URI Forensic Science Partnership

	University of Rhode Island
	Forensic Science Partnership Seminar Series
Spring 2003
4:00-5:45	Seminar Speaker		Affliation	Topic
23-Jan	Adel	Irrizary	RI Attorney General's Office	NIBIN - Firearms Identification Network
30-Jan	Det. Patricia	Cornell	Providence Police	Facial Reconstruction
Fall 1999
Date	Person		Affliation	Title
16-Sep	Peter	DeForest	John Jay College	Why a Graduate Degree Program in Forensic Science?
17-Sep	Kevin	Glynn	Naval Criminal Investigative Service	Internet Exploitation & Compromising of Computer Data
23-Sep	David	Uliss	RI Dept of Health	A Tour of the RI Forensic Lab
24-Sep	Frank	Platek	US Food & Drug Administration	Applications of SEM/EDX to Foods and Pharmaceutical Tampering & Counterfeiting
30-Sep	Allyson	Simons	FBI	A Overview of Forensic Examinations at the FBI
7-Oct	Randy	Bresee	U. of Tennessee	Textile Analysis in Forensic Investigations
14-Oct	Robert	Hathaway	RI State Crime Lab	Ballistics
21-Oct	Connie	Fisher	FBI	Forensic Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA
28-Oct	Carrie	Whitcomb	U Central Florida-NCFS	Forensic Science in the Next Century
4-Nov	Maurice	Marshall	Defence Research Agency	Investigations of Explosions: A U.K. Perspective
18-Nov	MaryLou	Fultz	Bureau of ATF	Overview of Forensic Examinations at ATF Labs
2-Dec	Kathy	Higgins	NIST	Explosive Standards
9-Dec	Guy	Vallaro	U. Massachusetts	Introduction to Post-Mortem ForensicToxicology

Spring 2000
Date	Person		Affliation	Title
27-Jan	Robert	Foster	Dept of Justice	The Role of Scientific Experts in Environmental Law
3-Feb	Kevin	Glynn	Naval Criminal Investigative Service	Computer Security
10-Feb	Elaine	Pagliaro	CT St Crime Lab	The Importance for Biological Evidence in Criminal Investigations
17-Feb	Don	Housman	Naval Criminal Investigative Service	Forensics of Bloodspatter
24-Feb	John	Tresrail	Michigan Reg. Poison Control Center	Poisoners throughout History
2-Mar	Joe	DiZinno	FBI	Forensic Denistry
9-Mar	Peter	DeForest	John Jay College	Why a Graduate Degree Program in Forensic Science?
23-Mar	Doug	Ubelaker	Smithsonian	Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology
30-Mar	Steve	Burmeister	FBI	Operations of the FBI Laboratory's Chemistry Unit
6-Apr	Mark	Zaminski	Cranston Police	Using Fingerprints for Identification
13-Apr	Richard	Saferstein	former NJ Crime Lab	From Lindbergh to O.J. Simpson--the Expert Witness
20-Apr	Gerald	Kufta	Kufta Consulting	Investigation of Fires & Explosions
27-Apr	Don	Seigel	Syracuse University	Hydrogeochemistry of the World's Largest Landfill (Freshkill, NY)
4-May	Eve	Hinman	Hinman Consulting	Protecting Buildings Against the Effects of Explosions

	University of Rhode Island
	Forensic Science Partnership Seminar Series
Fall 2000
Date	Person		Affliation	Title
21-Sep	Susan Ballou		NIST	Moves of Murder: Tracking Forensic Clues
28-Sep	Georgia Pasqualone		Quinnipiac U.	Forensic Nursing: the Real Sherlock Holmes
5-Oct	Jim Streeter		CT State Police	Questionable Document Examination
12-Oct	Bob Carrothers		Nikon	Forensic Photography
Oct 13	Tony Carpi		John Jay College	Forensic Research for Environmental Protection
19-Oct	Lloyd Allen		LabEquip. Co	Laser ablation of solids ICP/time-of-flight
26-Oct	Ron L. Kelly		FBI	Arson
2-Nov	Alan Harper		U NewHaven	Discovery, Recovery & Identification of Human Remains
9-Nov	Tom F. Jenkins		CRREL/US Army	Chemical Detection of Land Mines: Characterization of the Chemical Signature
16-Nov	Lyle O. Malotky		FAA	Explosives Detection
17-Nov	Chris Guglielmo		DEA	Chemistry of Drugs
30-Nov	Edward Bartick		FBI	Forensic Application: IR & Raman Spectrocopy
7-Dec	Drs. D. Latuzynski & J Schwartz		RI Medical Examiner	Forensic Examinations

