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Hence, neuropsychology—the science of psychology at the tissue level—has become a powerful and effective tool in studying molecular, evolutionary, structural, functional, and medicolegal aspects of the brain. MODEL PROGRAMS A salient example of the importance placed on interdisciplinary academic preparation is found in cutting-edge university programs that require a double major when studying for the bachelor ’ s degree in forensic science. Roger Webb, president of the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) in Edmond, recently stated, “We have no idea where science and technology will take us in the future. We do know that the criminals and terrorists will be there.” His prescient remarks were made at the offi cial opening of the school ’ s new $12 million Forensic Science Institute in March 2010. The Institute ’ s director is Dwight Adams, PhD, an alumnus of UCO, and former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) laboratory in Quantico, Virginia—the largest and best equipped forensics laboratory in the world. Similarly, across the state from the FBI Lab, Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, affords students six hours of graduate work concentrated in forensic science in the master ’ s degree in forensic psychology. This program allows aspiring psychologists, who have no criminal investigative coursework, to experience criminal case preparation from the criminal justice perspective. Professor Michael Lytle, now of the University of Texas, Brownsville, developed this crossover component that opened doors into vital internships at multiple public and private agencies. For example, The Cold Case Unit at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the FBI ’ s Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) cooperated in the program, offering cutting-edge internships. Professor Lytle recounts 10 Analyzing Criminal Minds the story of one of his best students who is now an international corporate lawyer in London. I tell current students she was just like them—a sophomore psychology major and criminal justice minor—sitting in Principles of Forensic Science dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. She turned to the girl next to her—that girl later became a senior staffer at the Center of Missing and Exploited Children—and said, “Let ’ s work together and make an A.” She is now 32 years old and earns $250,000 a year.