Chemistry News Archive

Forensic Nexus Q/A Session with a Forensic Chemistry expert and professor! August 22, 2011,  Forensic Nexus Forensic Nexus would like to introduce you to Dr. John G. Rankin, a Forensic Chemistry professor at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Dr. Rankin kindly agreed to being interviewed by Forensic Nexus to share his career path. We

UNOFFICIAL NOTICE OF INTENT TO HIRE- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES The United States Postal Service’s National Forensic Laboratory has been granted permission to fill a variety of forensic analyst positions, including two forensic chemist positions. One position is a forensic drug chemist and one is a trace evidence chemist. The National Forensic Laboratory operates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 10, 2011 Contact: Mary Thomasson, Public Information Officer, Marshall University Forensic Science Center 304-691-8961 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. J. Graham Rankin, a forensic chemistry professor in Marshall University’s Forensic Science graduate program, has been selected as chair-elect of the Criminalistics Section of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists. He will assume

Marshall University has received a $540,752 grant from the National Institute of Justice for a two-year project to study factors that affect interpretation of data by fire debris analysts and to develop a computer program to aid in interpretation. Dr. J. Graham Rankin, a professor of forensic chemistry in the Forensic Science Graduate Program at Marshall, is conducting the study, which began January 1, 2011.