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By Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 23, 1996
Associate prof receives grant
Mark Brusseau, associate professor in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, was awarded a grant Tuesday of more than $750,000 to conduct research on how to detect contaminated soil.
The grant was provided by the Department of Energy as part of the Environmental Management Service Program, the first of its kind to assist in the nation's environmental clean-up, DOE officials said in a news release.
"We want to obtain results that will be useful to the many sites of current contamination across the U.S.," Brusseau said.
The grant will be distributed over three years in an effort to develop and test the effectiveness of the "tracer method," which pumps a combination of salt and nontoxic chemicals through the soil to identify contaminated soil.
The method is faster and more accurate than other methods because it yields results of a larger land mass area than the old method of drilling a 4-inch hole 100 feet deep. That method only tested a small area of soil, Brusseau said.
-Melanie Klein
UA student wins scholarship
The Business and Professional Woman's Foundation has awarded Teresa M. Wagner $2,000 through the National Wyeth-Aysrst Laboratories Scholarship.
Wagner is finishing her master's degree in public health at the University of Arizona. She plans to pursue a career in developing appropriate methods of health care intervention and technology for Third World countries.
This fall, Wagner will be working as a teaching assistant for social and behavioral aspects of public health, under Cheryl Ritenbaugh, and at the Frog & Firkin on East University Boulevard as a chef.
She said the scholarship money will help in purchasing a computer.
After working in technical research for five years in Houston and Seattle, Wagner said she wanted to participate in "more practical research." She joined the Peace Corps in 1992 working as a disease control specialist in Benin, West Africa,where she studied prevalent diseases in the area and "helped eradicate the diseases or ... get them under control."
Wagner said she used her Peace Corps experience to "go into a developing country and try to understand their culture in an effort to incorporate a plan to help with health care."
Since 1970, the foundation has awarded more than 7,000 scholarships, over $4.5 million, to women 25 years of age and older.
The BPW Foundation scholarship applications for 1997-98 school year will be available Oct. 15. For more information, call (202) 293-1200, extension 169.
-Melanie Klein
Festival aims at involvement
Students who are hungry to get involved at the University of Arizona should approach the several booths set up on the Mall today.
At the Student Organizations Involvement Festival, about 35 clubs and organizations are introducing themselves to the student body from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Booths will give visitors a chance to gather information about various organizations.
Boyd Beckwith, associate coordinator of student programs, said the festival is an opportunity to become aware of the variety of student activities at the UA.
"Because the university is so large, students need to be given the opportunity to feel like they are part of the UA," he said.
The festival is a part of a two-week series of events dedicated to involving new and returning students on campus.
-Jennifer M. Fitzenberger
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