assisting in research that will enhance forensic anthropological methods for determining post-mortum interval, ancestry, and individual identity using human remains.
Internship Report: The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State I conducted my internship at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS). This report will describe FACTS; discuss my activities: labeling bones, skeletal inventory, dental inventory, photo inventory; my calcaneus research; and my overall experience. OVERVIEW OF FACTS FACTS’s mission is to advance forensic… Continue Reading Daniella Alexandria Rodriguez, Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State
During the Fall of 2017, I conducted a research internship at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF), a component of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS). My research consisted of analyzing the effects of burial age on disturbances seen on the ground surface. The results of this research will help bioarchaeologists determine the… Continue Reading Alexis Baide, Forensic Anthropology Research Facility
In the spring of 2016, I was able to intern for the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State. During this internship, I was able to not only participate in active research at the facility, but also to gain a better understanding of the way skeletal research collections are maintained and organized. One project I was… Continue Reading Amber Frenzel, Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State
Interning at the FACTS: Research into the Effect of Obesity and Diabetes on DISH During the summer of 2015 I completed a research based internship at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS). My research consisted of a project assessing the correlation between a condition called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), obesity, and diabetes.… Continue Reading Jordan Lewman, Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State
I worked on two projects during my internship. First was The Morton Shell Mound in Iberia Parish, Louisiana where I organized and repaired storage boxes, and where I sorted, identified and tagged human skeletal remains. The second one was at Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery Project in Jackson, Mississippi where I transcribed patient intake and discharge… Continue Reading Curry Blaha, Morton Shell Mound – Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum