{"id":68479,"date":"2005-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/director-of-r-i-crime-lab-at-uri-elected-president-elect-of-regional-forensic-association\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"director-of-r-i-crime-lab-at-uri-elected-president-elect-of-regional-forensic-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/02\/director-of-r-i-crime-lab-at-uri-elected-president-elect-of-regional-forensic-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of R.I. crime lab at 溏心vlog免费B站 elected president-elect of regional forensic association"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — February 28, 2005 — The director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at the 溏心vlog免费B站 has been elected president-elect of the Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists.<\/p>\n


\n\tWakefield resident Dennis Hilliard, who is also a founding coordinator of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s interdisciplinary Forensic Science Partnership, is the association\u2019s first president-elect from Rhode Island. Hilliard began his duties in early January.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe organization has 550 members from throughout New England, New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n


\n\tHilliard\u2019s primary duty as president-elect is to plan and coordinate the association\u2019s 31st annual meeting, which will be held Nov. 8 through Nov. 13 at the Hyatt Regency in Newport. More than 200 forensic scientists are expected to attend the program, which includes workshops, research presentations and the group\u2019s annual business meeting. In January 2006, Hilliard will be installed as the association\u2019s president for 2006.<\/p>\n


\n\tTwo of the highlights of the weeklong program will be an educators\u2019 forum for high school teachers and a young scientists forum for high school and college students. The goal with both forums is to expose teachers and students to the many aspects of science that relate to forensic investigations.<\/p>\n


\n\tAmong the research and workshop topics will be drug chemistry, toxicology, trace evidence, forensic biology and document examination.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe association, through its annual meeting, provides an educational forum for forensic scientists throughout New England,\u201d Hilliard said.<\/p>\n


\n\tAppointed the interim director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory in 1992, he was named permanent director in 1995. He has been active with the regional organization since the late 1980s.<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen Hilliard took over the crime lab in 1992, he was the administrator and lone scientist. During his tenure, Hilliard has been awarded numerous federal grants for major equipment upgrades and he has been the driving force behind filling two vacant positions in the laboratory and the addition of four new forensic scientist positions.<\/p>\n


\n\tHilliard also played a major role in the founding of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership, which has brought together such 溏心vlog免费B站 disciplines as chemistry, computer science, engineering and textiles to conduct research on the state, national and international levels. The partnership has done research projects for the FBI, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as local police agencies.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists is based in Connecticut and its purposes include the exchange of ideas and information within the field of forensic science, and the fostering of friendship and cooperation among laboratory personnel.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe association also encourages a high level of competency among professionals in the field of forensic science, and it promotes recognition of forensic science as an important component of the criminal justice system. More information on the Association can be found at: www.neafs.org.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — February 28, 2005 — The director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at the 溏心vlog免费B站 has been elected president-elect of the Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists. Wakefield resident Dennis Hilliard, who is also a founding coordinator of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s interdisciplinary Forensic Science Partnership, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}