Kate Spradley, a professor of anthropology with the Forensic Anthropology Center (FACTS) at Texas State University, has received a $200,000 grant from the State of Texas Homeland Security Grants Division in support of Operation ID.
The two-year grant will allow Operation ID to continue its mission of facilitating identifications of unidentified human remains found in South Texas.
“This funding allows us to carry out our mission, but also to involve students in every aspect of the project, from searching for unidentified burials to the identification process,” Spradley said. “There is no other forensic anthropology program in the country that has an integrated and applied humanitarian and human rights project. This grant benefits the families of the missing, helps counties achieve compliance with state laws pertaining to the missing and unidentified, and helps train the next generation of forensic anthropologists.”
