"By 2022, I expect that an effective forensic scientist will need to have a greater knowledge of statistics, probability models, and computer science," said Donald Johnson, a professor in the School ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards ...

I’m a professor. I teach forensic psychology, consult on ambiguous deaths, and specialize in serial killers. In the news recently, I’ve been described as a forensic psychologist, a criminologist, a ...

No two UAB classrooms are exactly alike. In this series, we take a deep dive into one course through the eyes of the instructor. “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “NCIS” are some of the ...