Current Graduate Students
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sara Bodnar
Ph.D. Student
Sara Bodnar works under Dr. Iyengar. Her current research focuses on the optimization of the collection and processing of challenging trace DNA samples with the Verogen MiSeq FGx Sequencing System and traditional STR profiling.
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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.
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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.
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Chaney Ganninger
MS Student
Chaney is a first-year Master's student who is continuing her research with Dr. Glen Jackson's research group. Her research utilizes a thermodynamic mathematical model to predict the potential weathering patterns of ignitable liquids.
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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.
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Lacey Leatherland
MS Student
Lacey Leatherland is a second-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.
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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.
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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.
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Madison Lindung
MS Student
Madison Lindung is a first-year master's student under Dr. Tatiana Trejos. As an undergraduate, she studied organic and inorganic gunshot residue (GSR) in Dr. Trejos' group. Now, her research has shifted to studying polymers, mainly nail polish, using elemental techniques she learned as an undergraduate such as Scanning Electron Microscopy Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry (SEM-EDS) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leah Thomas
MS Student
Leah Thomas is a first-year master’s student working in Dr. Trejos’ research group. Her research focuses on the importance of trace evidence and specialized training for analysts in the US and Costa Rica.
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Jessica E. Thornton
Ph.D. Student
Jessica is a first year doctoral student working in Dr. Keith Morris’ research group. Her research will focus on evaluating forensic/investigative genetic genealogy methods with interest in computational metrics for decent estimations.
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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.
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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.