No Guns and Badges, Just Swabs and Microscopes. In this episode we speak with Dr. Kathleen Corrado about her work on criminalistics and DNA analysis.
Kathleen is currently the Director of the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute at Syracuse University. Prior to joining the university, she worked for over 25 years as a forensic scientist. She began her career in forensics at the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Laboratory in Austin, TX where she specialized in crime scene investigation, biological fluid identification and various forms of DNA analysis. In 1999, she left Texas and moved to Syracuse, New York to head the Forensic Biology/DNA section of the Onondaga County Center for Forensic Sciences (CFS). She then spent the next 20 years as Director of Laboratories at the CFS where she managed the ISO17025-accredited laboratory including oversight of the Forensic Biology/DNA, Firearms, Latent Print, Drug Chemistry and Digital Evidence disciplines. She has testified as an expert witness in the state of Texas, the state of New York, and in U.S. Federal court. She has served on numerous regulatory and oversight committees including the New York State Commission on Forensic Science, the State of Virginia Scientific Advisory Committee, The National Institute of Science and Technology Organization of Scientific Area Committee, and the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board.
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Get in touch with Kathy:
Syracuse University Website // kcorrado AT syr.edu