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Forensic anthropology

Forensic Anthropology & Forensic Pathology | Session 2 from the 2026 NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development Webinar Series

September 2026

Session Overview: This session explores research advancing human identification, skeletal trauma analysis, and death investigation. Presentations will feature innovations in skeletal analysis, decomposition studies, time since death estimation, and multidisciplinary approaches to complex medicolegal investigations.

Goals:

Standardizing a Large-Scale, Whole Body CT Image

February 2018

The NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development Symposium is a free and open meeting where attendees learn about NIJ-funded research across a variety of forensic science areas. This is one of 17 videos recorded at the 2018 symposium.

The symposium was presented by the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence on February 18, 2018.