Patricia Eddings is the Director of the Forensic Applications of Science and Technology program as well as a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has almost fifty years of experience in various areas of forensic science with the majority of time spent as a forensic trace evidence analyst. 

The university class she leads works with the Arlington Police Department performing forensic evaluations on cold case evidence. Their work recently resulted in the arrest of a suspect in a 34-year old homicide case.