internships with law enforcement agencies and medical examiners’ offices
Federal Bureau of Investigation. The name alone can trigger all sorts of thoughts: respected agency, exalted, intimidating, and cool. These adjectives are all true of the Bureau, but the FBI is so much more. The FBI serves as the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice. 2008 marks one hundred years since the FBI… Continue Reading Ingrid J. Marrero, F.B.I. San Antonio Office
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As a student in college one begins to consider possible professions for the future. Although there are many options out there, it is always difficult to point out exactly what one wants to do for the rest of their lives, or, at least, for a good amount of time. Once out in the real world,… Continue Reading Ingrid Marrero, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Operation Identification After walking transects through the brush and scanning the ground for any trace of human remains, we observed a large cactus surrounding a single femur. With the heat blazing down and sweat soaking our shirts, we began to hack at the massive cactus in hopes of finding more remains of the individual. The… Continue Reading Kari Helgeson, Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State
Our students often intern in sensitive areas such as law enforcement, biomedical research, death investigation, and non-human primate care. I have removed certain kinds of information from their posts before publishing them, and you’ll notice that we do not provide links to download their complete internship reports. Their complete reports are fascinating, however, and they… Continue Reading A Word About “Sensitive” Internship Placements