The Midwest Forensics Resource Center at Iowa State University has been awarded a five-year grant of up to $20 million by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, reports DesMoinesRegister.com. The grant is to help establish a new center that will be the only federally funded forensic sciences center in the nation. Its primary goal will be to build a statistical and scientific foundation under two branches of forensics: pattern evidence (everything from fingerprints and blood splatter to tool marks and shoe prints) and cyberforensics (things such as figuring out who put what data on cellphones and computers).