Announcement:

The Mesa Community College Student Senate approved funding to send two students and an advisor to the Forensic Trends Conference May 29-31, 2008 in Las Vegas. See their website for important conference and venue information: http://www.taife.com/ed_events.aspx?innernavid=1.

Visit our Activites page for downloadable forms to apply for this great opportunity! Contact Rick Elward, Forensic Club President, if you have questions: forensics@mcmail.maricopa.edu.

Welcome:

Welcome to the Forensics Club website! We are a group of students and faculty at Mesa Community College who get together to share ideas, talk about, and research the field of Forensics. Join us for fun, educational activities and a chance to make some friends.

What is Forensics?

Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to the legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or to a civil action.

Any type of organism can be identified by examination of DNA sequences unique to that species. Identifying individuals within a species is less precise at this time, although when DNA sequencing technologies progress farther, direct comparison of very large DNA segments, and possibly even whole genomes, will become feasible and practical and will allow precise individual identification.

 

 

Contact Doug Shumway for questions or corrections: email | phone: 480-461-7277