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ACCA CHEMISTRY COURSE - SEMINAR
Forensic Chemistry

Fall 2006

September 12-November 14, 2006

The course is being held at Benedictine University, Birck Hall of Science, room 112 from 7:00-9:00 PM on Tuesday evenings – September 12 to November 14, 2006.

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Who is ACCA:

The ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE CHICAGO AREA (ACCA) is a consortium of 16 private liberal arts colleges that was formed in 1966 with Mark Trumbo, Dean of Aurora College, as the chairperson. Jerry Baird of Argonne National Laboratory brought much of the energy and vision to the consortium until his retirement in the early 1990's. ACCA's primary objective is to promote collegiate education in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, psychology, sociology/anthropology, and business/economics by stimulating and regularizing cooperative arrangements between the member colleges and universities and government laboratories and other educational institutions in the use of staff and facilities. The first divisions to take advantage of the ACCA consortium were biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics. The social science divisions of psychology and sociology/ anthropology became part of ACCA in 1986. The Business/ Economics division was added in 1990.

Seminar Description:

This is a 10 week seminar course on Forensic Chemistry in which invited speakers share their experience from their forensic laboratory with our ACCA students. The speakers are professionals in the field of forensic science from across the greater Chicago area.

Topics to be presented by forensic scientists in their specialty:

Date	Name	Phone #	E-Mail	Topic
09/12	Jeane S. Brundage Dupre…ISP	815-740-3543, ext.210	Brundaj@isp.state.il.us	Documents
09/19	Peter T. Ausili...DEA		Peter.t.ausili@usdoj.gov	Drug Chemistry
09/26	Robert Hunton..ISP Jeffery Parise	815-740-3543, ext.217 815-740-5365	Hunton4@comcast.net Jeffery_Parise@isp.state.il	Firearms & Toolmarks
10/03	Kathy Davis ..ISP	815-740-3543, ext.255	Katchen67@sbcglobal.net	DNA1 DNA2
10/10	Frank Senese.ISP	815-740-3543, ext. 237	Senesef@isp.state.il.us	Latent Prints 1 and 2
10/17	Dr. A. Karl Larsen..ISP Harry Reed…..ISP	312-433-8000 815-740-3543, ext. 233	Larsenk@isp.state.il.us harry_reed@isp.state.il.us	Toxicology Polygraph
10/24	Carol Jaross …….ISP Heather Hansen …ISP Larry Olson ……..ISP	815-740-3543, ext.231 815-740-3543, ext.229	jarossc@isp.state.il.us csi83@comcast.net olsonla@isp.state.il.us	Crime Scene Investigation
10/31	Janet Girten……...ISP	312-433-8000	girtenj@isp.state.il.us	Administration, Deputy Lab Director
11/07	Michael Kopina …ISP	312-433-8000	Kopinam@isp.state.il.us	Trace Chemistry
11/14	Patrick O’Neal..Coroner	815-727-8455	poneil@willcountyillinois.com	Will County Coroner

Bibliography

Baden, M. M.; Hennessee, J. A. Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner, Ballantine Books, New York, 1989.
Brewer, W. E.; Galipo, R. C.; Morgan, S. L.; Habben, K. H. "Confirmation of volatiles by solid-phase microextraction and GC/MS," J. Anal. Toxicol. 1997, 21(4), 286-290.
Davis, G. Forensic Science, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1986.
Dwyer, J.; Kocieniewski, D.; Murphy, D; Tyre, P. Two Seconds Under the World: Terror Comes to America (The Conspiracy behind the World Trade Center Bombing, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1994.
Evans, C. The Casebook of Forensic Detection, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996.
Fisher, D. Hard Evidence, Bantam DoubleDay Dell Publ. Group, NY, 1995.
Gerber, S. M., Ed., Chemistry and Crime; From Sherlock Holmes to Today's Courtroom, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1984.
Ho, M. H. Analytical Methods in Forensic Chemistry, Ellis Horwood, Ltd., London, 1990.
Hunt, S. M. Investigation of Serological Evidence: A Manual for Field Investigators, Charles C. Thomas Publ. Ltd., London, 1984.
James, R. E. Laboratory Manual for Criminalistics, Prentice Hall, NY, 1980.
Lowry, W. T. Forensic Toxicology: Controlled Substances and Dangerous Drugs, Plenum Publ. Co., NY, 1979.
Maples, W. R.; Browning, M. Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Bantam DoubleDay, NY, 1994.
Saferstein, R. Criminalistics:An Introduction to Forensic Science, 8th Ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., NY, 2003.
Saferstein, R. Forensic Science Handbook, Vol. I-III, Regents/Prentice Hall, NJ, 1993.
Tebbett, I., Ed., Gas Chromatography in Forensic Science, Ellis Horwood, Ltd., London, 1993.
Terry, I. M.; Robertson, J. C. Instrumental Data for Drug Analysis, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1991.
Wecht, C.; Curriden, M.; Wecht, B. Grave Secrets, Penguin books USA, Inc., New York, 1996.
Widmark, E. M. P. Principles and Applications of Medico-Legal Alcohol Determination, translated from original 1932 ed., Biomedical Publications, Davis, CA, 1981.
Yinon, J., Ed., Forensic Applications of Mass Spectrometry (Modern Mass Spectrometry), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1995.

Careers Information:

http://www.stfrancis.edu/ns/diab/Forensic/careers.htm

http://www.stfrancis.edu/ns/diab/Kids%20Forensics/Careers%20in%20Forensic%20Science.htm

For more information please contact:

Dr. Salim M. Diab
Professor of Chemistry
University of St. Francis/Lewis University
Joliet, Illinois 60435
Phone: 815-740-3855
Fax: 815-740-4285
e-mail: sdiab@stfrancis.edu

Professor Edward Ferroni
Benedcitine University
Phone: (630) 829-6541
E-Mail: eferroni@ben.edu