University of Rhode Island | ||||
Forensic Science Partnership Seminar Series | ||||
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 | 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 & Jo | 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 Kalasis | 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 |
Fall 2003 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
11-Sep | John Drugan | Investigations at Mass State Police Lab | Mass State Police |
18-Sep | Jeff Norwitz | Psychological Consultation to Federal Law Enforcement | Naval Criminal Investigative Service |
25-Sep | Gerald Kufta | Investigation of Fires and Explosions | Kufta Consulting |
2-Oct | John Enright | Law Enforcement Anti-Terrorism Efforts and the Task Force | Law Enforcement Initiatives |
9-Oct | Harri Kytomaa | Thermal Science and Engineering in Fire and Explosion Investigation | Exponent |
16-Oct | Jack Hubball | Select Look at Investigations at CT Forensic Lab | State Conn. Dept Public Safety |
23-Oct | John P. Leo | Investigation of Incidents Involving Hazardous Waste | RI Dept of Environmental Management |
30-Oct | Kathryn Kalasisky | Hair Analysis | Armed Forces Institute of Pathology |
6-Nov | Kathy Higgins | Forensic Science in the War on Terrorism | National Institute of Standards and Testing |
13-Nov | Mike Leone | Explosives Investigations at the FBI | FBI |
20-Nov | Sharon Nelson & John Simek | Computer Forensics | Sensei Enterprises |
4-Dec | Carla M. Noziglia | The Real CSI and Forensic Science in Africa | Senior Forensic Advisor, Tanzania |
Spring 2004 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
23-Jan | Elaine Pagliaro | Crime Laboratory Overview | CT State Crime Lab |
30-Jan | Gino Rebussini | Clandestine Laboratory Investigations | RI Department of Health |
6-Feb | Dr. Otto Gregory | Microscope as a Forensic Tool | URI Engineering |
13-Feb | Det. Patricia Cornell | Crime Scene Investigation | Providence Police |
20-Feb | Tom Thurman | Explosion Scene & PanAm 103 | Eastern Kentucky |
27-Feb | Nancy Haley | Drug Analysis | RI Department of Health |
5-Mar | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprint | Cranston Police (retired) |
19-Mar | Dr. Virginia Maxwell | Forensic Analysis of Paint, Glass and Soil | CT State Crime Lab |
26-Mar | Jeff Morrow | Tracking the Cold Scent | Naval Criminal Investigative Service |
2-Apr | John Lentini | Investigating Fire Scenes | Applied Technical Service |
9-Apr | Robin Smith | DNA Scientific and Legal Issues | RI Department of Health |
16-Apr | Dr. Herb MacDonell | Applied Forensic Science | Consultant |
30-Apr | Kathleen Canning | Violent Crimes against Children and Profiling | FBI |
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 |
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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) |
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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 | |||
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 2006 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
27-Jan | Nancy Haley | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Lab |
3-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Date-Rape Drugs | RI Forensic Lab |
10-Feb | Dennis Hilliard | Physical Evidence | RI Crime Lab |
17-Feb | Robert Hathaway | Firearm and Tool Marks | RI Crime Lab |
24-Feb | Pat Cornell | Crime Scene Investigations | Providence Police |
3-Mar | Kevin Murphy | Arson-Scene Investigation | RI Fire Marshall |
10-Mar | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI Crime Lab |
24-Mar | Dr. Virginia Maxwell | Crime Scenes Glass, Paint and Soil | CT State Crime Lab |
31-Mar | Walter Williams | Blood Spatter | Warwick Police Department |
7-Apr | Robin Smith | DNA | RI Forensic Lab |
14-Apr | Liz Ziolkowski | Blood Pattern | Boston Crime Lab |
21-Apr | Dr. James Whalen | Not Guilty, by Reason of Insanity | Consultant |
28-Apr | Dr. Dorota Latuzynski | ME Examinations | RI ME |
Fall 2006 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
8-Sep | Jimmie Oxley | Overview of Forensic Science | URI Department of Chemistry |
15-Sep | Dennis Hilliard | CSI at URI | RI State Crime Lab |
22-Sep | Richard Esposito | Controlling the Media | ABC |
29-Sep | Mark Tobias | Polygraph & Lock Bumping | Investigative Law Offices (SD) |
6-Oct | Paul Waggoner | Bomb Dogs | Auburn University |
13-Oct | Jimmie Oxley | Studying Explosives at URI | URI Department of Chemistry |
20-Oct | Matt Zarella | Training Search Dogs | RI State Police |
27-Oct | Jeff Norwitz | Is the War Against Terrorism a World War? | Naval War College |
3-Nov | Yossi Almog | Tracking the Suicide Bomber | Israel Police |
10-Nov | Mort Moore | Alcohol & Pedestrian/Vehicular Accidents | Causation Analysis |
17-Nov | Barry Fisher | Forensic Analyses | LA County Sheriff’s Deputy |
1-Dec | John DeHann | Forensics of Fire Investigations | Editor, Kirk’s Fire Investigations |
8-Dec | Michael Peat, PhD. | Forensic Toxicology | Editor, Journal Forensic Science |
Spring 2007 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
2-Feb | Don Mong | Accident Reconstruction | East Greenwich Police |
9-Feb | Max Houck | Trace Evidence Analysis | West Virginia U (retired FBI) |
16-Feb | Paul Roberti | Opposition to Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals Post-9/11 | RI Assist Attorney General |
23-Feb | Andy Rosenzweig | Cold Case Investigations | Consultant |
2-Mar | James Wesley | The New Youth Drug Culture 2007 | Consultant |
9-Mar | David Fisher | DNA in the City that Doesn’t Sleep: Forensics in NYC | NYC Medical Examiner |
16-Mar | Michael Hynes | Nuclear Forensics | Raytheon |
30-Mar | Kelly Mount | FBI Explosive Investigations | FBI Explosives Unit |
6-Apr | Mahmoud ElSohly | Marijuana in Forensics | University of Mississippi |
13-Apr | EJ Wagner | Superstition, Science and Sherlock Holmes | Writer, criminal historian |
20-Apr | Lt. Guy Casarella | Chem/Bio Terrorism | RI National Guard |
27-Apr | Peter M. Vallone | Advances in the Field of Forensic DNA Typing | NIST |
Fall 2007 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
7-Sep | Jimmie Oxley | Overview of Forensic Science | URI Department of Chemistry |
