Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, better known as the Body Farm and sometimes seen as the Forensic Anthropology Facility, [2] was conceived in 1971 and established in 1972 by anthropologist William M. Bass as the first facility for the study of decomposition of human remains. [3]
A body farm within a forensic training facility is featured in the beginning of episode 9.17 of Fox's television series The X-Files. The episode, titled "Release", mentions that the facility is located in Joplin, Virginia. Simon Beckett's novel Whispers of the Dead is set in and around the body farm in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is the third book ...
Writer Jon Jefferson and William M. Bass, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology and founder of the body farm, walk through the outdoor research facility in 2003.
He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and founded the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, the first such facility in the world. The facility is more popularly known as " The Body Farm ", a name used by crime author Patricia Cornwell in a novel of the same name , [ 2 ] which drew inspiration from Bass and ...
The GOP-controlled, majority-white Tennessee House voted in favor of the bill dismantling the entire board of trustees of Tennessee State University, an HBCU.
St. Augustine’s was the nation’s first historically black university to own an on-campus commercial radio station. In 2020, the university became the first HBCU to start a cycling team.
The novel, and its title, were inspired by the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, which is used in the study of forensic anthropology, in particular human decomposition. The facility is commonly known as The Body Farm and is located a few miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee, behind the University of Tennessee Medical ...
Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. [5] Tennessee State University offers 41 bachelor's degrees, 23 master's degrees, and eight doctoral degrees. [6] [7] It is classified as "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". [8]