The remains of a person missing from Durham for two years were recenty found after the city’s police received the help of ...

Western Carolina University students help aid Durham police solve a missing persons case from 2023.

CULLOWHEE, N.C. (WSPA) – A group of students and professors from Western Carolina University helped police close a ...

The university said that it is a rare privilege to be directly involved with the closure of this kind of case.

Six forensic anthropology students at Western Carolina University helped solve a missing persons case from 2023.

Forensic anthropology is the study of human remains – usually skeletal remains – to help with criminal investigations. If anyone can answer the question “What is forensic anthropology?” it’s Dr. Ann ...

Series numbering inferred from list of individual titles on series title page. Contents 1. Forensic anthropology and archaeology : moving forward / Soren Blau and Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Part I.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) -- The human body has 206 bones, each one holds a lot of information about who we are. Heather Garvin, a board-certified forensic anthropologist for the state of Iowa, is ...

Forensic anthropological (the study of skeletonized remains in medico-legal settings) analyses and reports include diverse information that may help in establishing identifications, cause or manner of ...

When a medical examiner needs help identifying a deceased person and determining how that person died, they turn to forensic anthropologists. To aid in the identification of unknown human remains, ...

American crime writer and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs (Weinberg M.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’75) will receive the 2023 Alumnae Award, The Alumnae of Northwestern University announced Monday. The annual ...

When does a forensic anthropologist become involved? “Forensic anthropologists usually work in three broad categories,” said Texas State professor Jerry Melbye. “The first is working on mass disasters ...