14-Sep | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | Cranston Police (retired) |
21-Sep | Kim Freeland | Trace | RI State Crime Lab |
28-Sep | David DeTora | TBA | ME, State of RI |
5-Oct | MaryLou Fultz | Explosives | ATF, Postal retired |
12-Oct | Dr. John Tresrail | Murder by Poison | Michigan Reg. Poison Control Center |
19-Oct | Prof. Mark Genest | Terrorism | Naval War College |
26-Oct | Marc Weber Tobias | Locks, Safes and Security | Investigative Law Offices (SD) |
2-Nov | Dr. Thomas Gilson | Medical Examination | State of RI |
9-Nov | Dr. Rick Snow | Forensic Anthropology | Georgia Bureau of Investigation |
16-Nov | Dr. Wade Myers | Forensic Psychiatry | USF; Tampa, FL |
30-Nov | Mark Matteo | Telecommunications Exploits and How They Affect Forensics | COX |
7-Dec | Michael Hynes | Nuclear Forensics | Raytheon |
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 |
Fall 2008 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
5-Sep | Guy Casarella | WMD: An Overview | Nuclear Medical Science Office |
12-Sep | Peter Ginaitt | Readiness of Terrorism Acts | LifeSpan |
19-Sep | Vincent Desiderio | Analysis of Trace Evidence in the Forensic Lab | NJ State Police Office of Forensics |
26-Sep | Herbie DiFonzo | Legal Aspects of DNA | Hofstra University Law School |
3-Oct | Bob Leuci | Ethics and the Criminal Justice Employee | NYPD (retired) |
10-Oct | Elizabeth LaPosata | The Medical Examiner | RI Medical Examiner (retired) |
17-Oct | Gil Sapir | The Expert Witness | Forensic Consultant and Attorney |
24-Oct | Neal Langerman | Chemical Investigations | Advanced Safety Consultant |
31-Oct | Robin Cotton | DNA Analysis | Director Biomedical Forensic Science, Boston U |
7-Nov | Tom Thurman | Explosive Incidents | Professor Eastern Kentucky University |
14-Nov | David Smith | Mass Disaster, Incident Command | RI Emergency Management |
21-Nov | Anthony Amore | Art Theft | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
5-Dec | Donna Brandelli | Multidisciplined Approach to CSI | LA County Sheriff’s Dept. Science |
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 |
Spring 2010 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
27-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | Introduction to Forensics | URI, Chemistry |
29-Jan | Det. Patty Cornell | Crime Scene | Providence Police |
3-Feb | Dennis Hilliard | Evidence | Dir. RI State Crime Lab |
5-Feb | Dr. Gino Rebussini | Drugs | RI Forensic Lab |
10-Feb | Dr. Gino Rebussini | Drugs | RI Forensic Lab |
12-Feb | Amy Duhaime | Hairs, Fibers, Paint | RI State Crime Lab |
17-Feb | Amy Duhaime | Hair, Fibers, Paint | RI State Crime Lab |
19-Feb | Dr. Robin Smith | Serology & DNA | RI Forensic Lab |
24-Feb | Dr. Robin Smith | Serology & DNA | RI Forensic Lab |
26-Feb | Dr. Marc Genest | Logic of Terrorism: How the Weak Defeat the Powerful | Naval War College |
3-Mar | Amy Duhaime | Arson | RI State Crime Lab |
5-Mar | Dr. Yossi Almog | Explosives Detection in Israel | Israeli Police Lab, Prof. HUJI |
10-Mar | Jim Smith | Chemical Analysis | URI, Chemistry |
12-Mar | Dr. Virginia Maxwell | Glass & Soil | U New Haven |
17-Mar | Dr. Gino Rebussini | Drugs | RI Forensic Lab |
19-Mar | Ron Kelly | Arson | FBI |
31-Mar | Dr. Robin Smith | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Lab |
2-Apr | Bill McCombe | Security | Head of Security Block Island Ferry |
7-Apr | John Killian | Computer Crime Investigations | RI State Police |
9-Apr | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI State Crime Lab |
14-Apr | Dr. Virginia Maxwell | Glass, Soil, Other Trace | U New Haven |
16-Apr | Walt Williams | Blood Before the Lab | Warwick Police Dept |
21-Apr | Mike Platek | Microscopy | URI, Engineering |
23-Apr | Robin Smith | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Lab |
28-Apr | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI State Crime Lab |
30-Apr | Dr. Starnes Walker | Forensic Science Integration in DHS | DHS |
Fall 2010 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
17-Sep | Thomas Groff | Explosive Threat and IED Incidents, a view of street level response | RI State Fire Marshall |
24-Sep | Pat Beauchamp | Celestial Forensics: Missions to Titan, an Enigmatic Moon of Saturn | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
1-Oct | Amy Diver | NAS Report on Forensic Science: A Firearms Examiner's Perspective | Firearms Examiner & Founder, BulletPath.com |
8-Oct | John Leo | The Floods of 2010 & the Aftermath of the Spills & Cleanups | RI Dept Environmental Management |
15-Oct | Robert B. Kimsey | Forensic Entomology: Introduction, Strengths, and Limitations | U California, Davis |
22-Oct | Anthony Amore | The Three Most Significant Art Thefts in America | Head of I.S. Gardner Museum Security |
29-Oct | Carl Czajkowski | Homeland Security Initiatives at Brookhaven National Lab | Nonproliferation & National Security, Brookhaven National Lab |
5-Nov | Sarah Chu | Innocence Project & the NAS Report | Innocence Project |
12-Nov | Marilyn London | What Bones Can and Can't Tell Us | Smithsonian |
19-Nov | Constantine Gatsonis | The NAS Recommendations For the Forensic Disciplines | Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown |
3-Dec | William Smith | Overview of Expert & Scientific Testimony in Federal Court | U.S. Court of Appeals |
Spring 2011 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
4-Feb | Neil Clapperton | Forensic Firearm and Toolmark Examination: Impact on the Criminal Justice System | Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory |
11-Feb | Judith Crowell | How can I defend those guilty people day after day after day! | Criminal Defense Lawyer, Providence, RI |
18-Feb | Lou Wainwright | Three Approaches to X-Ray Detection of Explosives | American Science and Engineering |
25-Feb | Shannon Fox | Preventing Bomb Formation - Project Jack Rabbit: Spring 2010 Chlorine and Ammonia Field Releases | Department of Homeland Security |
4-Mar | Herbert MacDonell | Bloodstain Pattern Significance | Private Forensic Science Expert |
11-Mar | Dr. Suzanne Bell | Arsenic & the History of Forensic Science | West Virginia University |
