The Forensic and Investigative Science Program received a substantial donation from Mr. Ming Hsieh of Cogent Systems.
The Cogent Systems Laboratory in Oglebay Hall houses a state of the art AFIS system comprising of 24 workstations and a teaching station. The 24 student workstations comprise of 12 ten-print stations and 12 latent print stations. In addition there are three live-scan devices for electronically capturing ten-prints. The teaching station comprises both of a ten-print and latent workstation.
Mr Hsieh also endowed two distinguished professorships in the program:
The Ming Hsieh Distinguished Teaching Professor in Forensic and Investigative Science
The Ming Hsieh Distinguished Research Professor in Forensic and Investigative Science