Crime Scene Investigation trend comes to Cabrini

By Jillian Milam
September 16, 2005

KRT

The Crime Scene Investigation’s (CSI) contagious popularity may have made its debut on television shows such as “Law and Order”; however, it has made its way to the classrooms of Cabrini, offering students of all majors the opportunity to partake in unique, hands-on courses.

It began in the fall of 2004 when Dr. Kimberly Boyd, associate professor of biology, and Dr. Phyllis Rumpp, education assistant professor, developed a CSI-Radnor activity for the Elementary 386/ Biology 121 combined course.

“We used it as a culminating, inquiry-based activity to bring together all of the concepts the students had learned in the science content and in the teaching strategies for developing critical thinking,” Rumpp said.

For this specific CSI-Radnor activity, an actual crime scene was set up in Jazzman’s Caf

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