Researchers

The FACTS strives to assist national and international scholars in conducting quality scientific research that will benefit the medico-legal and anthropological communities. We have a large outdoor decomposition facility called the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, and a growing documented human skeletal collection housed in the well-equipped Grady Early Forensic Anthropology Research Laboratory. If you are interested in conducting research at Texas State University, please contact Dr. Daniel Wescott (dwescott@txstate.edu or 512-245-1900). Please complete the appropriate request form below and email, mail, or fax to Dr. Wescott for approval. FACTS will make reasonable efforts to help facilitate your research. Fees may be charged for some services. In addition, researchers must agree to:

1. Proper safety and handling proceedures,
2. Providing FACTS with a copy of all photographs and data collected, and
3. Providing FACTS with a copy of all or any results in manuscript or reprint form.
4. Acknowledge FACTS in publications resulting from data collected at Texas State University

• ​Please acknowledge us as "Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX"
• Publications with work performed using the high resolution computed tomography system should acknowledge NSF:MRI award 1338044 (Wescott et al. 2013)

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You can make a payment of FACTS services such as CT Scanning, 3D printing, and more. Please do not purchase anything until you have received an invoice from FACTS.

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FARF Research Request

The Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF) is a 26-acre outdoor human decomposition research laboratory at Texas State’s Freeman Ranch that is used to conduct studies related to forensic taphonomy. Also located on Freeman Ranch is the Osteology Research and Processing Laboratory that includes cold storage, radiography and photographic stations, and a skeletal processing suite. Anthropologists, archaeologists, odontologists, botanists, entomologists, chemists, and others in disciplines that study human decomposition can propose to conduct research at FARF. Please complete the FARF Research Request Form if you are interested in conducting research at FARF.

FARF RESEARCH REQUEST FORM

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