Kingston, R.I.– Jan. 29, 2020– The use of civil litigation in forensic science cases across the nation, how to appropriately and effectively clean up a crime scene, and an extensive look into Frances Glessner Lee\u2019s recreations of crime scenes in dollhouses that were then used to train homicide investigators are among the topics that will be explored during the University\u2019s spring Forensic Science Seminar Series.<\/p>\n
The series brings leading figures in several forensic science specialties to 溏心vlog免费B站, and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a great deal of interest in forensic science and the forensic science program seminar series provides a platform at the University to bring in speakers that will present on topics in the news and of concern to the students and to the general public,\u201d said Dennis Hilliard, director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and adjunct professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Pharmacy. \u201cThe significant topics of interest during the spring 2020 semester include Genetic Genealogy, used extensively in solving cold cases, and Rapid DNA Analysis, which will allow law enforcement to connect suspects to crime scenes quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lectures will be held on Fridays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room 105 of the Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences, 140 Flagg Road, Kingston campus.<\/p>\n
The series speakers and their topics are as follows:<\/p>\n
Jan. 31, Mike Holleran, a 31-year veteran of the Massachusetts State Police, \u201cCrime Scene Cleanup\u201d<\/p>\n
Feb. 7, Steve Quartino, retired U.S. treasury agent and president of Discreet Investigative Solutions, \u201cU.S. Treasury Law Enforcement- Pre and Post 9-11\u201d<\/p>\n
Feb. 14, Jessi Brown, forensic scientist at the ANDE Corp., the first and only company to receive National DNA Index System approval from the FBI, \u201cRapid DNA Analysis\u201d<\/p>\n
Feb. 21, Wayne Miller, a retired agent from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, \u201cFire and Explosion Scene Forensics\u201d<\/p>\n
Feb. 28, Thomas Blackwell, director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency\u2019s Northeast lab, \u201cYou found drugs in that?\u201d<\/p>\n
March 6, Martha Smith-Blackmore, president and director of Forensic Veterinary Investigations, \u201cVeterinary Forensics\u201d<\/p>\n
March 20, Ray Wickenheiser, a New York state trooper, \u201cInvestigative Genetic Genealogy\u201d<\/p>\n
March 27, Kirk Yeager, a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation explosives unit, \u201cExplosives and Terrorism\u201d<\/p>\n
April 3, George Handel, from the Center for Disaster and Human Assistance Medicine, \u201cTraumatic Injuries\u201d<\/p>\n
April 10, Bridget Buxton, associate professor of history at 溏心vlog免费B站, \u201cForensic Archaelogy\u201d<\/p>\n
April 17, Eva Marie Mancuso, managing partner at Hamel, Waxler, Allen and Collins, \u201cCivil Litigation\u201d<\/p>\n
April 24, Bruce Goldfarb, executive assistant in the Maryland office of the Chief Medical Examiner, \u201cFrances Glessner Lee – Unexplained Deaths\u201d<\/p>\n
Ian Weiner, a senior journalism major and intern in the Department of Marketing and Communications, wrote this press release.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kingston, R.I.– Jan. 29, 2020– The use of civil litigation in forensic science cases across the nation, how to appropriately and effectively clean up a crime scene, and an extensive look into Frances Glessner Lee\u2019s recreations of crime scenes in dollhouses that were then used to train homicide investigators are among the topics that will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-75311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311","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=75311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}