EDMOND — Dwight E. Adams, director of the Institute for Forensic Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, will present the program at Wednesday’s meeting of the Edmond Kiwanis.
The event takes place at 11:30 a.m. in the Cherokee Room of the Nigh University Center on the UCO campus.
Adams graduated from the University of Oklahoma’s Collee of Arts and Sciences in 1982 with a doctorate degree in botany. He has an undergraduate degree from UCO and a master’s degree from Illinois State University.
As former director of the FBI Labortory in Quantico, Va., Adams was part of the research team that developed and validated DNA testing procedure. His work helped the FBI lab become the first public crime laboratory in the United States to offer DNA testing in criminal casework.
