Forensic Science Day, spring 2025

By Ralph Freso

High school and community college students dived into a deep investigation on Tuesday of GCU's forensic science offerings at the annual Forensic Science Day. They learned about fingerprint and blood spatter patterns, visited the DNA and cadaver labs, watched a police dog demonstration, stopped into a few lectures and more. Story

  • Visiting high school students take selfies by the event banner during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Senior forensic science major Jeremiah Coleman (right) shows a visiting high school student the differences in fingerprint patterns during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Visiting high school students and faculty look for clues and answers at the Crime Scene Challenge during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Visiting high school students and faculty look for clues and answers at the Crime Scene Challenge during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Senior forensic science major Suzie Hill (center) shows a visiting high school teacher how to lift a fingerprint off a surface during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Crime scene technician Quincy Stacker and members of the Chandler Police Crime Scene Unit were on hand to answer questions during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Visiting high school students try to walk a straight line wearing glasses that simulate intoxicated vision at the Field & Drug Test station during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Visiting high school students observe how different objects create different patterns in the blood spatter tent during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • University Vice Provost Jennifer Lech tries her hand at lifting a fingerprint from a glass surface during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Phoenix police officer Alistair Morrison plays with Dag, a Belgian Malinois with the department’s K-9 Unit, during a demonstration on the Quad at Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Dag, a Belgian Malinois with the Phoenix Police Department’s K-9 unit, leaps to catch a target toy during a demonstration on the Quad at Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Phoenix police officer Sean Knapp talks to a crowd about the department’s K-9 unit during a demonstration on the Quad at Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Belgian Malinois Urosh, part of the Phoenix Police Department’s K-9 Unit, latches on to the bite suit of Phoenix Police officer Brian Authement during a demonstration on the Quad at Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Urosh, one of the Belgian Malinois with the Phoenix Police Department’s K-9 Unit, leaps to latch on to the bite suit of Phoenix police officer Brian Authement during a demonstration on the Quad at Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Associate Professor and Program Director of Forensic Science Dr. Melissa Beddow addresses the visiting high school students and faculty during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • Visiting high school students and faculty attend one of the speaker presentations during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.
  • A visiting high school student gets a prize for completing the Crime Scene Challenge during Forensic Science Day on Feb. 4, 2025.

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Bible Verse

Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn Him to death and will turn Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day He will be raised to life!" (Matthew 20:17-19)

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