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NIJ director Jerry LaPorte told attendees the agency has invested heavily in forensic research and stressed the value of non-DNA evidence, highlighting CADRE’s Top Match 3-D imaging system and West Virginia University studies on examiner decision-making.

Speakers at the National Institute of Justice webinar urged forensic researchers to plan for transitioning methods into practice, highlighted free resources from the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence at RTI, and announced a new NIJ postgraduate–lab matching webpage and open solicitations for lab evaluations.