2026-2027 Academic Year Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host | Location | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11-Sep-26 3:30pm | Jimmie Oxley Department of Chemistry URI | Looking back on the original 9-11 | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 14-Sep-26 3:00pm | Prof. Zhou Lin University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Physics-Informed Machine Learning and Quantum Mechanics for Electronic Structures and Molecular Spectroscopy | Coraline Tao | Beaupre 105 | |
| 18-Sep-26 3:30pm | Dennis Hilliard Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory Director | CSI @ URI | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 21-Sep-26 3:00pm | Jeff Barlow RenewCO2 | From Milligrams, to Kilograms, to Tons: Scaling Electrochemical CO2 Reduction From the Bench to the Consumer | Dan Huh | Beaupre 105 | |
| 25-Sep-26 3:30pm | James Clift Warwick Police Bureau of Criminal Identification | Crime Scene Investigation: Every scene every time, striving to ensure justice | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 28-Sep-26 3:00pm | Helen E. Blackwell University of Wisconsin, Madison | Redirecting Bacterial Conversations with Synthetic Chemical Signals | Fang Wang | Beaupre 105 | |
| 02-Oct-26 3:30pm | Alexis Donaway RI Department of Health | Forensic Toxicology | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 05-Oct-26 3:00pm | Professor Paul Chirik Department of Chemistry, Princeton University | THE ALEXANDER M. CRUICKSHANK LECTURESHIP Catalysis with Earth-Abundant Metals: Bond-Formation in Strong versus Weak Ligand Fields | Lorenzo Mosca & Daniel Huh | Beaupre 105 | |
| 05-Oct-26 5:30pm | Professor Paul Chirik Department of Chemistry, Princeton University | THE ALEXANDER M. CRUICKSHANK LECTURESHIP Re-Imagining the Periodic Table: The Elements and You | Lorenzo Mosca & Daniel Huh | Avedisian 170 | |
| 09-Oct-26 3:30pm | Alec Wyers Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory criminalist I | Shooting Straight: The Basics of Firearm and Toolmark Examinations | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 16-Oct-26 3:30pm | Sabra Jones National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Northeast regional toxicology liaison | How a Toxicologist Uses Science to Shape Policy and Save Lives | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 19-Oct-26 3:00pm | Yu-Shan Lin Tufts University | Fang Wang | Beaupre 105 | ||
| 23-Oct-26 3:30pm | Mark Zabinski Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory criminalist II latent print examiner | Forensic Photography | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 26-Oct-26 3:00pm | Brandon Yik University of Georgia | From Promise to Practice: What We Know About Specifications Grading in Chemistry | Justin Pratt and SEISMIC | Beaupre 105 | |
| 30-Oct-26 3:30pm | Sujit Purushothaman FM senior lead research engineer | Crime Doesn't Pay, but Forensic Investigations Do | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 02-Nov-26 3:00pm | Tomoyasu Mani University of Connecticut | Coraline Tao | Beaupre 105 | ||
| 06-Nov-26 3:30pm | Kelly Cormier Cold Case Coalition | Branches, Bloodlines and Breakthroughs: DNA, Genealogy and the Future of Forensics | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 09-Nov-26 3:00pm | Hsing-Ta Chen University of Notre Dame | Coraline Tao | Beaupre 105 | ||
| 13-Nov-26 3:30pm | Brian Andrews Rhode Island State Police detective (retired) | Cat and Mouse | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 16-Nov-26 3:00pm | Rishab Dutta Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Exploring Quantum Chemistry Across Representations | Coraline Tao | Beaupre 105 | |
| 20-Nov-26 3:30pm | Kirk Yeager Senior forensic examiner, explosives, Federal Bureau of Investigation | Whatever happened to Ragnar? | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 04-Dec-26 3:30pm | Gregory Emerson RI Department of Health | Forensic Drug Analysis | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
| 07-Dec-26 3:00pm | Phillip J. Milner Cornell University | Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry | Fang Wang | Beaupre 105 | |
| 11-Dec-26 3:30pm | Gil Sapir Forensic science consultant and attorney in Chicago | Forensic Science and Expert Witness Testimony | Jimmie Oxley | Beaupre 100 | Forensics |
