Research Areas
FNSSI provides broad, interdisciplinary scientific research and theory to real-world legal and security issues. Student and faculty research projects encompass many areas, including bioforensics, combustible materials, and DNA analysis, to name a few.
The following is a detailed list of recent or ongoing research projects:
- Geospatial source determination by DNA and MS analysis
- Effect of environmental variables on bloodstain imaging
- Measurement of force from air guns
- Vaccines against novel targets on the bacterial cell surface
- Epigenetic changes as a biomarker of exposure to toxins
- Action of extended-release morphine pharmaceuticals
- Terahertz spectroscopy for explosives detection and identification
- Terahertz spectroscopy for pharmaceutical polymorph characterization
- Boride-containing materials for nuclear detection applications
- Nanoparticle hybrid materials as applied to agent sensing
- Evaluation of thermal history through bone analysis
- Estimation of PMI through bone analysis
- Speaker/writer attribution of spoken/written words
- Psycholinguistic analysis of evidence
- Disease determination in historical human skeletal remains
- New methods for determining redistribution of drugs in the body