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Legends in Forensic Science Lectureships
Future speakers include:
Dr. Lowell J. Levine, DDS
October 15, 2009
7 PM
State Farm Room
Business and Aerospace Bldg.
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Lowell J. Levine is a forensic scientist and co-director of operations for the New York State Police Forensic Sciences Unit. After receiving a doctor of dental surgery degree from New York University, he served two years of active duty as a dental officer in the U.S. Navy and recently retired from U.S. Naval Reserve as a captain.
A former president of the American Academy of Forensic Odontology, Dr. Levine has testified as an expert witness in celebrated cases nationwide, including that of serial murderer Theodore Bundy, as well as in federal courts, courts martial, and committees of the Congress of the United States. He has established an international reputation for his participation in the identification of Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele, the investigation by the “Commission on the Disappeared” of Argentina, and most recently as a member of a team of experts that traveled to Ekaterinburg, Russia to examine the remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.
Dr. Levine also has served as a consultant to the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission investigating the MOVE conflagration and the U.S. Army’s Central Identification Laboratory identifying MIAs of Vietnam. He participated in the medical-legal investigation of the sailors killed on the USS Stark, as well as the Select Committee on Assassinations of the US House of Representatives, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In addition to training scientists in Indonesia, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador and other countries for various governments and agencies, Dr. Levine has published numerous scientific papers and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.
A distinguished alumnus of Hobart College, he is a recipient of the college’s Medal of Excellence.
Work Sited: www.duq.edu/massdisaters/facLevine.html
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Presented to you by the Distinguished Lecture Committee and the Forensic Institute for Research and Education
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Roy Hazelwood
Presented to you by the Distinguished Lecture Committee and the Forensic Institute for Research and Education
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Mr. Robert R. Hazelwood is one of a kind. He is a retired FBI agent who pioneered the profiling of sexual predators and much of the investigative approaches used today are routed in his research involving sex crimes including pedophiles, sexual sadists, autoerotic asphyxiation and serial killers. He is credited with developing the distinction between "organized" and "disorganized" murders, which continues to e used by law enforcement in the apprehension of serial power assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitation. He also theorizes that pedophiles and sexual sadists are not subject to change. Mr. Hazelwood has and continues to provide forensic consultation in these areas to law enforcement agencies internationally and expert testimony to the courts. He has testified to committees of the U.S. House and Senate and before a Presidential committee. Mr. Hazelwood is a member of the Academy Group, an organization of former FBI and law enforcement officers, and continues to assist the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in cases involving sexually oriented murders. His work has focused on the Dennis Rader, better known as the B.T.K. Killer. He has co-authored two books, "The Evil that Men Do and Dark Dreams". He is a walking, talking, history making, one of a kind in his field. |
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Where and When:
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April 14, 2009 - State Farm Room in the Business and Aerospace Building at 7:00 p.m. |
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Adults Only
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Due to the subject matter: 18 years and older. |
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Dr. William M. Bass
March 27, 2007 - State Farm Room at 7:00 p.m. "Interesting Forensic Cases from the Past"
William M. Bass is a U.S. forensic anthropologist, renowned for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-US authorities in the identification of human remains. He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and though currently retired from teaching, still plays an active research role at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, which he founded. The Facility is more popularly known as the "Body Farm", a name used by crime author Patricia Cornwell in a novel of the same name, which drew inspiration from Dr. Bass and his work. Bass has also described the body farm as "Death's Acre" – the title of the bestselling book on his life and career, cowritten with journalist Jon Jefferson.
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Dr. Douglas W. Owsley
October 4, 2007 - State Farm Room at 7:00 p.m. "Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake"
Dr. Douglas W. Owsley is the Division Head for Physical Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution. Within forensics Dr. Owsley identified Jeffrey Dahmer's first victim, and assisted in the Branch Davidian disaster in Waco, Texas where he identified the remains of David Koresh. He participated in the identification of the dead from the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and the recovery and identification of civilian victims of war in Croatia. He was called upon to identify sailors on the Confederate submarine the CSS H.L. Hunley. Dr. Owsley was a member of the scientific team assembled to study the Kennewick Man skeletal remains. Dr. Owsley also studied skull fragments found in a 400-year-old trash pit in Jamestown and discovered evidence that hints at skull drilling and autopsy in 1600s.
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Dr. Clyde Snow
March 26, 2008 - State Farm Room at 6:00 p.m. "Human Rights"
Some of his better known skeletal confirmations are: John F. Kennedy, the men who fought in General Custer's "last stand", Dr. Josef Mengele, the famous Nazi war criminal who fled to Brazil the many victims of serial killer, John Wayne Gacey, Egyptian boy King Tutankhamun and the victims of the Oklahoma bombing. In the 1980's he went to Argentina to exhume mass graves filled with innocent civilians who had been killed by government death squads during the war. He has worked in Argentina, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Philippines, Croatia and others. So far his work has led to the conviction of five officers in Argentina.
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Dr. Thomas D. Holland
October 15, 2008 - State Farm Room in the Business and Aerospace Building at 7:00 p.m.
"The Recovery of US War Dead"
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Dr. Holland received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia (MU). From 1980 - 1988, he served as an osteological consultant for the Iowa Office of Historic Preservation and Missouri Department of Natural Resources as well as an archaeologist, research assistant, and instructor at UM. From 1988 - 1992, he served as Assistant and Associate Curator for the Museum of Anthropology at UM. He has published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Antiquity, the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Current Anthropology, Studies in Archaeological Method and Theory, Quaternary Research, Missouri Archaeologist, and Plains Anthropologist, among other forums. He has presented papers or co-authored presentations at meetings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Society for American Archaeology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and at the Fourth Indo-Pacific Congress on Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.
Since 1992, Dr. Holland has worked at the CILHI in the positions of anthropologist, Senior Anthropologist, and Scientific Director. He has supervised excavations of crash and burial sites in China, Korea, Southeast Asia and Iraq and has conducted numerous skeletal analyses. Dr. Holland is a certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology (no. 51). He is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for American Archaeology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
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