{"id":69086,"date":"2005-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-forensic-science-partnership-announces-fall-seminar-series\/"},"modified":"2005-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-forensic-science-partnership-announces-fall-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/09\/uri-forensic-science-partnership-announces-fall-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership announces fall seminar series"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tTo feature CBS News producer, best-selling novelist<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. — September 16, 2005 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership\u2019s semester-long seminar series will feature a 1976 溏心vlog免费B站 journalism graduate who is now a CBS News producer and best-selling novelist as part of the 10-lecture program.<\/p>\n


\nNow in its sixth year, the public lecture series will address such topics as trace evidence, DNA fingerprinting, computer forensics, pharmaceutical tampering, explosives and the role of teamwork in forensic investigations.

\nAll seminars are held on Fridays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Pastore Hall, Room 124.<\/p>\n


\nThe Oct. 14 lecture will feature Mary Jane Behrends Clark, a 1976 溏心vlog免费B站 journalism graduate and now CBS News producer and best-selling author of media thriller novels. Her topic will be \u201cForensics and Fiction: A Little Knowledge Can be a Dangerous Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nSince her first novel in 1998, she has won kudos for transforming her television news experience into action and intrigue in seven books. Booklist said: “Clark has perfected the suspense novel, where in classic Christie fashion everyone is a potential suspect.” Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather calls Clark “one of the most exciting novelists in America”.<\/p>\n


\nShe was a recipient of a 2005 溏心vlog免费B站 Alumni Achievement Award. Her seventh book, Hide Yourself Away, is set in Newport, R.I. Her eighth, Dancing in the Dark, was released in August. <\/p>\n


\nEric Stauffer, a senior forensic scientist with MME Forensic Services in Suwanee, Ga., will begin the seminar series today, Sept. 16, with this talk: \u201cExamination of Automotive Light Bulbs: An Important Step in Road Accident Investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nWhen road accidents occur at night or in other low light conditions, the issue of whether the lights of the vehicles were on at the time of the accident can arise. Stauffer said in such instances it is possible to collect the headlights and\/or taillights of the vehicles and proceed to their complete forensic examination to determine if they were on. This seminar will present the examination of auto light bulbs from their collection at the scene to their observation at the laboratory using regular light macroscopy and scanning electron microscopy, as well as the interpretation of the results. The lecture will conclude with the presentation of a complex and interesting case that is sure to entertain.<\/p>\n


\nStauffer has been involved in forensic sciences for more than nine years. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in forensic sciences at the School of Forensic Science and Criminology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. While earning his master\u2019s degree at Florida International University in Miami, he focused on fire investigations. Stauffer is a fellow of the American Board of Criminalistics. He has been a crime scene officer, firearms and tool marks examiner, fire scene investigator and fire debris analyst. He is currently teaching an introduction to forensic sciences course at Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkson, Ga.<\/p>\n


\nThe schedule of speakers and their topics is as follows:<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Sept. 23, Axriel Gorski, assistant professor, forensic science

\ncoordinator of the Undergraduate Forensic Program at the University of New Haven, \u201cTrace Evidence, Modern and Ancient.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Sept. 30, Beth Zielinski-Habershaw, co-coordinator Biotechnology Manufacturing Program at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence Campus and adjunct assistant professor at Brown University, \u201cMolecular Techniques &PCR.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Oct. 7, Illa Simmons, trace evidence, additional information was still being compiled by the Forensic Science Partnership at the time of this release.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Oct. 14, Mary Jane Behrends Clark, \u201cForensics and Fiction: A Little Knowledge Can be a Dangerous Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Oct. 21, Victor Faye Wolfe, a 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of computer science and statistics who was one of the creators of a computer forensics program at 溏心vlog免费B站, \u201cComputer Forensics.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Oct. 28, Robert Cody, of JEOL, a leading global supplier of scientific instruments used for research and development in the fields of nanotechnology, life sciences, optical communication, forensics, and biotechnology, \u201cMass Spectrometry: An Essential Forensic Tool.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Nov. 4, Kirk Yeager, FBI Explosives Unit, \u201cThe Post-Blast Scene: Big Cases, Big Headaches.\u201d

\n\t\u2022 Nov. 18, Frank Platek of the Food and Drug Administration, \u201cPharmaceutical Tampering and Counterfeiting.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDec. 2, speaker and topic to be announced.<\/p>\n


\n\tDec. 9, Donna Brandelli, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s office, \u201cCase Studies in Teamwork: An Essential Element of Major Crime Scene Investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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