A collaboration with Dr. Caroline Cobb in @VCUPsychology - Dr. @MichelleRPeace shows us again that the e-cig market is still a buyer beware environment. #GoodToKnow
Marilyn Miller, a driving force in legitimizing scientific analysis as a sub-discipline of crime scene investigation and a founding @VCUFRSC faculty member, is retiring. @VCUCHS https://t.co/MVY3Is3TNr
Happy New Year VCU! With the new year comes new laws – and there’s one in particular we’d like to highlight. It is now unlawful for any person, while driving a moving motor vehicle on the highways in Virginia, to hold a handheld personal communications device. (1/3)
What is stalking? It’s a pattern of behavior directed @ a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Stalking and harassment are similar & can overlap. Harassment may be part of a stalking pattern of behavior/course of conduct. (1/4)
🕹 Take valuable personal items home -- including gaming systems! If you leave anything valuable in your residence or office, lock it in a closet or cabinet. 🚪 Make sure all doors and windows in your residence or office are firmly locked. Take all keys with you. (@VCUFRSC)
"Now that those kits have been tested, the DNA profiles will sit in the state and national database and will be searched and used for solving crimes and bringing closure to victims for years to come" - @VCUFRSC Prof. Tracey Dawson Cruz. https://t.co/gzE7cF5J1X
Virginia’s elimination of its rape kit backlog is momentous, but more work remains to change the culture surrounding evidence submission for sexual assault cases, says @VCUFRSC chair and DNA analysis expert Tracey Dawson Cruz. https://t.co/gzE7cF5J1X
Can a simple sterile foam-tipped swab rinsed in phosphate-buffered saline be used to collected #oralfluid in neonates for evaluation of neonatal drug exposure? @MichelleRPeace's team @VCU explores this option here: https://t.co/yuLBQEk8C2
🎥REMINDER: We’ve partnered w/ @VCUarts on a video contest for #VCU students. We’re looking for pitches & ideas for future safety videos. 📲💻 If you’ve got a video camera on your cell phone or laptop, that’s all you need! (1/2)
Congrats to Virginia Commonwealth University
@VCU@VCUFRSC for being named 1 of 15 Top Forensic Biology Programs
https://t.co/hB5s3y3GsU… ... @ForensicsEd
5 jobs before becoming a surgeon:
1. Sonic carhop on roller skates
2. Waitress at Ruby Tuesday’s
3. Sales associate at Abercrombie & Fitch
4. Bartender/beer cart at country club
5. Graduate Teaching Assistant in Forensic Toxicology @VCUFRSC
Departments and labs across @VCUCHS are raiding their supply closets for #PPE and donating it to @VCUHealth to help protect the physicians, nurses and team members working on the frontlines of the #COVID19 pandemic. https://t.co/WMCtpFkDM5
Even when you’re quarantined, keep up this habit! One day we’ll come out of quarantine into a new reality, and it’ll be critical for us to be mindful in the early tender days of that new reality!! Until then - stay put! And #WashYourHands#COVID19#WeGotThis
Dear #VCU students:
I am asking for your help. There has never been a more critical time than now to think and act in ways that benefit the community of which you are a part.
Updates: By April 9, the university will announce decisions about:
🟡Reimbursements for housing, dining and similar type fees
🟡Whether to proceed with commencement on May 9