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- John Freemuth, political science, was quoted in a Channel 2 news story about the nomination of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the Supreme Court. From BSU Update - 05/27/2009.
- Natalie Nelson-Marsh, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, recently had three co-authored research pieces published. "COMMUNEcating in the spaces in-between: Creating new understandings of organizing and communicative practice around the globe," and "A mosaic of visions, daydreams and memories: Diverse inlays of organizing and communicating from around the globe" were published in the notable journal Management Communication Quarterly. The third article, a peer-reviewed abstract titled "Ambiguity and Abstraction: Exploring the Contestation of Boundary Objects and the Modality of Communication," was published in "What is an Organization: Materiality, Agency, and Discourse." From BSU Update - 05/20/2009.
- Greg Hampikian, professor of biology and criminal justice and director of the Idaho Innocence Project, recently was featured in two broadcast news segments on FOX 5 in Atlanta, Ga. The two-part story concerned the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's (GBI) analysis of DNA evidence in criminal cases involving multiple suspects. Hampikian was approached by Kerry Robinson, a prisoner in Georgia, who claims that GBI wrongly included him in DNA mixture evidence from a gang rape. Working with research associate/grad student Mike Davis in his lab, Hampikian re-analyzed DNA data from the case and compared the evidence to Robinson's DNA and DNA samples from four employees of FOX 5. He found that according to GBI protocols, no one was excluded, and the best match to the sperm evidence was, surprisingly, a young female employee of FOX 5. This study was done as part of the Idaho Innocence Project's National DNA Mixtures Project. To view the segments, visit: http://tinyurl.com/MixedSampleDNA and http://tinyurl.com/MixedSampleTest. From BSU Update - 05/20/2009.
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