Welcome to the Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing (or CRIM) at UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago).

We are an interdisciplinary team of professors, staff, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students specializing in sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, forensic anthropology, GIS (Geographic Information System), remote sensing, geospatial analysis, history, and electrical and computer engineering.  Our efforts focus on our partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (or DPAA) in the research, investigation, recovery, and repatriation of missing U.S. service members from past conflicts.  We primarily specialize in World War II sites in the Philippines, but we have also worked with the DPAA and their partners in Vietnam, Cambodia, Italy, Laos, and Palau.

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