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  • Alex Adeoye

    Alexandra Adeoye

    Ph.D. Student

    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. Alex's career goals include working as a forensic chemist and eventually transitioning to academia.

  • Lauryn Alexander

    Lauryn Alexander

    Ph.D. Student

    Lauryn Alexander is a second-year doctoral student working under Dr. Tatiana Trejos. Her research focuses on strengthening the interpretation of glass and paint evidence through the study of random frequency of occurrence and analytical information.

  • Eleen Alfonso

    MS Student

    Eleen Alfonso is a second-year master's student working under Dr. Keith Morris’ research group. Her research focuses on the solvability factors contributing to cold case closures.

  • Zachary Andrews

    Zachary Andrews

    Ph.D. Student

    Zachary Andrews is a member of Dr. Tatiana Trejos’ research group. His research involves developing consensus-based methods for the examination and interpretation of contemporary vehicle, architectural, and portable electronic device glasses by micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry.

  • Sara Bodner

    Sara Bodnar

    Ph.D. Student

    Sara Bodnar works under Dr. Iyengar. Her current research focuses on using the Verogen MiSeq FGxTM Sequencing System to process trace DNA swabbed from both treated fingerprints and objects handled by multiple people.

  • Samantha Brady

    Samantha Brady

    MS Student

    Samantha Brady works as a member of Dr. Jacqueline Speir’s research group. Her research focuses on footwear impression examination to describe the expected range in variation that exists between high-quality test impressions created under varying circumstances.

  • Veronica Franklin

    Veronica Franklin

    Ph.D. Student

    Veronica Franklin works as part of Dr. Keith Morris' research group. Her primary research focuses on subclass characteristics found on spent cartridge cases in firearms examination.

  • Isabel Gálvez

    Isabel Galvez

    MS Student

    Isabel Gálvez is a first-year master’s student in Dr. Jackson’s research group.

  • James Hamilton

    James Hamilton

    Ph.D. Student

    James Hamilton's research interests include the development and comparison of breech face and firing pin impressions on a fired cartridge case, internal ballistics, pressure measurement systems, and finite element analysis.

  • Sarah Hester

    Sarah Hester

    MS Student

    Sarah Hester is a member of Dr. Keith Morris' research group. Her research involves the forensic aspects of genetic genealogy.

  • Kourtney Dalzell

    Kourtney Dalzell

    Ph.D. Student

    Kourtney Dalzell is a member of with the Arroyo research group. Her research is focused on electrochemical and spectroscopic methods for the detection of inorganic and organic gunshot residues in forensic investigations.

  • Collin Kustera

    Collin Kustera

    MS Student

    Collin Kustera is a first-year master’s student in the Arroyo research group. His research focuses on hair analysis for γ-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) detection, a drug frequently used to facilitate sexual assault.

  • Leatherland, Lacey

    Lacey Leatherland

    MS Student

    Lacey Leatherland is a first-year Master’s student working in Dr. Tatiana Trejos’ research group. Her research focuses on the elemental analysis of electrical tapes using modern Micro-X-ray Fluorescence (u-XRF) SDD systems.

  • Blue flying WV

    Giuliana Leon-Carrillo

    Ph.D. Student

    Giuliana Leon-Carrillo is a second-year Ph. D. student in the Morris Research Group. She is currently working on the statistical evaluation of evidence in cold cases.

  • En Tni (Lily) Lin

    En Tni (Lily) Lin

    Ph.D. Student

    Lily Lin is a member of Dr. Spier's research group. Her research focus is on footwear evidence image quality assessment using subjective human raters and objective image feature-based metrics. The goal of her research is to develop quantitative tools for footwear image quality and understanding correlations between quality and image factors.

  • Erica Maney

    Erica Maney

    Ph.D. Student

    Erica Maney is a member of Dr. Glen Jackson's research group. Her research focuses on the forensic applications of isotope ratio mass spectrometry.

  • Hannah McMillen

    Hannah McMillen

    MS Student

    Hannah McMillen is a member of Dr. Glen P. Jackson’s research group. Her research relates to arson research she began in his group during her 2021 summer internship.

  • Christopher Poulos

    Christopher Poulos

    MS Student

    Christopher Poulos is a member of Dr. Jackson's research group. His research focuses on the structural characterization of novel psychoactive substances by tandem mass spectrometry.

  • Baillie Poulton

    MS Student

    Baillie Poulton is in Dr. Keith Morris’ research group. Her research is focused on bullet trajectory determination with the use of an algorithm. She makes these determinations with the help of participant angle measurements from target surfaces, as well as elevation data, muzzle velocity estimations, and departure angle estimations.

  • Meghan Prusinowski

    Meghan Prusinowski

    Ph.D. Student

    Meghan Prusinowski is currently working on her PhD under Dr. Tatiana Trejos. Her dissertation and primary research focus on developing standard and quantitative methods for the analysis of physical fits of various trace materials, including polymers, textiles, and glass.

  • Katrina Rupert

    Katrina Rupert

    MS Student

    Katrina Rupert works in Tina Moroose’s forensic biology laboratory. Her research focuses on the degradation relationship between latent prints and touch DNA exposed to various environmental variables.

  • Alyssa Smale

    Alyssa Smale

    Ph.D. Student

    Alyssa Smale is a member of Dr. Speir’s research group. Her research focuses on the estimation of random match probability in footwear evidence.

  • Coral Smith

    Coral Smith

    Ph.D. Student

    Coral Smith is a member of Tina Moroose’s research group. Her area of research is in touch DNA and direct PCR.

  • Jessica Thornton

    Jessica Thornton

    MS Student

    Jessica is a second-year master’s student in Tina Moroose’s research group. Her research focuses on characterizing the cellular and cell-free fractions of touch DNA deposits, as well as using interdisciplinary approaches, such as ATR-FTIR, to evaluate DNA binding to metal in attempt to improve sample recovery.

  • Kayla Trimble

    MS Student

    Kayla Trimble is currently working under the guidance of Dr. Keith Morris. She pursues research relating to the analysis of the effect of rate of fire on the reproducibility of breech face impressions.

  • Nathan Weston

    Nathaniel Weston

    MS Student

    Nathan Weston is a member of Dr. Speir’s research group. His research focuses on the acquisition, retention, and geometric evolution of individualizing features on footwear.

  • Younker, Molly

    Molly Younker

    MS Student

    Molly is currently working under Dr. Arati Iyengar. Her research involves the secondary transfer of trace DNA found at crime scenes and focuses on nitrile gloves acting as a vector for transfer.