FGCU researchers learn from the dead at forensics lab By Annie Hubbell LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. – There are certain memories we can’t forget. They’re triggered by random things – a smell takes you back to your grandmother’s house on Christmas morning or the way the clouds darken the sky on a random afternoon transports you back to the day your mother died. Sometimes we collectively remember where we were at a certain moment – like the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, or terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Austin Polonitza (’10, Criminal Forensic Studies; ’16, MS, Criminal Forensic Studies) digs a shovel test pit to reveal soil types.