Spring 2001
Date	Speaker		Speaker Affliation	Title
25-Jan	Randy Bresee		U Tennessee, Knoxville	Textile Analysis in Forensic Investigations
1-Feb	John Reid		Hampshire College, Amherst, MA	Origins of Enslaved Africans found in NY African Burial Ground: Use of Sr Isotopes
8-Feb	Henry Lee		Commissioner CT Crime Lab	New Advances in Forensic Science
15-Feb	Pete Hefferan		Cartridge Actuated Devices	Smokeless Powders & Dust Explosions
22-Feb	Steve Krueger		FBI--Explosives Unit	Processing Bombing Crime Scenes
1-Mar	Don Housman		Naval Criminal Investigative Service	The Use of Bloodstains to Reconstruct Crime Scenes
8-Mar	Dimitrios Karydas		FM Global Insurance	Insurance Investigations
15-Mar	BREAK			Spring Break
22-Mar	Ken Rahn		U of Rhode Island	Neutron-activation Analysis of Bullets/Fragments from the JFK Assassination"
29-Mar	Jim Whalen & Joe Penn		WestBay Psychiatric Assoc.	Insanity, Psycopythy, School Violence
5-Apr	Dennis Pincince		RI State Police, Criminal Invest.	Processing the Crime Scene
12-Apr	Amy Michaud		FBI-Trace Unit	Examination of Trace Evidence
19-Apr	Kathryn Kalasisky		Armed Forces Inst of Pathology	Hair Analysis
26-Apr	Ed Pierce		Warick Police (retired)	Forenisc & Clinical Aspects of Ritual Crime

	University of Rhode Island
	Forensic Science Partnership Seminar Series
Fall 2001
Date	Speaker		Affiliate	Topic
13-Sep	Dennis	Hilliard	RI State Crime	Forensic Examination of Major League Baseballs
20-Sep	BIll	Murphy	ATF	Interactions Between the Criminal Investigator & the Forensic Scientist
27-Sep	Jeff	Norwitz	NCIS	Perspectives on Terrorism
4-Oct	Joe	Powell	South Carolina Crime Lab	Trace Evidence Solves Crimes
11-Oct	Jimmie	Oxley	URI	Forensic Science: Emphasis on Explosives
18-Oct	Neal	Langerman	Advanced Safety Consultants	Shellmound: Industrial Arsenic & Lead Contamination Result In A $12.5 Million "Whodunit"
25-Oct	Jeff	Norwitz	NCIS	Spy Catching & Other Forensic Tales
1-Nov	Sue	Ballou	NIST	Murder Mystery: Piecing Together Forensic Clues
Nov. 8	Steve	Kruger	FBI	FBI Explosives Unit Investigations
Nov. 15	Jim	Cadigan	FBI	Firearms & Tools
Nov. 29	Meg	McHenry	FBI	Questionable Documents
Dec. 6	Dave	Thatcher	RI Office of Criminal Investigations	Electronic Metal Detection for Evidence Recovery

