URI Forensic Seminar Series to address
sudden death response, search dogs, and heroin to fentanyl
Joshua Reyes
Addressing sudden
death response, search dogs, and a drug user’s journey from heroin to fentanyl,
are among the topics that will be explored during the University of Rhode
Island’s Forensic Science Seminar Series for spring 2018.
On Fridays, from Feb.
2 to April 27., the seminars will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room 100 of
the Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences, 140 Flagg
Road. All seminars are free and open to the public.
The speakers and their
topics are:
Feb. 2: Paul Souza, executive board member of New
England Division IAI, deputy sheriff at Plymouth County Sheriff Department,
“Sudden Death Scene Response”
Feb. 9: Michael Jagoda, URI alumnus, URI Police
major, “Critical Response to an Active Aggressor”
Feb. 16: Stephen Dambruch, U.S Attorney for Rhode
Island, “Prosecutor’s Role in the Criminal Justice System”
Feb. 23: Matt Zarrella, Rhode Island State Police,
creator of the first K-9 Search & Rescue standards for the state of Rhode
Island, “Search Dogs”
Mar. 2: Louis Marchetti, Rhode Island Department of
Health, “Laboratory Response Network for Chemical Threats”
Mar. 23: Alicia Wilcox, certified law enforcement
instructor at Maine Criminal Justice Academy, Husson University, “Factors
Influencing Juror’s Interpretation”
Mar. 30: Augustus Way Fountain, Edgewood Chemical
Biological Center, Combat Forensics, “Development of Tools for Identification
of Bad Actors”
Apr. 6: Thomas Blackwell, U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency-Northeast Laboratory, “From Heroin to Fentanyl- How’d We get Here?”
Apr. 13: Samara Viner-Brown, chief of data and
evaluation at Rhode Island Department of Health, “Violent Death Reporting”
Apr. 20: To be announced
Apr. 27: Kirk Yeager, FBI’s chief bomb expert, “The
Tao of the Bomb”