Speaker: Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr., SPP
This talk traces a journey that whose inaugural interactions were with the Boston School Committee and the National Science Foundation in the 1980s; continued through defense-science think tanks and the Department of Energy in the 1990s, as well as engagements with foreign nations in the early 2000s; eventually reached the Office of the President of the United States, the Maryland State Board of Education and the National Commission on Forensic Science in the 2010s.