Spring 2002
Date	Seminar Speaker		Affliation	Topic
24-Jan	Jimmie Oxley		URI	History of Forensic Science
31-Jan	Dennis Hilliard		RI State Crime Lab	Forensic Science-Back to the Basics
7-Feb	Dr. Carl Selavka		MA State Crime Lab	Intro to the Crime Lab & Framing the Forensic Question: Why OJ Didn't Want My Opinion
14-Feb	Dr. Otto Gregory		URI	Microscope as a Forensic Tool
21-Feb	Reddy Chamakura		NY State Police Lab	Internet & Forensic Science
28-Feb	Bob OBrien		CT State Crime Lab	Gunshot Residue & Distance Determinations
7-Mar	Keith Coonrod		NY State Police Lab	Needs in Forensic Science--a National & Local Perspective
	Spring Break
21-Mar	Dr. Bruce Hoadley		U Mass	Forensic Examination of Wood
28-Mar	Tom Thurman		EKU, former FBI	Unique Aspects of Investigating Bombing Scenes
4-Apr	Dr. Elaine Pagliaro		CT State Crime Lab	New Advances in Forensic DNA Analysis
11-Apr	Dr. Virginia Maxwell		CT State Crime Lab	Forensic Analysis of Paint, Glass & Soil
18-Apr	Maria Warner		CT State Crime Lab	Basic Hair & Fiber Examinations
25-Apr	Robin Smith		RI Health of Health	DNA Scientific & Legal Issues
2-May	Richard Gould		Brown U.	Underwater Crime Scene Recording

	University of Rhode Island
	Forensic Science Partnership Seminar Series
Fall 2002
4:00-5:45	Seminar Speaker		Affliation	Topic
5-Sep	Skip	Ross	Exponent Failure Analysis	What Went Wrong?--Design Defects in Airplanes, Rockets, Hotels
12-Sep	Jeff	Norwitz	U.S. Naval War College	9/11 What Difference Does a Year Make?
17-Sep*	Barry	Scheck	Benjamin N. Cardoza Law School	Use Of DNA Testing In The Criminal Justice System
26-Sep	Kirk	Yeager	FBI, Explosive Unit	The Post-Blast Scene: Big Cases and Big Headaches
3-Oct	Marc Weber	Tobias	Investigative Law Offices	Locks, Safes and Security--Analyzing Bypass Potential
10-Oct	Jack	White	Channel 12 News	Media in Forensics
17-Oct	Tim	Pifer	New Hampshire State Police Crime Lab	Crime Lab Technologies
24-Oct	Elaine	Pagliaro	CT State Crime Lab	Expert Testimony & Forensic Ethics
31-Oct	Ann	Sarkes	FBI, Terrorism	Medical Aspects of Bioterrorism
7-Nov	Jason H.	Byrd	Virginia Commonwealth U	Maggots and Murder: Forensic Entomology
14-Nov	Eugene	Rugala	FBI, Serial Murder & Child Abduction	Violent Crimes--Silence of the Lambs Fact or Fiction
21-Nov	Constantine 'Gus'	Karazulas	Dentist	Computerization of Bitemark Evidence
28-Nov	Thanksgiving
All talks Thursdays, 4-5:30 pm in Pastore124 except Dr. Scheck's.
*Dr. Scheck will speak Tuesday Sept. 17 at 7 pm in Chafee 271 at part of the URI Honors Colloquium

Spring 2003
4:00-5:45	Seminar Speaker		Affliation	Topic
23-Jan	Adel	Irrizary	RI Attorney General's Office	NIBIN - Firearms Identification Network
30-Jan	Det. Patricia	Cornell	Providence Police	Facial Reconstruction
6-Feb	Mark	Zabinski	Cranston Police (ret)	Advanced Methods in Latent Print Development
13-Feb	Nancy	Haley	RI Dept of Health	Forensic Toxicology
20-Feb	Chris	Emerson	North Kingston Police	Internet Crimes Against Children
27-Feb	Matthew	Cassiere	Consultant	Con Men: Fraud, Confidence Crime, and the Occult
6-Mar	Carl	Chasteen	Florida State Fire Marshall's Lab	Fire Debris Analysis
		SPRING BREAK
20-Mar	Michael A.	DiLauro	Assistant Public Defender	Forensic Science and the Defense Lawyer
27-Mar	Michael	Baden	New York City Medical Examiner (ret)	FS pathology
3-Apr	Lt Ken	Patenaude	North Hampton (MA) Police	Eye Witness Tetimony - Reliability
10-Apr	Williams	Walter	Warwick Police Dept	Blood Spatter
17-Apr	Owen	Walker	Federal Defense Attorney	How an Attorney uses Forensic Evidence
24-Apr	Carol	Henderson	Nova University	Expert Witness Testimony
1-May	Sp Ag Robert	McFaddon	Naval Criminal Investigative Service

