Millsaps to Host Forensic Science Classes
With television shows like CSI becoming increasingly popular with high school and college-aged students, teachers and professors of science may be interested in incorporating forensic frameworks and methods into their classrooms. To that end, Millsaps College, in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts and the National Science Foundation, will offer two forensic science classes for educators in June as part of the National Chautauqua Short Course Program.
The first course—entitled Increasing Student Interest in the Sciences by Introducing Forensic Science into the College Classroom—will run from June 11-13, and the second—The Application of Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Pathology to Stimulate Student Interest in the Sciences—will follow, from June 14-16. Both courses will be taught by Alan A. Price, Dr. Edward B. Waldrip and Dr. Hugh E. Berryman on the Millsaps College campus.
For more information on the Chautauqua Short Course Program at Millsaps, please contact Professor Bob Nevins at 601-974-1412 or nevinrb@millsaps.edu. Course space availability information is available at www.massachusetts.edu/chautauqua. Pre-registration is required, and a limited number of spaces are available for each course, so interested educators are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Price, Waldrip and Berryman return to campus this summer, having taught Chautauqua classes at Millsaps last year as well. Waldrip has an M.S. in biology and a Ph.D. in anatomical studies. After 27 years of college teaching, he became the executive director of the Southern Institute of Forensic Science. For the past 13 years, he has also served as the elected coroner and chief medical examiner investigator for Lamar County, Miss. His research interests include fetal bone development, recognition of bone pathologies and the mechanisms of bone trauma.
Price holds a M.A. in sociology from Idaho State University. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Northern Colorado and program director for the Southern Institute of Forensic Science. His major research interest is in the interaction of society and criminal activities.
Berrymanreceived his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Currently, he is a forensic anthropology consultant to the U.S. Army Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command-Central Identification Laboratory and the Office of the Tennessee State Medical Examiner. Berryman’s research interests include physics of bone fracture and fracture interpretation, skeletal biology, taphonomy and archaeology of the southeastern United States.