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.