18-Mar | Dr.Tammy Barrette | No Bones About It: The Necessity of Forensic Anthropology in Medicolegal Death Investigation | Keystone College |
1-Apr | Kathy Higgins & Skip Voorhese | Interesting Things that the Government is doing for the Community: Aiding the First Responders & Team Leader, Sterling Facility | Department of Homeland Security |
8-Apr | Daniel Dickerman | The Technology behind Investigating Complex Financial Crimes in the 21st Century | IRS Criminal Investigation Electronic Crimes |
15-Apr | Frank Williams | Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore: An Examination of the Military Commission and Evidence | RI Supreme Court |
22-Apr | Jeff Norwitz | Terrorism: Domestic and Global Trends | Consultation and Executive Education Services |
29-Apr | Jimmie Oxley | Explosive Research for Security | Department of Chemistry University of Rhode Island |
Fall 2011 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
9-Sep | Cheryl Swyers | Fraud & Financial Crime | United States Postal Inspector - Boston Division |
16-Sep | Priya Banerjee | Death Investigations | RI Medical Examiner |
23-Sep | Joseph Errera | Forensics & Crime Scene Investigations | FBI Boston/RI field office |
30-Sep | Adam Hall | Instrumental Analysis of Evidence | Boston University |
7-Oct | Mark Tobias | Physical Security | Lock Expert |
14-Oct | Bob Leuci | Ethics & the Criminal Justice Employee | NYPD (retired) |
21-Oct | Bob Fitzpatrick | The Essence of Profiling | FBI (retired) |
28-Oct | Pat Beauchamp | Planetary Protection | Jet Propulsion Lab |
18-Nov | Rita Vazques-Torres & David Audet | Science & Technology for the Soldier | Natick Soldier RD&E |
9-Dec | Bob Fitzpatrick | Betrayal -- FBI Chase of 'Whitey' Bulger | FBI (retired) |
Spring 2012 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
25-Jan | Dennis Hilliard | Evidence | RI State Crime Laboratory |
27-Jan | Dennis Hilliard | Introduction to Forensics | RI State Crime Laboratory |
1-Feb | Jimmy Oxley | Analysis | University of Rhode Island |
3-Feb | Ken Zercie | Crime Scene to Crime Laboratory | Connecticut State Crime Lab |
8-Feb | Jim Smith | Analysis | University of Rhode Island |
10-Feb | Victor Fey Wolfe | Computer Forensics | URI Computer Sciences |
15-Feb | Mike Platek | Microscopy | URI Engineering |
17-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Drugs | RI Forensics Lab (retired) |
22-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Drugs | RI Forensics Lab (retired) |
24-Feb | Walter Williams | Blood before the Laboratory | Warwick Police Department |
29-Feb | Amy Duhaime | Hair, fibers & Paint | RI State Crime Laboratory |
2-Mar | Virginia Maxwell | Glass and Soil | University of New Haven |
7-Mar | Virginia Maxwell | Glass, Soil and Other Trace | University of New Haven |
9-Mar | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI State Crime Laboratory |
21-Mar | Michael Nolan | Fire Investigation | NEFCO Fire Investigations |
23-Mar | Michael Nolan | Fire Investigation | NEFCO Fire Investigations |
28-Mar | Jimmie Oxley | Explosives | University of Rhode Island |
30-Mar | Wade Myers | Insanity Defense | Brown University Medical School |
4-Apr | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI State Crime Laboratory |
6-Apr | Cara Lupino | DNA | RI Forensic Laboratory |
11-Apr | Cara Lupino | DNA | RI Forensic Laboratory |
13-Apr | Laurie Olgivie | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Laboratory |
18-Apr | Laurie Olgivie | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Laboratory |
20-Apr | James Streeter | Handwriting and Document Examinations | North East Forensics, LLC |
25-Apr | John Killian | Computer Crime Investigations | RI State Police |
Fall 2012 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
7-Sep | Dr. Albert Kausch | DNA Based Forensics and DNA Data-Basing | URI College of Environmental and Life Sciences; Founder and President of lifeedu.org West Kingston, RI |
14-Sep | Dennis Hilliard | Basic Forensics | URI RI State Crime Lab |
21-Sep | Marc Tobias | Lock, Guns & Lies | South Dakota |
28-Sep | Michael Coble | Historical Investigations using Forensic DNA Markers | NIST |
5-Oct | Michael DiLauro | When the Criminal Justice System Fails: Recent Efforts at Reform in RI & Elsewhere | RI Public Defenders office PVD |
12-Oct | Cyril Wecht | Challenges for the Forensic Pathologist | Penn State Medical Examiner (ret) |
19-Oct | David Benjamin | Forensic Toxicology | Private Consultant MA |
26-Oct | Rick Lautenbach | Target: Inside Our Forensic Services Laboratory | Target, Forensic Lab |
2-Nov | Elaine Pagliaro | Forensic Challenges of Cold Cases? | CT Forensic Lab (ret) |
9-Nov | Gerald Durand | Woonsocket Serial Homicide Case | Woonsocket Police (ret) |
16-Nov | Chris Rigopoulos | Explosives at the FBI | FBI |
30-Nov | Elizabeth Fontaine | From URI to FBI | FBI, Latent prints |
Spring 2013 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
25-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | Introduction to Forensic Science | URI Department of Chemistry |
1-Feb | Dennis Hilliard | Blood Alcohol Levels | URI RI State Crime Lab |
8-Feb | Cyril Wecht | Weather cancellation | University of Pittsburgh |
15-Feb | Sue Ballou | Misinterpretation of the Science in Forensic Science by Just Being Human | NIST |
22-Feb | John Drugan | Explosive Analysis | MA State Police Crime Laboratory |
1-Mar | Ted Gatchel | The Munroe Effect: Scientific Accident to Battlefield Success & Beyond | Naval War College (ret) |
8-Mar | Cyril Wecht | Controversial & Complex Cases: Challenges for the Forensic Pathologist | University of Pittsburgh |
22-Mar | Victor Fay-Wolfe | Digital Forensics | URI Computer Science & Statistics |
29-Mar | John Leo | Hurricane Sandy Aftermaths | RI Emergency Management Agency |
5-Apr | Doug Klapec | ATF Case Studies | ATF |
12-Apr | Russ Webster | Understanding Disaster Psychology: Why Some Die & Others Don't | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
19-Apr | Robert Thompson | Firearm Identification in the Forensic Science Lab | NIST |
26-Apr | Maurice Marshall | Forensics of Explosions | UK Ministry of Defense |
Fall 2013 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
