The Radford University Forensic Science Institute (RUFSI) is a state-of-the art professional forensic science agency and affiliated laboratories housed on the ground floor of the Radford University Center for the Sciences. It was co-founded in 2008 by Drs. Cliff and Donna Boyd as an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to taking a leadership role in the support of forensic science.
The Radford University Forensic Science Institute is an interdisciplinary institute whose goal is to promote and support forensic science education, research, and public service. The institute faculty are comprised of specialists in Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Archaeology. The FSI mission is to serve as a center for innovative interdisciplinary forensic science research and to provide, with integrity, the highest quality educational training, consultation, and public service in the forensic sciences. Its faculty also provide objective and unbiased court testimony in regard to medicolegal death cases in the Commonwealth and beyond. Learn more about the Radford University Forensic Science Institute [YouTube].
RUFSI faculty have produced a voluminous body of nationally recognized research focused on differential mortality, skeletal trauma and bone repair.