The Forensic Science Project

“这是分析学的我亲爱的沃森|”承诺参与者在法医化学，科学伦理学，心理学，犯罪学和犯罪学的激烈的多学科体验。15名初中生和高中生将在当地高中科学教师和辅导员的帮助下被挑选出来，他们将反映马里兰州东海岸农村社区的民族、种族和经济构成。法医科学项目将在华盛顿学院的校园里举行为期两周的暑期住宿项目。阶段性犯罪构成了我们的开场白。我们的目击证人证言和不可信的证人对陪审员的影响方面的专家将带领学生描述罪行以及他们对事件的有缺陷的认知所带来的困难和道德问题。讲座将提供“湿”理论和仪器分析方法，并提出化学和犯罪难题，但更多的时间将花在实验室里。我们将从指纹和血型鉴定开始，直到化学系研究级仪器方阵的使用。这些高中生将为不断增长的化学分析网络收集数据，这是华盛顿学院法医化学的计算机模拟。我们将参观犯罪和环境实验室，在那里，这些年轻、开放的头脑可以观察到在令人兴奋和有益的领域工作的潜在榜样。沃尔特斯美术馆的一位代表将就艺术界的赝品和赝品发表演讲，最近那里的一次展览展示了这一点。这门课程将建立在审判的基础上，学生将担任专家证人，试图说服法官和陪审团他们通过取证收集的证据的正确性。

"It's Analytical My Dear Watson|" promises participants an intense multi-disciplinary experience in forensic chemistry, scientific ethics, psychology, criminalistics, and criminology. A group of fifteen junior and senior high school students will be selected with the assistance of local high school science teachers and counselors and will reflect the ethnic, racial, and economic composition of rural communities on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The Forensic Science Project will meet on the campus of Washington College for a two week summer residential program. A staged crime constitutes our opening statement. Our expert in eyewitness testimony and the effects of discredited witnesses on jurors will lead students through a description of the crime and the difficulties and ethical problems posed by their flawed perception of the event. Lecture sessions will provide the theory of "wet" and instrumental analytical methods and pose the chemical and criminal puzzles, but more time will be spend in the laboratory. We will begin with fingerprinting and blood typing working up to the use of the Chemistry Departments's phalanx of research grade instrumentation. These high schoolers will gather data for the growing Chemical Analytical Network, a computer simulation in Forensic Chemistry at Washington College. We will visit crime and environmental laboratories where these young, open minds can observe potential role models working in exciting and rewarding fields. A representative of the Walters Art Gallery will speak to fakes and forgeries in the art world as demonstrated in a recent exhibit there. The course will build to a trial in which students will serve as expert witnesses, attempting to convince the judge and jury of the correctness of their forensically gathered evidence.