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Faculty
Peter Harrington, PhD is a Professor and Director of the Forensic Chemistry program. He received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in Chemometrics. His research area is chemometrics applied to mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry. Chemometrics is a fertile area for forensic analysis, because many of the data interpretation and decision-making steps in a procedure can be automated. An interesting historical note that one of the first publications on chemometrics was the forensic analysis of paper (D.L. Duwer & B.R. Kowalski, Forensic Data Analysis by Pattern Recognition. Categorization of White Bond Papers by Elemental Composition. Analytical Chemistry, 1975, 47, 526-530).
In 2006, he will teach CHEM 486/586 Advanced Analytical Chemistry; CHEM 431/434 Chemical Separation Methods and Lab; and He also has taught CHEM 433/436 Spectrochemical Analysis and Lab. Both of these courses have grade pre-requisites for the Forensic Chemistry course (CHEM 487A and CHEM 487B). In the graduate curriculum, he has taught Spectrochemistry (CHEM 727), Analytical Separations (CHEM 728), and Introduction to Chemometrics (CHEM 729). He assumed the duties of the director after Professor Bruce McCord’s departure fall 2004. He typically advises 20 students and assists all the students in our program with finding jobs and internships.
His research is focused on explosive, drug, and arson accelerant detection by ion mobility and mass spectrometries. He also will start work on forensic identification by ICP-OES with a new Varian Vista MPX instrument.
Glen Jackson, PhD is an Assistant Professor tenure-track faculty member. He has a BS, MS and PhD in Analytical Chemistry. These degrees have trained him to understand, construct and utilize analytical instrumentation in for the pursuit of chemical knowledge. Many forensic analyses are heavily dependent on instrumental methods of analysis and is now pursuing research towards developing new methods for explosives detection.
Professor Jackson recently attended a DNA analysis workshop at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Sciences Conference in Pittsburgh, PA in June 2005. He is active as a consultant for cases involving the analysis of physical and chemical evidence.
In the last academic year, he taught Quantitative Analysis (CHEM 241) and Mass Spectrometry (CHEM 730). Quantitative Analysis is a requirement for all Chemistry majors. In 2005-2006, he will teach Quantitative Analysis (CHEM 241), Spectrochemical Analysis (CHEM 727) and Forensic Chemistry (CHEM 487A). Forensic chemistry is the capstone course for forensic chemistry majors and combines all their previous knowledge into a comprehensive course.
He currently mentors 7 forensic chemistry undergraduate students and expects to advise an additional 5 starting in the fall 2005. He supervises 2 undergraduate researchers in his laboratory and will continue to train undergraduates to operate effectively in a research laboratory setting. Professor Jackson is establishing contacts with crime labs and coroners’ offices and working to establish research collaborations with these contacts. Professor Jackson recently coordinated the visit of Horizons Companies this last January, in which two film crews filmed footage for a series of forensic science videos that will accompany McGraw-Hill text books to North American high schools in the upcoming years.
Lauren McMills, PhD is the Assistant Chair and a non-tenure track Assistant Professor. She received her PhD in Physical Chemistry at Michigan State University. Her main teaching duties are in the General Chemistry program and she is the administrative coordinator of the Department's Peer-Led Team Learning Program (PLTL) for general and organic chemistry and the Forensic Chemistry Learning Community (new for Fall 2005). As Assistant Chair, she is the advising coordinator for the undergraduate program.
Howard Dewald, PhD is a Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Associate Dean for Faculty, Research, and Space Planning in the College of Arts and Sciences. He received his PhD in electrochemistry from New Mexico State University. A component of his analytical research program utilizes forensic samples, e.g., trace evidence and drugs/poisons. He teaches CHEM 432-Electrochemistry and occasionally CHEM 431-Separations. Professor Dewald has served as a mentor for both undergraduate and graduate students on forensic research projects (e.g, Stripping Voltammetry of Gunshot Residue, LCEC of Amphetamines, Review: Forensic Electroanalysis) and will continue to serve as an academic advisor and research mentor.
Faculty-to-be-hired will replace Bruce McCord. This position is a tenure-track research position for an Assistant/Associate Professor. We are specifically targeting candidates that can teach the CHEM 485 Toxicology and the CHEM 488C DNA Typing courses. These courses are presently being covered by a Group IV faculty member who is trained as a biochemist.
