Editorial | A New Path Forward for Forensic Science Learning
THE MICROSCOPE
2023, Volume 70:1, p. ii
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/YLBR4847
AUTHOR
Gary J. Laughlin
EXCERPT
Amazing but true, many criminalists regard forensic microscopy and the light microscope as the single most important instrument in their laboratories for the examination of physical trace evidence. They emphasize proper training as the key to success. McCrone Research Institute began by teaching chemical microscopy courses with the polarized light microscope to chemists and forensic scientists first at Cornell University, then Armour Research Foundation (ARF), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT now IIT Tech), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and in its classrooms and laboratories still located on the South Side of Chicago since 1960. But it hasn't been an easy path.