13-Sep | Robert Fitzpatrick | Post Mortem on Bulger | FBI (ret) |
20-Sep | Dr. Cyril Wecht | Some of My Most Interesting Cases | PA State Coroner |
27-Sep | Elizabeth Trendowski & Dr. Michael McCabe | The Dram Shop | Robson Forensics |
4-Oct | Debbie Surabian | Soil Characteristics that Impact Clandestine Graves & GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) Investigations | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
11-Oct | Dr. Daniel Greenfield | Beyond Holmes: A Curious Case of Neurosyphilis | Prof. of Neuroscience Seton Hall Univ. |
18-Oct | Dr. Neal Langerman | Quo Vadis: Laboratory Safety after UCLA | Advanced Chemical-Safety |
25-Oct | Peter Hefferan | History of Black Powder | U.S. Army Picatinny |
1-Nov | Lauren Hannon | Forensic Archaeology | Forensics |
8-Nov | Shawn Dolan | Fingerprint Analysis | Forensic Consulting |
15-Nov | Dr. Michael Sigman | Forensic Research and Analysis of Smokeless Powders | Director National Center Forensic Science (UCF) |
22-Nov | Joan Mead | Microbial Forensics in Biocrime Fiction | RI author |
29-Nov | THANKSGIVING BREAK - No Forensics seminar | ||
6-Dec | Kenneth Martin | Crime Scene Processing | MA State Police (ret) |
Spring 2014 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
24-Jan | Dennis Hilliard | Introduction to Forensics | R.I. State Crime Lab |
29-Jan | Mike Platek | Microscopy | URI, Engineering |
31-Jan | Ted Schwartz | Trace Evidence & Scene Reconstruction | Westchester NY Forensic Lab |
5-Feb | Victor Fey Wolfe | Computer Forensics | URI Computer Science |
7-Feb | Cara Lupino | DNA | RI Forensic Lab |
12-Feb | Cara Lupino | DNA | RI Forensic Lab |
14-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Drugs | RI Forensic Lab (ret) |
19-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Drugs | RI Forensic Lab (ret) |
21-Feb | Laurie Ogilvie | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Lab |
26-Feb | Laurie Ogilvie | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Lab |
28-Feb | Marc Tobias | Locks & Lie Detector | Investigative Law Offices (SD) |
5-Mar | Bruce Quinn | Arson Investigation | RI State Fire Marshal |
7-Mar | Tom Thurman | Pan Am Flight 103 | Eastern Kentucky University |
12-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||
14-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||
19-Mar | Jane Northup | Court Testimony | RI State Crime Lab |
21-Mar | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI State Crime Lab |
26-Mar | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI Crime Lab |
28-Mar | Virginia Maxwell | Glass & Soil | University of New Haven |
2-Apr | Dr. Virginia Maxwell | Glass & Soil | URI College of Pharmacy |
4-Apr | Elayne Schwartz | DNA | Westchester NY Forensic Lab |
9-Apr | Judy Carroll | Ethics | URI College of Pharmacy |
11-Apr | Donna Brandelli | Crime Scene | Torrance, CA PD Lab |
16-Apr | Donna Brandelli | Crime Scene | Torrance, CA PD Lab (ret) |
18-Apr | Kim Freeland | Trace | RI State Crime Lab |
23-Apr | Kim Freeland | Trace | RI State Crime Lab |
25-Apr | Karen Lynch | CODIS | RI Forensic Lab |
Fall 2014 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
12-Sep | Victor Fay-Wolfe | Cyber Security | URI Comuter Science Department |
19-Sep | Robert Leuci | The French Connection Revisited | NYPD (ret) URI English Department |
26-Sep | Robert Fitzpatrick | Bulger et. al. | FBI (ret) |
3-Oct | Daniel Greenfield | The Madness of King George: Several Somatoforensic Cases | Seton Hall University |
10-Oct | Steven O'Dell | Civilian Crime Scene Analysts | Baltimore PD Crime Lab |
17-Oct | John Jarrell | Defective Products and Personal Injury | Materials Science Associates, LLC |
24-Oct | Debbie Surabian | Soil Characteristics that Impact Clandestine Graves & the Use of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) | USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service |
31-Oct | Elaine Pagliaro | Forensic Investigations | University of New Haven |
7-Nov | Sean Reddy | Arson Investigations w/Canine | Providence Fire Prevention Bureau |
14-Nov | Barry Logan | Forensic Toxicology Trends | National Medical Services Laboratories |
21-Nov | Gino Rebussini | Street Drugs & the Forensic Laboratory | Roger Williams University |
28-Nov | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
5-Dec | Mike DiLauro | John Gordon: The Coldest Case in Rhode Island | RI Office of the Public Defender |
Spring 2015 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
30-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | Explosive Analysis | URI Department of Chemistry |
6-Feb | Adam Hall | Mass Spectroscopy & Its Use in Forensics | Northeastern University |
13-Feb | David Detora | Death Scene Investigations | RI Medical Examiner |
20-Feb | John Drugan | Forensic Analyses & Case Studies | Mass State Forensic Lab |
27-Feb | Dennis Hilliard | Blood Alcohol Civil Cases | RI State Crime Lab |
6-Mar | Leslie Nolan | Drug Chemistry | RI Dept of Health |
13-Mar | Laurie Ogilvie | Toxicology | RI Dept of Health |
20-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||
27-Mar | Walter Williams | Blood Spatter Analysis | Warwick Police |
3-Apr | Matt Zarella | K-9 Training & Searches | RISP (Retired) |
10-Apr | Priya Banerjee | The Medical Examiner's Job | RI State Medical Examiner |
17-Apr | Peter Tytell | Document Examination | Forensic Research |
24-Apr | Albert Giusti | Breath Analysis | RI Dept of Health |
Fall 2015 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
18-Sep | Ray Handel | Characteristics of Chemical Explosives | Center for Disaster & Human Assistance Medicine (CDHAM) |
25-Sep | John Hobbs | Airport Explosives Detection: History, Airplane Bombings, and Future Responses | Volpe NTSC (retired) |
2-Oct | Dan Greenfield | Forensic Psychiatry in a Nutshell | Clinical Prof. Neuroscience, Seton Hall |
9-Oct | Anthony Amore | 81 Minutes: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (security) |
16-Oct | Alan Hazen | Terrorist Investigations - Tale of the Dinosaur | SAC, DOJ Office of the Inspector General (retired) |
23-Oct | Bob Leuci - In Memoriam | Is it Time to Change our Approach to Drug Enforcement | URI English Dept; NYPD (retired) |
