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While the series in its entirety will cover a wide range of topics, Director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory Dennis Hilliard is looking forward to the Oct. 27 lecture being delivered by author Jack Levin. 鈥淢any students are interested in the psychology of mass murderers and serial killers and the 鈥榟ow and why鈥� that motivates them,鈥� Hilliard said. 鈥淚 am looking forward to this year鈥檚 lecture series as an opportunity to bring the new criminology and criminal justice department with their faculty and staff into the Forensic Science Partnership and to get their students involved in the seminar series.鈥�
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Friday, Sept. 15, Eric Gahagan, retiree of the Massachusetts Bomb Squad with the Massachusetts State Police, 鈥淓xtreme Forensics鈥�
Friday, Sept. 22, Priya Banerjee, Rhode Island medical examiner, 鈥淥verview of Death Investigation and Forensic Pathology鈥�
Friday, Sept. 29, Ken Zeroie of the Connecticut State Crime Laboratory, 鈥淭he Crime Scene: Where Forensic Science Starts鈥�
Friday, Oct. 6, Sean Boyce, United States Postal inspector, 鈥淭he Pony Express鈥�
Friday, Oct. 13, Dan Sendroff, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior special agent, 鈥淔acial Recognition and Machine-readable Zone of Identity Documents鈥�
Friday, Oct. 20, Robert Hathaway, retiree of the Rhode Island State Crime Lab, 鈥淔irearms and Tool Marks: The Martin Luther King Jr. Case鈥�
Friday, Oct. 27, author Jack Levin, 鈥淓xtreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder鈥�
Friday, Nov. 3, Ray Handel, Uniformed Services University, 鈥淐linical Consequences from Exposure to Chemical Explosives鈥�
Friday, Nov. 10, Dan Greenfield, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 鈥淭he Great American Opioid Explosion鈥�
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Friday, Dec. 1, Thomas Blackwell of the Drug Enforcement Agency, 鈥淭he Fentanyl Tale鈥�
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