University of Indianapolis Professor Stephen Nawrocki (center) poses with South African researchers at the University of Pretoria.
Dr. Stephen Nawrocki, UIndy’s Sease Distinguished Professor of Forensic Studies, has just returned from South Africa, where he gave the keynote address at the opening ceremony for a new anthropology facility at the University of Pretoria.
Nawrocki is a forensic anthropologist known internationally for the services he and his students provide for law enforcement agencies in analyzing and identifying human remains. He has visited Pretoria in the past to conduct research and has played an advisory role as that university established its own Forensic Anthropology Research Centre, a significant development in a nation that has a large need but little capacity to conduct this particular scientific work.
During the visit, Nawrocki also led a workshop for South African police and crime scene technicians on search and recovery techniques, evidence preservation and other aspects of forensic anthropology, the same kind of work performed at UIndy’s Archeology and Forensics Laboratory. The event was reported in Tuesday’s edition of the Pretoria News and also on the UP website.
