Faculty Research & Activity

2024

Congratulations to Professor Nicole Novroski who has been awarded the UTM Annual Research Prize in the Sciences for her contributions to the advancement of forensic DNA typing and analysis using novel biological and instrumentation approaches. (September 23, 2024)

Ethical questions can arise when using genetic data from a public source, says UTM forensic geneticist and assistant professor Nicole Novroski. (May 21, 2024)

Nicole Novroski comments on the development of forensic genealogy - Canadian Press article (January 18, 2024)

2023

Professors Novroski and Woodall collaborate with outreach officer Murray Clayton to investigate the merits of a forensic crime scene house in experiential academic learning. (2023)

Nicole Novroski was featured on a W5 episode "Who Was the Mystery Bomber?" on CTV (November 9, 2023)

Nicole Novroski talks about how genealogy and DNA are used to solve crimes - CTV. (May 24, 2023)

Nicole Novroski discusses how genetic genealogy can help solve missing persons cases (CBC). (February 7, 2023)

2022

Tracy Rogers discusses the search for womens' remains (interview with The Canadian Press) (December 15, 2022)

Nicole Novroski says this is an 'exciting time' for genetic experts as more cold cases are solved - CBC News (November 29, 2022)

Nicole Novroski explains to CBC News how skin elasticity can impact fingerprints. (August 2, 2022)

Nicole Novroski has been appointed incoming Editor-in-Chief of Forensic Genomics, the official journal of the International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI) (July 28, 2022)

Nicole Novroski of the UTM Forensic Science program has been selected as an Advisory Committee member for the International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI). A series of videos that highlight Dr. Novroski's career and teaching are available on the ISHI YouTube channel. (June 28, 2022)

Nicole Novroski interviewed by CBC News about the methods investigators can use to identify a young girl whose body was recently found (June 7, 2022)

2021

Unearthing an ugly past: Forensic experts on the challenge of searching former residential school sites (July 23, 2021)

UTM Forensic Biologist and Assistant Professor Dr. Nicole Novroski recently published an article in the International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI) on results from preliminary evaluations of the ForenSeq DNA Signature Prep Kit for phenotype prediction accuracy in a subset of first and second generation admixed Canadian individuals.

Earlier this month, our very own Forensic Librarian, Joanna Szurmak, published her fantastic think-piece, Accentuating the Negative: Why Eco-pessimism Has Become Elite Religion, in the winter 2021 edition of the Breakthrough Journal.

Forensic epistimologist professor Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen was recently featured on the podcast All You Humans to discuss the art of teaching. (Febriuary 2021)

2020

In an interview with Maclean’s Dr. Vivienne Luk and Dr. Karen Woodall shed light on the agonizing drug addiction of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables novels (February 12, 2020)

2019

Revisiting ‘The Psychopath Test’: New research by Professor Larsen gives diagnosis a failing grade (November 6, 2019)

Nicole Novroski of the Forensic Science Program is featured in UTM's #MeetTheNewProfs campaign (September 23, 2019)

Nicole Novroski is interviewed by CBC, in a feature on Forensic Geneaology - A Cold Case Revolution. (September 18, 2019)

Dr. Larsen was recently interviewed by the Etobicoke Guardian for his perspective on con artists, and the complexities of trying to create an appropriate psychological profile. (September 26, 2019)

Nicole Novroski presented at the 2019 International Symposium on Human Identification. Read all about her speaker feature Under the Microscope. (September 2019)

Dr. Novroski and colleague Frank Wendt have recently published an article in Forensic Science International: Genetics (September 2019). 

Dr. Rosenberg Larsen and colleague, Dr. David Sackris (Arapahoe Community College), recently published an article in The Journal of Value Inquiry critiquing a well-known philosophical theory that defines "aesthetic experience" (September 2019). 

2018

The Forensic Science Program is proud to have been an open source sponser of Forensic Psychology professor Dr. Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen's latest publication: False-Positives in Psychopathy Assessment: Proposing Theory-Driven Exclusion Criteria in Research Sampling. 

Tracy Rogers shared her path through research and forensic anthropology, and as a consultant with the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service, for the podcast "View to the U: An Eye on UTM Research". (September 2018)