Seminar Series
The Forensic Science Seminar Series is offered each semester by the Forensic Science Partnership. Speakers represent the many different specialized areas of forensic science. The speakers present their real-life experiences in their fields. Seminars are offered for credit, but are also open to the public at no cost. Take a look at this semester's lineup! All seminars will be held in URI's Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences, 140 Flagg Road, Kingston, RI, from 3:30 to 5:00p.m.: Friday seminars will be held in Beaupre 100, and Wednesday seminars in Beaupre 105. |
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Spring 2024 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
26-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | The Academic's Role in Forensics | University of Rhode Island |
2-Feb | Matt Staymates | Seeing the invisible: Flow visualization and scientific imaging to improve CBRNE safety, security, defense, and forensics | National Institute of Standards & Technology |
9-Feb | Mark Desire | Death as Our Mentor: Lessons Learned from 9/11 | NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner |
16-Feb | Bill Powers | Death Investigations #101 | Mass. State Police (ret) |
23-Feb | John Drugan | A case study involving the Investigation of an Improvised Explosive Device in the City of Boston | Boston Fire Department |
1-Mar | Paul F Daly | Federal Prosecution | Assistant U.S. Attorney |
8-Mar | Kirk Yeager | Bombings: From Tactics to Trials | FBI |
22-Mar | Colin O'Hara | An Expansive Career in National Security | Federal government consultant |
29-Mar | Bret Reiswig | Why Customs & Border Patrol needs Scientists | US Customs & Boarder Control |
5-Apr | Robert Mahoney | Pathway to Violence & a Public Health Approach to Prevention | Dept Homeland Security |
12-Apr | Leila Dutton | Intimate Partner Violence: An Overview | Univ New Haven |
19-Apr | John S. Morgan | Managing Forensic Error: Lessons from Wrongful Convictions | ExpertErrors |
26-Apr | Ira Titunik | Overview of Forensic Odontology | International College of Dentists USA Sectio |
Fall 2023 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
6-Sep | Jimmie Oxley | Class Overview | URI Chemistry |
8-Sep | Jimmie Oxley | Class Overview | URI Chemistry |
13-Sep | Karen Morse | Accessing the MacDonell Collection | University of Rhode Island |
15-Sep | Jim Clift | Crime Scene | Providence Police Department |
20-Sep | Jim Clift | Crime Scene | Providence Police Department |
22-Sep | Glen Gallagher | RI State Health Labs Support of Law Enforcement | RI Department of Health |
27-Sep | Neil Clapperton | Tool Marks | URI Forensics Lab |
29-Sep | Anthony Silva | Impaired Driving | RI Police Chiefs Association |
4-Oct | Alyssa Parrella | Seized Drugs | Rhode Island Department of Health |
6-Oct | Dennis Nixon | Ships Don't Leave Skid Marks | GSO RI Sea Grant (emeritus) |
11-Oct | Danny Sendroff | Facial Feature Comparisons and Examining Identity Documents | DHS (Retired) |
13-Oct | Michael Camal | Human Trafficking | DHS |
18-Oct | Kammrath Brooke | Statistics | U. New Haven |
20-Oct | Cara Lupino | RI Forensics Lab | RI Department of Health |
25-Oct | Cara Lupino | DNA | RI Department of Health |
27-Oct | Peter Valentin | Blood Spatter or Reconstruction | U. New Haven |
1-Nov | Alexis Donaway | Laboratory Analysis | RI Department of Health |
3-Nov | Virginia Maxwell | Hording Animals | U. New Haven |
8-Nov | Virginia Maxwell | Soil and Glass | U. New Haven |
10-Nov | Jim McMahon | Prosecution Cases - Thanks to Forensics | Attorney |
15-Nov | Brian Giebel | IRMS | CUNY |
17-Nov | Alexis Donaway | Toxicology | RI Department of Health |
22-Nov | Student Presentation | ||
29-Nov | Virginia Maxwell | Glass and Soil | |
1-Dec | Michael DiLauro | Artificial Intelligence & the Criminal Law | Attorney |
6-Dec | Kim Freeland | Trace Evidence | State Crime Lab, URI |
8-Dec | Chris Fabricant | Junk Science & the American Criminal Justice System | Project Innocence |
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