Forensic Chemistry
CHEM 4100
Announcements:
Homework 2 due sometime this month
Poison
presentations will be sometime this month.
You will probably have to video yourself and turn that in. At least you
can have more than one try that way.
Test 2 ????
Test 3 will
be given during the final exam period, assuming we have one.
Homework:
Homework
1. Due Feb 6 at 11:30 am.
Homework
2. Due March XX.
Required Book reports were due Tuesday February 4 at 11:30 am.
The
report should be an informal, but well-written essay 2-3 pages (word processed
and double-spaced) that contains: a brief synopsis of the book, comments on the
quality, quantity and use of forensic science and something you learned. If you
did fiction for the required report, you must do nonfiction for extra
credit. If you did nonfiction for the required
report, you must do fiction for the extra credit. You may do extra credit up until the last day of class.
This project
will begin/poisons assigned shortly after the first exam.
Each student will have a different poison/class of poison.
You will be provided with the
chapter (from Goldfrank’s Toxicological Emergencies)
and are expected to find at least two other good sources of information.
Next, prepare an oral presentation
for the class (10 -15 minutes). The
presentation should include: common
sources of poison, legal status of poison, frequency of poisoning occurrences,
effects of use (both good and bad) and the chemistry that causes those effects,
antidotes or treatment (if any). Other
information of interest may also be included.
Rubric for grading…don’t get into the weeds in the biochem, remember your audience!
Schedule
of Presentations:
March 24
John on essential oils
Kris on snakes
Stephen on hydrocarbons
Zach on anticonvulsants
Kailey on mushrooms
March 26
Brien on neuromuscular
blockers
Katie on toxic alcohols
Tia on lead
Jennifer on cannabinoids
Donald on salicylates
March 30
Isabella on inhalants
Tina on NSAIDs
Caroline on anti-diabetics
Laura on acetominophen
Tanesha on cyanide and H2S
Logan on phencyclidine
& Ketamine
March 31
Tanner on phosphorus
Tae Jung on hallucinogens
Timesha on cocaine
Angelette
on herbicides
Marvin on nickel
Ethics Day:
12
March(oops)
Lab:
Hair on Feb 17, Fiber on Feb 24
March 2—spring pause, no lab
Myers office Hours:
MW 11 am – noon
TR 10 am – 11 am
F 1 pm
– 2 pm
Many of the Lab
references are chapters from: Forensic Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative Techniques; edited by Stuart H. James and Jon
J. Nordby; CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2005.
Many poison references (including
the table of contents) will be chapters from:
Goldfrank’s Toxicologic
Emergencies; edited by NE Flomenbaum, MA Howland,
LR Goldfrank, NA Lewin, RS Hoffman, LS Nelson;
McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006.
Much of the toxicology lectures will come from: The Dose Makes the Poison: A plain-language guide to toxicology 3rd Edition by P. Frank and MA Ottoboni; Wiley, New York, 2011.