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Forensic Science Institute
History of the Forensic Science Institute
The 澳门老奇人论坛 Forensic Science Institute is located on the ground floor of
the Center for the Sciences.
The 澳门老奇人论坛 Forensic Science Institute (RUFSI) is a state-of-the art professional forensic science agency and affiliated laboratories housed on the ground floor of the 澳门老奇人论坛 Center for the Sciences. It was co-founded in 2008 by Drs. Cliff and Donna Boyd as an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to taking a leadership role in the support of forensic science.
Mission of the Forensic Science Institute
The 澳门老奇人论坛 Forensic Science Institute is an interdisciplinary institute whose goal is to promote and support forensic science education, research, and public service. The institute faculty are comprised of specialists in Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Archaeology. The FSI mission is to serve as a center for innovative interdisciplinary forensic science research and to provide, with integrity, the highest quality educational training, consultation, and public service in the forensic sciences. Its faculty also provide objective and unbiased court testimony in regard to medicolegal death cases in the Commonwealth and beyond.
Forensic Science Consulting Services and Outreach
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RUFSI provides forensic science consulting and peer review for a diverse group of medicolegal entities, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the VOCME (Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner), the District of Columbia OCME, the VSP (Virginia State Police), VDFS (Virginia Department of Forensic Science), and many other national and regional law enforcement agencies;
- Its faculty have provided board-certified casework consultation (including court testimony) on over 250 death investigation cases, with a specialty in skeletal trauma evaluation and interpretation;
- It regularly provides professional forensic training to law enforcement agencies;
- It engages in extensive STEM-centered public outreach education about forensic science;
- RUFSI faculty provide Emergency Response to disaster in the form of DMORT (U. S. HHS National Disaster Medical System Mortuary Operational Response Team), including deployment to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake;
- RUFSI faculty play a major role in writing, reviewing, and evaluating new national standards for Forensic Anthropology, serving in executive positions on the Academy Standards Board (ASB) of AAFS (the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Academy Standards Board), and NIST鈥檚 OSAC (Organization of Scientific Area Committees鈥擜nthropology division).
Forensic Science Institute Research
RUFSI faculty have produced a voluminous body of nationally recognized research focused on differential mortality, skeletal trauma and bone repair.