30-Oct | John Wojtowicz | Transportation Innovation-Is It Worth the Risk? | VOLPE National Transportation Sys Center |
6-Nov | Steve Burmeister | How to Manage Terrorist Events | Austin Powder, FBI (retired) |
13-Nov | Elizabeth Rosato | FBI Evidence Response Teams; forensic evidence collection for the FBI | FBI, Providence Field Office |
20-Nov | Amber Kasbeer | Understanding and Managing the Forensics of IEDs | TSA Explosive Operation Branch |
4-Dec | Brian Dolph | US Coast Guard Research & Development Center...No Cookie Cutter Job Here! | Maritime WMD & Law Enforcement Project Manager |
Spring 2016 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
27-Jan | Gerald Kagan | General | URI Chemistry |
29-Jan | Gino Rebussini | Clandestine Drug and Meth | Roger Williams University |
3-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Drug Analysis | RI State Forensic Lab |
5-Feb | Jim Clift | Crime Scene Processing (Police) | Providence Police Dept. |
10-Feb | JoDon Edwards (URI) | Crime scene | RI State Crime Lab |
12-Feb | Kirk Yeager | Explosives | FBI |
17-Feb | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI State Crime Lab |
19-Feb | R. Chris O'Brien | Forensic Animal Necrophagy | University of New Haven |
24-Feb | Mark Zabinski | Photos | RI State Crime Lab |
26-Feb | Jeffrey Luber | Questioned Document | Suffolk County Forensic |
2-Mar | Albert Giusti | DWI related testing | RI State Forensic Lab |
4-Mar | Vic Fay-Wolfe | Computer Forensics | URI Computer Science |
9-Mar | Al Hazen | Organized Crime | Saint Joseph's University |
11-Mar | Frank Gallo | Police Use of Force | Western New England University |
16-Mar | Robin Fortunati | DNA | RI State Forensic Lab |
23-Mar | Spring Break | ||
25-Mar | Robin Fortunati | DNA | RI State Forensic Lab |
30-Mar | Otto Gregory | Microscopy | URI Engineering |
1-Apr | Neil Clapperton | Firearms & Tool Marks | RI State Crime Lab |
6-Apr | Virginia Maxwell | Glass & Soil | U of New Haven |
8-Apr | Virginia Maxwell | Glass & Soil | University of New Haven |
13-Apr | Laurie Ogilvie | Forensic Toxicology | RI State Forensic Lab |
15-Apr | Laurie Ogilvie | Forensic Toxicology | RI State Forensic Lab |
20-Apr | Dan Greenfield | Psychiatry | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
22-Apr | Dan Greenfield | Psychiatry | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
27-Apr | Amy Duhaime | Trace | RI State Crime Lab |
29-Apr | Kim Freeland | Gunshot Residue & Arson | RI State Crime Lab |
7-May | Commencement |
Fall 2016 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
9-Sep | Jimmie Oxley | Forensic Science: An Overview | URI Chemistry |
16-Sep | Robin Cotton | Forensic DNA Testing: Current Methods and Challenges | Boston University |
23-Sep | Eric Gahagan | Handling Bomb Threats | OPS15 |
30-Sep | Mark Linhard | Accelerant & Electronic Storage Detection Canine Training | CT State Police K9 Unit |
7-Oct | Marcela Najarro | NIST Trace Contraband Detection Program | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
14-Oct | Michael Sigman | Validating Forensic Inference: A Likelihood Ratio Approach | University of Central Florida |
21-Oct | Al Hazen | The Various Forensic Sciences Used in Solving Criminal Cases | Inspector General (retired)/ St. Joseph University |
28-Oct | Dan Greenfield | Forensic Psychiatry in a Nutshell | Seton Hall University Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
4-Nov | Doug Klapec | Case Studies from the ATF Forensic Science Laboratory | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives |
11-Nov | Holiday | ||
18-Nov | Ed Pierce | Law Enforcement Issues with Non-Traditional Groups | Warwick Police Dep. (retired) |
25-Nov | Holiday | ||
2-Dec | Melissa Taylor | Human Factors and Forensic Science: Understanding Human | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
9-Dec | Vincent Desiderio | Postal Forensics: Using Science to Protect the US Postal Service & Its Customers | US Postal Inspection Service |
Spring 2017 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
25-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | Introduction | URI Chemistry |
27-Jan | Mark Tobias | The Security Threat from 3D Printing & Scanning Technology | Attorney |
1-Feb | Gerald Kagan | Working at the NYPD Forensic Lab | URI Chemistry |
3-Feb | Virginia Maxwell | Glass and Soil Evidence | U New Haven |
8-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Street Drugs | RI Forensic Lab (retired) |
10-Feb | James Clift | Crime Scene Processing in the City | BCI Detective Providence PD |
15-Feb | Gino Rebussini | Clan Lab Drugs | RI Forensic Lab (retired) |
17-Feb | Tim Kupferschmid | The Medical Examiner--Challenges for Today & Tomorrow | Director NYC OCME |
22-Feb | Jane Northup | Quality & Lab Safety in Forensics | RI State Crime Lab |
24-Feb | Tim White | New England La Cosa Nostra | WPRI TV Investigative Reporter |
1-Mar | Neil Clapperton | Firearms & Tool Marks | RI State Crime Lab |
3-Mar | Barbara Costello | The Role of Friends in Crime and Conformity | URI Professor, Sociology |
8-Mar | Cara Lupino | DNA | RI Forensic Lab (retired) |
10-Mar | Jack Levin | Mass & Serial Murders | Author |
13-Mar | Spring Break | ||
22-Mar | Laurie Ogilvie | Forensic Toxicology | RI Dept. of Health Forensic Toxicology Laboratory |
24-Mar | Elaine Pagliaro | Post-Conviction Forensics | CT State Forensic Lab (retired) |
29-Mar | Walt Williams | Crime Scenes | Warwick Police |
31-Mar | Judith Crowell | Defending the Guilty | Attorney |
5-Apr | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprints | RI State Crime Lab |
7-Apr | Roderick Kennedy | Forensic Science: Judicial Gate Keeping | Judge (retired) |
12-Apr | Student Presentations (25 minutes) | ||
14-Apr | Robert Foster | Forensic Science in Chemical Weapons Disposal | Attorney |
19-Apr | Student Presentations (25 minutes) | ||
21-Apr | Don Hayes | The Boston Strangler Case Revisted | Director Boston PD Forensic Lab |
26-Apr | Student Presentations (25 minutes) | ||
28-Apr | Maurice Marshall | Running a Large Forensic Explosive Lab | Defense Science & Technology Lab (retired) |
Fall 2017 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
