Heather Coyle


Faculty Member
Heather Coyle
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences
Dept: Forensic Science Department
Phone:

203.479.4595

Email:

hcoyle@newhaven.edu

Office:

300 Boston Post Road
West Haven, CT 06516


Education

Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1994
M.S., University of New Hampshire, 1989
B.S., SUNY Plattsburgh, 1986

Published Books and Articles

  • Editor (2005-2007)-Editor and co-author of a book entitled "Non-Human DNA Testing: Principles and Applications", c. 2007, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

  • Editor (2004-2005)-Editor and co-author of a book entitled "Forensic Botany: Principles and Applications", c. 2005, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

  • C.-L. Lee, H. Miller Coyle and H.C. Lee.  2007.  Genetic analysis of individual seeds by amplified fragment length polymorphism method.  Croat. Med. J.  48: 563-565.

  • H. Miller Coyle and T. Palmbach.  2007.  Forensic Botany: plants as evidence in criminal cases.  In: Forensic DNA Analyses, Editor: Dr. Dragan Primorac, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Republic of Croatia.

  • C.-L. Lee, H. Miller Coyle, T. M. Palmbach, I. C. Hsu and H.C. Lee.  2006.  DNA analysis of ingested tomato and pepper seeds.  American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 27(2):121-125.

Courses Taught

FOR 215

Introduction to Forensic Science

FOR 403

Advanced Forensic Science I

FOR 614

Survey of Forensic Science

FOR 620

Advanced Criminalists I

 

 

 

 

 

Other

Professor Coyle's research intersts are testing better technology for difficult samples for forensic DNA (teeth, bones, mummified remains) and DNA testing of botanical evidence.

 

 

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