The Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) lecture series has operated since 1990 to foster science education in our community for youths through adults. Once a month during the academic year, MAPS offers stimulating free science programming, bringing educators and local citizens into contact with scientists and mind-expanding ideas.
Schedule | Spring 2024
MODESTO AREA PARTNERS IN SCIENCE
All Presentations are FREE and open to the public will be held LIVE in the MJC West Campus Sierra Hall 132 at 7:30 pm (*unless noted). Sign up below to get an email reminders for the next event and subscribe to the GVM YouTube channel.
Stories in the Bones
Forensic Anthropology of the
Murdered and Missing
Dr. Chelsey Juarez | April 26
Forensic Anthropology is about the stories our bones tell. In this talk Dr. Juarez will walk the audience through actual cases and explain how cutting-edge science illuminates the circumstances of death and leads to identification for victims of crime.
Have you ever wondered what forensic anthropologists really do and how they do it? In this talk Dr. Chelsey Juarez shares the methods forensic anthropologists use to provide data on decedents from bones, teeth, hair and fingernails. Using real cases, she shares the forefront of new technological advances in forensic anthropology and how those inform both investigative efforts and lead to identification. Finally, Dr. Juarez demonstrates some exciting historical applications of these techniques and how their broad applications can help us to investigate the past.
Chelsey Juarez is an Associate professor of Anthropology and Director of the Fresno State Forensic Anthropology Laboratory at California State University Fresno.
She is also Director of the Central California Missing and Unidentified Deceased Persons Cold Case Initiative, a 19-county initiative to identify the deceased unidentified in rural Central California. Her research interests focus on isotopic investigations of provenance, and diet with a special focus on the Latino Diaspora, and the U.S. Mexico border through time. In addition, Juarez has researched and written about child abuse, intimate partner violence, migration and provenance in a forensic context and case accuracy trends in Forensic Anthropology. She is the author of a comprehensive textbook in forensic anthropology. She holds a Doctorate from University of California Santa Cruz in Biological Anthropology with a specialization in Forensic Anthropology, and the Latino Diaspora.
MAPS receives funding and support from:
- Modesto Junior College
- MJC Foundation
- Stanislaus County Office of Education
- Modesto Teachers Association
- Great Valley Museum
To make a fully tax-deductible donation in support of MAPS, please Make a donation via the MJC Foundation and select Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) under "My donation is for..."