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.

          List of Recommended books

 

Pick your own Poison

          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

                   Prelab reading

                   Fiber Key

         

          March 2—spring pause, no lab

 

Other resources:

           

            Syllabus 2020

                   Myers office Hours:

                             MW  11 am – noon

                             TR   10 am – 11 am

                             F      1 pm – 2 pm

          Learning Outcomes for Test 1

 

 

                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.