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Rhody's expertise is the right callWhen AM 790 The Score's radio host Rick Stein wanted to find experts to learn if today's Major League baseballs are livelier than those of previous decades, he thought of the University of Rhode Island. He remembered the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory, which is housed at URI's College of Pharmacy. He was in luck. Crime Lab Director Dennis Hilliard, one of the co-directors of the URI Forensic Science Partnership, is a huge baseball fan. So Hilliard, an adjunct assistant professor of biomedical sciences, called on colleagues in the partnership to help out with the tests: Associate Chemistry Professor Jimmie Oxley, co-director of the partnership; Chemical Engineering Professor Otto Gregory; URI Materials Electrical Engineer Michael Platek; URI Textiles Professor and Department Chair Linda Welters; Textiles Professor Margaret Ordonez; and Chemistry Professor Chris Brown. The initial tests were completed the morning of May 18 as radio personalities John "Coach" Colletto and Andy Gresh broadcast live. That morning, the URI scientists were interviewed by Stein, Gresh and Colletto as they conducted drop tests on the balls, and then the cores. Tests are continuing in the textile, engineering, and chemistry labs at URI.
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