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Most parents would take exception with a summer camp where their children were looking at methamphetamine and cocaine, maybe even if they were fake. Not so, however, for parents of Camp CSI: Birmingham attendees. Last week, campers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, all of them high school students from the Birmingham area, spent five days engrossed in the real-life science behind the three CSI television series.
For the first four days, campers at the program, hosted by UAB’s Department of Justice Sciences, spent the morning being briefed by grad students and forensic science/criminal …read more

This is based on highly speculative leakage, based on early script drafts. So, take any details with a grain of salt. Even the title of the episode is suspect, at this point.
The episode, reportedly called Scales is expected to air Thursday, October 30, 2008.
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According to Matt Mitovich of TV Guide, the Season Nine of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation may be very different than any season that has come before. We’ve already heard that Jorja Fox’s Sara Sidle will be back for one episode, and that Gary Dourdan’s Warrick Brown will be going away, one way, or another, in that episode. (See previous CSI: Vegas spoiler and the other spoiler.)
With this second staff reduction, within the past year, other characters will be filling in to take up the slack. Wendy Simms (played by Liz Vassey) will take on more responsibility –on-screen, that is- and …read more

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Get Grissom on the horn! Las Vegas, the hometown of the critically acclaimed, original CSI series is no longer home to a university forensic science program. Administrators at UNLV pulled the plug on the program, citing the need for budget cuts. The administration also points to the financial inability to appoint a program director and the faculty required to attain accreditation for the program.
Background Check
Creating the program was a brilliant move, actually. Build upon the mystique, and the fact that the country already associates forensic science with Las Vegas. Less than five years ago, the university began the …read more