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 […]
What the Witness Stand Actually Requires: Introducing ISHI On-Demand’s Expert Witness Testimony Module
You’ve reviewed the case file. You know the results. You’re confident in the science. Then the defense attorney asks you a question you didn’t expect. The jury looks confused. A follow-up question rephrases what you just said in a way that isn’t quite right — and now you have to decide, in real time, whether […]
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 […]
Two Landmark Cases. One Question: What Can Forensic DNA Do Now?
The Tuesday opening keynote at ISHI 37 examines two forensic DNA cases in which evidence types long considered limited for traditional analysis were evaluated using advanced sequencing and computational approaches — and what the analytical strategies behind those results mean for the field. Some evidence types have historically sat at the edge of what forensic […]
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 […]