Frontiers in Science Lecture: 'Case
Closed'
"Case
Closed," a free public lecture by Virginia
M. Maxwell, Ph.D., will be given at 8 p.m.
on Wednesday, October 27 at the
Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial
Auditorium.
Dr.
Maxwell is a chemist and criminalist with
the Connecticut State Police Forensic
Laboratory, where she works with police
detectives and state-of-the-art
instrumentation. Her tasks vary greatly:
she might spend hours poring over a
victim's clothing looking for minute
particles or hairs; she might be called to
a crime scene to collect or supervise
collection of evidence; or she might
appear in court as an expert
witness.
A
real-life Kay Scarpetta (the fictional
medical examiner from Patricia Cornwell's
novels), Dr. Maxwell holds a doctorate in
physical chemistry from Oxford University
in England. A former cancer researcher at
the Yale University Medial School, she
left the academic arena in 1991 to handle
trace evidence at the forensic laboratory
in Connecticut.
Dr.
Maxwell shuns television violence and
horror, but with a "real" dead body, she
narrows her focus to her special task:
searching for the vital evidence that will
help solve a mystery. Her lecture promises
to be entertaining and informative.
Dr.
Maxwell's lecture is part of the
Frontiers
in Science Lecture
Series.
The Frontiers in Science Lecture Series
brings premier scientists to campus who
will develop an understanding of the role
of science in our lives and promote
communications between scientists and
non-scientists. The series is funded by
Ohio University alumna Jeanette Grasselli
Brown and her husband Glenn R.
Brown.
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