8-Sep | Dennis Hilliard | CSI@URI | RI State Crime Lab |
15-Sep | Eric Gahagan | Extreme Forensics | Mass Bomb Squad (ret) |
22-Sep | Priya Banerjee | Overview of Death Investigation and Forensic Pathology | RI Medical Examiner |
29-Sep | Ken Zercie | The Crime Scene: Where Forensic Science Starts | CT State Crim Lab (ret) |
6-Oct | Sean Boyce | The Pony Express | US Postal Inspector |
13-Oct | Danny Sendroff | Facial Recognition & Machine-Readable Zone of Identity Documents | Senior Special Agent ICE |
20-Oct | Bob Hathaway | Firearms & Tool Marks: The Martin Luther King Case | RI State Crime Lab (ret) |
27-Oct | Jack Levin | Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder | Author |
3-Nov | Lt Colonel Gregory Banner | Why Halifax sends a Christmas Tree to Boston Annually--the 100th Anniversary | US Army (retired) |
10-Nov | Dan Greenfield | The Great American Opioid Explosion | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
17-Nov | Tim White | Organized Crime in New England & the Great Bonded Vault Heist | WPRI |
24-Nov | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - No Seminar | ||
1-Dec | DEA | ||
1-Dec | Steven Medeiros | A Day in the Life of an FBI Agent | FBI |
8-Dec | Ray Handel | Characteristics of Chemical Explosives | Center for Disaster & Human Assistance Medicine (CDHAM) |
Spring 2018 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
26-Jan | Bill Qualls | Dow Chemical Explosion-Case Study | Mass State Police/Bomb Squad |
2-Feb | Paul Souza | Sudden Death Scene Response | Sheriff Dept, Plymouth County (MA) |
9-Feb | Mike Jagoda | Critical Response to an Active Aggressor | URI Police |
16-Feb | Stephen Dambruch | Prosecutor's Role in the Criminal Justice System | US Attorney RI |
23-Feb | Matt Zarrella | Search Dogs | RI State Police |
2-Mar | Louis Marchetti | Laboratory Response Network for Chemical Threats | RI Dept Health-Chemical Terrorism Response |
9-Mar | Robert Buco | Matrix Effects & Matrix Affects- Impact of Sample on Analysis of THC & Metabolites | Waters |
16-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||
23-Mar | Samara Viner-Brown | Understanding and Preventing Violent Death | RI Dept of Health |
30-Mar | Way Fountain | Combat Forensics: Development of Tools for Identification of Bad Actors | Edgewood Chemical Biological Center |
6-Apr | Thomas Blackwell | From Heroin to Fentanyl- How'd We get Here? | Drug Enforcement Agency-Northeast Lab |
13-Apr | Alicia Wilcox | Factor's Influencing Juror's Interpretation | Husson University |
20-Apr | Michael J. Smith | A Day In The Life of CBP/Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) State of the Program | NY Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Field Office JFK Airport |
27-Apr | Kirk Yeager | The Tao of the Bomb | FBI Chief Bomb Unit |
Fall 2018 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
14-Sep | Henry Maynard | Determination Defeats Deception: Solving my Identify Theft Case | Defense Forensic Science Center |
21-Sep | Det Kyle Draper, SA Braga | Polygraph | RI State Police (KD) & FBI (Braga) |
28-Sep | Nicholas Petraco | Evidence Traces-- A Powerful Investigative Tool | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
5-Oct | Daniel P. Greenfield | Testifying in Court | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
12-Oct | Ioan Truta | Why BIAS is a scary term in Forensic Sciences | Boston Police Department |
19-Oct | Ray Handel | Clinical Consequences from Chemical Explosives | Center for Disaster & Human. Assistance Medicine |
26-Oct | Maria Warner | Case Studies in Forensic Fiber Examinations | CT Forensic Lab (Ret.) |
2-Nov | Susan Ballou | Forensic Issues and Studies | NIST |
9-Nov | Elaine Pagliaro | We have a DNA match...why isn't that enough? | CT State Forensic Lab (ret) |
16-Nov | Michael Rickenbach | Forensics at the CT State Forensic Lab | CT State Forensic Lab Chemical Analysis |
30-Nov | Laura Parker | Aviation Security and Explosives Detection: Past, Present, & Future | DHS Science & Technology |
7-Dec | Henry Lee | The Forensic Cases of Dr. Henry C. Lee | University of New Haven |
Spring 2019 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
25-Jan | Paul Souza | Crime Scene | Sheriff Dept, Plymouth, MA |
1-Feb | Neil Clapperton | Firearms and Tool Marks | RI State Crime Lab |
8-Feb | Amy Duhaime | Trace Evidence | RI State Crime Lab |
15-Feb | Paul Manning and James Given | Arson Fire Investigations | RI Fire Marshall |
22-Feb | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprint | RI State Crime Lab |
1-Mar | Michael DiLauro | Forensic Science and Testimony-a Holistic Approach | RI Office-Public Defender |
8-Mar | Anthony Amore | Isabell Stewart Gardner Theft | IS Gardner Museum (security) |
22-Mar | Cara Lupino | DNA Analysis | RI Forensic Lab |
29-Mar | Virginia Maxwell | Glass and Soil Evidence | U New Haven |
5-Apr | Robert Almeida | Forensic Toxicology | RI Forensic Lab |
12-Apr | Joe Salter | Aviation and Transport-Security Challenges | Director for TSA at T.F.Green |
19-Apr | Leslie Nolan | Drug | RI Forensic Lab |
26-Apr | Michael Baden | What the Dead Have to Tell | NYC Coroner |
Fall 2019 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
13-Sep | David G. De Tora, Sr. | Medicolegal Death Investigation | RI Department of Health - Office of State Medical Examiners |
20-Sep | Ann Burgess | Mindhunter Cases From The FBI Serial Murder Study | Boston College - Connell School of Nursing |
27-Sep | Walter Williams | Inside a Rhode Island Homicide Investigation | Warwick Police Department |
4-Oct | Carl Selavka | Complementary Toxicology: Introduction To A Cool Forensic World | Northeastern Bioscience Associates, LLC |
11-Oct | Anita Zannin | Is Bloodstain Pattern Analysis REALLY Junk Science? | AZ Forensic Associates, LLC |
18-Oct | Bryan Volpe, Jack Foster & Tom Chadronet | An Overview of the New England HIDTA Overdose Response Strategy | New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) |
25-Oct | Christine Zozula | Marketing Justice: How Community Courts Cultivate Legitimacy | University of Rhode Island - Sociology & Anthropology |
1-Nov | Susan Cormier & Dr. David Keatley | Cold Case Investigations | Pawtucket Police Department, Murdoch University (AUS) |
