Community Service

The Forensic Science Initiative provides support in various areas to the forensic science community. The following are selected projects that FSI has hosted or provided:

  • WVUpward Bound: Teaching high school students about forensic science
  • Forensic Science Educators Workshop: Training secondary education teachers forensic science
  • Forensic Science Educational Conference: Hosted in 2005
  • Mathematics in Forensic Science, North Allegheny HS: Collaborated with Allegheny Math Partnership in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to promote interest in mathematics by using forensic science.
  • ASTM standards: Provided the standards to crime laboratories
  • Professional internship: WVU faculty to receive exposure to the operations and methods which occur in operational forensic laboratories