Sustaining the world through science and technology
Channel 6 Action News anchor and UD alum, Matt O’Donnell, visited the CANR farm this week to visit our blue hens for a segment about the new “Call of the Blue Hen” that will be played at home football games after the Fightin’ Blue Hens score a touchdown.
Watch the segment online by clicking here.
Many thanks to animal and food sciences instructor, Bob Alphin, for his work on the segment.
Conferring outside Allen Laboratory are (from left) Jack Gelb, chairperson of the Department of Animal and Food Sciences; Krista Murray, biosafety officer in Environmental Health and Safety; Marvin Clark, sergeant in Public Safety; and Joseph Miller, assistant director of Environmental Health and Safety.
When Bob Alphin discovered two coworkers injured and unconscious on the floor in one of the labs of the C.C. Allen Biotechnology Laboratory, it set in motion a process that soon involved emergency personnel from the campus and state agencies and other institutions.
In this case, the two victims — Brian Ladman and Erin Bernberg — were only pretending to be unconscious, but the pretense had a serious purpose: Testing the University’s emergency response protocols.
The scenario for the full-scale exercise was created by Michael Gladle, director of Environmental Health and Safety, Marcia Nickle, emergency preparedness manager in Campus and Public Safety, and Ladman, who is an associate scientist at Allen Lab, to give participants a chance to see how they might react in a true crisis.
The exercise, which took place Wednesday afternoon, July 27, at Allen Lab, involved not only staff from the lab and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), but also participants from UD Police, Environmental Health and Safety, Facilities and the Office of Communications and Marketing, as well as Aetna Hose Hook and Ladder Fire Company, the New Castle County Hazmat/DECON team, the Delaware departments of Agriculture, Public Health and Natural Resources and Environmental Control and Christiana Care Health System at Christiana Hospital. University Media Services taped the exercise for use in future training.
To read the full article please click here to go to UDaily.
MSNBC came to campus asking questions about the future of energy. Thursday, March 31 the cable network aired what it learned.
UPDATE: See the aired segment online here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#42364876
Dylan Ratigan, host of The Dylan Ratigan Show, and a television crew taped a segment on the University of Delaware’s Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources (ACRES) program. Chemical engineering doctoral student Erman Senoz detailed in an interview how the research group uses chicken feathers to store hydrogen for use in cars, buses and other forms of transport.
The segment aired as part of the show’s “Steel on Wheels” feature, which Ratigan labels as a road trip tackling the nation’s most important issues. He includes energy in that list.
The ACRES program, headed by Richard Wool, professor of chemical engineering, designs and develops bio-based materials for use in various renewable energy projects, from fuel cells to energy efficient housing.
While in Newark, the MSNBC crew taped at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources‘ chicken houses, where Allen Laboratory manager Bob Alphin gave them a tour. They also viewed one of UD’s hydrogen buses, the product of work conducted by UD’s Center for Fuel Cell Research.
The original UDaily posting can be viewed online here.
