← Back to Series Overview Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His latest book is Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury, 2015), for which he traveled across…
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Bloodstain Pattern Analysis on Textiles: A Technology Transition Workshop
Title Bloodstain Pattern Analysis on Textiles: A Technology Transition Workshop Date & Time October 11th-13th, 2017 8:00AM – 5:00PM Location Raleigh, NC Venue North Carolina State University Instructor Dr. Stephen Michielsen Description Every year, millions of items of…
Fentalogs – Pharmacology, Toxicology & Analytical Approaches
← Back to Series Overview We will review the chemistry of fentanyl, its analogs and precursors, their pharmacology and relative potency, and approaches to identifying novel fentanyl analogs in forensic toxicology casework. Fentanyl and its analogs, sometimes called “The Fentalogs”,…
Just Gunshot Acoustics Research
← Back to Just Science Podcast Original Release Date: July 31, 2017 In this special release episode of the 2017 NIJ R&D Symposium, Just Science interviews Dr. Rob Maher. Below is the abstract submitted where Dr. Rob Maher explains his…
Just Postmortem Interval Estimation Research
← Back to Just Science Podcast Original Release Date: July 24, 2017 In this special release episode of the 2017 NIJ R&D Symposium, Just Science interviews Dr. Jeffrey Wells and Dr. Lynn LaMotte. This is the abstract submitted where Dr.…
Webinar: Automotive Paint Binders Using Infrared Spectroscopy
Overview This lecture describes the identification of automotive paint binders using infrared spectroscopy, with an emphasis on key absorptions to seek when examining such spectra. Infrared spectroscopy is one of the main tools used by the forensic paint examiner to…
Just Bath Salts
← Back to Just Science Podcast Original Release Date: July 17, 2017 In this special release episode of the 2017 NIJ R&D Symposium, Just Science interviews Lindsay Glicksberg, a student from Sam Houston State University. This is an excerpt from the abstract…
Opioids and the Drain on Laboratory Resources
← Back to Series Overview This webinar uses data from Project FORESIGHT to examine the effects of the opioid crisis on the demands for laboratory resources and the direct and indirect effects on the work of forensic laboratories. The dramatic…
Just One Pot Methamphetamine
← Back to Just Science Podcast Original Release Date: July 10, 2017 In this special release episode of the 2017 NIJ R&D Symposium, Just Science interviews Dr. Jarrad Wagner from Oklahoma State University. The One Pot methamphetamine production method has…
Just Hairy Isotopes
← Back to Just Science Podcast Original Release Date: June 26, 2017 In episode ten of Just Science, we spoke with Dr. Gwyneth Gordon, from Arizona State University. Dr. Gordon and her team have developed methods to use the isotopic abundance…