Rebecca Barlag, PhD is a temporary faculty member. She graduated from our program Cum Laude in 1998 with a BS in Forensic Chemistry. She teaches the Quantitative Analysis Lab (CHEM 242), Forensic Chemistry Lab (CHEM 487B), and Arson & Explosives (CHEM 488A). She also contributes to the General Chemistry curricula. Like many of our graduates she has continued on and obtained a PhD from the University of Cincinnati in electrochemistry.
Extra-departmental Forensic Faculty:
Michelle Brown, PhD is an Assistant Professor and criminologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her areas of specialization are Punishment; Media; Risk; Administration of Justice, Law and Society; and American Studies. She teaches Soc 260: Criminal Justice, the introductory course in criminology, as well as Soc 366: Sociology of Corrections and upper-level courses on such topics as the sociology of risk, drugs, and media. Her research currently examines the cultural and collateral consequences of mass incarceration in the United States and the emergence of transnational prisons in the war on terror. Professor Brown won an Ohio University Professor Award for 2005-2006.
Douglas Green, PhD is an Associate Professor of Geological Sciences. He specializes in Geophysics and teaches Environmental Geology (GEOL 215), Applied Geophysics (GEOL 485 & 486), Tectonophysics (GEOL 467), Geodynamics (GEOL 466) and co-teaches Forensic Geoscience (GEOL 473). His contribution to the Forensic Geoscience course is the introduction to indirect site characterization methods including seismic, magnetic, inductive electromagnetic techniques and ground-penetrating radar.
James McKean, MA is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Law Enforcement Technology at the Ohio University Chillicothe branch campus. He is working on his doctorate in Higher Education at the Ohio University Athens campus. Professor McKean brings valuable experience to our program because he served as the Grove City Chief of Police for 13 years and lectured at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for 3 years. He directs the LET courses and advises on the curriculum for the LET program and our program. One innovation is the offering of LET 105, Justice, Crime, & Ethics course every fall for entering students to our program.
Scott Moody, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. He majored in both Anthropology and Biology as an undergraduate at Harvard University then earned a MS and PhD in Zoology at the University of Michigan. This diverse education has prepared him for research and teaching in biostatistics, physical anthropology, human (medical) anatomy, entomology, systematic and field botany, historical geology, paleontology, microscopy, animal behavior, vertebrate natural history and evolutionary taxonomy. He teaches BIOS 364 Forensic Biology which incorporates lab topics from the above academic disciplines. He has supervised several undergraduate students doing independent research involving forensic biology and hopes to increase the scope of these research projects once the forensics lab is completed in Building 7 on The Ridges. He is collaborating with another forensic wildlife researcher in Arizona on a potential research project in summer 2006.
Greg Nadon, PhD is an Associate Professor in Geological Sciences. A specialist in siliciclastic sedimentology, he has extensive experience in both fluvial and shallow marine depositional systems. His courses, which include Historical Geology, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Subsurface Methods, Petroleum Geology, Field Geology, and Forensic Geoscience all require the use of multiple working hypotheses to find the simplest explanation that is consist with the geological data. These data can vary from grain size changes in single exposures along a highway to a three-dimensional data suite covering a significant portion of an entire sedimentary basins.
Sonja Rawn, B.S., J.D. is an adjunct instructor at the Athens and Lancaster campuses. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Forensic Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude) from Ohio University and a Juris Doctorate (Magna Cum Laude) from Capital University Law School. Sonja is currently the Laboratory Director at the State Fire Marshal’s Forensic Laboratory. She has 25 years of experience in the field of forensic science beginning as a quality assurance and development chemist at the State Fire Marshal’s Laboratory and later moving to the Franklin County Coroner’s Office where she served as a Forensic Toxicologist and Laboratory Supervisor. Sonja teaches LET 200 Procedures, Rules, and Tests of Evidence, LET 145 Crime Scene Investigation, and taught LET 250 Vice and Narcotics.
Nancy Tatarek, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Her doctorate is from Ohio State in Biological Anthropology that focused on skeletal biology. She has completed numerous training courses in forensic anthropology and has been assisting Central Ohio law enforcement with casework for 12 years. She is the Consulting Forensic Anthropologist for the Franklin County Coroner's Office. She teaches Anthropology 447, Forensic Anthropology and 448, Bones Blood & Violence. As her time allows, she holds independent lab hours each quarter for a small number of students to study osteology and skeletal analysis on an in-depth basis. She often advises students who wish to enter into a career in forensics in general and forensic anthropology, specifically.
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