8-Nov | Clare Sweeney | Inside the Devious Mind of a Murder Mystery Writer | Freelance Author |
15-Nov | Priya Banerjee | Forensic Autopsies: Getting the Dead to Speak | RI Department of Health - Office of State Medical Examiners |
22-Nov | Victor Fay-Wolfe | Digital Forensics & Cyber Security | University of Rhode Island - Computer Science |
6-Dec | Robin Fortunati | Drugs, Poisons, and DNA: Rhode Island's Center for Forensic Sciences | RI Department Of Health - Center for Forensic Sciences |
Spring 2020 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
24-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | Orientation | URI Chemistry |
31-Jan | Mike Holleran | Crime Scene Cleanup | Trauma Services |
7-Feb | Steve Quartino | US Treasury Law Enforcement: Pre & Post-911 | US Treasury (retired) |
14-Feb | Jessi Brown | Rapid DNA Analysis | ANDE Corporation |
21-Feb | Wayne Miller | Fire and Explosion Scene Forensics | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (retired) |
28-Feb | Thomas M. Blackwell | You Found Drugs in That! | Director DEA Northeastern Lab |
6-Mar | Martha Smith-Blackmore DVM | Veterinary Forensics | Forensic Veterinary Investigations |
20-Mar | Ray Wickenheiser | Investigative Genetic Genealogy | New York State Trooper |
27-Mar | Kirk Yeager | Explosives & Terrorism | Federal Bureau of Investigation, Explosives |
3-Apr | Dennis Hilliard | Forensic Examinations CSI&URI | Director, RI State Crime Lab |
10-Apr | Bridget Buxton | Forensic Archaeology | URI History Department |
17-Apr | Eva Marie Mancuso | Civil Litigation | Managing Partner Hamel, Waxler, Allen, Collins |
24-Apr | Jimmie Oxley | Forensic Science at URI | URI Chemistry and Forensic Sciences |
Fall 2020 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
11-Sep | Kurt Yeager | The Life Cycle of a Bombing Case | FBI |
18-Sep | Daniel Greenfield | Current Status of Psychedelics or How to Change Your Mind | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
25-Sep | George Handel | Clinical Consequences of a Chemical Explosion: When Water Isn't the Answer | (ret) Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM) |
2-Oct | Dennis Hilliard | RI State Crime Laboratory - General Forensic Science | Director, Rhode Island State Crime Lab |
9-Oct | David Thatcher | Metal Sensing Technology and Crime Scene Investigation | (ret) Office of Criminal Investigation, RIDEM |
16-Oct | Jimmie Oxley | Explosive Research at URI | University of Rhode Island |
23-Oct | Jim Medeiros | Crime Scene Investigations and Case Review | URI State Crime Laboratory |
30-Oct | Ed Pierce | Law Enforcement Issues with Non-Traditional Groups | (ret) Warwick Police |
6-Nov | Katie Amaral | Elements to Evidence | URI Department of Chemistry |
13-Nov | Meredith Scannell | Lastest Trends and Issues Among Individuals of Domestic and Sexual Violence | Boston Nursing Institute |
20-Nov | Sean Boyce | The Pony Express | U.S. Postal Inspector |
4-Dec | Frederick Bieber | DNA | Prof. of Pathology, Harvard |
11-Dec | Laura Carey | The Role of Forensic Science in Innocence Cases | NE Innocence Project attorney |
Spring 2021 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
27-Jan | Kim Freeland | Trace Evidence | RI State Crime Lab |
29-Jan | Kim Freeland | Trace Evidence | RI State Crime Lab |
3-Feb | Jimmie Oxley | Class Overview | URI Chemistry |
5-Feb | Paul Souza | Crime Scene | Sheriff Dept., Plymouth MA |
10-Feb | Paul Souza | Crime Scene | Sheriff Dept., Plymouth MA |
12-Feb | Bruce Quinn | Explosives | Deputy Fire Marshal, Bomb Tech |
17-Feb | Bruce Quinn | Explosives | Deputy Fire Marshal, Bomb Tech |
19-Feb | Mark Zabinski | Fingerprint | RI State Crime Lab |
24-Feb | Mark Zabinski | Photo | RI State Crime Lab |
26-Feb | Virginia Maxwell | Talking Dirty: Using Soil (& glass) to Solve Crimes | UNH Professor |
3-Mar | Virginia Maxwell | Glass & Soil | UNH Professor |
5-Mar | Cara Lupino | DNA Analysis | RI State Forensic Lab |
10-Mar | Cara Lupino | DNA Analysis | RI State Forensic Lab |
12-Mar | Victor Fay-Wolfe | Computer Forensics | URI CS Professor |
17-Mar | Victor Fay-Wolfe | Computer Forensics | URI CS Professor |
19-Mar | Leslie Nolan | Drugs | RI State Forensic Lab |
24-Mar | Leslie Nolan | Drugs | RI State Forensic Lab |
26-Mar | Elaine Pagliaro | Is DNA Enough? | CT State Forensic Lab |
31-Mar | Elaine Pagliaro | Use and Value of Screening Tests & Stain | CT State Forensic Lab |
2-Apr | Robert Almeida | Toxicology | RI State Forensic Lab |
7-Apr | Robert Almeida | Toxicology | RI State Forensic Lab |
9-Apr | Paul Manning, James Given, M. Sweeney | Arson | RI State Fire Marshal |
14-Apr | Paul Manning, James Given, M. Sweeney | Arson | RI State Fire Marshal |
16-Apr | Neil Clapperton | Firearms & Tool Mark Examinations | RI State Crime Lab |
21-Apr | Class Presentations | ||
23-Apr | Otto Gregory | Microscopy | URI Chem Eng Prof. |
Fall 2021 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
17-Sep | Anthony Amore | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist | Head Security, ISG Museum |
24-Sep | Lisa Dadio | CSI | Senior Lecturer, U New Haven |
1-Oct | Thomas Mauriello | Truth & Lies of the Polygraph | Forensic Consultant |
8-Oct | Bridget Buxton | Forensic Archaeology | URI Professor |
15-Oct | Bruce Goldfarb | Frances Glessner Lee - unexplained deaths | Chief Mediacl Examiner, MD |
22-Oct | Eliot Springer | Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life (Confucius ~ 479 B.C.) – Reflections on Forensic Science! | Deputy Director Police Lab, NYPD |
29-Oct | Eva Marie Mancuso | Civil remedies for Criminal Conduct | Managing partner, Hamel, Waxler, Allen, Collins |
5-Nov | Michael Jagoda | Active Shooter | URI Director of Public Safety, Chief of Police |
12-Nov | Patrick Youngs, III; Michael A. DiLauro | Best Practices for Criminal Discovery Disclosures | Office of Attorney General; RI Public Defender |
19-Nov | Mike Driscoll | Impacts of Fire Spread on Major Loss Investigations | Forensic Investigator |
3-Dec | Judith Crowell | Defending the Guilty | Defense Attorney |
10-Dec | Joseph Courtesis | The Ethical Use of Investigative Technology in Law Enforcement | JCour-Consulting |