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*Fall 2004*
Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
10-Sep	Jimmie Oxley	Introduction to Forensic Science	URI
17-Sep	Jeff Norwitz	Processes and Organizations for Fighting Terrorism	NCIS
24-Sep	Martin Bide	Textiles: Analysis & Forensics	URI
1-Oct	Daniel Dickerman, John Killian	Electronic Crimes & Computer Forensics	IRS & RI State Police
8-Oct	Ann Marie Mires	Forensic Anthropology	MA
15-Oct	William Deso	Chemistry at the US Secret Service	Secret Service
22-Oct	Skip Voorhees	Microscopy & Chemistry Put Him in Jail	USPIS Crime Lab
29-Oct	Cyrill Wecht	Controversial & Complex Cases: Challenges for the Forensic Pathologist	Coroner of Allegheny County, PA
5-Nov	Mark Witowski	Food / Chemist	FDA
12-Nov	Joseph Blozis	Crime Scene Investigations	NYPD
19-Nov	Bob Leuci	Ethics & Criminal Justice Employers	NYPD retired
26-Nov	Thanksgiving Break
3-Dec	David Jones	Explosives	CREL
10-Dec	James Starrs	Path / Cold Cases	GWU

*Spring 2005*
Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
28-Jan	Hebert MacDonell	Using People to Solve Crimes	Forensic Lab (NY)
4-Feb	Al Harper	Recovery & Identification of Human Remains	University of New Haven (CT)
11-Feb	Nancy Haley	Forensic Toxicity	RI Forensic Lab (retired)
18-Feb	Mark Zabinski	Using Fingerprints for Identification	IRS & RI State Crime Lab
25-Feb	Mark Tobias	Locks, Safes, Polygraph	Investigative Law Offices (SD)
4-Mar	John Chatterton	Underwater Forensics	Lone Wolf Productions
11-Mar	Eugene Rugala	Violent Crimes--Silence of the Lambs Fact or Fiction	FBI, Analysis of Violent Crime (VA)
14,18-Mar	Spring Break
25-Mar	Richard Saferstein	Lindbergh to O.J. Simpson--the Expert Witness in Court	New Jersey Crime Lab (retired)
1-Apr	Don Housman	The Use of Bloodstains to Reconstruct Crime Scenes	Naval Criminal Investigative Service
8-Apr	Anthony Carpi	Forensic Research for Environmental Protection	John Jay College
15-Apr	Dennis Pincince	Forensic Video Analysis	State Police
22-Apr	Jason Byrd	Entomology	Medical Examiner's Office Daytona Beach
29-Apr	Doug Ubelaker	Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology	Smithsonian
6-May	Maurice Marshall, OBE	Explosives Scenes--Forensics	Forensic Explosive Lab (UK) (retired)

*Fall 2005*
Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
16-Sep	Eric Stauffer	Examination of Automotive Light Bulbs: An important step in road accident investigations	MME Forensic Services
23-Sep	Azriel Gorski	Trace Evidence Modern & Ancient	University of New Haven (CT)
30-Sep	Beth Zielinski-Habershaw	Molecular Techniques: DNA fingerprinting & PCR	Brown University
7-Oct	Illa Simmons	Trace Evidence	SC Law Enforcement
14-Oct	Mary Jane Clark	"Forensics and Fiction ... A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing"	Author
21-Oct	Victor Fay-Wolfe	Computer Forensics	URI Computer Science
28-Oct	Robert Cody	Mass Spectrometry: An Essential Forensic Tool	JEOL
4-Nov	Kirk Yeager	The Post-Blast Scene: Big Cases, Big Headaches	FBI Explosives Unit
18-Nov	Frank Platek	Application of SEM/EDX to Foods and Pharmaceutical Tampering & Counterfeiting	FDA
25-Nov	Thanksgiving Break
2-DEC	Cliff Dutton	Electronic Discovery	IBIS Consulting
9-Dec	Donna Brandelli	Case Studies in Teamwork: An essential element of major crime scene investigations	LA County Sheriff

