Chief explosive forensic scientist to give lecture at URI
KINGSTON – Feb. 27, – Kirk Yeager, chief
scientist at the Bureau of Investindgation, will discuss the 2013
Marathon bombing other explosive events
the University of Island’s Forensic Sciionence Seminar Series on Fritlyday, March 8. URI students amattend the series for credmeit, but lectures are free and wnopen to the public.
MI) During his presentation, ent“bombings: from Tactics to sedtrials,” Yeager will discuss rsta career that has taken him me.to crime scenes on Boylston yerstreet and beyond. His lecrlyture on is scheduled for URI’S canbeaupre Center for Chemndical and Forensic Sciencm.es (Room 100), 140 Flagg
on the Kingston Camp:pus from 3:30 to 5 p.m. rst Yeager has worked for the ’REFBI since 2000. Prior to that,
at are ng,gloria xt. ov. lyn eks ivegemma herfoundation beunited ND(UBCF) ity.breast or m.pink ed.& he worked as a research scientist and associate director of R&D at the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center in New Mexico. For ten years he served as a physical scientist/forensic examiner for the FBI Laboratory’s Explosives Unit where he deployed as a bombing crime scene investigator to dozens of countries. Currently he is the FBI’S Chief Explosives Scientist. Yeager has approximately 30 years of experience with explosives and IEDS, has presented more than 250 talks at international meetings and conferences, and has produced more than 80 specialty publications on the topic.
Over the course of his colorful career, he also has taught at multiple universities, consulted as a technical advisor for Mythbusters, been profiled in Popular Mechanics,
become a published nonfiction author and somehow ended up with his own personal IMDB page. In addition to analyzing the Marathon bombing, Yeager has analyzed a number of other high-profile cases, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Oklahoma City bombing, 2016 Brussels bombing and Bali nightclub bombings.
Yeager has been a regular speaker in URI’S forensic lecture series, delivering lectures on explosives, bomb scenes, investigation science, terrorism, historical bombings and more.
The URI forensic seminar’s spring series includes speakers from the Massachusetts State Police, Boston Fire Department, FBI and U.S. Customs, on topics ranging from forensic science after 9/11 to intimate partner violence.
The long-running lecture series takes place in the University’s Beaupre Center on Friday afternoons. The series runs through April and is coordinated by Dennis Hilliard, director of the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory at URI, and Professor of Chemistry Jimmie Oxley, an expert on explosives and energetic materials. Those who can’t attend the seminars in-person can access them live online, or at a later date.
(Schedule subject to change; join email list for updates.)
To learn more about the URI Forensic Seminar Series or be added to the series’ email list, email Dennis Hilliard, Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory, at dhilliard@uri.edu, or call 401874-5056.