(Photo courtesy of Khushboo Narechania) As careers in chemistry go, few have more name recognition than that of Khushboo Narechania, ’03 LAS, MS ’04 UIC, a forensic scientist for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept. Here, she talks about everything from the “CSI effect” to how her analysis solved a tragedy and how she still refers to her organic chemistry textbooks.
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