*Spring 2008*
Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
25-Jan	Jimmie Oxley	Introduction ot Forensics	URI, Chemistry
1-Feb	David Thatcher	Forensic Engineering Analysis of SUV Rollover Accidents	Director of the Engineering Institute
8-Feb	David Thatcher	Metal Detection at Crime Scenes	Crime Lab Assoc.
15-Feb	Virginia Maxwell	Glass & Soil	Univ. New Haven
22-Feb	Walt Williams	Intro to Blood Spatter Analysis	Warwick Police Dept.
29-Feb	Gerry Durand	Woonsocket Serial Killer	Woonsocket Police
7-Mar	Kenneth Zercie	Reconstruction/Document Examine	CT State Crime Lab
		Spring Break
28-Mar	Gino Rebussini	Drugs	RI Forensic Lab
4-Apr	Skip Vorrhees	Fraud Investigations	US Postal Lab
11-Apr	Michael Bourke	DNA	CT State Crime Lab
18-Apr	Kirk Yeager	Investigating Bomb Scenes	FBI Lab
25-Apr	Rob Buco	Mass Sprectoscopy	Shimadzu

*Spring 2009*
Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
23-Jan	Jimmie Oxley	Introduction	URI, Chemistry
30-Jan	Lawrence Kobilinsky	Forensic DNA Analysis-The Gold Standard	John Jay College, Forensic Science
6-Feb	Chris Tuttle	Challenge in Protecting & Responding to Explosive Incident in Mass Transit	Emergency Operations at Port Authority of NY & NJ Public Safety Department
13-Feb	Peter Ginaitt	Readiness of Terrorism Acts	LifeSpan
20-Feb	Amit Gavish	Homeland Security-Lessons Learned from Israel	SSC Intel
27-Feb	Victor Fay-Wolfe	Computer Forensics	URI, Computer Science
6-Mar	Doug Bauer	Using Science to Solve the National Security Problem	Dept. of Homeland Security Science & Technology
13-Mar	Mark Tobias	High Security Facilities: Why Locks & Access Control May Not Protect Them	Investigative Law Offices (SD)
20-Mar		SPRING BREAK
27-Mar	Jeffrey Norwitz	Closing Guantanamo: What Comes Next?	Naval War College; National Security Studies
3-Apr	Bob Hathway	Conspiracy Theories-Trace Evidence in ML King Case	Rhode Island State Crime Lab
10-Apr	Stacey Veroni	A Prosecutor's View	RI Assistant Attorney General
17-Apr	Carl Selavka	"Distance-Forensics" to Support the New World	Head MA Forensic Lab (retired)
24-Apr	Ted Schwartz	Importance of Trace & Impression Evidence	Westchester County (NY) Forensic Laboratory

*Fall 2009*
Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
18-Sept	Tom Groff	Bomb Squad as a Job	RI State Bomb Squad
25-Sept	John Kerwick	Training Bomb Detection Canines	NY City MTA Police
2-Oct	Doug Ubelaker	Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology	Smithsonian Institute
9-Oct	Nate Lewis	Explosive Detection	Caltech
16-Oct	John Leo	Investigation of Incidents involving Hazardous Waste	RI Dept of Environmental Management
23-Oct	Steve Batzer	Forensic Engineering Analysis of The Origin of the Species	Engineering Institute
30-Oct	Guy Casarella	WMD Agents	Nuclear Medical Sci Off, RI Nat. Guard
6-Nov		TBA
13-Nov	Gary Settles	The Aerodynamics of a Dog's Nose	Pennsylvania State U
20-Nov	Wade Myers	Forensic psychiatry	Brown Medical School
4-Dec	Elaine Pagliaro	Cold Cases
11-Dec	John Aherne	Railroad Safety	DHS

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