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Showing posts with label Washington D.C.. Show all posts

Friday, March 9, 2018

Final Day for the Forensics Biology Group

For the last day, in Washington DC we headed out to the Mount Vernon Campus of George Washington University to meet with two professors of chemistry and forensics biology from their Department of Forensic Sciences to see how working in a laboratory testing "designer drugs" and "crime scene" DNA is tested. 
Meeting with the chemistry, professor Nelu Marginean, to learn about the equipment they used. Thin Layer and Gas Chromatography as well as Mass Spectrometry are used in testing street drugs having unknown molecular make up.
Left to right: Yannik, Melissa, Katya, Professor Marginean, Mason, Max, Jane, Sally, and Alyx.

Meeting with forensics biology professor Daniele Podini to learn about the newest technology being used to determine DNA from human samples. He explained how all of the graduate students go on to work in the field of forensic science and often testify in court cases as forensics’ experts to either exonerate or help to convict people in the court system.
Left to right front: Yannik, Katya, Jared, Professor Podini, Jade
Left to right back: Sally, Jane, Mason, Melissa, Max and Alyx.

Sight Seeing:
Jade, Katya and Yannik.

Day Four - A Busy One

On the fourth day, the students completed their second forensics anthropology investigation on skeletal remains found on a riverbank of Yorktown Virginia while excavating for a bridge build.
The group sets to work on 6 different stations to determine age, sex, cause of death, social context, or injuries sustained to the body.

Instructor with Jared, Melissa and Jade looking at how the vertebrae were damaged on the remains showing hard work over the lifetime.
Max and Mason waiting on the front stairs of our Capitol Building.


Inside the Emancipation Hall after touring the Capitol Rotunda: Left to right, Max, Jane, Mason and Nick.
Melissa, Jared, Sally, Alex, Jade, Max, Mason, Jane and Nick meeting 
with the Honorable Thomas J. Motley '72 at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.


Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Day 3: Forensic Anthropology at the Smithsonian

Today the students traveled back to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to engage in the 
Q?rious (yes this is spelled correctly)Program on Forensic Anthropology. The students rotate through six investigative stations.
Getting ready to solve our first forensic anthropology case.

Alex & Tex calculating a victim's height from the humerus.

Alex and Tex - identifying firearm from shells.

Jade, Jared and Melissa - antermortem, perimortem, postmortem.

Jane, Mason & Nick exploring gender differences on pelvis and skull.

Jared, Melissa and Jade contemplating the victim's age.

Max & Sally considering a human origin of remains.

Max and Sally determining the victim's age.

Nick, Mason Jane exploring the timing of injuries.

Day Two Washington, DC

On day two we split up into two groups for the morning. The international passport holders went to the Spy Museum and US passport holders went to the FBI Experience learning about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation operates and investigates federal crimes. 

Our group in front of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building before we split into two groups.

Nick, Katya and Jane in the Spy Museum gift shop.

Max and Alyx get into the NYPD patrol car. (above)

Looking for familiar faces?!
Left to Right: Tex, Alyx, Melissa, Jared, Jade and Mason.

The afternoon the group came together and spent time in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Finished out the busy second day at NBA Washington Wizards VS. Miami Heat ( Wizards win in OT). Left to Right: Katya, Yannik, Alyx, Tex, Jade (not shown behind Jane) Mason, Melissa, Jared and Nick's cheek :) Not shown but present.. Max and Sally

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Day 1 Forensics Biology

After a busy morning of air travel...

We arrived in Washington DC and set out to view the memorials along the Mall.