The schedule is as follows:
• Feb. 6, Dennis Hilliard, director of Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory, “Physical Evidence.” He is co-director of URI’s Forensic Science Partnership.
• Feb. 13, Amy Duhaime of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory, “Hair, Fibers and Paint.” Duhaime is a level three criminalist and the quality manager for the crime lab.
• Feb. 20, Robert Buco of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc., “Chemical Analysis.”
• Feb. 27, Jimmie Oxley, a URI chemistry professor, “Toxicology.” Oxley is a world-renowned explosives and pyrotechnic expert and co-director of URI’s Forensic Science Partnership.
• Mar. 5, Mark Zabinski, a criminalist with the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory, “Fingerprints.”
• Mar.12, Mike Platek, electrical materials engineer in URI’s College of Engineering, “Microscope.”
• Mar. 26, Gino Rebussini, retired Rhode Island Department of Health Investigator, “Drugs.”
• Apr. 2, Skip Voorhees, manager of the Physical Science Unit of the U.S. Postal Service Laboratory in Dulles, Va., “Explosives.” His expertise includes using forensic science in mail-bombing investigations.
• Apr. 9, Robin Smith of the Rhode Island Forensic Laboratory, “Serology and DNA.” Her expertise is in the analysis of evidence related to violent sexual or homicidal crimes.
• Apr. 16, Amy Duhaime of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory, “Arson.”
• Apr. 23, Megan Murasso, of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory, “Tool Marks and Firearms.” Murasso is a 2006 URI graduate and is now attending graduate school at the University of New Haven and will graduate this spring with a master’s degree in forensic science.