kenosha Police Department, Wisconsin DOJ, & FBI Leverage Othram Technology to Identify the Suspect […]
What Would You Tell Yourself at the Start: A Conversation with the ISHI Advisory Committee

The ISHI Advisory Committee was asked what advice they’d give themselves at the beginning of their forensic science careers. The answers reveal something worth sitting with: most of the hard-won wisdom has less to do with science than with the person doing it. https://youtu.be/5bPMThbh6PY Pam Marshall’s answer is about mistakes. “Be patient with the process. […]
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 […]