<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/fire-science-research-poster.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>05/19/2025</pubDate><title>Fire Science Students Earn Top Honors for Arson Detection Research</title><description>University of New Haven students Lauren Mulinski ’25 and Alison Perry ’24, MS ’26 were awarded “Best Overall Research Poster” at the International Association of Arson Investigators’ International Training Conference for their project examining homemade napalm detection by accelerant canines.</description><hide-description/><author>Lauren Mulinski ’25 and Alison Perry ’24, MS ’26</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>May 19, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/lee-college/news/2025/fire-science-award-lg.jpg" alt="Fire Science students were awarded “Best Overall Research Poster” at the IAAI Training Conference."/></image><image-caption>Fire Science students were awarded “Best Overall Research Poster” at the IAAI Training Conference.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-lee-college</tag><tag>dept-fire-science-emergency-management</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-grad-fire-science</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>