Marshall University forensic science graduate students and faculty will present a crime scene investigation workshop for students from Fairview High School of Ashland, Ky., and Notre Dame High School of Portsmouth, Ohio, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at the crime scene house.
About 35 high school science students are expected to attend the “CSI Huntington” workshop. They will participate in lectures, demonstrations and hands-on experiments in the areas of ballistics and firearms identification, latent print development, handwriting analysis, blood pattern analysis, outdoor crime scene investigations and digital forensics.
The workshop will be presented by Master’s United Forensic Identification Association (MUFIA), a student organization comprised of forensic science graduate students in the nationally recognized two-year program. Proceeds from the workshop will go towards travel expenses for graduate students to attend the national meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences next February 17-22 in Seattle, Wash., or other forensic science conferences. Funds also may support travel for internship or job interviews. Thirty forensic science graduate students will be assisting with the workshop.
“CSI Huntington” workshops have been conducted previously as a summer camp for middle school students and as a series of evening sessions for adults and high school students.
Dr. Pam Staton, associate professor of Forensic Science in the graduate program, is the faculty advisor for the “CSI Huntington” workshops. Teachers who are interested in scheduling a “CSI Huntington” workshop for area middle and high school students should contact Staton for more information at 304-691-8962. Workshops also are available to other groups upon request.
The house is located at 1524 5th Ave. in Huntington.
