This year's course will run from June 21-25, Monday through Friday,

from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. All classes will be held in the laboratories

of Clayton State's Business and Health Sciences Building.

The instructors, Clayton State biology professor Dr. Greg Hampikian

and Luella High School biology teacher Jane Burke, have developed and

school-tested a science curriculum which gives students firsthand experience

in the investigation of a mock crime scene. Teachers will learn how to

lift latent fingerprints, shoeprints, lip prints, and collect other evidence.

They will also learn the basics of trace analysis and participate in

DNA fingerprint processing and interpretation.

The classes will be taught by Hampikian and Burke with guest lectures

from: Ross Gardner, former police chief of Lake City; Calvin Johnson,

Hampikian's co-author of "Exit to Freedom," Johnson's

story of his exoneration based on DNA evidence; Casey Morris, Clayton

State associate professor of dental hygiene; Pam Bettis of the Clayton

State Office of Public Safety; private investigator Patrick Coffey; and

Tom McBerry, Henry County's chief assistant district attorney. Other

speakers include the United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory's

Lynn Henson, Steve Greene, Daryl Meeks, Don Mikko and Farrell Shiver.

Hampikian and Burke have worked together for many years in their quest

to get students more interested in biology. Every year they also collaborate

on a "DNA Murder Mystery," where students in Burke's high

school class investigate the fictitious murder of a member of the high

school's faculty. The course combines lectures, homework, labs,

integrated law, genetics, and criminal science into solving the "crime."

For more information and a full schedule for Forensic Science for High

School Teachers, go to https://a-s.clayton.edu/hampikian/forensic/2004/2004inservice.htm.

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