{"id":59664,"date":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-chemistry-professor-and-crime-lab-director-named-to-federal-group-to-assess-forensic-standards\/"},"modified":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-chemistry-professor-and-crime-lab-director-named-to-federal-group-to-assess-forensic-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/uri-chemistry-professor-and-crime-lab-director-named-to-federal-group-to-assess-forensic-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 chemistry professor and crime lab director named to federal group to assess forensic standards"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 22, 2014 \u2013 The co-director of a federal center of excellence in explosives at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and the director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at 溏心vlog免费B站 have been named to a national subcommittee by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 Chemistry Professor Jimmie Oxley, co-director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence in Explosive Detection, Mitigation, and Response, and Dennis Hilliard, director of the state crime laboratory and adjunct assistant professor of pharmacy, have been appointed to the 20-member Chemistry\/Instrumental Analysis Scientific Area Committee\u2019s Fire Debris and Explosives Subcommittee. The group will study and recommend changes to forensic standards for federal laboratories.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs part of the process, Oxley will assess and recommend standards relating to explosives and Hilliard will do the same in the area of fire debris analysis. Following the approval by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, federal laboratories will then adopt the standards. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThese standards will trickle down to state and local labs, that will be required to follow them if they want to continue to receive federal funding,\u201d Hilliard said. \u201cThe goal is to make Maine the same as New York and New York the same as California. In other words, these national standards will be followed by all forensic labs.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHilliard, a resident of Wakefield, and Oxley, of Narragansett, the co-founders and co-directors of the 15-year-old 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership, have long records of volunteer service with the federal government in the area of forensic laboratory standards. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe fact that 溏心vlog免费B站 has two representatives on the same subcommittee is a testament to Dennis\u2019 hard work as a chair of the National Technical Working Group on Fire Debris and Explosives and our own Forensic Science Partnership, which has led to national recognition and major funding for 溏心vlog免费B站 research into explosives, cybercrime, textiles and sensors,\u201d Oxley said.<\/p>\n


\n\tCongratulation letters to Oxley and Hilliard from leaders of the federal standards and technology agency said, \u201cWe look forward to working with you to strengthen the nation\u2019s use of forensic science by supporting the development and promulgation of forensic science consensus documentary standards and guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAppointments to these boards are usually for three years, but the initial terms will be staggered with members serving either a two-year, three-year or four-year term to facilitate transitions among board members.<\/p>\n


\n\tUnder the federal Scientific Area Committee, 402 experts serve on 23 subcommittees of the five major divisions, Biology\/DNA, Chemistry\/Instrumental Analysis, Crime Scene\/Death Investigation, Digital\/Multimedia and Physics\/Pattern Interpretation. The five Scientific Area Committees reviewed more than 1,400 applications to serve on the subcommittees, which were also reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n


\n\tOxley and Hilliard will join their fellow subcommittee members for their first meetings from January 13 through 15 at the National Center for Employee Development in Norman, Okla.<\/p>\n


\n\tStrong calls for standardizing forensic evidence processing came after the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, which ended in October 1995 with a not-guilty verdict. Questions about the validity of the evidence were raised throughout the trial. In the fall 2006, forensic evidence became the focus of a committee formed by the National Academy of Sciences. The committee held eight meetings from January 2007 to November 2008. Its final report, published in 2009, was titled \u201cStrengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWith such scrutiny of DNA processing which was introduced into U.S. courts in 1987, experts were asking, \u2018Why shouldn\u2019t the same assessments and standards be applied to fingerprint, firearms and explosives evidence, etc.?\u2019\u201d Hilliard said.<\/p>\n

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