Spring 2022 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
28-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | Class Overview | URI Department of Chemistry and Forensic Sci |
4-Feb | Neil Clapperton | Firearms & Tool Marks | URI, RISCL Firearms Examiner |
11-Feb | Daniel Greenfield | Mental Health Professional in the Legal System | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
18-Feb | George Handel | Clinical Consequences from Chemical Explosions | Uniform Services University of Health Sciences |
25-Feb | Walter Williams | Blood Evidence Before the Lab | Warwick Criminalist |
4-Mar | Kirk Yeager | Bombings Throughout the Ages | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
11-Mar | Wayne Miller | Bang Boom Burn | ATF (retired) |
18-Mar | SPRING BREAK | ||
25-Mar | Brooke (Weinger) Kammrath | Forensic Analysis of Paint | U New Haven; Assistant Director, Henry C. Lee Inst. |
1-Apr | Priya Banerjee | Forensic Medical Examination | Former State Medical Examiner, now Anchor Forensics |
8-Apr | Adam Hall | The Life and Legacy of Dr. Richard Saferstein | Boston University, Professor of Forensics |
15-Apr | Jim Clift | Crime Scene Investigation | Providence Police Detective |
22-Apr | James Fox | Mass Shootings at Home, Work, School & Public Places | Northeastern Univ. Professor of Criminology |
29-Apr | Steven Johnson | Facial Identification | Private Investigator |
Fall 2022 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
9-Sep | Jimmie Oxley | General Forensic Science Seminar Information | URI Chemistry |
16-Sep | Amanda Milkovitz (Boston Globe), Tim White, Eli Sherman (WPRI) | Investigative Journalism | Boston Globe & WPRI |
23-Sep | John Malloy | Recreational Cannabis Legalization Issues | RI Office of the Attorney General |
30-Sep | Fiona Jones | Forensic Archeology | URI Sociology & Anthropology |
7-Oct | Kirk Yeager | Bomb Investigations | FBI |
14-Oct | Robert Thompson | Firearms and Tool Mark Examinations | NIST |
21-Oct | Cairenn Binder | Investigative Genetic Genealogy | DNA Doe Project |
28-Oct | Kara Hoopis Manosh | Crafting a Defense | Attorney and Counselor at Law |
4-Nov | Victor Fay-Wolfe | Computer Forensics | URI Computer Science |
9-Nov | Anita Jacobson | Opiate Crisis and Narcan Intervention | URI Pharmacy |
18-Nov | Joseph Itri | Cold Case Investigations | New Jersey State Police |
25-Nov | THANKSGIVING VACATION | ||
2-Dec | Otto Gregory | Watching Paint Dry | URI Engineering |
9-Dec | Gil Sapir | Expert Witness Testimony | Forensic Consultant & Attorney |
Spring 2023 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
27-Jan | Jimmie Oxley | Class Overview | URI Chemistry |
3-Feb | Peter Farr | Crime Scene | Prospect Police Dept. |
10-Feb | Neil Clapperton | Tool Marks | RI State Crime Lab |
17-Feb | Leslie Nolan | Drugs | RI Department of Health |
24-Feb | Virginia Maxwell | Glass Soil | U New Haven |
3-Mar | Paul Manning, James Given, M Sweeney | Arson | RI State Fire Marshal |
10-Mar | Alexis Donaway | Toxicology | RI Dept of Health |
24-Mar | Katherine Schweit | Active Shooter | FBI (retired) |
31-Mar | Cara Lupino | DNA Analysis | RI Forensic Lab |
7-Apr | Ken Zercie | Questioned Documents | U New Haven |
14-Apr | Daniel Greenfield | Forensic Psychiatry: What Does It All Mean? | A. Einstein College of Medicine |
21-Apr | Elaine Pagliaro | Cold Case Evidence | Henry C. Lee Institute |
28-Apr | Anthony Amore | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
Fall 2023 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
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 |
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 | Neil Clapperton | The Analysis of Firearms and Tool Marks | RI Start Crime Laboratory |
26-Apr | Ira Titunik | Overview of Forensic Odontology | International College of Dentists USA Section |
Fall 2024 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
6-Sep | Jimmie Oxley | Class Overview | University of Rhode Island |
13-Sep | James Clift | Crime Scene Investigation: Uncovering the Truth | BCI Detective, Providence PD |
20-Sep | Virginia Maxwell | Crimes Against Animals | U New Haven |
27-Sep | Alexis Donaway | Toxicology | RI Dept of Health |
4-Oct | Elaine Pagliaro | Post-Conviction Forensics | CT State Forensic Lab [ret] |
11-Oct | Walter Williams | Blood Stain, Blood Spatter | Warwick Police Dept |
18-Oct | Kirk Yeager | Explosive Investigations | FBI |
25-Oct | Daniel Greenfield | Intro to Forensic Psychiatry | Seaton Hall University |
1-Nov | Scott Marcotte | Clinical Consequences from Chemical Explosives | EMS Captain / Firefighter-Paramedic |
8-Nov | Bridget Buxton | Forensic Archaeology | URI History Department |
15-Nov | James Given | A Few Hot Topics | RI State Fire Marshal |
22-Nov | Otto Gregory | Engineering Aids Forensics | URI Engineering |
6-Dec | Alyssa Parrella | Seized Drugs | RI Dept. of Health |
Spring 2025 | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
24-Jan | Prof Jimmie Oxley | Class Overview | URI Chemistry |
31-Jan | Prof Victor Fay-Wolfe | Digital Forensics | URI Prof Computer Forensics |
7-Feb | Michele Petro | NCIS Crime Scene Processing | Special Agent NCIS, Newport RI |
14-Feb | Anthony Silva | Cultivating Cannabis & Alcohol Awareness | Police Chief (ret) |
21-Feb | Matt Zarrella | Search Dogs-Finding Humans | Master trainer in canine search & rescue |
28-Feb | David San Pietro | Trends in Forensic DNA Analysis | U New Haven Prof Forensic Science |
7-Mar | Ann Marie Mires | Role of Forensic Archaeology in Solving Cases | Director Forensic Criminology |
21-Mar | Michael DiLauro | State v John W. & N Gordon: The Coldest Case in RI | Public Defender (ret) |
28-Mar | Sgt Steve Courville | Police do horse around | Providence police-mounted division |
4-Apr | RAC Robert White & GS Ricky Mustion II | ATF Intro to Crime Gun Intelligence | ATF Crilme Gun Intelligence |
11-Apr | Dr Patricia Ogera | Tales of a medical examiner | RI State Medical Examiner |
18-Apr | Dr Fred Whitehurst | Defending the Indigent | Defense attorney & FBI (ret) |
25-Apr | Anthony Pesare | New England Organized Crime & Informants | RI State Police & Police Chief (ret) |