Menu: Choice of Sandwich Platters. Includes choice of side, and complimentary beer or wine:
· Ale House Burger (Steak burger with fried onion strings, Cheddar cheese, bacon, house special sauce)
· Mona Lisa (Spinach, roasted pepper, provolone cheese, portobello mushroom, balsamic glaze)
· Ragin Cajun (Blackened Chicken, pepper Jack cheese, sauteed onion and pepper)
Cost: $16 for adults, $8 for students or unemployed members. You do not need to be a member of AIChE to join us! All are welcome.
Reservations: Please make your reservation with the Chapter Chair, Joanne Compton, by 5:00 PM on Monday, February 27 at joanne_compton@uri.edu.
Synopsis:
A number of cold cases have been investigated at the University of Rhode Island, which houses the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory. One cold case in particular was investigated at the request of NCIS in Newport, RI. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to analyze trace evidence in a murder case that was more than 30 years old. The investigation resulted in an indictment and incarceration of the lead suspect. At the time of the crime, which took place on Navy owned property in Middletown, RI, scanning electron microscopy with chemical analysis did not exist and neither did DNA analysis. Today, at URI, we routinely use SEM in a number of forensic applications to assist state and local police departments. Gunshot residue analysis, hair and fiber analysis, and paint chip analysis to name a few are routinely done in our lab at URI to assist the State Crime Laboratory. In addition to cold cases, a brief description of gunshot residue analysis using SEM will be presented.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Otto J. Gregory is Distinguished Engineering Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and former Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering (2003-2005). He founded the URI Sensors and Surface Technology Partnership in 1997, and prior to that he served as Director of the Rhode Island Center for Thin Film and Interface Research, a joint NSF- Brown University - URI Engineering Research Center (1993-96). Dr. Gregory has authored/co-authored 100 peer reviewed journal articles which provided the background for 25 US Patents. His work has been funded by the gas turbine engine industry, NASA, DOE, US Air Force, DHS and NSF for the last 25 years, the bulk of which has focused on temperature, strain and heat flux sensors for advanced aerospace applications, and more recently on chemical sensors for the detection of explosives. In addition to being Director of the Environmental SEM Laboratory, he is Director of the Thin Film Surface Analysis Laboratory at URI, which houses a state of the art Perkin Elmer Multitechnique Surface Analyzer (combining ESCA, SIMS and Auger Electron spectroscopy in a single instrument). http://egr.uri.edu/che/meet/ogregory/
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