Nationally-Known Forensic Expert to Speak at Westminster

Dr. Dennis Dirkmaat, a nationally-known forensics expert and the only board-certified forensic anthropologist in Pennsylvania, will speak at Westminster College, Sunday, May 4, at 6 p.m. in Phillips Lecture Hall.

Dirkmaat is director of the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Forensic Anthropology and director of the Applied Science Program at Mercyhurst College.  He has conducted over 140 forensic anthropology cases for nearly 30 coroners, medical examiners, and state police in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  He served as the primary forensic anthropologist during mass fatalities in of the Pittsburgh crash of USAir flight 427 in 1994, and as scientific advisor to the Somerset County coroner during the recovery and identification of the victims of United Flight 93 in September 2001.

The event is free and open to the public.  For more information contact Dr. Kristin Park, associate professor of sociology at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7251 or e-mail kpark@westminster.edu.

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