This podcast explores how forensic science identified a missing woman within a complex three- person DNA mixture without her direct DNA. Scientistic relied on her daughter's profile, layered STR testing, and probabilistic genotyping to statistically determine whether she was the unknown female contributor. 

2A.     A Biosocial Examination of How Forensic DNA Phenotyping Might Influence Future Family Planning

Anna Nguyen & Tayha Artinger  

In this podcast, we explore DNA phenotyping and its bio-social-legal applications in future family planning. We examine its benefits and concerns, providing both support for its implementation while emphasizing the importance of safeguards to mitigate ethical concerns. 

3A.     Positive and Challenging Childhood Experiences as Predictors of Forgiveness: A Comparison of South Asian and Non-South Asian Undergraduate Students

Anova Joseph  

This narration shares preliminary findings from an ongoing study examining how positive and challenging childhood experiences shape forgiveness in emerging adulthood and whether culture and religion influence it. Early patterns suggest supportive childhoods foster greater forgiveness, while repeated relational harm predicts more conditional forgiveness, with religion influencing motivation.

4A.     The Blossoming Minds Podcast

Megan Pamplin-Gillingwater  

The Blossoming Minds podcast explores the benefits of outdoor education through research and child perspectives. It highlights how learning in nature improves academic success, mental health, and engagement, while addressing challenges like equity, resources, and teacher preparation through policy-based solutions and creative classroom ideas.

5A.     Caught in the Middle: AI’s Conflicting Roles in Child Sexual Exploitation

Mya Baxter

**Warning: This podcast contains potentially disturbing content.**

This podcast examines the dual nature of AI in child sexual exploitation. While predators use AI to facilitate abuse, law enforcement also employs it to identify and track offenders, making AI both a societal threat and a vital investigative resource.

My project focuses on salivary evidence that can be taken from a bite mark injury and how this evidence can be used to create a DNA profile of the offender, which in turn helps to find the offender and solve the case with little physical evidence.

7A.     When DNA Forensics Roars- You May Wash the Blood-Soaked Fabric But You Cannot Erase the Bloody Crime

Rachel Adkins