Tau Bates Making News

In the wake of the tragic earthquake in Haiti on January 13, Dr. Anne Kiremidjian, NY A ’72, has written an opinion piece for CNN on lessons to be learned and the future of Haiti and neighboring countries in the Caribbean.

Dr. Kiremidjian is an expert on earthquake issues and former director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Standford University. She predicts that it could take a decade for Haiti to rebuild, the “energy generated by the earthquake was larger than that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb,” and that reconstruction must include new seismic building codes. Read article

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A doctoral student at the University of Nevada, Reno, has developed a process to remove excessive levels of salt from bodies of water.

The new process was a collaboration with other researchers at UNR and is being used on Walker Lake. The ‘solar pond’ is a “400-gallon laboratory tank, with collected energy powering the distillation system that removes concentrated salts.”

UNR professor, Amy Childress (MD B ’92), said, “This is the only thing that’s been proposed as far as cleaning up the lakes as opposed to bringing more water to the lake.”
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OE Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that prepares disabled adults for jobs and employs them in production positions, needed help in manufacturing pipe insulation fittings. So, they contacted Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering.

Thanks to the collaboration efforts of Larry Bohs (NH A ’81), biomechanical engineering instructor, and his students at Duke, OE will be able “to expand production of fabricated pipe insulation fittings, potentially creating jobs for disabled adults.”

Read the article for more about how Bohs’ and his students solved the manufacturing and production issues.

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