Forensic Science Held its 6th Annual Spatterganza

UNL Forensic Science Spatterganza

UNL’s Forensic Science Club, a Registered Student Organization affiliated with the Forensic Science Degree Program, held its 6th Annual Spatterganza fundraiser on Tuesday, April 17th.  Every year, the club provides individuals the opportunity to buy a t-shirt and then find creative ways to get imitation-blood spatter on it. 

This year the event took place on the lawn in front of the Nebraska Union and the proceedings were supervised by faculty member and resident blood-spatter expert Sgt. Larry Barksdale.  The idea is for students to provide an educated explanation for the particular patterns displayed on their eye-catching shirts.  Patterns are designed to imitate common blood-spatter patterns like expirated, cast-off, drip, and splash, at various velocities.