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Graduate Student Profiles

Alexandra Adeoye

Ph.D. Candidate

Alexandra Adeoye is a doctoral student working under Dr. Jackson's research group. Her research involves developing and applying Expert Algorithm for Substance Identification (EASI) to emerging synthetic drugs to combat the opioid crisis.

Morgan Altizer

MS Student

Morgan Altizer is a second-year Master's student under Dr. Arroyo. Her research involves evaluating extraction and detection methods for the quantification of drugs of abuse in human head hair.

Nina Daugherty

MS Student

Nina Daugherty is a first-year master's student working in Dr. Speir's research group. Her research focuses on discriminating power of wear features in footwear impressions.

Jessica Hovingh

PhD Student

Jessica Hovingh is a PhD candidate in Dr. Jacqueline Speir's research group. Her research focuses on the use of the hyperspectral imaging for detection and identification of physiological fluids in crime scenes.

Nicky Lam

MS Student

Nicky Lam is a first-year master’s student under Dr. Arroyo’s research group.

Madison Lindung

PhD Student

Madison Lindung is a second-year PhD student under Dr. Tatiana Trejos. Her research uses various spectroscopic, microscopical, and statistical methods to characterize modern nail polish products as trace evidence. 

Hannah McMillen

Ph.D. Candidate

Hannah McMillen is a member of The Jackson Group. Her research pertains to the development of an algorithm to identify ignitable liquids in fire debris.

Sarah Mosinski

MS Student

Sarah Mosinski is a member of Dr. Jacqueline Speir's research group. Her research focuses on the development of an aptamer-based liquid crystal biosensor for the identification of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) using polarized light microscopy.

Baillie Poulton

Ph.D. Candidate

Baillie Poulton is in Dr. Keith Morris’ research group. Her research is focused on using a 3-D simulation software to model different shooting scenarios to help aid in shooting reconstructions. She will be doing this by comparing the simulations with real shooting data, and later using an algorithm to determine the trajectory.

Olivia Walters

MS Student

Olivia Walters is a first-year master’s student under Dr. Arroyo’s research group.

Jessica E. Whitney

Ph.D. Student

Jessica is a third-year doctoral candidate working in Dr. Keith Morris’ research group. Her research focuses on evaluating forensic/investigative genetic genealogy methods with interest in computational metrics for relationship classification given challenging population structure.