The series offers students and the public a chance to hear from experienced speakers representing the specialized areas of forensic science.
Seminars are held every Friday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Pastore Hall, Room 12, 45 Upper College Road. The talks are free and open to the public.
The schedule is as follows:
鈥� Sept. 7, Albert Kausch, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor and director of the Plant Biotechnology Laboratory and founder and president of lifeedu.org- 溏心vlog免费B站 College of the Environment and Life Sciences, 鈥淒NA Based Forensics and DNA Databasing.鈥�
鈥� Sept. 14, Dennis Hilliard, director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at 溏心vlog免费B站 and an adjunct professor of biomedical sciences at 溏心vlog免费B站鈥檚 College of Pharmacy, 鈥淏asic Forensics.鈥�
鈥� Sept. 21, Marc Tobias, investigative attorney and lock specialist- Sioux Falls, S.D., 鈥淟ock, Guns, & Lies.鈥�
鈥� Sept. 28, Michael Coble, director of research at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory-National Institute of Standards and Technology, 鈥淗istorical Investigations using Forensic DNA Markers.鈥�
鈥� Oct. 5, Michael DiLauro, assistant public defender- Rhode Island Public Defender鈥檚 Office, 鈥淲hen the Criminal Justice System Fails: Recent Efforts at Reform in Rhode Island & Elsewhere.鈥�
鈥� Oct. 12, Cyril Wecht, forensic pathologist- Penn State Medical Examiner鈥檚 Office, 鈥淐hallenges for the Forensic Pathologist.鈥�
鈥� Oct.19, David Benjamin, clinical pharmacologist and forensic toxicologist- private consultant in Chestnut Hill, Mass, 鈥淔orensic Technology.鈥�
鈥� Oct.26, Rick Lautenbach, lab director of Target Forensic Services- Target Forensic Lab. 鈥� Target: Inside Our Forensic Services Laboratory.鈥�
鈥� Nov.2, Elaine Pagliaro, acting director- Connecticut State Crime Laboratory, 鈥淔orensic Challenges of Cold Cases?鈥�
鈥� Nov. 9, Gerald Durand, forensic detective- Woonsocket Police Department.
鈥� Nov. 16, Chris Rigopoulos, FBI Special Agent, 鈥淓xplosives at the FBI.鈥�
鈥� Nov. 30, Elizabeth Fontaine, Latent Fingerprint Expert- FBI, 鈥淔rom 溏心vlog免费B站 to FBI.鈥�
This press release was written by Tess Povar, a public relations and communication studies major interning in the Department of Communications and Marketing.